Lesser-Resourced Languages

Text-to-Speech for Under-Resourced Languages: Phoneme Mapping and Source Language Selection in Transfer Learning

Novel approaches to text-to-speech systems for under-resourced languages.

Jun 1, 2022

UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology

Expansion of the Universal Morphology project with 67 new languages and improved schema for morphological annotation.

May 7, 2022

Trilingual modality: Towards an analysis of mood and modality in Aymara, Quechua and Castellano Andino as a joint systematic concept

A study of how Aymara and Quechua have influenced mood and modality in Andean Spanish through language contact.

Jan 1, 2022

Text-to-Speech for Under-Resourced Languages: Phoneme Mapping and Source Language Selection in Transfer Learning
Text-to-Speech for Under-Resourced Languages: Phoneme Mapping and Source Language Selection in Transfer Learning

Novel approaches to text-to-speech systems for under-resourced languages.

Jan 1, 2022

Exploring speech experiences: Linguists, speakers, sounds and meanings

This chapter explores the sensory experience of documenting Muylaq' Aymara, describing how sensory perceptions shape linguistic fieldwork and language documentation.

Nov 8, 2021

A systematic review and analysis of multilingual data strategies in text-to-speech for low-resource languages

This paper provides a systematic review of multilingual data strategies for text-to-speech in low-resource languages, introducing a novel Multilingual Model Effect (MLME) measure.

Aug 30, 2021

Introduction: Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas: Narratives in Indigenous Peruvian Languages

This introduction presents a special volume featuring narratives from 13 different indigenous language families in Peru, spanning Amazonian and Andean regions.

Apr 1, 2018

Aymara

This paper presents and analyzes a traditional Andean bear narrative in Muylaq' Aymara, a variety spoken by approximately 200 people in the lowlands of Moqeugua, Peru.

Apr 1, 2018

Word and Phrasal Stress Disentangled: Pitch Peak Alignment in Frisian and Dutch Declarative Structures

We investigated pitch peak alignment in Frisian and Dutch declarative sentences, finding that both languages show delays compared to previous research, with Frisian exhibiting stronger delay in focus realization.

Jun 1, 2016

The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages

This edited volume explores laryngeal features in Native American languages, investigating how these complex phonetic and phonological properties interact in language systems across the continent.

May 9, 2016