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  <Title>Improving Syllabification Models with Phonotactic Knowledge</Title>
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6 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Phonotactic restrictions are important for language perception and production. They influence the ability of children to segment words, and they help to recognize words in nonsense sequences. In this paper, we presented grammars which incorporate phonotactic restrictions. The grammars were trained and tested on a German and an English pronunciation dictionary. Our experiments show that English and German profit from phonotactic knowledge to predict syllable boundaries. We find evidence that German codas depend on the nucleus which does not apply for English. The English grammars which model the dependency of part of the onset or coda on the nucleus worsen the syllabification accuracy.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> However, the combination of both show a better performance than the base phonotactic grammar. This suggests that there are constrains in the selection of the onset and coda consonants.</Paragraph>
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