Reconstructing the sounds of words from the past
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چکیده
We are developing novel statistical and signal processing methods to work backwards from contemporary audio recordings of simple words in modern Indo-European languages to regenerate audible spoken forms from earlier points in the language family tree. In this paper we present our first tentative steps in developing some of the necessary technical methods for realising this ambition, especially audio reconstruction of sound changes relating spoken Latin to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
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