Paper Presentations

Paper Presentations By Topic

Duplicate numbers indicate conjunction (do both); letters indicate disjunction (choose one to present on given date). * indicates shorter, conference papers.

Phonotactics I

    1. Jeffrey Heinz. 2011a. Computational Phonology Part I: Foundations. Language and Linguistics Compass, 5(4):140-152.
  1. Jeffrey Heinz. 2011b. Computational Phonology Part II: Grammars, Learning, and the Future. Language and Linguistics Compass, 5(4):153-168.

Phonotactics II (Phonological Structure & Generalization)

      1. Jarosz, Gaja. to appear. Defying the stimulus: acquisition of complex onsets in Polish. To appear in Phonology: Special Issue on Computational Phonology.

3a. Pater, Joe and Elliott Moreton. 2012. Structurally biased phonology: Complexity in learning and typology. In a special issue of the EFL Journal on phonology, edited by K.G. Vijayakrishnan (The Journal of the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad), 1-44.

3b. Moreton, Elliott, Joe Pater and Katya Pertsova. 2015. Phonological concept learning. Cognitive Science. 1-66. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12319

 Mappings & Rules

      1. Jesney, Karen & Anne-Michelle Tessier. 2011. Biases in Harmonic Grammar: the road to restrictive learning. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 29(1): 251-290.
      2. Gildea, D., & Jurafsky, D. (1996). Learning bias and phonological-rule induction. Computational Linguistics, 22(4), 497–530.
      3. *Chandlee, Jane and Adam Jardine. Learning phonological mappings by learning strictly local functions. In John Kingston, Claire Moore-Cantwell, Joe Pater, and Robert Staubs (eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Linguistics Association of America.
      4. Calamaro, Shira & Gaja Jarosz. 2015. Learning General Phonological Rules from Distributional Information: A Computational Model. In Cognitive Science 39 (3), 647-666.

 Hidden Structure I (Structural Ambiguity)

      1. *Nazarov, Aleksei, and Gaja Jarosz. 2017. Learning Parametric Stress without Domain-specific Mechanisms. To appear in Proceedings of AMP 2016.
      2. Stanton, Juliet. 2016. Learnability shapes typology: the case of the midpoint pathology. Language4, 753–791.
      3. *Staubs, Robert. 2014. Learning and the position of primary stress. Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. by Robert E. Santana-LaBarge, 428–437. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Hidden Structure II (URs)

11a.*Tesar, Bruce. 2012. Learning Phonological Grammars for Output-Driven Maps. In The Proceedings of NELS 39. ROA-1013. 14 pages.

11b.*Merchant, Nazarre. 2012 Learning ranking information from unspecified overt forms using the join. Chicago Linguistic Society. ROA-1146.

      1. Gaja Jarosz. 2006. Richness of the Base and Probabilistic Unsupervised Learning in Optimality Theory. Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology.
      1. Gaja Jarosz. 2011. The Roles of Phonotactics and Frequency in the Learning of Alternations. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA.
      2. *Pater, Joe, Robert Staubs, Karen Jesney and Brian Smith. 2012. Learning probabilities over underlying representations. In the Proceedings of the Twelfth Meeting of the ACL-SIGMORPHON: Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. 62-71.

 Hidden Structure II (Derivations)

14a. Staubs, Robert and Joe Pater. To appear 2016. Learning serial constraint-based grammars. In John McCarthy and Joe Pater, eds. Harmonic Grammar and Harmonic Serialism. London: Equinox Press.

14b.Nazarov, Aleksei and Joe Pater. To appear. Learning opacity in Stratal Maximum Entropy grammar. To appear in Phonology.

Exceptions

      1. Pater, Joe. 2010. Morpheme-Specific Phonology: Constraint Indexation and Inconsistency Resolution.In Steve Parker, (ed.) Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation. London: Equinox. 123-154.
      2. Nazarov, Aleksei. 2016. Chapter 4 of Extending Hidden Structure: Features, Opacity, and Exceptionality. PhD Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst.