NECPHON 20115th Northeast Computational Phonology MeetingOctober 15th, 2011 – New Haven Connecticut |
The Northeast Computational Phonology Workshop (NECPHON) is an
informal gathering of scholars working on or interested in any aspect
of computational phonology. A good portion of the research in this
field is being done right here in the Northeast. The aim of
this meeting is bring these scholars together to present and discuss
their research on a regular
(annual) basis. This is the fifth annual meeting of NECPHON. For
information on previous years’ meetings please visit this page put
together by Joe Pater.
When: Saturday, October 15th [schedule]
Where: William L. Harkness Hall, room 119, 100 Wall St., Yale
University, New Haven (google map)
Workshop Organizer: Gaja Jarosz [gaja <dot> jarosz
<at> yale <dot> edu] with help from Yale graduate
students: Shira Calamaro, Sara Sanchez-Alonso, Jen Runds, Sabina
Matyiku, Sean Gleason, Leandro Bolanos, Emily Gasser, and Mike Freedman
Parking: Please see the Parking
Map. Parking is free at most university lots on weekends. The
closest lot is lot 51 in zone B; You can use lots 78 in zone B and 22
in zone A if lot 51 is full.
All are welcome to attend the meeting. If you plan on attending,
please send an email to the workshop
organizer, Gaja
Jarosz, so that we can make sure to include you on
future updates and can plan accordingly for food and refreshments.
Tentative Schedule of Talks
| 10:30am | – | 11:00am | Coffee | |
| Session 1 – Chair: Gaja Jarosz | ||||
| 11:00am | – | 11:25am | Paul Smolensky (JHU) | Using Harmonic Grammar in Performance Theory: Explaining Phonological Production Errors [slides] |
| 11:25am | – | 11:50am | Claire Bowern & Tyler Lau (Yale) | Computational Phylogenetics and the Number of Tasmanian Languages |
| 11:50am | – | 12:15pm | Crystal Akers (Rutgers) | Learning a Paradigmatic Equal |
| 12:15pm | – | 12:45pm | Lunch | |
| Session 2 – Chair: Joe Pater | ||||
| 12:45pm | – | 1:10pm | Frans Adriaans (Penn) | The Induction of OCP-Place Using Statistical Learning and Feature-Based Generalization |
| 1:10pm | – | 1:35pm | Christo Kirov (JHU) | Using Information Theory to Predict Online Variation in Speech Production |
| 1:35pm | – | 2:00pm | Shira Calamaro (Yale) | Alternations in Phonological Acquisition |
| 2:00pm | – | 2:15pm | Coffee | |
| Session 3 – Chair: Bruce Tesar | ||||
| 2:15pm | – | 2:40pm | Kristine Yu (UMD and UMass) | The Learnability of Tones from the Speech Signal [slides] |
| 2:40pm | – | 3:05pm | Jeffrey Heinz (Delaware) | Culminativity Times Harmony Equals Unbounded Stress Patterns [slides] |
| 3:05pm | – | 3:30pm | Robert Staubs (UMass) | Learning-Based Biases in Quantity-Insensitive Stress |
| 3:30pm | – | 3:50pm | Coffee | |
| Session 4 – Chair: Naomi Feldman | ||||
| 3:50pm | – | 4:15pm | Bruce Tesar (Rutgers) | Expressing (most of) Phonotactic Knowledge as Contrast [slides] |
| 4:15pm | – | 4:40pm | Jason Riggle (U Chicago) | Using Distributional Similarity for Unsupervised Learning of Non-local Phonotactics |
| 4:40pm | – | 5:05pm | Kyle Gorman (Penn) | Against Lexical Phonotactics |
| 5:05pm | – | 5:25pm | Coffee | |
| Session 5 – Chair: Jeffrey Heinz | ||||
| 5:25pm | – | 5:50pm | Regine Lai (Delaware) | Constraining Phonology Computationally: Experimental Evidence [slides] |
| 5:50pm | – | 6:15pm | Jason Naradowsky (UMass) | Online Error-Driven Constraint Induction for Log-linear Models of Phonotactic Grammar |
| 6:15pm | – | 6:40pm | Colin Wilson (JHU) | Bayesian Inference for Noisy Harmonic Grammar |
| 6:40pm | – | 7:00pm | Organizational Meeting | |
This year’s meeting is generously sponsored by Yale’s Sigma Xi Distinguished Visitor Fund.