Danish phonetics and Norwegian phonetics are not all that different. This fact is exploited in an ongoing project establishing a phonetic transcription algorithm for (East-) Norwegian. Using methods known from machine learning we exploit a publicly available phonetic database for Danish (based on the Danish PAROLE corpus) arriving at a cost-competitive phonetic database for Norwegian. While the...

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To bridge the gap between the dissimilar mechanisms and entities of the phonological grammar and those of the phonetic mechanisms for producing and perceiving speech, the ‘phonetics-phonology interface’ (PPI) has been invoked. In this brief presentation, an introduction to the ICPhS 2003 Symposium on The Phonetics-Phonology Interface, I present an exegesis and taxonomy of the PPI and some citat...

Although from the beginning of Indo-European studies the Vedic accentual system has been thoroughly investigated and its importance for the reconstruction of Proto Indo-European accent long recognized, the phonetics of Vedic accent have received much less attention. The aim of this paper is to help fill this gap, building on previous work from various grammatical sources, from antiquity to mode...