Search found 5 matches
- January 16th, 2018, 5:20 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Minimal Pairs for Greek Phonology
- Replies: 19
- Views: 48618
Re: Minimal Pairs for Greek Phonology
I moved the minimal pairs from the BHSA repo to a new one: lingo . I generated sets for greek and hebrew lexemes and occurrences (4 sets). The Hebrew occurrence set is done with the words in a semi-phonetic representation that I produced a while ago. More than a billion comparisons have been made; t...
- January 15th, 2018, 6:12 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Minimal Pairs for Greek Phonology
- Replies: 19
- Views: 48618
Re: Minimal Pairs for Greek Phonology
That is pretty cool. These pairs seem wrong for different reasons: ברא בוא ζάω ζέω The first pair differs by more than one sound ('bara'/'bore'/'bora' vs. 'bo' -- I think it's still a consistent list, just not phonological). The second pair don't seem to be real, inflected words at all, and the rea...
- January 15th, 2018, 6:09 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Minimal Pairs for Greek Phonology
- Replies: 19
- Views: 48618
Re: Minimal Pairs for Greek Phonology
This has been a stimulating topic for me. Now I'm looking into how the python Levenshtein module handles diacritics. A question arose for me: Are there any minimal pairs (in terms of Greek phonology) which have an edit distance of two or greater? Presumably a diphthong swapped with a single vowel w...
- January 15th, 2018, 4:42 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Minimal Pairs for Greek Phonology
- Replies: 19
- Views: 48618
Re: Minimal Pairs for Greek Phonology
Yes, morphology doesn't match phonology perfectly. καινος and κενος have a Levenshtein distance of 2 but phonologically identical (in imperial/modern); then ἑνος is a 'minimal pair' with both of them phonologically, but 3 edits from καινος. To get the result Jonathan originally set out for, one wou...
- January 11th, 2018, 4:47 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Minimal Pairs for Greek Phonology
- Replies: 19
- Views: 48618
Re: Minimal Pairs for Greek Phonology
I did it for Hebrew here: https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa/blob/master/programs/minimalPairs.ipynb It should work for Greek as well: if you make a list of all words, this program can compute all minimal pairs of that list. Written in Python (3), with a Levenshtein module. Follow the link, and you'll se...