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U Bielefeld Lexicon Group, August 1995

Application 4.2: Phonological similarity online virtual DB (PhonSim V1)
bielefeld.lexdb.v3.3, March 1996

CONSTRAINT RELAXATION RULES:
Inflexion boundaries ignored: Accent ignored: Word to syll boundaries:
Syll boundaries ignored: Schwa sylls indistinct: Weak sylls deleted:
No obstruent voicing: Sibilant distinction ignored: Nasals/laterals merged:
No prevocalic glottal stop: Vowel length ignored:
Front vowels indistinct: Round vowels indistinct: Low vowels indistinct:
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Note: Phonological similarity is not all-or-non but gradual, along many dimensions. The fourteen rules implemented here emulate phenomena associated with spontaneous, informal, non-careful, fast speech. Further rules (such as nasal assimilation, affix deletion) could be implemented. Contact the administrator if further rules are to be required. Note also that conscious evaluation of phonological similarity by non-phoneticians may be subliminally influenced by spelling or syntactic and semantic categories (e.g. `kauf' and `lauf' may incorrectly appear more similar than `kauf' and `auf').
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Dafydd Gibbon - 27.08.95, 09.03.96