Beyond word frequency: Bursts, lulls, and scaling in the temporal distributions of words (2009)
Altmann, Eduardo G., Pierrehumbert, Janet B., Motter, Adilson E.
Zipf's discovery that word frequency distributions obey a power law established parallels between biological and physical processes, and language, laying the groundwork for a complex systems...
In classic generative phonology, linguistic competence in the area of sound structure is modeled by a phonological grammar. The theory takes a grammatical form because it posits an inventory of...
The Phonetic Grounding of Phonology (2008)
Phonological theory makes claims about the entities of phonological representation (such as features, phonemes, or syllables); about the constraints or rules which describe the well-formed...
Stefan A. Frisch, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Michael B. Broe, Richard Wright
many people who provided comments on this early work, including Joan Bybee, Grzegorz Dogil,
In classic generative phonology, linguistic competence in the area of sound structure is modeled by a phonological grammar. The theory takes a grammatical form because it posits an inventory of...
Exemplar dynamics: Word frequency, lenition and contrast (2001)
Exemplar theory was first developed as a model of similarity and classification in perception. In this paper, the theory is extended to model speech production as well as speech perception....
Effects of semantic predictability and regional dialect on vowel space reduction
Clopper, Cynthia G., Pierrehumbert, Janet B.
This study explored the interaction between semantic predictability and regional dialect variation in an analysis of speech produced by college-aged female talkers from the Northern, Midland, and...