Publications

Invited to resubmit, under review and submitted

(2025) Šegedin, Bruno Ferenc and Gašper Beguš. “Exploring the encoding of linguistic representations in the Fully-Connected Layer of generative CNNs for Speech.” arXiv
(2023) Beguš, Gašper, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva, Shane Gero. “Vowels and Diphthongs in Sperm Whales.” pdf
(2023) Beguš, Gašper, Thomas Lu, Alan Zhou, Peter Wu, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli. “CiwaGAN: Articulatory information exchange.” Submitted. arXiv
(2023) Dąbkowski, Maksymilian and Gašper Beguš. “Large language models and (non-)linguistic recursion.” Submitted. arXiv
(2023) Beguš, Gašper, Thomas Lu, and Zili Wang. “Basic syntax from speech: Spontaneous concatenation in unsupervised deep neural networks.” Submitted. arXiv
(2023) Beguš, Gašper, Maksymilian Dąbkowski, and Ryan Rhodes. “Large Linguistic Models: Analyzing theoretical linguistic abilities of LLMs”. Submitted. arXiv
(2023) Poldrack, Russell A., Thomas Lu, and Gašper Beguš. “AI-assisted coding: Experiments with GPT-4.” Submitted to arXiv
(2023) Beguš, Gašper, Andrej Leban, and Shane Gero. “Approaching an unknown communication system by latent space exploration and causal inference.” Submitted to arXiv
(2023) Beguš,Gašper and Maksymilian Dąbkowski. “The origins of the voice system and subject-only restriction in Austronesian” PsyArXiv
(2023) Beguš, Gašper and Peter Jurgec. “Tone, stress, quantity, and quality: prosodic patterns and tonal wug-tests in Žiri Slovenian.” Invited to resubmit. pdf
(2021) Beguš, Gašper. “Deep sound change: Deep and iterative learning, convolutional neural networks, and language change.” Invited to resubmit. arXiv
(2022) Beguš, Gašper, A. Nazarov, A. Björklund and B. Puente Baldoceda. “Lexicon against Naturalness: Unnatural Gradient Phonotactic Restrictions in Tarma Quechua”. Submitted. pdf

Peer-reviewed archival journals & conferences

(2025) Beguš, Gašper. The development of Indo-Iranian voiced fricatives. Transactions of the Philological Society 123(1): 97–115. pdf
(2024) Beguš, Gašper and Maksymilian Dąbkowski. “The blurring history of intervocalic devoicing.” Journal of Linguistics. pdf
(2024) Dąbkowski, Maksymilian and Gašper Beguš. “Complex diachronies of final nasalization in Austronesian and Dakota.” Glossa 9(1): 1–31. pdf
(2023) Beguš, Gašper, Alan Zhou, and Christina Zhao. “Encoding of speech in convolutiona layers and the brain stem based on language experience.” Scientific Reports 13: 6480. pdf
(2023) Beguš, Gašper, Alan Zhou, Peter Wu, Gopala Anumanchipalli. “Articulation GAN: Unsupervised modeling of articulatory learning.” ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. 1-5. pdf
(2022) Beguš,Gašper and Alan Zhou. “Interpreting intermediate convolutional layers of generative CNNs trained on waveforms.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing 30: 3214–3229. pdf
(2022) Beguš, Gašper and Alan Zhou⋆.“Modeling speech recognition and synthesis simultaneously: Encoding and decoding lexical and sublexical semantic information into speech with no direct access to speech data”. Proc. Interspeech 2022: 5298–5302. pdf
(2022)J.Andreas, G.Beguš, M.Bronstein, R.Diamant, D.Delaney, S.Gero, S.Goldwasser, D.Gruber, S. de Haas, P. Malkin, N. Pavlov, R. Payne, G. Petri, D. Rus, P. Sharma, D. Tchernov, P. Tønnesen, A. Torralba, D. Vogt, R. Wood. “Towards Understanding the Communication in Sperm Whales.” iScience 25(6): 104393. pdf
(2022) Beguš, Gašper and Alan Zhou⋆. Interpreting intermediate convolutional layers in unsupervised acoustic word classification. ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing: 8207-8211. pdf
(2022) Beguš, Gašper. Distinguishing cognitive from historical influences in phonology. Language 98(1): 1-34. pdf
(2022) Beguš, Gašper. Local and non-local dependency learning and emergence of rule-like representations in speech data by Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks. Computer Speech & Language 71: 101244. pdf
(2021) Beguš, Gašper. “Identity-based patterns in deep convolutional networks: Generative adver- sarial phonology and reduplication.” Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 9: 1180–1196. pdf
(2021) Beguš, Gašper. CiwGAN and fiwGAN: Encoding information in acoustic data to model lexical learning with Generative Adversarial Networks. Neural Networks 139: 305–325. pdf
(2020) Beguš, Gašper. Estimating historical probabilities of natural and unnatural processes. Phonology 37(4): 515–549. pdf
(2020) Beguš, Gašper. Generative Adversarial Phonology: Modeling unsupervised phonetic and phonological learning with neural networks. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 3: 44. pdf
(2019) Beguš, Gašper. Post-nasal devoicing and the blurring process. Journal of Linguistics 55(4): 689–753. pdf
(2017) Beguš, Gašper. Effects of ejective stops on preceding vowel duration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142(4): 2168–2184. pdf
(2015) Beguš, Gašper. A new rule in Vedic metrics. Journal of the American Oriental Society 135(3): 541–550. pdf
(2015) Beguš, Gašper. The circumflex advancement in Prekmurje Slovenian and Bednja Kajkavian. Zeitschrift für Slawistik 60(1): 33–44. pdf
(2011) Beguš, Gašper. Relativna kronologija naglasnih pojavov govora Žirovske kotline poljanskega narečja [The relative chronology of accentual phenomena in the Žiri basin local dialect]. Slovenski jezik – Slovene Linguistic Studies 8: 19–33. pdf(tr.)

Handbook chapter

(2021) Beguš, Gašper. Segmental Phonetics and Phonology in Caucasian languages. In The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus, edited by M. Polinsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf

Edited conference proceedings

(2020) Beguš, Gašper. Modeling unsupervised phonetic and phonological learning in Generative Adversarial Phonology. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 3:15. pdf
(2018) Beguš, Gašper and Aleksei Nazarov. Gradient trends against phonetic naturalness: The case of Tarma Quechua. In Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 48), edited by S. Hucklebridge and M. Nelson. 73–86. Amherst, MA: GLSA. pdf
(2018) Beguš, Gašper. A formal model of phonological typology. In Proceedings of the 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, edited by Wm. G. Bennett, L. Hracs, and D. R. Storoshenko. 104-113. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings. pdf
(2016) Beguš, Gašper. The phonetics of the independent svarita in Vedic. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, edited by S. W. Jamison, H. C. Melchert, and B. Vine. 1-12. Bremen: Hempen. pdf

Theses

(2018) Beguš, Gašper. Unnatural Phonology: A Synchrony-Diachrony Interface Approach. Ph.D. Dissertation at Harvard University. pdf
(2012) Beguš, Gašper. The RUKI-Rule in the Rigveda. Undergraduate Thesis at the University of Ljubljana. pdf

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