| Review of: Computational Phonology: A Constraint-Based Approach by Steven Bird (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| Introduction This book is a revised and expanded version of the author's Ph. D. thesis (Edinburgh University, 1990), entitled: Constraint-Based Phonology. The field of computational phonology is rather immature as a whole and there have been only a handful of publications on constraint-based theories of phonology. Bird's thesis, and its revision stand as conceptual and computational milestones; we believe this work will act as a focal point for further investigation into constraintbased phonology. The intended audience for this book includes: computational linguists, phonologists and computer scientists. We briefly describe the contents of the book and then evaluate the strengths and weaknesses we see from the perspective of theoretical phonologists and computational linguists. Overall, our evaluation is that there is certainly something of interest for members of each of these audiences but that none will be left completely satisfied. The theory of constraintb | |||||||||||||||
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