Speaker: Sverre Stausland Johnsen (Harvard University)
Title: Rhyme acceptability determined by perceived similarity
Time: Tuesday 3/29, 5-6pm, 32-D831
Intuitively, a-b is a better rhyme than a-c when a and b are more
similar to each other than a and c are. But how do we measure this
similarity? I show in this talk that the perceptual similarity between
segments as calculated from confusion matrices is a much better
predictor of peoples judgments of rhymes than are similarity measures
based on articulatory or acoustic feature systems.
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