no code implementations • NAACL (SIGMORPHON) 2022 • James Tanner, Morgan Sonderegger, Jane Stuart-Smith
Vowels are typically characterized in terms of their static position in formant space, though vowels have also been long-known to undergo dynamic formant change over their timecourse.
no code implementations • 16 Jul 2015 • James Kirby, Morgan Sonderegger
We find that population structure itself can act as a source of stability, but that both stability and change are possible only when both types of bias are active, suggesting that it is possible to understand why sound change occurs at some times and not others as the population-level result of the interplay between forces promoting each outcome in individual speakers.