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  <Title>Front Back Consistency Overgeneration</Title>
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5 Conclusion and Further Research
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper introduced a formal theoretical approach to the automatic acquisition of phonotactic constraints encoded as finite-state automata, and described a genetic-search method for the construction of such automata. Results show that the method is reliably successful in constructing FSAs that accurately cover training samples and allow a range of generalisa- null tion over the learning samples. The approach to phonotactic description involving several syllable classes that is proposed in this paper is likely to enable a more accurate account of possible phonological forms in a language than approaches that assume a single syllable class. Future research will focus on developing word-level phonotactic descriptions for larger datasets of German and Russian words, and extending the approach to descriptions incorporating tone and stress effects.</Paragraph>
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