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Individual Differences in Language Acquisition: The Impact of Study Abroad on Native English Speakers Learning Spanish

This study investigated the acquisition of lenition in Spanish voiced stops (/b, d, ɡ/) by native English speakers during a …
Ratree Wayland, Rachel Meyer, Sophia Vellozzi, Kevin Tang
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Individual Differences in Language Acquisition: The Impact of Study Abroad on Native English Speakers Learning Spanish

Modeling Probabilistic Reduction using Information Theory and Naive Discriminative Learning

This study compares probabilistic predictors based on information theory with Naive Discriminative Learning (NDL) predictors in …
Anna Stein, Kevin Tang
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Modeling Probabilistic Reduction using Information Theory and Naive Discriminative Learning

Automatic Speech Recognition of African American English: Lexical and Contextual Effects

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models often struggle with the phonetic, phonological, and morphosyntactic features found in African …
Hamid Mojarad, Kevin Tang
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Automatic Speech Recognition of African American English: Lexical and Contextual Effects

Automatic Speech Recognition Biases in Newcastle English: an Error Analysis

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems struggle with regional dialects due to biased training which favours mainstream varieties. …
Dana Serditova, Kevin Tang, Jochen Steffens
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Automatic Speech Recognition Biases in Newcastle English: an Error Analysis

A Meeting of Two Worlds—Oral History and Linguistics: Partnerships, Perplexities, and Potentialities in Researching African American Language

The realms of oral history and linguistics can provide insight into the geographic, social, historical, and linguistic connections of …
Matthew F. Simmons, Anna Hamilton, Alexis Davis, William Dyer, Christina Jean Philippe, Jessica Heady, Adolfho Romero, Rebekah Anne Cordova, Deborah Hendrix, Paul Ortiz, Pryce Houck, Kevin Tang, Sarah Moeller
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A Meeting of Two Worlds—Oral History and Linguistics: Partnerships, Perplexities, and Potentialities in Researching African American Language

Frequency matters: Modeling irregular morphological patterns in Spanish with Transformers

This paper provides a proof of concept that audio of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPG) could serve as a challenge for diarization …
Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Kevin Tang, Dinah Baer-Henney
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Frequency matters: Modeling irregular morphological patterns in Spanish with Transformers

How does a credible voice sound?

Credibility is a crucial social factor that influences people’s perception and decision-making. This study explores the acoustic …
Jochen Steffens, Patrick Blättermann, Maximilian Sattler, Kevin Tang
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How does a credible voice sound?

Playing with Voices: Tabletop Role-Playing Game Recordings as a Diarization Challenge

This paper provides a proof of concept that audio of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPG) could serve as a challenge for diarization …
Lian Remme, Kevin Tang
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Playing with Voices: Tabletop Role-Playing Game Recordings as a Diarization Challenge

Analysis of LLM as a grammatical feature tagger for African American English

African American English (AAE) presents unique challenges in natural language processing (NLP) This research systematically compares …
Rahul Porwal, Alice Rozet, Jotsna Gowda, Pryce Houck, Kevin Tang, Sarah Moeller
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Analysis of LLM as a grammatical feature tagger for African American English

Quantifying Lenition as a Diagnostic Marker for Parkinson's Disease and Atypical Parkinsonism

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate lenition, a phonological process involving consonant weakening, as a diagnostic marker for …
Ratree Wayland, Rachel Meyer, Ruhi Reddy, Kevin Tang, Karen W. Hegland
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Quantifying Lenition as a Diagnostic Marker for Parkinson's Disease and Atypical Parkinsonism

Neural network-based measure of consonant lenition in L2 Spanish

This study investigates the gradient phonetic variations in the lenition of Spanish voiced and voiceless stops among second language …
Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, Rachel Meyer, Rahul Sengupt
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Neural network-based measure of consonant lenition in L2 Spanish

