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Spring 2023
As we listen to spoken language, the brain performs multiple levels of computation, from understanding individual words to comprehending the arc of a story. Recently, computational models have been developed that also process text on multiple levels. These models, called multi-timescale long...
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Gender and dominance in action: World view and emotional affect in language processing and use
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This dissertation examines the association between the emotional dominance of verbs and the perception, or inference, of character gender. In the context of this dissertation, emotional dominance is described as the perceived level of power, or control, exerted by a verb. I hypothesize that when...
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Graded effects of first and second language orthography on pronunciation during second language acquisition
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This study aims to assess how frequency-based and probabilistic measure describing the orthography-phonology relationship influence the accuracy of second language (L2) pronunciation in a phonological decoding task for native English learners of German, and a control group with no formal...
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Spring 2011
Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (G2P) is the task of converting a word, represented by a sequence of graphemes, to its pronunciation, represented by a sequence of phonemes. The G2P task plays a crucial role in speech synthesis systems, and is an important part of other applications, including...
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2017-01-01
Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker
A number of speech perception studies have been carried out to investigate how we process audio signals containing real words. However, comparatively fewer studies have been conducted looking at how listeners process audio signals containing phonotactically legal pseudowords. Some traditional...
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Fall 2017
Cognates are words in related languages that have originated from the same word in an ancestor language, such as the English/German word pair father/Vater. Cognate information is critical in the field of historical linguistics, where it is used to determine the relationships between languages and...