Grapheme-phoneme probabilities in British English.
A computational analysis of a large British English database was performed and frequencies occurrence of grapheme-phoneme correspondences were obtained. A computer program was implemented, which used these frequencies to predict the probabilities of all possible pronunciations of any given string of graphemes. These results led to a proposal for a quantitative method of measurement of the orthographic depth of different languages.
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. pgontijo@ucla.edu
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D000465:Algorithms; D016208:Databases, Factual; D007802:Language; D012984:Software