The Berkeley Phonetics Machine

The Berkeley Phonetics Machine

The Berkeley Phonetics Machine is a Linux virtual machine image produced and used by the UC Berkeley Phonology Lab as a platform for phonetic research. It contains a full data analysis stack based on Python and R and also specialized tools for phonetic research. The machine is designed as a flexible and productive platform for established and novel research agendas that can be easily shared and...

Segmental optical phonetics for human and machine speech processing

That talkers produce optical as well as acoustic speech signals, and that perceivers process both types of signals has become well known. Although perceptual effects due to audiovisual speech integration have been a focus of research involving the visual speech stimulus, relatively little is known about visual-only speech perception and optical phonetic signals. This knowledge is needed to expl...

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Phonetics in Phonology and Phonology in Phonetics

5. Some caveats -The phonetics/phonology interface is a broad topic that has been considered from many points of views. -Extensive recent literature in acquisition, psycholinguistics, role of the lexicon, role of speech perception (See among others, recent LabPhon volumes, Burton-Roberts et al. 2000, Hume and Johnson 2001, Bod et al. 2003) -Conclusion recently argued for by Pierrehumbert (2003,...

The Berkeley FrameNet Project

FrameNet is a three-year NSF-supported project in corpus-based computational lexicography, now in its second year (NSF IRI-9618838, "Tools for Lexicon Building"). The project's key features are (a) a commitment to corpus evidence for semantic and syntactic generalizations, and (b) the representation of the valences of its target words (mostly nouns, adjectives, and verbs) in which the semantic ...