Geometric Constraints on Human Speech Sound Inventories

We investigate the idea that the languages of the world have developed coherent sound systems in which having one sound increases or decreases the chances of having certain other sounds, depending on shared properties of those sounds. We investigate the geometries of sound systems that are defined b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dunbar, Ewan, Dupoux, Emmanuel
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940385/