Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Publication Title
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Volume
27
First Page
202
Last Page
208
DOI
10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.10.599
Keywords
Pronunciation conversion, loanword phonology, transliteration, finite-state transducers
Disciplines
Linguistics | Phonetics and Phonology
Abstract
Words change their phonetic as well as orthographic form when they are borrowed and used by speakers of another language. A formal model that properly captures this change has theoretical implications in phonology and practical applications in speech processing and machine transliteration. This paper describes a method for developing a finite- state model that predicts how English words and named entities are pronounced in Korean. The model predicts nativized pronunciation using weighted finite-state transducers implementing context-dependent phoneme rewrite rules derived from English-to-Korean pronunciation pairs and syllable phonotactics in Korean.
Recommended Citation
Hahn Koo. "A weighted finite state transducer implementation of phoneme rewrite rules for English-to-Korean pronunciation conversion" Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences (2011): 202-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.10.599
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Comments
This article was published in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, volume 27, 2011 and is also available at this link. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of PACLING 2011 Organizing Committee.