Hungarian Pronunciation Dictionary

This project involves creating a dictionary for Hungarian where each written word in Hungarian is assigned a phonemic form. This resource is to be used as an aid in linguistic and computational research, both specific to Hungarian as well as cross-linguistic.

Files:

Hungarian Pronunciation Dictionary -- columns are tab-deliminated.
IPA Chart of Hungarian consonants
IPA Chart of Hungarian vowels
.dx1 file (description) -- appropriate for use with John Goldsmith's phonological complexity calculator
Hungarian wordlist with CV structure (Kornai, Szigetvari)

The version of the pronunciation dictionary posted here has 14,529 entries. For another version containing 1.2 million entries, part-of-speech tags, and arguably more reliable frequency data, please contact me.

This paper (.pdf) describes how the pronunciation dictionary was created.

Here are two presentations about the pronunciation dictionary:

"On creating a pronunciation dictionary for Hungarian" (.ppt, .pdf)
(with more detail about phonological processes in Hungarian not reflected in the orthgraphy)
From a presentation given at The Hungarian Language: Past and Present workshop at UCLA, May 2006.

"On creating a pronunciation dictionary for Hungarian" (.ppt, .pdf)
(with more detail about methodology and technical issues)
From presentation at Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium at Illinois, May 2006.

Last Updated September 2007

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