Processing and Acquisition of Alternations Winter 2009/2010

Here’s the schedule of the processing and acquisition class.

21 10 2009 Intro, alternations and their acquisition

Kager, R. (1999). Optimality Theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (Chapter 7 and 9).

28 10 2009 Phonotactics and alternations

a) Hayes, B. (2004). Phonological acquisition in optimality theory: the early stages. In Kager, R., Pater, J., and Zonneveld, W., editors, Constraints in Phonological Acquisition, pages 158–203. Cambridge University Press. (a preprint version)

b) Prince, A. and Tesar, B. (2004). Learning phonotactic distributions. In Kager, R., Pater, J., and Zonneveld, W., editors, Constraints in Phonological Acquisition, pages 245–291. Cambridge University Press. (a preprint version)

04 11 2009 alternations and issues in processing

a) Mitterer, H. (2003). Understanding "gardem bench": Studies on the perception of assimilated word forms. PhD thesis, Universteit van Maastricht.

b) Lahiri, A. and Reetz, H. (2002). Underspecified recognition. In Gussenhoven, C. and Warner, N., editors, Laboratory Phonology 7, pages 637–676. Mouton de Gruyter.

11 11 2009 Shatzman, K. and Kager, R. (2007). A role for phonotactic constraints in speech perception. In Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pages 1409–1412.

18 11 2009 Rules and words

a) Kim, J., Pinker, S., Prince, A., and Prasada, S. (1991). Why no mere mortal has ever flown out to center field. Cognitive Science, 15(2):173–218.

b) Pinker, S. (1998). Words and rules. Lingua, 106(1-4):219–242.

25 11 2009 probability and words

Ernestus, M. and Baayen, R. (2003). Predicting the unpredictable: Interpreting neutralized segments in dutch. Language, 79(1):5–38.

02 12 2009 rules and probability

Albright, A. and Hayes, B. (2002). Modeling english past tense intuitions with minimal generalization. Proceedings of the ACL-02 workshop on Morphological and phonological learning-Volume 6, pages 58–69.

09 12 2009 Albright, A., Andrade, A., and Hayes, B. (2001). Segmental environments of spanish diphthongization. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, 7:117–151.

16 12 2009 What is 'similar'?

Albright, A. (2005). The morphological basis of paradigm leveling. In Downing, L. J., Hall, T. A., and Raffelsiefen, R., editors, Paradigms in Phonology Theory, pages 17–43. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK & Cambridge, USA.

06 01 2009 Kerkhoff, A. (2007). Acquisition of Morpho-Phonology: The Dutch voicing Alternation. PhD thesis, University of Utrecht, LOT.

13 01 2009 Jurafsky, D. and Martin, J. (2008). Speech and language processing: An introduction to natural language processing, speech recognition, and computational linguistics. Pearson Education. chapter 6

20 01 2009 Hayes, B. and Wilson, C. (2006). A maximum entropy model of phonotactics and phonotactic learning. Linguistic Inquiry.

27 01 2009 Hayes, B. and Londe, Z. (2006). Stochastic phonological knowledge: the case of Hungarian vowel harmony. Phonology, 23(01):59–104.

03 02 2009 wrap up

10 02 2009 wrap up