phonology

This paper proposes a classifier-based framework to audit multilingual TTS systems for phonological faithfulness, using Assamese ATR vowel harmony as a case study. It reveals that Meta's MMS TTS frequently misproduces advanced tongue root vowels, a bias absent in human speech.

YOMI-Bench is a benchmark designed to evaluate large language models on kanji reading and phonological understanding in Japanese. It consists of four tasks and reveals that even Japanese-specific models perform poorly on generation tasks requiring kanji reading knowledge.

This paper evaluates whether Sign Language Recognition models exhibit phonological sensitivity by probing them with minimal pairs of signs, revealing architectural trade-offs and emergent but limited phonological perception.

This paper uses layer-wise probing to investigate how wav2vec 2.0 and Whisper encode consonant cluster reduction in African American English, finding that both models distinguish reduced and canonical forms and preserve cues to underlying stops.

This paper presents a modular framework for generating artificial lexicons that are pronounceable, typologically plausible, and semantically structured, using phoneme inventories from PHOIBLE and probabilistic grammars, outperforming deterministic baselines.

This paper analyzes the Huitongguanxi Huayiyiyu, a series of multilingual glossaries from the Ming dynasty, as a structured cross-linguistic transcription system that used Chinese characters to represent non-Chinese languages, revealing how Chinese phonological categories were flexibly extended for phonetic approximation.