... spectrum of a networkcan provide important information about its global structure, the use of this powerful mathematicalmachinery to infer global patterns in linguistic net-works is rarely found in ... purely struc-tural technique, namely spectral analysis,which is ideally suited for discovering the global correlations in a network. Appli-cation of this technique to PhoNet, theco-occurrence network ... Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009.c2009 Association for Computational LinguisticsDiscovering Global Patterns in Linguistic Networks throughSpectral Analysis: A Case Study of the Consonant...