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  <Title>Cross-linguistic phoneme correspondences</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we have presented the theory of metaphonemes. We have illustrated our theory with the definition of cross-linguistic phoneme correspondences for English, Dutch, and German. We believe that our work has interesting benefits for speech applications. The information that can be specified in metaphonemes can be used to tune speech applications to closely related languages in a similar way that Fitt's (2001) keysymbols are used to model different accents. The next steps in this research will involve fully integrating the metaphonemes into a multilingual lexicon to enable testing on a speech synthesis system.</Paragraph>
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