Tag Archives: Learnability

Learning syntactic parameters without triggers by assigning credit and blame

Published on: Author: Gaja Jarosz

Brandon Prickett, Kaden Holladay, Shay Hucklebridge, Max Nelson, Rajesh Bhatt, Gaja Jarosz, Kyle Johnson, Aleksei Nazarov, and Joe Pater. 2019. Learning syntactic parameters without triggers by assigning credit and blame. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), Chicago, Illinois.

The Credit Problem in Parametric Stress: A Statistical Approach

Published on: Author: Gaja Jarosz

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).… Continue reading

Hidden Structure and Ambiguity in Phonological Learning

Published on: Author: Gaja Jarosz

Jarosz, Gaja. January 2019. Hidden Structure and Ambiguity in Phonological Learning . Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in LinguisticsNew York, New York.