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 …

Speech and music have structured rhythms. Here we discuss a major acoustic correlate of
spoken and musical rhythms, the slow (0.25–32 Hz) temporal modulations in sound intensity …

The discriminative lexicon is introduced as a mathematical and computational model of the
mental lexicon. This novel theory is inspired by word and paradigm morphology but …

This article is a crosslinguistic investigation of the hypothesis that the average information
rate conveyed during speech communication results from a trade-off between average …

This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the
nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one …

Speech datasets are crucial for training Speech Language Technologies (SLT); however,
the lack of diversity of the underlying training data can lead to serious limitations in building …

Frequent or contextually predictable words are often phonetically reduced, ie shortened and
produced with articulatory undershoot. Explanations for phonetic reduction of predictable …

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently allowed leveraging large datasets of unlabeled
speech signals to reach impressive performance on speech tasks using only small amounts …

An accessible introduction to the phonetic analysis of speech corpora, this workbook-style
text provides an extensive set of exercises to help readers develop the necessary skills to …

This book has been written because I believe researchers and postgraduate students who
are beginning to explore the world of spoken discourse analysis have few publications to …