Exploring Sound Change Over Time: A Review of Computational and Human Perception

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05092v1
• Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 14:44:59 GMT
• Title: Exploring Sound Change Over Time: A Review of Computational and Human Perception
• Authors: Siqi He, Wei Zhao,
• Abstract summary: We provide a pioneering review contrasting computational with human perception from the perspectives of methods and tasks. Overall, computational approaches rely on computer-driven models to perceive historical sound changes on etymological datasets. Human approaches use listener-driven models to perceive ongoing sound changes on recording corpora.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Computational and human perception are often considered separate approaches for studying sound changes over time; few works have touched on the intersection of both. To fill this research gap, we provide a pioneering review contrasting computational with human perception from the perspectives of methods and tasks. Overall, computational approaches rely on computer-driven models to perceive historical sound changes on etymological datasets, while human approaches use listener-driven models to perceive ongoing sound changes on recording corpora. Despite their differences, both approaches complement each other on phonetic and acoustic levels, showing the potential to achieve a more comprehensive perception of sound change. Moreover, we call for a comparative study on the datasets used by both approaches to investigate the influence of historical sound changes on ongoing changes. Lastly, we discuss the applications of sound change in computational linguistics, and point out that perceiving sound change alone is insufficient, as many processes of language change are complex, with entangled changes at syntactic, semantic, and phonetic levels.

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