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  <Title>Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars for Phonology</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We introduced a multilingual approach to probabilistic modeling of syllable structure using probabilistic context-free grammars. We exemplified our approach for two languages, German and English.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Evaluation on a syllabification task shows a small improvement in word accuracy rate compared to other state-of-the-art systems for German. Additionally, we presented an extensive qualitative evaluation of German and English syllable, onset, and coda structure (section 4) showing which structures are preferably used. However, the presented work is a starting point of analyzing in detail the huge amount of data with regard to phonological regularities. For instance, we found evidence that in consonant clusters sonorous consonants (like a47 Ra48 , a47 la48 ) are more restricted to appear next to the nucleus than less sonorous consonants. Clearly, this is promising work for future investigations. We believe that our method can be easily transferred to a variety of other languages, and aim in future work at embedding more fine-grained phonotactic constraints to our grammar.</Paragraph>
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