On the Structure of Written English Words
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2884952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James L Dolby, Howard L Resnikoff |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 167 |
| Publication date | 1964-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/411576 |
| OpenAlex | W2322145757 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The purpose of this paper is to present the initial results of a study of certain regularities in the structure of written English words. Our objective will be to show that it is possible to extend the phonemic concepts of consonant, vowel, and syllable to written forms and that there is considerable utility in doing so. In particular, we shall show that a major proportion of the one-syllable words, graphemically defined, have the same part-of-speech assignments when checked against standard dictionaries. In this sense we shall claim that the one-syllable words form a part-of-speech class. We further conjecture that graphemic syllabification is intimately related to part-of-speech assignment in the set of all written English words
Linguistics · Computer Science · History · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2000 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |