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20202026
most citedProsody leaks into the memories of words

37 citations · 40 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Direct cueing of word identity through word duration: evidence from Mandarin homophones

Xiaomeng Zhu, Megan Niu, Jason Shaw +1

While there is increasing evidence that words are stored in the mental lexicon with some phonetic detail, there are open questions about exactly which phonetic details are stored a…

cs.CL2026

Evaluation of forced alignment of code-mixed speech: the case of Hindi-English

Ayushi Pandey, Pamir Gogoi, Kevin Tang

Code-mixed speech poses unique challenges to forced alignment: expanded inventories, orthographic errors, and speaker variation. We evaluate forced alignment of Hindi-English code-…

cs.CL2026

A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Automatic Speech Recognition Bias in Newcastle English

Dana Serditova, Kevin Tang

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are widely used in everyday communication, education, healthcare, and industry, yet their performance remains uneven across speakers, par…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

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

Harrison Santiago, Joshua Martin, Sarah Moeller +1

Recent research has highlighted that natural language processing (NLP) systems exhibit a bias against African American speakers. The bias errors are often caused by poor representa…

cs.CL2020★ 37 cited

Prosody leaks into the memories of words

Kevin Tang, Jason A. Shaw

The average predictability (aka informativity) of a word in context has been shown to condition word duration (Seyfarth, 2014). All else being equal, words that tend to occur in mo…