Abstract
Automatic Speech Recognition systems (ASR) based on neural networks achieve great results, but it remains unclear which are the linguistic features and representations that the models leverage to perform the recognition. In our study, we used phonological syllables as tokens to fine-tune an end-to-end ASR model due to their relevance as linguistic units. Furthermore, this strategy allowed us to keep track of different types of linguistic features characterizing the tokens. The analysis of the transcriptions generated by the model reveals that factors such as token frequency and lexical stress have a variable impact on the prediction strategies adopted by the ASR system.