Papers with phonological theory
Implicational Universals in Stochastic Constraint-Based Phonology (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar are constraint-based implementations of phonological theory that do not tamper with typological structure induced by categorical frameworks. |
| Approach: | They propose to model the implicational universals of phonological theory, called T-orders, and to use stochastic constraint-based frameworks to model them. |
| Outcome: | The proposed frameworks do not tamper with typological structure induced by categorical frameworks. |
What Do Neural Speech Models Know About Phonology? Evidence from Structured Phoneme Confusions (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | acoustic and phonological models of speech recognition are often limited to the phoneme level . a recent study has shown that phoneme confusions are strongly structured in phonology space . |
| Approach: | They adopt a featural representation of phonemes grounded in phonological theory which models speech sounds as structured bundles of distinctive articulatory and acoustic properties. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model allows us to analyse phoneme confusions at a finer granularity and to investigate whether certain phonological features are more vulnerable than others. |