Incremental Learning of Lexically-Specific Morphophonology: an Integrative Approach

Jarosz, Gaja. to appear. Incremental Learning of Lexically-Specific Morphophonology: an Integrative Approach. To appear in Linguistics Vanguard. Acquisition and processing results indicate idiosyncratic, lexical knowledge interacts with productive, grammatical knowledge in systematic ways. Evidence from language processing demonstrates that higher frequency and less productive complex words are more likely to be retrieved holistically from the […]

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Pattern Structure Modulates Learning of Lexically Conditioned Morphology

Hughes, Cerys and Jarosz, Gaja. Pattern Structure Modulates Learning of Lexically Conditioned Morphology. 2024. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2024) in Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5-7, 2024. Poster. Work in first language acquisition and artificial grammar learning (AGL) indicates thatlanguage learners can extract systematic regularities from inconsistent language data. Insome cases, […]

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Type and Token Frequency Jointly Drive Learning of Morphology

Jarosz, Gaja, Cerys Hughes, Andrew Lamont, Brandon Prickett, Maggie Baird, Seoyoung Kim & Max Nelson. 2024. Type and Token Frequency Jointly Drive Learning of Morphology. OSF. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mbp24. We examine the joint roles of type frequency and token frequency in three artificial language learning experiments involving lexicalized plural allomorphy. The primary role of type frequency in […]

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The Credit Problem in Parametric Stress: A Statistical Approach

Aleksei Nazarov & Gaja Jarosz. 2021. The Credit Problem in Parametric Stress: A Statistical Approach. Glossa 6(1). 1-26. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5884 In this paper, we introduce a novel domain-general, statistical learning model for P&P grammars: the Expectation Driven Parameter Learner (EDPL). We show that the EDPL provides a mathematically principled solution to the Credit Problem (Dresher 1999). […]

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Generalizing from Inconsistent Data: The Combined Roles of Type and Token Frequency

Gaja Jarosz. 2023. Generalizing from Inconsistent Data: The Combined Roles of Type and Token Frequency. Colloquium talk, Yale University, New Haven, CT. November 2023. Language acquisition proceeds on the basis of incomplete, ambiguous linguistic input. Due to recent developments in computational modeling of morphophonological learning, there now exist numerous approaches for learning of various kinds […]

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Generalizing from Inconsistent Data: How much do Exceptions Count? (AMP 2022 Plenary)

Language acquisition proceeds on the basis of incomplete, ambiguous linguistic input, and one source of this ambiguity is hidden phonological structure. Due to recent developments in computational modeling of phonological learning, there now exist numerous approaches for learning of various kinds of hidden phonological structure from incomplete, unlabeled, and noisy data. These computational models make it […]

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Generalizing Phonological (Hidden) Structure (USC Talk & Minicourse)

Language acquisition proceeds on the basis of incomplete, ambiguous linguistic input, and one source of this ambiguity is hidden phonological structure. Due to recent developments in computational modeling of phonological learning, there now exist numerous approaches for learning of various kinds of hidden phonological structure from incomplete, unlabeled, and noisy data. These computational models make it […]

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