Jessica Nieder

Generating Feature Vectors from Phonetic Transcriptions in Cross-Linguistic Data Formats

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

When comparing speech sounds across languages, scholars often make use of feature representations of individual sounds in order to determine fine-grained sound similarities. Although binary feature systems for large numbers of speech sounds have been …

Semantic transparency affects the phonetic signal

2024

Previous research has highlighted the impact of phonological factors and morphological structure on compound pronunciation, but the role of semantics in this interplay remains largely unexplored. Building on psycholinguistic findings that demonstrate semantic effects in …