Re: Webpage
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 7, 2002, 4:49 |
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Quoting Marcus Smith <smithma@...>:
> Hello everybody,
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> I don't know if it is of the least bit of use to anybody, but I have
> written a webpage that randomly generates phoneme systems.
Hey, this is neat! Thanks for telling us about it.
> The vowel systems it generates are rather simplistic (no nasalization,
> glottalization, etc). It can't generate enough vowels to be natural, and
> my dispersion algorithm isn't very sophisticated, but sometimes it gets
> interesting results.
Yeah, the distribution of the vowels that I got on several tries
came out with a skew for a five vowel system, but four of those
are high vowels (/i/, /I/, /u/, /U/)! So, maybe it just needs some
tweaking.
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Thomas Wier
Dept. of Linguistics "Nihil magis praestandum est quam ne pecorum ritu
University of Chicago sequamur antecedentium gregem, pergentes non qua
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