has the front vowel “e” because it follows the front vowel “e” in the stem “ev”.</p>
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<h3 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="bidirectional-analysis">3. Bidirectional Analysis</h3>
<p>FSTs can be used for both generation (UR → SR) and analysis (SR → UR), making them powerful tools for bidirectional phonological modeling.</p>
<p>For example, the same FST that transduces /kæt+z/ to [kæts] can be inverted to analyze [kæts] as /kæt+