(subject to change)
| Week | Topic | Readings / Assignments | Presentations | ||
| 1 | Jan 24 | Computational Foundations – Python, RegExp, MinEdit | Online Python reading | ||
| Jan 26 | J&M+ 2.1, 3.11 | ||||
| 2 | Jan 31 | Phonotactics I – Basic probability, N-Grams, Smoothing | Tesar 6-6.2, J&M 4-4.5.1 | ||
| Feb 2 | |||||
| 3 | Feb 7 | Catch-up & Lab | Lab 1 Assigned | ||
| Feb 9 | SNOW DAY | ||||
| 4 | Feb 14 | Phonotactics II – O/E, MaxEnt | Hayes & Wilson (2008) | P1 (Andrew) | |
| Feb 16 | Structural and Substantive Biases | Daland et al (2011) | P3b (Brandon) | ||
| 5 | Feb 21 | Wilson (2006) | P2 (Leland) | ||
| Feb 23 | Mappings – CD/GLA, Restrictiveness | Prince & Tesar (2004) | P4 (Coral) | ||
| 6 | Feb 28 | Rules | Albright & Hayes (2003) | P5 (Amanda D) | |
| Mar 2 | Catch-up & Lab | Lab 2 Assigned | |||
| 7 | Mar 7 | More Rules | P6* (Brandon)-7(Jack) | ||
| Mar 9 | Hidden Structure I – MRCD/RIP/P&P | Dresher & Kaye (1990) | |||
| SPRING BREAK | |||||
| 8 | Mar 21 | HMMs, Viterbi, & Forward | J&M 5.5, 6-6.4 | ||
| Mar 23 | EM (Forward-Backward) | J&M 6.5 | |||
| 9 | Mar 28 | Stochastic Parsing | Jarosz (2013) | P8* (Andrew) | |
| Mar 30 | Catch-up & Lab | ||||
| 10 | Apr 4 | Deriving Stress Biases | P9 (Jack) – 10*(Katie) | ||
| Apr 6 | Hidden Structure II – learning URs | Tesar & Prince (2003) | P11*a or b (Andrew) | ||
| 11 | Apr 11 | Rasin & Katzir (2016), Johnson (1984) | |||
| Apr 13 | Derivations | P12 (Amanda D), P14a (Carolyn) | |||
| 12 | Apr 18 | NO CLASS (Monday schedule) | |||
| Apr 20 | Jarosz (2016) | P13* (Brandon) | |||
| 13 | Apr 25 | Exceptions | Zuraw (2010) | P15 (Katie) | |
| Apr 27 | Moore-Cantwell & Staubs (2014) | P16 (Amanda R) | |||
| 14 | May 2 | 10 min. project presentations! | |||
| May 10 | Papers due | ||||
* indicates shorter, conference papers