no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Eric Meinhardt, Eric Bakovic, Leon Bergen
Recent work has found evidence that natural languages are shaped by pressures for efficient communication {---} e. g. the more contextually predictable a word is, the fewer speech sounds or syllables it has (Piantadosi et al. 2011).
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Shraddha Barke, Rose Kunkel, Nadia Polikarpova, Eric Meinhardt, Eric Bakovic, Leon Bergen
Phonological processes are context-dependent sound changes in natural languages.