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Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly

/ θ /. L 1. / ŋ /. L 2. /m/. Languages. Phonemes. /d/. L 3. /s/. L 4. /p/. Structure of PlaNet. Analysis and Synthesis of the Distribution of Consonants over Languages: A Complex Network Approach. The Problem. PlaNet: The Phoneme Language Network. Definition :

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Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly

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  1. /θ/ L1 /ŋ/ L2 /m/ Languages Phonemes /d/ L3 /s/ L4 /p/ Structure of PlaNet Analysis and Synthesis of the Distribution of Consonants over Languages: A Complex Network Approach The Problem PlaNet: The Phoneme Language Network • Definition: • PlaNet is a bipartite network G(VL, VC, E), where • VL is the set of languages, and • VC is the set of consonants • Edges run between a node l  VL and c  VC if the consonant c occurs in the inventory of the language l. • Construction: • The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID) [1] has been used to construct the empirical PlaNet. • Size of PlaNet: • Number of languages: 317 • Number of Phonemes: 541 • Number of Edges: 7022 Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Degree Distribution of PlaNet Fitting Beta Distribution: The Problem Fitting Power Law:

  2. A /θ/ L1 /ŋ/ L2 /m/ 0.08 Languages Consonants /d/ L3 0.06 /s/ 0.04 L4 /p/ 0.02 Structure of PlaNet 0 50 100 150 200 VL: The Languages L4 L3 L2 L1 /p/ /s/ /d/ /m/ /θ/ /ŋ/ VC: The Consonants Figure x. Structure of PlaNet nalysis and Synthesis of the Distribution of Consonants over Languages: Complex Network Approach Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Degree of a Language node is the no. of consonants in the language inventory Degree Distribution (DD) of Language nodes is the fraction of nodes (languages) that have a particular consonant inventory size. DD of the language nodes of PlaNet follows a Left-skewed Beta Distribution Language inventory size (degree)

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