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Publication details [#28752]

Bourdeau, Marc and Jean-Pierre Tubach. 1996. Phonological planes and spaces: A quantitative study on five corpora. ITL 113 - 114 : 349–378.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | description | language | phonological theory | statistics

Language as a subject

French | Polish

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This paper discusses a statistical methodology that deals with the concept of phonological space as a quantitative description of languages. The application of this description to French and Polish corpora provides phonological planes that represent the speakers as points.