Lenition in L2 Spanish: The Impact of Study Abroad on Phonological Acquisition

Objective: This study investigated the degrees of lenition, or consonantal weakening, in the production of Spanish stop consonants by …
Ratree Wayland, Rachel Meyer, Sophia Vellozzi, Kevin Tang
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Lenition in L2 Spanish: The Impact of Study Abroad on Phonological Acquisition

A unified model of lenition as modulation reduction: gauging consonant strength in Ibibio

We review and elaborate an account of consonantal strength that is founded on the model of speech as a modulated carrier signal. The …
John Harris, Eno­Abasi Urua, Kevin Tang
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A unified model of lenition as modulation reduction: gauging consonant strength in Ibibio

Modeling probabilistic reduction across domains with Naive Discriminative Learning

The predictability of a word modulates its acoustic duration. Such probabilistic effects can compete across linguistic domains …
Anna Stein, Kevin Tang
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Modeling probabilistic reduction across domains with Naive Discriminative Learning

Investigating Linguistic Alignment in Collaborative Dialogue: A Study of Syntactic and Lexical Patterns in Middle School Students

Linguistic alignment, the tendency of speakers to share common linguistic features during conversations, has emerged as a key area of …
Xiaoyi Tian, Amanda E. Griffith, Zane Price, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Kevin Tang
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Investigating Linguistic Alignment in Collaborative Dialogue: A Study of Syntactic and Lexical Patterns in Middle School Students

Neural network-based measure of consonant lenition in Parkinson's Disease

This study investigated the effects of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and various linguistic factors on the degree of lenition in Spanish …
Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, Rachel Meyer, Rahul Sengupta
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Neural network-based measure of consonant lenition in Parkinson's Disease

Editorial - Linguistic biomarkers of neurological, cognitive, and psychiatric disorders: verification, analytical validation, clinical validation, and machine learning

Speech production is a complex process involving the coordination of over 100 muscles across the respiratory, articulatory, and …
Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Si Chen
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Editorial - Linguistic biomarkers of neurological, cognitive, and psychiatric disorders: verification, analytical validation, clinical validation, and machine learning

Interplay of mental state, personality, and popularity among peers in shaping belongingness of first-year students: A cross-sectional study

Belonging to a university shapes wellbeing and academic outcomes for first-year students, yet this belongingness is harder to achieve …
Audrey Zhang, Fjorda Kazazi, Kevin Tang, Peter Howell
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Interplay of mental state, personality, and popularity among peers in shaping belongingness of first-year students: A cross-sectional study

Evaluating the consistency of lenition measures: Neural networks' posterior probability, intensity velocity, and duration

Predictions of gradient degree of lenition of voiceless and voiced stops in a corpus of Argentine Spanish are evaluated using three …
Kevin Tang, Ratree Wayland, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, Rahul Sengupta
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Evaluating the consistency of lenition measures: Neural networks' posterior probability, intensity velocity, and duration

The effect of syllable segmentation and phonological neighbours on spoken word recognition in Mandarin Chinese

In Indo-European languages, the phonological access points, also known as ‘proximate units,’ are segmental, whereas in …
Anh Kim Nguyen, Kevin Tang
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The effect of syllable segmentation and phonological neighbours on spoken word recognition in Mandarin Chinese

AnglistikVoices: an L2 English speech dataset for educational and technological advancement in speech technology

Speech science plays a pivotal role in the development of speech technology. Recently, there is a surge in large-scale Automatic Speech …
Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Anna Sophia Stein
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AnglistikVoices: an L2 English speech dataset for educational and technological advancement in speech technology

Leveraging Syntactic Dependencies in Disambiguation: The Case of African American English

African American English (AAE) has received recent attention in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Efforts to address bias …
Wilermine Previlon, Alice Rozet, Jotsna Gowda, Bill Dyer, Kevin Tang, Sarah Moeller
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Leveraging Syntactic Dependencies in Disambiguation: The Case of African American English

