R Coto‐Solano - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have seen numerous advances in natural language processing that can help accelerate sociophonetic work. These include software to align speech recordings with their …
Lengthening of segments at the end of prosodic domains is commonly considered a universal phenomenon, but language-specific variation has also been reported, specifically …
Speech consists of a continuous stream of acoustic signals, yet humans can segment words and other constituents from each other with astonishing precision. The acoustic properties …
Response tokens (also known as backchannels, continuers, or feedback) are a frequent feature of human interaction, where they serve to display understanding and streamline turn …
F Di Garbo, E Kashima… - … Verso un approccio …, 2021 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
This paper presents the building blocks of a comprehensive framework for the typological study of linguistic adaptation, ie how languages change in relation to the socio-historical and …
Abstract Zipf's Law of Abbreviation and Menzerath's Law both make predictions about the length of linguistic units, based on corpus frequency and the length of the carrier unit. Each …
Phonetic forced alignment can greatly expedite spoken language analysis by providing automatictimealignmentsattheword-andphone-levels. Inthecaseoflow-resourcelanguages, it …
N Partanen, M Hämäläinen, T Klooster - arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.05331, 2020 - arxiv.org
Our study presents a series of experiments on speech recognition with endangered and extinct Samoyedic languages, spoken in Northern and Southern Siberia. To best of our …
We present an analysis pipeline and best practice guidelines for building and curating corpora of everyday conversation in diverse languages. Surveying language documentation …