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Re: TECH: Sound Change program

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Friday, March 25, 2005, 18:22
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From: Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>

> Paul Bennett skrev: > > I think I like single-character variable names, to be honest. > We'll see > > what happens. > > There are two problems with that: > 1) you soon run out of single letters
Yes.
> 2) you run out of *meaningful* single letter abbreviations even > sooner.
Yes.
> If V is "vowel" then you want the varnames for e.g. > "rounded vowel" and "front vowel" to be VR and VF.
Yes, although with features, that could be V[+round] and V[+front]. I think that's the notation I prefer reading. I'll bear all your points in mind, though.
> And variable names should of course be begin with a $!
I'm leaning towards liking that as well. Using $ as the morpheme-break environment would mean we would need some way to mark morpheme breaks in the corpus, which is yucky. Paul

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