Papers by Giovanni Acampa
Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology: The Case of Tone, Pitch-Accent and Stress-Accent (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | lexical identity and prosody are well-studied parameters of linguistic variation, but they are difficult to predict in tonal languages. |
| Approach: | They propose to characterize the relationship between lexical identity and prosody using information theory to estimate mutual information between the text and pitch curves. |
| Outcome: | The proposed hypothesis supports perspectives that view linguistic typology as gradient, rather than categorical. |