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Record W4408267680 · doi:10.20865/202510701

A Study on Final Devoicing in Russian through Quantitative Analysis

2025· article· en· W4408267680 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
KoonHyuk Byun

Bibliographic record

VenueLanguage and Linguistics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSpeech Recognition and Synthesis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinguisticsHistoryComputer sciencePhilosophy

Abstract

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This study analyzes final devoicing in Russian using quantitative methods. It is well-known that, in Russian voiceless consonants and voiced consonants that undergo voiceless assimilation (e.g., /pod/ vs. /pot/) are not acoustically identical in terms of the preceding vowel length, indicating the occurrence of incomplete neutralization. However, previous studies have relied on small-scale, tightly controlled manual data. This study attempts a corpus-based linguistic analysis of vowel length, one of the main cues to incomplete neutralization, by using a large speech corpus(RUSLAN) and the forced aligner tool Montreal Forced Aligner(MFA). The results show that, for all voiced-voiceless pairs, the vowel preceding the voiceless-assimilated voiced consonant tends to be longer. However, exceptions were observed in certain consonant pairs, which deviate from the initial hypothesis. These findings suggest the potential for phonetic research using large, naturally occurring speech data.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.751
Threshold uncertainty score0.279

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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

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 head0.049
GPT teacher head0.359
Teacher spread0.310 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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