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Represented but Ignored: A Causal Account of Prosodic Underuse in Audio-Language Models

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arXiv:2608. 19211v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human speech is richly expressive, with prosody carrying linguistic and emotional information beyond the lexical content.

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