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ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Vol. 113/114 (1996) ► pp.349–378

Phonological planes and spaces A quantitative study on five corpora

| École Polytechnique de Montréal
| École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications

We describe a statistical methodology that provides a quantitative definition of the concept of phonological space that has been used for a long time as a purely qualitative description of languages. We apply this description to five corpora : four of French language, and one of Polish language. We obtain cartesian planes where the speakers are represented as points. We show that we can discriminate the five corpora. We end by pointing to applications to the learning and destruction of phonological capabilities.

Keywords: Quantitative Linguistics, Phonology, phonological planes and spaces, markovian models, entropies, statistics, data analysis
Published online: 1 January 1996
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