Phonology impacts segmentation in online speech processing☆

Phonology impacts segmentation in online speech processing

The Role of Phonology in Speech Processing

In this paper, I discuss the role of phonology in the modelling of speech processing. It will be argued tha t recent models of nonlinear representa t ions in phonology should be put to use in speech processing systems (SPS). Models ol phonology aim at the reconst ruct ion of the phonological knowledge that speakers possess and utilize in speech prow cessing. The most important function of phono...

Speech Perception in Phonology

The idea that the nature of speech perception plays a role in shaping phonology is not new. There is a substantial literature that proposes and tests perceptual explanations for phonological patterns, e.g. Liljencrants and Lindblom (1972), Lindblom (1986), Ohala (1981, 1990, 1993). Most of this research addresses general tendencies in phonological patterning, e.g. the cross-linguistic tendency ...

Child phonology analyzer: Processing and analyzing transcribed speech

This paper describes two algorithms for analyzing transcribed speech corpora: (1) identification of phonological processes, and (2) phonological queries. The algorithms are implemented in Visual Basic for Applications for Microsoft Excel, thus exploiting Excel’s mass‐calculation capabilities to analyze large corpora quickly. The user interface features a set of editable tables that contain defi...

Phonology is not psychological and speech processing is not linguistic ∗

Experimental evidence about human speech processing and linguistic memory shows that words are not spelled from letter-like units, whether thought of as phones or phonemes. Linguists, like others with a Western education and a lifetime of literacy, identify speech quite automatically with a sequence of letter-sized units. Consonants and vowels seem like directly observable units in speech. Howe...