Cuteness modulates size sound symbolism at its extremes

Despite the rapidly growing body of research on sound symbolism, one issue that remains understudied is whether different types of …
Dominic Schmitz, Defne Cicek, Anh Kim Nguyen, Daniel Rottleb
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ParsText - A Digraphic Corpus for Tajik-Farsi Transliteration

Despite speaking dialects of the same language, Persian speakers from Tajikistan cannot read Persian texts from Iran and Afghanistan. …
Rayyan Merchant, Kevin Tang
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ParsText - A Digraphic Corpus for Tajik-Farsi Transliteration

Compiling a Corpus of African American Language from Oral Histories

African American Language (AAL) is a marginalized variety of American English that has been understudied due to a lack of accessible …
Sarah Moeller, Alexis Davis, Wilermine Previlon, Michael Bottini, Kevin Tang
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Compiling a Corpus of African American Language from Oral Histories

The Effect of Pitch Accent on the Perception of English Lexical Stress: Evidence from English and Mandarin Chinese Listeners

Fenqi Wang, Delin Deng, Kevin Tang, Ratree Wayland
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The Effect of Pitch Accent on the Perception of English Lexical Stress: Evidence from English and Mandarin Chinese Listeners

Comparison of performance of automatic recognizers for stutters in speech trained with event or interval markers

Liam Barrett, Kevin Tang, Peter Howell
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Comparison of performance of automatic recognizers for stutters in speech trained with event or interval markers

Factors affecting judgment accuracy when scoring children’s responses to non-word repetition stimuli in real time

Peter Howell, Clarissa Sorger, Roa'a Alsulaiman, Kaho Yoshikawa, John Harris, Kevin Tang
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Factors affecting judgment accuracy when scoring children’s responses to non-word repetition stimuli in real time

Neural networks’ posterior probability as measure of effects of alcohol on speech

Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, Rahul Sengupta
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Neural networks’ posterior probability as measure of effects of alcohol on speech

Linear Discriminative Learning: a competitive non-neural baseline for morphological inflection

This paper presents our submission to the SIGMORPHON 2023 task 2 of Cognitively Plausible Morphophonological Generalization in Korean. …
Cheonkam Jeong, Dominic Schmitz, Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Anna Sophia Stein, Kevin Tang
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Linear Discriminative Learning: a competitive non-neural baseline for morphological inflection

Identity Avoidance in Turkish Partial Reduplication: Feature Specificity and Locality

This study investigates the Turkish partial reduplication phenomenon, in which the reduplicant is derived by prefixing C1VC2 syllable, …
Kevin Tang, Faruk Akkus
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Identity Avoidance in Turkish Partial Reduplication: Feature Specificity and Locality

Measuring Gradient Effects of Alcohol on Speech with Neural Networks' Posterior Probability of Phonological Features

Alcohol is known to impair fine articulatory control and movements. In drunken speech, incomplete closure of the vocal tract can result …
Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, Rahul Sengupta
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Measuring Gradient Effects of Alcohol on Speech with Neural Networks' Posterior Probability of Phonological Features

Individual differences in vowel compactness persist under intoxication across first and second languages

Alcohol intoxication facilitates inhibition of one’s first language (L1) ego, which may lead to reduced individual differences among …
Charles B. Chang, Kevin Tang, Andrew Nevins
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Individual differences in vowel compactness persist under intoxication across first and second languages

Accommodation to passive exposure in the L2

Julika Weber, Christopher Geissler
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´Kriech nicht da rein´ - A new corpus of naturalistic misperception of German misheard sung speech

Naturally-occurring misperception can help establish the ecological validity of laboratory findings of speech perception and generate …
Jessica Nieder, Kevin Tang
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´Kriech nicht da rein´ - A new corpus of naturalistic misperception of German misheard sung speech

