Pronominal Gender in Spoken Dutch

Stress, pauses, pronominal types and pronominal functions in Danish spoken data

In this paper we present a study of the relation between types of third personal singular neuter pronoun and their functions in Danish spoken data where stress information is marked so that personal and demonstrative occurrences of the pronouns can be distinguished. This study confirms that there are language specific differences in the way various types of pronoun are used to refer to abstract...

Indexical Presuppositions of Pronominal Gender Features

Gender features on anaphoric pronouns are often analyzed as presupposition triggers, after [Cooper, 1983]. I argue that, first, “presuppositions” arising in sentences with gendered pronouns have a peculiar projection behavior different from that of regular presuppositions, and second, that such special indexical presuppositions, rather than being contributed by morphological features directly, ...

Lexical embedding in spoken dutch

A stretch of speech is often consistent with multiple words, e.g., the sequence /hæm/ is consistent with ‘ham’ but also with the first syllable of ‘hamster’, resulting in temporary ambiguity. However, to what degree does this lexical embedding occur? Analyses on two corpora of spoken Dutch showed that 11.9%-19.5% of polysyllabic word tokens have word-initial embedding, while 4.1%-7.5% of monosy...

for the Spoken Dutch Corpus

Language Models of Spoken Dutch

In Flanders, all TV shows are subtitled. However, the process of subtitling is a very time-consuming one and can be sped up by providing the output of a speech recognizer run on the audio of the TV show, prior to the subtitling. Naturally, this speech recognition will perform much better if the employed language model is adapted to the register and the topic of the program. We present several l...