Publications

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 …
Anh Kim Nguyen, Dominic Schmitz, Defne Cicek, 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. …
Kevin Tang, Rayyan Merchant
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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, …
Faruk Akkus, Kevin Tang
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Identity Avoidance in Turkish Partial Reduplication: Feature Specificity and Locality

´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 …
Kevin Tang, Jessica Nieder
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´Kriech nicht da rein´ - A new corpus of naturalistic misperception of German misheard sung speech

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

Christopher Geissler, Julika Weber

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 …
Kevin Tang, Ratree Wayland, 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

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 …
Kevin Tang, John Harris, Eno-Abasi Urua
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A unified model of lenition as modulation reduction. Gauging consonant strength in Ibibio

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

Christopher Geissler, Eoin O’Reilly, Kevin Tang

Translating through Transliteration. The Case of Tajik persian

Kevin Tang, Rayyan Merchant

Connecting the Persian-speaking World through Transliteration

Kevin Tang, Rayyan Merchant

A corpus study of naturalistic misperceptions in German sung speech

Kevin Tang, Jessica Nieder

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 …
Kevin Tang, Wayland,Ratree, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, Rahul Sengupta, Lori Altman
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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

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 …
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

Modelling L1 and the artificial language during artificial language learning

Kevin Tang, Dinah Baer-Henney

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

Naturalistic speech misperception

Kevin Tang

Measuring segmental and lexical trends in a corpus of naturalistic speech

Kevin Tang, Andrew Nevins, HL Huang, E Poole, A Rysling

Linger toolkit

Kevin Tang

Quantifying the diachronic productivity of irregular verbal patterns in Romance

Kevin Tang, Andrew Nevins

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

Kevin Tang