3 papers
eess.AS2026
BabAR: from phoneme recognition to developmental measures of young children's speech production
Marvin Lavechin, Elika Bergelson, Roger Levy
Studying early speech development at scale requires automatic tools, yet automatic phoneme recognition, especially for young children, remains largely unsolved. Building on decades…
cs.CL2025
Language Model Behavioral Phases are Consistent Across Architecture, Training Data, and Scale
James A. Michaelov, Roger P. Levy, Benjamin K. Bergen
We show that across architecture (Transformer vs. Mamba vs. RWKV), training dataset (OpenWebText vs. The Pile), and scale (14 million parameters to 12 billion parameters), autoregr…
cs.CL2024
Multimodal Input Aids a Bayesian Model of Phonetic Learning
Sophia Zhi, Roger P. Levy, Stephan C. Meylan
One of the many tasks facing the typically-developing child language learner is learning to discriminate between the distinctive sounds that make up words in their native language.…