Information-theoretic analysis of disfluencies in speech

Shiva Upadhye, Richard Futrell

Keywords: Speech production, rate-distortion theory, psycholinguistics

TL;DR: Information-theoretic analysis of a corpus of disfluencies along with a rate-distortion model

Abstract: This study proposes and examines an information-theoretic measure of planning in incremental speech production, and investigates the effects of planning, predictability, and interference-based measures on distractor selection and production in lexical substitution errors. We then present a rate-distortion theoretic model of speech production that explicates how these factors affect the production of lexical substitution errors.

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