2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9582.2007.00138.x
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From phoneme to morpheme — another verification in English and Chinese using corpora —

Abstract: Zellig S. Harris's hypothesis presented in his article ÔÔFrom phoneme to morphemeÕÕ is tested; that is, how much of morpheme/word boundaries can be detected from changes in the complexity of phoneme sequences. We re-formulate his hypothesis from a more information theoretic viewpoint and use a corpus to test whether the hypothesis holds. We found that his hypothesis holds for morphemes, with an F-score of about 80%, in both English and Chinese. However, we obtained contrary results for English and Chinese with… Show more

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