[Lign274] ling 274 homework

[Roger Levy]

On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:50 PM, Emily Morgan wrote:

> Hi Roger,
> I don't know whether you'll see this email before class tomorrow,  
> but I just noticed that there are no two-segment codes beginning  
> with r in word_suffixes. Was that on purpose?

Hi Emily,

Good observation!  The reason is that these data come from the Celex  
lexicon, which is British English and they have "standardized" the  
pronunciation of words like "art" as [a:t] -- that is, long vowel, no  
rhotacization.

That being said, the *real* problem is that there are 95 instances of  
the "fr" suffix, which upon further inspection all come from so-called  
"lexical items" that appear in Celex like "dig for", which is  
transcribed as [dIg] [fr].  So "fr" really probably shouldn't have  
been included in the dataset.

Will correct that for the future...

Roger



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