How to Reduce an Unwritten Language to Writing
IV. Complementary Distribution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2407177 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oswald Werner (Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-227 |
| Publication date | 2002-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CAM (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1087-8513 • E-ISSN: 1552-3969 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1525822x02014002006 |
| OpenAlex | W2103537861 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Complementary distribution analysis is the final test of phonemehood. The author examines the environments in which particular, phonetically similar phones occur and proposes a charting technique to test if these putative allophones belong to one phoneme. That phoneme then becomes part of the set of symbols for unambiguously writing a previously unwritten language. Care has to be taken because complementary distribution alone is insufficient evidence for phonemehood
Distribution (mathematics) · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Programming language · Set (abstract data type) · Test (biology) · Algorithms and Data Compression · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2002 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |