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The effect of phoneme distribution on perceptual similarity in English
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Date Issued
2019-09-19
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2020-08-27T11:48:06Z
Abstract
This paper investigates the extent to which native speaker perceptions regarding the similarity between phonemes of English are influenced by their distributional properties. A similarity hierarchy model based on the distribution of consonantal phonemes in the English language was generated by creating phoneme-embeddings from contextual information. We compare this to similarity models based on phonological feature theory and on native speaker perception. Characteristics of the perception-based model are shown to appear in the distribution-based model whilst not being captured by the feature-based model. This not only provides evidence of similarity perceptions being influenced by distributional properties but is an argument for incorporating distributional information alongside phonological features when modelling perceptual similarity.
Type of Material
Conference Publication
Publisher
ISCA
Copyright (Published Version)
2019 ISCA
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Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
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The 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2019): Crossroads of Speech and Language
Conference Details
The 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2019), Graz, Austria, 15-19 September 2019
ISBN
9781615676927
ISSN
2308-457X
1990-9772
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