LING 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Inherent Vowel, Devanagari, Phoneme
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Segment - a slice of a particular sound wave (check out the second slide from week 6) Every time i pronounce the phoneme /b/, it"s slightly different. _segment_ is always just a little different each time i say /b/ but they"re all just representations of that more abstract phoneme /b/ Syllabaries can represent any kind of syllables. However, most all of them tend to be cv. Parser is a program that does language recognition. So a speech synthesis program wouldn"t use a parser. *procedure* in programming is a series of actions/steps. Procedures in programming could be either commands (do something), or statements (set some variable equal to some value). Operators & functions are same thing; operators in math are particular glyphs that represent a procedure, operation, or function. So operators _represent_ a function - they aren"t functions themselves (technically speaking). If a procedure has an input, we typically call it a *function*. The input is an *argument* to the function.
