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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
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Patrick Blättermann
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Maximilian Sattler
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Alice Rozet
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Jotsna Gowda
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Pryce Houck
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Kevin Tang
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Sarah Moeller
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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
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Rachel Meyer
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Ruhi Reddy
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Kevin Tang
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Karen W. Hegland
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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
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Kevin Tang
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Fenqi Wang
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Sophia Vellozzi
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Rachel Meyer
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Rahul Sengupt
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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
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Rachel Meyer
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Sophia Vellozzi
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Kevin Tang
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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
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EnoAbasi Urua
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Amanda E. Griffith
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Zane Price
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Kristy Elizabeth Boyer
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Kevin Tang
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Fenqi Wang
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Sophia Vellozzi
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Rachel Meyer
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Rahul Sengupta
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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
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Kevin Tang
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Si Chen
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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
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Fjorda Kazazi
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Kevin Tang
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Peter Howell
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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
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Ratree Wayland
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Fenqi Wang
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Sophia Vellozzi
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Rahul Sengupta
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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
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Anna Sophia Stein
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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
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Alice Rozet
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Jotsna Gowda
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Bill Dyer
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Kevin Tang
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Sarah Moeller
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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
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Defne Cicek
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Anh Kim Nguyen
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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
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Alexis Davis
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Wilermine Previlon
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Michael Bottini
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Delin Deng
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Kevin Tang
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Ratree Wayland
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Comparison of performance of automatic recognizers for stutters in speech trained with event or interval markers
Liam Barrett
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Kevin Tang
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Peter Howell
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Factors affecting judgment accuracy when scoring children’s responses to non-word repetition stimuli in real time
Peter Howell
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Clarissa Sorger
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Roa'a Alsulaiman
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Kaho Yoshikawa
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John Harris
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Kevin Tang
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Neural networks’ posterior probability as measure of effects of alcohol on speech
Ratree Wayland
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Kevin Tang
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Fenqi Wang
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Sophia Vellozzi
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Rahul Sengupta
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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
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Dominic Schmitz
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Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao
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Anna Sophia Stein
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Faruk Akkus
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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
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Kevin Tang
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Fenqi Wang
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Sophia Vellozzi
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Rahul Sengupta
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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
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Kevin Tang
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Andrew Nevins
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Accommodation to passive exposure in the L2
Julika Weber
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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
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Kevin Tang
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Fenqi Wang
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Sophia Vellozzi
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Rahul Sengupta
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Language production in Parkinson’s Disease. Measuring Syntactic Complexity
Kevin Tang
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Seyedeh Zahra Mirkhaef
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Julia Henkel
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Katja Biermann-Ruben
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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
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Dinah Baer-Henney
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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
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Ratree Wayland
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Fenqi Wang
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Sophia Vellozzi
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Rahul Sengupta
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Lori Altmann
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Uncover articulatory correlates of acoustic duration with analysis-by-synthesis. The case of diphthongs
Eoin O’Reilly
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Christopher Geissler
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Kevin Tang
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Translating through Transliteration. The Case of Tajik persian
Rayyan Merchant
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Kevin Tang
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Connecting the Persian-speaking World through Transliteration
Rayyan Merchant
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Kevin Tang
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A corpus study of naturalistic misperceptions in German sung speech
Jessica Nieder
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Joshua Martin
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Sarah Moeller
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Yulia Zinova
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Kevin Tang
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Ruben van de Vijver
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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
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Charles B. Chang
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Sam Green
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Kai Xin Bao
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Michael Hindley
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Young Shin Kim
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Andrew Nevins
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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
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Kevin Tang
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Fenqi Wang
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Sophia Vellozzi
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Rahul Sengupta
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Gender stereotypes and inclusion in language teaching
Rikker Dockum
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Sarah Babinski
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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
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Jason A Shaw
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Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences
Hadas Kotek
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Rikker Dockum
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Sarah Babinski
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Christopher Geissler
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Eccentric CV timing across speakers of diaspora Tibetan with and without lexical tone contrasts
Christopher Geissler
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Jason Shaw
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Fang Hu
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Mark Tiede
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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
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Ken Ford
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Justin Mason
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Sanjay Ranka
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Brian Reimer
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Raivo Sell
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Edward Straub
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Pamir Gogoi
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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?
Procedures were designed to test for the effects of working-memory training on children at risk of fluency difficulty that apply to …
Peter Howell
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Li Ying Chua
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Kaho Yoshikawa
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Hannah Hau Shuen Tang
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Taniya Welmillage
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John Harris
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Kevin Tang
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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
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Mellissa MC DeMille
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Jan C Frijters
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Jeffrey R Gruen
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Tonal and laryngeal contrasts in Diaspora Tibetan
Christopher Geissler
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Gestural representations of tone in Mandarin: Evidence from timing alternations
Muye Zhang
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Christopher Geissler
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Jason Shaw
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Worldwide distribution of the DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element and its relationship with phoneme variation across languages
Mellissa MC DeMille
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Kevin Tang
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Chintan M Mehta
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Christopher Geissler
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Jeffrey G Malins
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Natalie R Powers
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Beatrice M Bowen
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Andrew K Adams
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Dongnhu T Truong
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Jan C Frijters
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Statistical and acoustic effects on the perception of stop consonants in Kaqchikel (Mayan)
Ryan Bennett
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Kevin Tang
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Juan Ajsivinac Sian
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Phonological Koinéization in Kathmandu Tibetan
Christopher Geissler
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Contextual predictability influences word and morpheme duration in a morphologically complex language (Kaqchikel Mayan)
Kevin Tang
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Ryan Bennett
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Intervention for word-finding difficulty for children starting school who have diverse language backgrounds
Peter Howell
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Kaho Yoshikawa
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Kevin Tang
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John Harris
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Clarissa Sorger
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Identification of fluency and word-finding difficulty in samples of children with diverse language backgrounds
Peter Howell
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Kevin Tang
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Outi Tuomainen
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Sin Kan Chan
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Kirsten Beltran
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Avin Mirawdeli
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John Harris
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The rise and fall of the L-shaped morphome: diachronic and experimental studies
Andrew Nevins
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Cilene Rodrigues
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Kevin Tang
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Naturalistic speech misperception
Kevin Tang
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Measuring segmental and lexical trends in a corpus of naturalistic speech
Kevin Tang
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Andrew Nevins
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Linger toolkit
Kevin Tang
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Quantifying the diachronic productivity of irregular verbal patterns in Romance
Kevin Tang
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Andrew Nevins
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A 61 million word corpus of Brazilian Portuguese film subtitles as a resource for linguistic research
Kevin Tang
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