3 papers
cs.CL2025
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…
cs.CL2025
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…
cs.CL2025
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.…