C11 - Prominence in Large Language Models
In this project, prominence is investigated with the help of large language models. Language models are to take on the role of test subjects in psycholinguistic experiments, which means that the project also pursues a methodological goal. Initially, the aim is to replicate the results of linguistic experiments conducted with humans as well as possible - whereby the project also has to work out how exactly this can be measured and what “as well as possible” means. To this end, we are working together with three projects from the CRC, namely B04, C04 und C07. The experimental simulations will then be gradually expanded so that larger contexts with more decisions and variants can be investigated. Finally, the project will also investigate whether language models can not only simulate a -- relatively undefined -- entirety of speakers, but can also be used to simulate individual test subjects.
Team
Prof. Dr. Nils Reiter
poroject Leader C11 and S
Office: Universitätsstraße 22, room 1.04aE-Mail: nils.reiter(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-1902
Ziyue Liu
Doctoral Student C11
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.08E-Mail: ziyue.liu(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89908
Student Assistants
Karoline Tanck | ktanck(at)smail.uni-koeln.de
Publications
To appear
- Seeliger, Heiko. To appear. The prosody of Swedish non-canonical questions. In Regine Eckardt, George Walkden & Nicole Dehé (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Non-Canonical Questions.
2024
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. 2024. Givenness perception in declaratives vs. exclamatives. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden.
2023
- Repp, Sophie, Lara Muhtz & Johannes Heim. 2023. Alignment of beat gestures and prosodic prominence in German. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, 107–111. Dublin, Ireland.
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger. 2023. Contrast and givenness in biased declarative questions. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1543–1547. Prague, Czech Republic: Guarant International.
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger. 2023. Reject?! On the prosody of non-acceptance. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1355–1359. Prague, Czech Republic: Guarant International.
- Seeliger, Heiko, Anne Lützeler & Constantijn Kaland. 2023. The perception of German wh-phrase-final intonation. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation, 10–14. pdf
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. 2023. Information-structural surprises? Contrast, givenness, and (the lack of) accent shift and deaccentuation in non-assertive speech acts. Journal of Laboratory Phonology 14(1), 1-46.
2022
- Seeliger, Heiko & Constantijn Kaland. 2022. Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives - a cluster-based approach. In Proceedings Speech Prosody 2022, 27–31. Lisbon, Portugal. pdf
2021
- Repp, Sophie & Katharina Spalek. 2021. The role of alternatives in language. Frontiers in Communication 6:682009.
2020
- Repp, Sophie. 2020. The Prosody of Wh-exclamatives and Wh-questions in German: Speech act differences, information structure, and sex of speaker. Language and Speech 63(2). 306–361.
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger. 2020. Prosodic prominence in polar questions and exclamatives. Frontiers in Communication 5:53.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. 2020. Competing prominence requirements in verb-first exclamatives with contrastive and given information. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020 (online conference). Tokyo, Japan. pdf
2017
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. 2017. On the intonation of Swedish rejections and rejecting questions. Proceedings of Nordic Prosody XII, 135–146. Trondheim: Peter Lang. pdf