Week 1: Introduction and overview
Jan 24, 26 (AH)
Introduction to Niyogi (2006), Zuraw 2003 (sec. 2 and following; 5.3 and following in printed version); references
Week 2-3: Iterated learning and initial local results
Jan 31 Pater, Joe. To appear. Emergent systemic simplicity (and complexity). In the McGill Working Papers in Linguistics. (JP)
Feb 2 Kirby, Simon and Hurford, James (2002). The emergence of linguistic structure: An overview of the iterated learning model. In Cangelosi, A. and Parisi, D., editors, Simulating the Evolution of Language, chapter 6, pages 121-148. Springer Verlag, London. (JP)
Feb 7 Continued discussion of Pater (to appear), and hidden structure material posted on handout page.
Week 3.5: Exemplar approaches
Feb 9 Pierrehumbert, J. (2001) Exemplar dynamics: word frequency, lenition and contrast. In Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure (Bybee, J.L. and Hopper, P., eds), pp. 137–158, John Benjamins (MB)
Wedel, A. 2007. Feedback and Regularity in the Lexicon. Phonology 24: 147-185 (AN)
Some more Wedel readings.
Wedel, A. (2004). Category competition drives contrast maintenance within an exemplar-based production/perception loop. In Goldsmith, J. & Wicentowski, R., (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology (2004), 7: 1-10.
Wedel, Andrew B. (2006). Exemplar models, evolution and language change. The Linguistic Review, 23, 247–274.
Wedel, A. (2011). Self-organization in phonology. In E. A. H. Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen and K. Rice (Eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Blackwell. 130–147.
Week 4: Phonologization
Feb 14
Continuation of Wedel discussion.
Moreton, Elliott, and Erik R. Thomas (2007). Origins of Canadian Raising in voiceless-coda effects: a case study in phonologization. Jennifer S. Cole and Jose’ Ignacio Hualde (eds.),Laboratory Phonology 9, 37-64. Berlin: Mouton [Abstract] [Manuscript (pdf) ] (MB)
Feb 16
Boersma, P. and S. Hamann. (2008). The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint-based grammars. Phonology. 217–270. (YF)
Week 5
Feb 21
Kirby, James (in press). The role of probabilistic enhancement in phonologization. In A. Yu (ed.), Origin of Sound Patterns: Approaches to Phonologization. Oxford: OUP. (preprint) (KM)
Feb 23 Tagalog simulations from week 1 Zuraw reading (BS)
Labov, William. 1994. Chapter from Principles of linguistic change: Internal factors. Oxford: OUP.
For further reading:
Wang, William S-Y. and Chin-Chuan Cheng. 1977. Implementation of phonological change: The Shu?ng-f?ng Chinese case. The lexicon in phonological change, ed. by William Wang, 148-58. The Hague: Mouton.
Labov, William. 1981. Resolving the Neogrammarian controversy. Language 57.267-308. (AH)
Week 6
Feb 28 Continuation of Labov discussion (AH)
Sonderegger M. and P. Niyogi. (in press) Variation and change in English noun/verb pair stress: Data, dynamical systems models, and their interaction. In A. Yu (ed.), Origins of Sound Patterns: Approaches to Phonologization. Oxford: OUP. (JP)
Further reading: M. Sonderegger. (2010/in press) Testing for frequency and structural effects in an English stress shift. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. (paper)
March 1 Student presentations: Modeling results 1.
Possible further phonology discussion:
Martin, Andrew. 2007. The evolving lexicon. Doctoral dissertation, UCLA.
Week 7: Morphology
March 6 Pertsova, Katya. Grounding Systematic Syncretism in Learning. Linguistic Inquiry 42. 225-266.
March 8
Sóskuthy, Márton. 2010. Analogy in the emergence of intrusive-r in English. MS, University of Edinburgh. (CH)
Robert Malouf and Farrell Ackerman. 2010. “An evolutionary explanation for the Paradigm Economy Principle.” Paper presented at 2010 Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore. [slides ] (Everyone)
Further readings
Hare, M. and J. L. Elman. 1995. Learning and morphological change. Cognition 56, 61–98.
Robert Malouf. 2009. “Treebanks and evolutionary simulation for explaining typological patterns.” Paper presented at the 7th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theory. [ slides ]
Week 8: More Morphology
March 13 Daland, R., A. Sims, and J. Pierrehumbert (2007) Much ado about nothing: a social network model of Russian paradigmatic gaps. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Prague, Czech Republic, June 24th-29th, 2007. (BS)
March 15 Adam Albright. In press. Modeling analogy as probabilistic grammar. In Juliette Blevins, (ed.), Analogy in Grammar: Form and Acquisition. Oxford University Press.
Adam Albright and Bruce Hayes. 2006. Modeling Productivity with the Gradual Learning Algorithm: The Problem of Accidentally Exceptionless Generalizations In Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Féry, Matthias Schlesewsky, and Ralf Vogel (eds.), Gradience in Grammar. Oxford University Press.
Spring break March 20 – 22
Week 9: Split Ergativity
March 27 Cable, Seth. (2002). Hard Constraints Mirror Soft Constraints! Bias, Stochastic Optimality Theory, and Split-Ergativity Manuscript. University of Amsterdam.
March 29 (AH)
Kiparsky, Paul (2008). Universals constrain change, change results in typological generalizations. In Jeff Good, (ed.) Linguistic universals and language change, OUP.
Week 10: More on Case and Agreement
April 3 Aissen, Judith. 2003. Differential Object Marking: Iconicity vs. Economy. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 21,435-483. (RB)
Deo, Ashwini and Devyani Sharma. 2006. Typological variation in the ergative morphology of Indo-Aryan languages.
Linguistic Typology 10:3. 369-418. (RB)
April 5 Follow-up discussion: Kartvelian and New Indo-Aryan case and agreement (AH and RB), modeling word order and morphology correlations (JP).
Week 11: Word Order
April 10 Susan Pintzuk presentation
April 12 Modeling result presentation
Week 12: Word Order 2
April 17 UMASS MONDAY
April 19 Yang, C. D. (2000). Internal and external forces in language change. Language Variation and Change, 12(03), 231–250.
Supplementary reading: Yang (2002) book
Week 13 Word Order 3
April 24 More Yang (AH), Tily et al. (MB)
April 26 Culbertson, J., P. Smolensky and G. Legendre. (2011). Learning biases predict a word order universal.Cognition. (MB)
Tily, Frank & Jaeger (2011). The learnability of constructed languages reflects typological patterns. Proceedings of Cogsci 2011.
Tily & Jaeger (2011). Complementing quantitative typology with behavioral approaches: Evidence for typological universals. Linguistic Typology. 15, 479-490.
Further reading:
Clark, Brady, Matthew Goldrick, and Kenneth Konopka. 2008. Language Change as a Source of Word Order Generalizations. In Variation, Selection, Development: Probing the evolutionary model of language change. Edited by Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger, and Tonjes Veenstra. 75-102. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Culbertson, J. (2010). Learning biases, regularization, and the emergence of typological universals in syntax. Doctoral dissertation, Johns Hopkins University.
Week 14:
May 1 Final paper results