A5041778529- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Language and cultural evolution
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Topic Modeling
- Authorship Attribution and Profiling
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Language Development and Disorders
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
- Machine Learning and Algorithms
- Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Voice and Speech Disorders
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies
University of Zurich
2024-2025
University of York
2019-2023
University of Colorado Boulder
2020-2022
Johns Hopkins University
2014-2022
University of Alaska Fairbanks
2022
SIL International
2022
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
2022
University of Maryland, College Park
2022
Georgetown University
2022
The University of Melbourne
2022
Ekaterina Vylomova, Jennifer White, Elizabeth Salesky, Sabrina J. Mielke, Shijie Wu, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Ran Zmigrod, Josef Valvoda, Svetlana Toldova, Francis Tyers, Elena Klyachko, Ilya Yegorov, Natalia Krizhanovsky, Paula Czarnowska, Irene Nikkarinen, Andrew Tiago Pimentel, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Christo Kirov, Garrett Nicolai, Adina Williams, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Hilaria Cruz, Eleanor Chodroff, Ryan Cotterell, Miikka Silfverberg, Mans Hulden. Proceedings of the...
The Universal Morphology (UniMorph) project is a collaborative effort providing broad-coverage instantiated normalized morphological inflection tables for hundreds of diverse world languages. comprises two major thrusts: language-independent feature schema rich annotation and type-level resource annotated data in languages realizing that schema. This paper presents the expansions improvements made on several fronts over last couple years (since McCarthy et al. (2020)). Collaborative efforts...
Recent empirical studies have highlighted the large degree of analytic flexibility in data analysis that can lead to substantially different conclusions based on same set. Thus, researchers expressed their concerns these researcher degrees freedom might facilitate bias and claims do not stand test time. Even greater is be expected fields which primary lend themselves a variety possible operationalizations. The multidimensional, temporally extended nature speech constitutes an ideal testing...
During conversation, speakers modulate characteristics of their production to match interlocutors' characteristics. This behavior is known as alignment. Speakers align at many linguistic levels, including the syntactic, lexical, and phonetic levels. As a result, alignment often treated unitary phenomenon, in which evidence on one feature cast entire level. experiment investigates whether can occur some levels but not others, features within given dialogue. Participants interacted with two...
Voicing contrasts in stop consonants are expressed by a constellation of acoustic cues. This study focused on spectral cue present at burst onset American English labial and coronal stops. Spectral shape was examined for word-initial, prevocalic stops all three places articulation laboratory production large corpus continuous read speech. Voiceless were found to have greater energy higher frequencies comparison homorganic voiced stops, difference that could not be attributed aspiration the...
Tiago Pimentel, Maria Ryskina, Sabrina J. Mielke, Shijie Wu, Eleanor Chodroff, Brian Leonard, Garrett Nicolai, Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash, Charbel El-Khaissi, Omer Goldman, Michael Gasser, William Lane, Matt Coler, Arturo Oncevay, Jaime Rafael Montoya Samame, Gema Celeste Silva Villegas, Adam Ek, Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Andrey Shcherbakov, Aziyana Bayyr-ool, Karina Sheifer, Sofya Ganieva, Matvey Plugaryov, Elena Klyachko, Ali Salehi, Andrew Krizhanovsky, Natalia Clara...
Linguistic information influences processing of speaker in a multitude ways, whether this arises from the listener's familiarity with language or dialect spoken, existing linguistic relationships between spoken words. Specifically, phonological and semantic words have been observed to influence listeners’ ability discriminate voices. This study aims develop our understanding how different kinds relationships, namely, phonetic information. We conducted two experiments, voice discrimination...
Stop consonant voice onset time (VOT) was examined in a typological survey of over 100 languages. Within broadly defined laryngeal categories (long-lag, short-lag, and lead voicing), VOT means were found to vary extensively. Importantly, the for members same series did not independently but instead highly correlated across The strong linear relations identified here cannot be reduced previously reported ordinal relations, provide evidence uniformity constraint on phonetic realization: within...
Abstract The present study investigates patterns of covariation among acoustic properties stop consonants in a large multi-talker corpus American English connected speech. Relations talker means for different stops on the same dimension (between-category covariation) were considerably stronger than those dimensions (within-category covariation). existence between-category supports uniformity principle that restricts mapping from phonological features to phonetic targets sound system each...
