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  • adjective Of or pertaining to autosegments.

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  • Indeed, the autosegmental model actually was not the most efficient from a bits / symbol perspective, but the evidence for tiers is compelling enough to not discard them in favor of flat bigrams.

    Semantic Compositions 2009

  • Nothing could be further from the truth; the current paper demonstrates how the classic autosegmental theory of phonological tiers could be expressed in terms of probabilities for both consonant and vowel segments.

    Semantic Compositions 2009

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