Surface form for IF and syllable o Learning pronunciations Definition of Generalized Initial-Finals(GIFs) Collect all of them and choose the ts canonical most frequent ones ts v voiced as GIFs ts changed ts v changed to voiced ch canonica 7 troflexed or changed to ' e changed . Definition of Generalized Syllables(Gss)the lexicon Define them chang 0. tsh AN accordin ing to GIF chang 0. 1215 ts hv AN set chaI ng [0.0280] ts v AN chang [0.0187<deletion> AN chang [0.0187]z AN chang [0.0093<deletion> IAN P(GIFI GIF I Syllable) chang 0.0093]tsh AN chang [0.0093]tsh Center of Speech Technology, Tsinghua University Slide 10Center of Speech Technology, Tsinghua University Slide 10 ❑ Learning pronunciations ❖ Definition of Generalized Initial-Finals (GIFs) ➢ z ts : canonical ➢ z ts_v : voiced ➢ z ts` : changed to ‘zh’ ➢ z ts`_v : changed to voiced ‘zh’ ➢ e 7 : canonical ➢ e 7` : retroflexed or changed to ‘er’ ➢ e @ : changed ❖ Definition of Generalized Syllables (GSs) – the lexicon ➢ chang [0.7850] ts`_h AN ➢ chang [0.1215] ts`_h_v AN ➢ chang [0.0280] ts`_v AN ➢ chang [0.0187] <deletion> AN ➢ chang [0.0187] z` AN ➢ chang [0.0093] <deletion> iAN ➢ chang [0.0093] ts_h AN ➢ chang [0.0093] ts`_h UN P ( [GIFi ] GIFf | Syllable ) Define them according to GIF set. Collect all of them and choose the most frequent ones as GIFs. Probabilistic lexicon. Surface form for IF and Syllable