Open AccessSynthesis By Rule as a Tool for Phonological Research
Author(s) -
Ignatius G. Mattingly
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
language and speech
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1756-6053
pISSN - 0023-8309
DOI - 10.1177/002383097101400106
Subject(s) - phonological rule , computer science , rule based system , linguistics , test (biology) , natural language processing , phonetics , psychology , artificial intelligence , phonology , philosophy , paleontology , biology
The phonologist, having analysed a corpus of phonetic data and proposed tentative phonological rules, must test these rules by generating novel utterances for acceptance or rejection by an informant. There are certain methodological problems in such testing which could be avoided by the use of speech synthesized by rule. Synthesis by rule is now a practical technique, and a synthesis-by-rule system at Haskins Laboratories has been used to formulate rules for General American English.
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