LEXICON ISSUES

Complete coverage with syllables

-- cannot model all syllables (lack of training data)

-- in current approach, every syllable is a syllable model or all phones

-- DOG => _d_ao_g

-- DOGS => d ao g z

-- possible solution is to use phones with syllables to model words with suffixes

Ambisyllabic consonants

-- current approach is to treat ambisyllabics specially in syllables but not in phones

SHADING => sh ey d _#d_ih_ng