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- From: BPHEINTZ@UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU (BRADLEY P HEINTZ)
- Newsgroups: comp.speech
- Subject: Re: not phonemes, but.. _______?
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:48:16 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: rg@msel.unh.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 21:02:05
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- In <RG.93Jan26210205@nymph.msel.unh.edu> rg@msel.unh.edu writes:
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- >
- > What is the term for the unit of speech that takes into account the preceeding
- > and trailing sounds? I seem to recall reading something about that using this
- > method instead of phonemes produced much more normal sounding speech, and that
- > there were still a reasonable (300-400?) number of these units in the english
- > language.
- >
- > Thanks,
- >
- > Roger Gonzalez - rg@msel.unh.edu (508) 658-7800 (fax -2492)
- > Denning Mobile Robotics, 21 Concord Street, Wilmington MA 01887
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- I think (but I'm not entirely sure) that the term you're looking for is
- "allophones."
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- If that's not it, good luck finding it.
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- -Brad
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