SLPOtherLanguage and speech2021

Scaling Laws for Phonotactic Complexity in Spoken English Language Data.

Andreas Baumann, Kamil Kaźmierski, Theresa Matzinger

PMID 32744167

WHAT IT FOUND

This paper describes statistical patterns in sound sequences of spoken English.

It contains no clinical data, patient outcomes, or therapy interventions, so there is nothing here to change clinical practice.

What this paper is

This paper analyzes statistical scaling laws (Zipf's and Heaps' laws) in phonotactic sequences within a corpus of spoken English. It reports no clinical outcomes, patient data, or intervention effects, so there are no findings for therapists to apply to practice.

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