8 papers
Word meaning co-determines vowel-inherent spectral change. A corpus-based investigation of conversational Mandarin
Xiaoyun Jin, Mirjam Ernestus, R. Harald Baayen
This study investigates vowel-inherent spectral change (VISC) in spontaneous conversational Mandarin. Using the generalized additive model and word embeddings from distributional s…
Using embeddings to predict spoken word duration and pitch in Mandarin monosyllabic words
Xiaoyun Jin, Mirjam Ernestus, R. Harald Baayen
Time-normalized f0 contours of Mandarin words in conversational speech have been shown to be predictable in part from their contextualized embeddings (CEs). The present study inves…
Form and meaning co-determine the realization of tone in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech: the case of T2-T3 and T3-T3 tone sandhi
Yuxin Lu, Yu-Ying Chuang, R. Harald Baayen
In Standard Chinese, Tone 3 (the dipping tone) becomes Tone 2 (rising tone) when followed by another Tone 3. Previous studies have noted that this sandhi process may be incomplete,…
A new kid on the block: Distributional semantics predicts the word-specific tone signatures of monosyllabic words in conversational Taiwan Mandarin
Xiaoyun Jin, Mirjam Ernestus, R. Harald Baayen
We present a corpus-based investigation of how the pitch contours of monosyllabic words are realized in spontaneous conversational Mandarin, focusing on the effects of words' meani…
Is deeper always better? Replacing linear mappings with deep learning networks in the Discriminative Lexicon Model
Maria Heitmeier, Valeria Schmidt, Hendrik P. A. Lensch +1
Recently, deep learning models have increasingly been used in cognitive modelling of language. This study asks whether deep learning can help us to better understand the learning p…
Analyzing Finnish Inflectional Classes through Discriminative Lexicon and Deep Learning Models
Alexandre Nikolaev, Yu-Ying Chuang, R. Harald Baayen
Descriptions of complex nominal or verbal systems make use of inflectional classes. Inflectional classes bring together nouns which have similar stem changes and use similar expone…