Using Prosody to Predict Syntactic Structure
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arXiv:2608.30260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While it is well-established that prosody carries crucial cues for syntactic structure, the degree and nature of correspondence between these two domains remains contested. We investigate the syntax-prosody interface through an information-theoretic lens, quantifying the interaction between prosodic features and syntactic representations as their mutual information. We provide a general-purpose framework for estimating this quantity over large speech-text corpora using multimodal language models. Our framework is structure-agnostic and modular,
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.30260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While it is well-established that prosody carries crucial cues for syntactic structure, the degree and nature of correspondence between these two domains remains contested.
- We investigate the syntax-prosody interface through an information-theoretic lens, quantifying the interaction between prosodic features and syntactic representations as their mutual information.
- We provide a general-purpose framework for estimating this quantity over large speech-text corpora using multimodal language models.
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