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What Do Prosody and Text Convey? Characterizing How Meaningful Information is Distributed Across Multiple Channels
Aditya Yadavalli, Tiago Pimentel, Tamar I Regev +2
Prosody -- the melody of speech -- conveys critical information often not captured by the words or text of a message. In this paper, we propose an information-theoretic approach to…
Modeling Bottom-up Information Quality during Language Processing
Cui Ding, Yanning Yin, Lena A. Jäger +1
Contemporary theories model language processing as integrating both top-down expectations and bottom-up inputs. One major prediction of such models is that the quality of the botto…
The Harmonic Structure of Information Contours
Eleftheria Tsipidi, Samuel Kiegeland, Franz Nowak +5
The uniform information density (UID) hypothesis proposes that speakers aim to distribute information evenly throughout a text, balancing production effort and listener comprehensi…
Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology: The Case of Tone, Pitch-Accent and Stress-Accent
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Cui Ding, Giovanni Acampa +3
This paper argues that the relationship between lexical identity and prosody -- one well-studied parameter of linguistic variation -- can be characterized using information theory.…
Findings of the BabyLM Challenge: Sample-Efficient Pretraining on Developmentally Plausible Corpora
Alex Warstadt, Aaron Mueller, Leshem Choshen +8
Children can acquire language from less than 100 million words of input. Large language models are far less data-efficient: they typically require 3 or 4 orders of magnitude more d…
The time scale of redundancy between prosody and linguistic context
Tamar I. Regev, Chiebuka Ohams, Shaylee Xie +5
In spoken communication, information is transmitted not only via words, but also through a rich array of non-verbal signals, including prosody--the non-segmental auditory features…