Abstract

NOBRE, JUVÊNCIO. Identifying Rhythmic Classes of Languages: Modeling Symbolics Chains of the Sonority Using Trees of Probability. Rev.Colomb.Estad. [online]. 2008, vol.31, n.2, pp.229-240. ISSN 0120-1751.

Recently, several authors suggest methods to discriminate rhythmic classes of language (Ramus et al. 1999, Duarte et al. 2001, Galves et al. 2002). Based on sonority concept, defined in Galves et al. (2002), and Cassandro et al. (2007), a parametric model for the family of stochastic processes of sonority time evolution for different languages is proposed, denoted by family of tied quantized chains. The objective of this paper is to model, for the different languages, the correspondent quantized chains using Variable Length Markov Chains (VLMC) and evaluate the conjectures that summarize all relevant information given by the sonority.

Keywords : Sonority; Tied quantized chains; Variable length Markov chain.

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