2 papers
cs.CL2025
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…
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.…