The influence of information structure (IS: givenness, accessibility, newness and focus) on pitch accent assignment acoustic prominence measures prenuclear words was investigated for American English speech elicited through read production mini-stories.Results showed a consistent pattern accenting the initial content word in sentence, supporting an analysis as structural, or 'rhythmic'.While no association observed between IS type (e.g., H*, L*, L+H*, L*+H), acoustic-phonetic realization...
The noun lexica of many natural languages are divided into several declension classes with characteristic morphological properties. Class membership is far from deterministic, but the phonological form a and/or its meaning can often provide imperfect clues. Here, we investigate strength those More specifically, operationalize this by measuring how much information, in bits, glean about class knowing nouns. We know that and also indicative grammatical gender—which, as quantitatively verify,...
Elizabeth Salesky, Eleanor Chodroff, Tiago Pimentel, Matthew Wiesner, Ryan Cotterell, Alan W Black, Jason Eisner. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting Association for Computational Linguistics. 2020.
Phonetics is the scientific field concerned with study of how speech produced, heard, and perceived. It abounds data, such as acoustic recordings, neuroimaging or articulatory data. In this article, we provide an introduction to different areas phonetics (acoustic phonetics, sociophonetics, perception, inversion, sound change, technology), overview statistical methods for analyzing their signal processing commonly applied recordings. A major transition in modeling phonetic data has been...
Abstract Listeners are highly proficient at adapting to contextual variation when perceiving speech. In the present study, we examined effects of brief speech and nonspeech contexts on perception sibilant fricatives. We explored three theoretically motivated accounts adaptation, based phonetic cue calibration, covariation, auditory contrast. Under calibration account, listeners adapt by estimating a talker-specific average for each or dimension; under covariation exploiting consistencies in...
Phonetic realization is highly variable and structured within across talkers. We examine three constraints that could structure the phonetic space of related speech sounds: target, contrast, pattern uniformity. Target uniformity requires a uniform mapping from distinctive features to their corresponding targets talker, contrast consistent difference in realize featural contrasts talkers, template Focusing on American English sibilant fricatives, we measure compare each constraint's influence...
Phonetics is the scientific field concerned with study and modeling of articulation perception language, in particular how speech produced, heard perceived. The goal this paper to provide reader an overview statistical methods used phonetics. We introduce some major areas phonetics, their main research questions, types phonetic data that are available, model them. conclude by identifying opportunities for future research.
In the development of automatic speech recognition systems, achieving human-like performance has been a long-held goal. Recent releases large spoken language models have claimed to achieve such performance, although direct comparison humans severely limited. The present study tested L1 British English listeners against two systems (wav2vec 2.0 and Whisper, base sizes) in adverse listening conditions: speech-shaped noise pub noise, at different signal-to-noise ratios, recordings produced with...
Understanding the structure of intonational variation is a longstanding issue in prosodic research.A given utterance can be realized with countless contours, and while meaning also large, listeners nevertheless converge on relatively consistent form-function mappings.While this suggests existence abstract representations, it has been unclear how exactly these are defined.The present study examines validity well-defined set phonological representations for generation intonation nuclear region...
UNIFORMITY IN PHONETIC REALIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM SIBILANT PLACE OF ARTICULATION AMERICAN ENGLISH ELEANOR CHODROFF COLIN WILSON University of York Johns Hopkins Phonetic realization is highly variable and structured within across talkers. We examine three constraints that could structure the phonetic space related speech sounds: target, contrast, pattern uniformity. Target uniformity requires a uniform mapping from distinctive features to their corresponding targets talker, contrast...
Corpus phonetics has become an increasingly popular method of research in linguistic analysis. With advances speech technology and computational power, large scale processing data a viable technique. This tutorial introduces the scientist engineer to various automatic tools. These include acoustic model creation forced alignment using Kaldi Automatic Speech Recognition Toolkit (Povey et al., 2011), FAVE-align (Rosenfelder 2014), Montreal Forced Aligner (McAuliffe 2017), Penn Phonetics Lab...