3 papers
cs.CL2024
Self-supervised Speech Representations Still Struggle with African American Vernacular English
Kalvin Chang, Yi-Hui Chou, Jiatong Shi +4
Underperformance of ASR systems for speakers of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and other marginalized language varieties is a well-documented phenomenon, and one that r…
cs.CL2024
Phonotactic Complexity across Dialects
Ryan Soh-Eun Shim, Kalvin Chang, David R. Mortensen
Received wisdom in linguistic typology holds that if the structure of a language becomes more complex in one dimension, it will simplify in another, building on the assumption that…
cs.CL2024
Automating Sound Change Prediction for Phylogenetic Inference: A Tukanoan Case Study
Kalvin Chang, Nathaniel R. Robinson, Anna Cai +3
We describe a set of new methods to partially automate linguistic phylogenetic inference given (1) cognate sets with their respective protoforms and sound laws, (2) a mapping from…