@inproceedings{Zaitova/etal:2024a,
title = {Cross-Linguistic Intelligibility of Non-Compositional Expressions in Spoken Context},
author = {Iuliia Zaitova and Irina Stenger and Wei Xue and Tania Avgustinova and Bernd M{\"o}bius and Dietrich Klakow},
url = {https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2024/zaitova24_interspeech.html},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2024-416},
year = {2024},
date = {2024},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Interspeech 2024},
pages = {4189-4193},
publisher = {ISCA},
address = {Kos, Greece},
abstract = {This study investigates intelligibility of non-compositional expressions in spoken context for five closely related Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian) by native Russian speakers. Our investigation employs a web-based experiment involving free-response and multiple-choice translation tasks. Drawing on prior research, two factors were examined: (1) linguistic similarities (orthographic and phonological distances), and (2) surprisal scores obtained from two multilingual speech representation (SR) models fine-tuned for Russian (Wav2Vec2-Large-Ru-Golos-With-LM and Whisper Medium Russian).
According to the results of Pearson correlation and regression analyses, phonological distance appears to be a better predictor of intelligibility scores than SR surprisal.},
pubstate = {published},
type = {inproceedings}
}