Computational and human perception are often considered separate approaches for studying sound changes over time; few works have touched on the intersection of both. To fill this research gap, we provide a pioneering review contrasting computational with human perception from the perspectives of methods and tasks. Overall, computational approaches rely on computer-driven models to perceive historical sound changes on etymological datasets, while human approaches use listener-driven models to perceive ongoing sound changes on recording corpora. Despite their differences, both approaches complement each other on phonetic and acoustic levels, showing the potential to achieve a more comprehensive perception of sound change. Moreover, we call for a comparative study on the datasets used by both approaches to investigate the influence of historical sound changes on ongoing changes. Lastly, we discuss the applications of sound change in computational linguistics, and point out that perceiving sound change alone is insufficient, as many processes of language change are complex, with entangled changes at syntactic, semantic, and phonetic levels.
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Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）；Zhongguancun Academy（中关村学院）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Xi’an Jiaotong University（西安交通大学）
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Department of Environmental Science and Policy（环境科学与政策系）；Department of Computer Science（计算机科学系）；Department of Mathematics（数学系）；Department of Control and Computer Engineering（控制与计算机工程系）
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Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan；Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan；Artificial Intelligence Center of Research Excellence National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan
