ABSTRACT
Phonology as a linguistic science of speech sounds and as a discipline of study for systematic patterns of the sounds was introduced in Chapter 8. Typically, the approach in phonology is to provide general frameworks, principles, and rules (generative as well as constraining rules) by which the speech sound patterns of a language or across languages are studied. It is clear that the complexity of phonological patterns, which is due to an astronomically large number of symbolic entities in languages as well as their interactions, necessarily makes phonology a very complex subject. To provide a comprehensive coverage of phonological phenomena in a language would be very difficult without resorting to some sort of computational techniques, to which this chapter is devoted.
