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Record W2895959302 · doi:10.1121/1.5068476

The rhythm of Hul’q’umi’num’

2018· article· en· W2895959302 on OpenAlexaff
Mackenzie Marshall, Sonya Bird

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhonetics and Phonology Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRhythmVowelLinguisticsTranscription (linguistics)Speech recognitionComputer scienceAcousticsPhysicsPhilosophy

Abstract

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This research explored the linguistic rhythm of Hul’q’umi’num’, a dialect of the Coast Salish Hul’q’umi’num’-Halq'eméylem-həəmiə language, and initiated phonetic documentation of it. Rhythm was analyzed from an audio file of an Elder telling a story. The story was segmented and phonetically transcribed using acoustic analysis software (Praat), and rhythm was measured based on the segmentation. Rhythm metrics demonstrated that consonantal intervals of Hul’q’umi’num’ patterned like no other documented language (according to ΔC and VarcoC). In terms of vocalic intervals (%V, ΔV, and VarcoV), Hul’q’umi’num’ patterned in the same rhythmic category as English (“stress-timed”). Interestingly, several differences emerged between the segmentation-based phonetic transcription and the transcription provided by language experts, such as consonant cluster elisions, loss of glottal stops, and vowel alternations. Further investigation of their systematicity and effects on Hul’q’umi’num’ rhythm as a whole is needed to understand what components of the language give it its unique rhythm.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.013

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.342
Teacher spread0.317 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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