On Tuesday, Robert will present on Finite State Machines in phonology, focusing on the Wilson 2006 handout linked from the syllabus page, but also discussing some broader applications of FSMs for constraint formalization. With any leftover time, we’ll discuss stats, focusing on the chapter on variance (ch. 4) in the Crawley text.

On Thursday, I’ll present the experimental work Kager and I have done on phonotactic knowledge. Both the paper and the reviews are linked from the syllabus page – discussing the reviews will allow us to talk about general issues about how to deal with them.