Similarity has always been a key aspect in computer science and statistics. Any time two
element vectors are compared, many different similarity approaches can be used …

Automatic detection of phoneme or word-like units is one of the core objectives in zero-
resource speech processing. Recent attempts employ self-supervised training methods …

Before they even speak, infants become attuned to the sounds of the language (s) they hear,
processing native phonetic contrasts more easily than nonnative ones. For example …

Sociophonetics focuses on the relationship between phonetic or phonological form on the
one hand, and social and regional factors on the other, working across fields as diverse as …

Many speech processing tasks involve measuring the acoustic similarity between speech
segments. Acoustic word embeddings (AWE) allow for efficient comparisons by mapping …

In this chapter we introduce the Generalized Additive Model (GAM). GAMs enable the
analyst to investigate non-linear functional relations between a response variable and one …

Phrase-final position is cross-linguistically the locus of both processes of phonetic reduction
and processes of phonetic enhancement. In tone languages, phrasal position is a …

This article uses formal and usage-based data and methods to argue for a hybrid model of
English tensed auxiliary contraction combining lexical syntax with a dynamic exemplar …

Forced alignment is an effective process to speed up linguistic research. However, most
forced aligners are language-dependent, and under-resourced languages rarely have …

This article examines the production and perception of/t/in five US states: Indiana,
Mississippi, New Mexico, Utah, and Vermont. For the production study, 94 participants read …