Quantitative Acoustic versus Deep Learning Metrics of Lenition

Spanish voiced stops /b, d, ɡ/ surfaced as fricatives [β, ð, ɣ] in intervocalic position due to a phonological process known as …
Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, Rahul Sengupta
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Quantitative Acoustic versus Deep Learning Metrics of Lenition

Language production in Parkinson’s Disease. Measuring Syntactic Complexity

Kevin Tang, Seyedeh Zahra Mirkhaef, Julia Henkel, Katja Biermann-Ruben

Modelling L1 and the artificial language during artificial language learning

Artificial language learning research has become a popular tool to investigate universal mechanisms in language learning. However, …
Kevin Tang, Dinah Baer-Henney
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Modelling L1 and the artificial language during artificial language learning

From sonority hierarchy to posterior probability as a measure of lenition. The case of Spanish stops

A deep learning Phonet model was evaluated as a method to measure lenition. Unlike quantitative acoustic methods, recurrent networks …
Kevin Tang, Ratree Wayland, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, Rahul Sengupta, Lori Altmann
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From sonority hierarchy to posterior probability as a measure of lenition. The case of Spanish stops

Uncover articulatory correlates of acoustic duration with analysis-by-synthesis. The case of diphthongs

Eoin O’Reilly, Christopher Geissler, Kevin Tang

Translating through Transliteration. The Case of Tajik persian

Rayyan Merchant, Kevin Tang

Connecting the Persian-speaking World through Transliteration

Rayyan Merchant, Kevin Tang

A corpus study of naturalistic misperceptions in German sung speech

Jessica Nieder, Kevin Tang

Disambiguation of morpho-syntactic features of African American English – the case of habitual "be"

Recent research has highlighted that natural language processing (NLP) systems exhibit a bias against African American speakers. The …
Harrison Santiago, Joshua Martin, Sarah Moeller, Kevin Tang
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Disambiguation of morpho-syntactic features of African American English – the case of habitual "be"

A dynamic neural field model of leaky prosody: proof of concept

Recent work has shown that lexical items come to take on the phonetic characteristics of the prosodic environments in which they are …
Jason Anthony Shaw, Kevin Tang
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A dynamic neural field model of leaky prosody: proof of concept

HeiMorph at SIGMORPHON 2022 Shared Task on Morphological Acquisition Trajectories

This paper presents the submission by the HeiMorph team to the SIGMORPHON 2022 task 2 of Morphological Acquisition Trajectories. Across …
Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Yulia Zinova, Kevin Tang, Ruben van de Vijver
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HeiMorph at SIGMORPHON 2022 Shared Task on Morphological Acquisition Trajectories

Intoxication and pitch control in tonal and non-tonal language speakers

Alcohol intoxication is known to affect pitch variability in non-tonal languages. In this study, intoxication’s effects on pitch were …
Kevin Tang, Charles B. Chang, Sam Green, Kai Xin Bao, Michael Hindley, Young Shin Kim, Andrew Nevins
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Intoxication and pitch control in tonal and non-tonal language speakers

Lenition measures. Neural networks' posterior probability versus acoustic cues

A phonologically informed neural network approach, Phonet, was compared to acoustic measurements of intensity, duration and harmonicity …
Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, Rahul Sengupta
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Lenition measures. Neural networks' posterior probability versus acoustic cues

Gender stereotypes and inclusion in language teaching

Rikker Dockum, Sarah Babinski, Christopher Geissler
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Prosody leaks into the memories of words

The average predictability (aka informativity) of a word in context has been shown to condition word duration (Seyfarth, 2014). All …
Kevin Tang, Jason A Shaw
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Prosody leaks into the memories of words

Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences

Hadas Kotek, Rikker Dockum, Sarah Babinski, Christopher Geissler

Eccentric CV timing across speakers of diaspora Tibetan with and without lexical tone contrasts

Christopher Geissler, Jason Shaw, Fang Hu, Mark Tiede

Unsettled Topics Concerning Human and Autonomous Vehicle Interaction

Autonomous technology has the potential to greatly benefit personal transportation, last-mile delivery, logistics, and many other …
Rahul Razdan, Ken Ford, Justin Mason, Sanjay Ranka, Brian Reimer, Raivo Sell, Edward Straub, Kevin Tang
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Unsettled Topics Concerning Human and Autonomous Vehicle Interaction

Understanding Racial Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition: The Case of Habitual "be".

