Phonological reconstruction of a dead language using the gradual learning algorithm. In Proceedings, Computing and Historical Phonology: Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, Prague, June, 2007.
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The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the phonology of Elamite, an extinct language known only from written sources, whose phonology is currently poorly understood. Given that the mechanisms provided by Optimality Theory are powerful enough for a language learner to acquire a natural language given only overt forms, it should be possible to apply the same mechanisms to

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