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UAlbertaALTLab / plains-cree-fsts

Mirror of the source code for the Plains Cree morphological analyzer/generator.
https://github.com/giellalt/lang-crk
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Implement a spell-relax rule also for word-final `-uh` #13

Open eddieantonio opened 4 years ago

eddieantonio commented 4 years ago

We will probably want to implement a spell-relax rule also for word-final -uh, so that one can recognize neeyuh for nîya, and maybe some other interference from English.

Originally posted by @aarppe in https://github.com/UAlbertaALTLab/plains-cree-fsts/issues/12#issuecomment-548098566

aarppe commented 4 years ago

Before implementing these in one go, I've been trying to find some pronunciation guides that use English conventions to describe short and long vowels in English which might sometimes interfere with people's perception of Cree spelling. 

Phoneme     Cree grapheme    English spelling alternatives
/a/, /a:/   <a>, <â>         <ah>, <uh>
/e:/        <ê>              <ay> (probably not <ei> nor <ey>)
/i:/        <î>              <ee> (probably not <ea>)
/o:/        <ô>              <aw>, <oh>

I haven't been able to find any on-line dictionary that uses these, though I'm pretty sure I've encountered these earlier.

Anyhow, at this initial stage it would make most sense to only incorporate the commonest ones, and then look into what people actually search with.