Recent research has highlighted that state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems exhibit a bias against African …
Joshua L Martin, Kevin Tang
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Understanding Racial Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition: The Case of Habitual "be".

Understanding forced alignment errors in Hindi-English code-mixed speech - a feature analysis

Forced alignment methods have recently seen great progress in the fields of acoustic-phonetics studies of low-resource languages. …
Ayushi Pandey, Pamir Gogoi, Kevin Tang
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Understanding forced alignment errors in Hindi-English code-mixed speech - a feature analysis

Does Working-Memory Training Given to Reception-Class Children Improve the Speech of Children at Risk of Fluency Difficulty?

Procedures were designed to test for the effects of working-memory training on children at risk of fluency difficulty that apply to …
Peter Howell, Li Ying Chua, Kaho Yoshikawa, Hannah Hau Shuen Tang, Taniya Welmillage, John Harris, Kevin Tang
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Does Working-Memory Training Given to Reception-Class Children Improve the Speech of Children at Risk of Fluency Difficulty?

DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element: how temporal processing differences may shape language

Classic linguistic theory ascribes language change and diversity to population migrations, conquests, and geographical isolation, with …
Kevin Tang, Mellissa MC DeMille, Jan C Frijters, Jeffrey R Gruen
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DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element: how temporal processing differences may shape language

Tonal and laryngeal contrasts in Diaspora Tibetan

Christopher Geissler

Gestural representations of tone in Mandarin: Evidence from timing alternations

Muye Zhang, Christopher Geissler, Jason Shaw

Worldwide distribution of the DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element and its relationship with phoneme variation across languages

Mellissa MC DeMille, Kevin Tang, Chintan M Mehta, Christopher Geissler, Jeffrey G Malins, Natalie R Powers, Beatrice M Bowen, Andrew K Adams, Dongnhu T Truong, Jan C Frijters, others

Statistical and acoustic effects on the perception of stop consonants in Kaqchikel (Mayan)

Ryan Bennett, Kevin Tang, Juan Ajsivinac Sian

Phonological Koinéization in Kathmandu Tibetan

Christopher Geissler

Contextual predictability influences word and morpheme duration in a morphologically complex language (Kaqchikel Mayan)

Kevin Tang, Ryan Bennett

Intervention for word-finding difficulty for children starting school who have diverse language backgrounds

Peter Howell, Kaho Yoshikawa, Kevin Tang, John Harris, Clarissa Sorger

Identification of fluency and word-finding difficulty in samples of children with diverse language backgrounds

Peter Howell, Kevin Tang, Outi Tuomainen, Sin Kan Chan, Kirsten Beltran, Avin Mirawdeli, John Harris

The rise and fall of the L-shaped morphome: diachronic and experimental studies

Andrew Nevins, Cilene Rodrigues, Kevin Tang
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The rise and fall of the L-shaped morphome: diachronic and experimental studies

Naturalistic speech misperception

Kevin Tang
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Measuring segmental and lexical trends in a corpus of naturalistic speech

Kevin Tang, Andrew Nevins
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Measuring segmental and lexical trends in a corpus of naturalistic speech

Linger toolkit

Kevin Tang

Quantifying the diachronic productivity of irregular verbal patterns in Romance

Kevin Tang, Andrew Nevins
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Quantifying the diachronic productivity of irregular verbal patterns in Romance

A 61 million word corpus of Brazilian Portuguese film subtitles as a resource for linguistic research

Kevin Tang
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A 61 million word corpus of Brazilian Portuguese film subtitles as a resource for linguistic research