Corpora: grammar of English letter-sequences

[Alex Chengyu Fang]

At 09:52 04/05/00 +0100, Geoffrey Sampson wrote:
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>Does anyone know of anything like a grammar of English letter-sequences --
>a system which generates the range of character-sequences which could
>plausibly occur as words of English, and a subset of which actually do?

Both Harris and Herdan discussed the probabilitic aspects of
letter/letter-sequence co-occurrences.

Also, work in speech synthesis has produced letter-sequences that form
"phonetic sub-words" and rules that license such units as letter sequences.

Alex

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