Differentiable Generative Phonology [PDF]
The goal of generative phonology, as formulated by Chomsky and Halle (1968), is to specify a formal system that explains the set of attested phonological strings in a language. Traditionally, a collection of rules (or constraints, in the case of optimality theory) and underlying forms (UF) are posited to work in tandem to generate phonological strings.
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Multilingual and crosslingual speech recognition using phonological-vector based phone embeddings [PDF]
The use of phonological features (PFs) potentially allows language-specific phones to remain linked in training, which is highly desirable for information sharing for multilingual and crosslingual speech recognition methods for low-resourced languages.
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A Phylogenetic Model of the Evolution of Discrete Matrices for the Joint Inference of Lexical and Phonological Language Histories [PDF]
We propose a model of the evolution of a matrix along a phylogenetic tree, in which transformations affect either entire rows or columns of the matrix. This represents the change of both lexical and phonological aspects of linguistic data, by allowing for new words to appear and for systematic phonological changes to affect the entire vocabulary.
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Disorders of reading, math, and attention frequently co-occur in children. However, it is not yet clear which cognitive factors contribute to comorbidities among multiple disorders and which uniquely relate to one, especially because they have rarely ...
Amanda E Child+4 more
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Information on a crop’s three-dimensional (3D) structure is important for plant phenotyping and precision agriculture (PA). Currently, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been proven to be the most effective tool for crop 3D characterization in ...
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Three-Dimensional Integration and Modeling: A Revolution in RF and Wireless Packaging
This book presents a step-by-step discussion of the 3D integration approach for the development of compact system-on-package (SOP) front-ends.Various examples of fully-integrated passive building blocks (cavity/microstip filters, duplexers, antennas), as
Jong-Hoon Lee, M. Tentzeris
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Applying Syntax$\unicode{x2013}$Prosody Mapping Hypothesis and Prosodic Well-Formedness Constraints to Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Synthesis [PDF]
End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), which generates speech sounds directly from strings of texts or phonemes, has improved the quality of speech synthesis over the conventional TTS. However, most previous studies have been evaluated based on subjective naturalness and have not objectively examined whether they can reproduce pitch patterns of ...
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Improve Bilingual TTS Using Dynamic Language and Phonology Embedding [PDF]
In most cases, bilingual TTS needs to handle three types of input scripts: first language only, second language only, and second language embedded in the first language. In the latter two situations, the pronunciation and intonation of the second language are usually quite different due to the influence of the first language.
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The phonetics and phonology of lenition: A Campidanese Sardinian case study
This paper gives a detailed description of the consonant system of Campidanese Sardinian and makes methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of lenition.
Jonah Katz, Gianmarco Pitzanti
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Exploring How Generative Adversarial Networks Learn Phonological Representations [PDF]
This paper explores how Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) learn representations of phonological phenomena. We analyze how GANs encode contrastive and non-contrastive nasality in French and English vowels by applying the ciwGAN architecture (Begus 2021a).
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