Incorporating Metaphonemes in a Multilingual Lexicon

English bed This paper describes a framework for multilingual /bEd/ inheritance-based lexical representation which al- rib lows sharing of information across languages at /rib/ all levels of linguistic description. The paper fo- hand cuses on phonology. It explores the possibility /h{nd/ of establishing a phoneme inventory for a group cat of languages in which language-specific phonemes /k{t/ function as "allophones" of newly defined rectaphonemes. Dutch, English, and German were taken as a test bed and their vowel phoneme inventories were studied. The results of the cross-linguistic analysis are presented in this paper. The paper concludes by showing how these metaphonelnes can be incorporated in a multilingual lexicon.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Carole Tiberius, Lynne J. Cahill
• Keywords: Bed This Paper, COLING 2000, COLING 2008, Rib Lows Sharing, Vowel Phoneme Inventories