L407/507:

Probabilistic linguistics

Vsevolod Kapatsinski

University of Oregon

Spring 2012

Book: Coleman, John. 2005. Introducing speech and language processing. Cambridge University Press.

1.1. Overview

Ellis, Nick. 2002. Frequency effects in language processing: A review with implications for theories of implicit and explicit language acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24, 143-188.

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Jurafsky, Dan. 2003. Probabilistic modeling in psycholinguistics: Linguistic comprehension and production. In Bod, Rens, Jennifer Hay, & Stefanie Jannedy, eds. 2003. Probabilistic linguistics. M.I.T. Press.

1.2.Word frequency and lexical diffusion of sound change

Bybee, J. 2002. Word frequency and context of use in the lexical diffusion of phonetically conditioned sound change. Language Variation and Change, 14, 261-290.

Pierrehumbert, J. 2001. Exemplar dynamics: Word frequency, lenition, and contrast. In Bybee, J., & P. Hopper, eds. Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure. John Benjamins.

2.1 More on sound change and probabilities Leader: Ogyoung

Hualde, J. I. 2011. Sound change. In van Oostendorp, M., C. J. Ewen, E. Hume, & K. Rice, eds. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, vol.4: Phonological interfaces, 2214-2235. Wiley-Blackwell.

Silverman, D. 2006. Chapter 5 in A critical introduction to phonology. Continuum.

2.2. Probabilistic phonology Leader: Ogyoung

Frisch, S. A. 2011. Frequency effects. In van Oostendorp, M., C. J. Ewen, E. Hume, & K. Rice, eds. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, vol.4: Phonological interfaces, 2137-2163. Wiley-Blackwell.

507: Wedel, A. 2003. Self-organization and categorical behavior in phonology. Berkeley Linguistics Society Meeting, 29: 611-622.

3.1. Probabilistic phonology continues

Coetzee, A., & J. Pater. 2011. The place of variation in phonological theory. In Goldsmith, J., J. Riggle & A. Yu. The Handbook of Phonological Theory. 2nd Edition, 404-34. Oxford: Blackwell.

3.2. Learning phonotactics Leader: Hideko

Aslin, R. N., J. R. Saffran, & E. L. Newport. 1998. Computation of conditional probability statistics by 8-month-old infants. Psychological Science, 9, 321-324.

Hayes, B., & C. Wilson. 2008. A maximum entropy model of phonotactics and phonotactic learning. Linguistic Inquiry, 39, 379-440.

4.1. Project proposals

4.2.-5.1 When patterns are and aren’t noticed Leader: Amy

Zimmer, K. 1969. Psychological correlates of some Turkish morpheme structure conditions. Language, 45, 309–321.

Hayes, B., K. Zuraw, P. Siptar & Z. Londe. 2009. Natural and unnatural constraints in Hungarian vowel harmony. Language, 85, 822-863.

Becker, M., N. Ketrez, & A. Nevins. 2011. The surfeit of the stimulus: Analytic biases filter lexical statistics in Turkish laryngeal alternations. Language, 87, 84-125.

5.2.-6.1. Morphophonology Leaders: Gabrielle and Ryan

Albright, A., & B. Hayes. 2003. Rules vs. analogy in English past tenses:  a computational/experimental Study. Cognition, 90, 119-161.

507: Kapatsinski, V. 2010. Velar palatalization in Russian and artificial grammar: Constraints on models of morphophonology. Laboratory Phonology, 1, 361-393.

Kapatsinski, V. In press. What statistics do learners track? Rules, constraints or schemas in (artificial) grammar learning. In Gries, S. Th., & D. Divjak. Frequency effects in language: Learning and processing. Mouton de Gruyter.

6.2. Morthography Leader: Angela

Kapatsinski, V. 2010. What is it I am writing? Lexical frequency effects in spelling Russian prefixes: Uncertainty and competition in an apparently regular system. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 6, 157-215.

7.1. Variation in syntax: Variation(ism) and Variable Rules Leader: Matt

Labov, W. 1969. Contraction, deletion, and inherent variability of the English copula. Language, 45, 715-62.

507: Pierrehumbert, J. 2006. The next toolkit. Journal of Phonetics, 34, 516-30.

7.2. Inherent variability: Choice is not purely semantic Leader: Josh

Poplack, S. 1980. The notion of the plural in Puerto Rican Spanish: Competing constraints on (s) deletion. In Labov, W. Locating language in time and space, 55-67. New York: Academic Press.

Jaeger, T. F. In press [2006]. Phonological optimization and syntactic variation: The case of optional that. Berkeley Linguistics Society, 32.

8.1. Defining the variable context

Excerpts from:

Kapatsinski, V. 2009. Adversative conjunction choice in Russian (no, da, odnako): Semantic and syntactic influences on lexical selection. Language Variation and Change, 21, 157-173.

Aaron, J. E. 2010. Pushing the envelope: Looking beyond the variable context. Language Variation & Change, 22, 1-36.

Barth, D., & V. Kapatsinski. In preparation. Modeling construction-specific contraction of is, am and are: it’s not all frequency. Ms. U of Oregon.

8.2. Word frequency and morphosyntax Leader: Matt

Hay, J., & R. H. Baayen. 2002. Parsing and productivity. In Booij, G. E. and van Marle, J. (eds), Yearbook of Morphology 2001, 203-235. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Bybee, J. 2003. Cognitive processes in grammaticalization. In Tomasello, M., ed. The new psychology of language: Cognitive and functional approaches to language structure, vol. 2, 145-168. Mahwah: Erlbaum.

9.1. Memorial Day, No Class.

9.2. Words interacting with constructions Leader: Erin

Stefanowitsch, A., & S. Th. Gries. 2003. Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and constructions. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 8, 209-243.

507: Gries, S. Th., & A. Stefanowitsch. 2004. Extending collostructional analysis: A corpus-based perspective on 'alternations'. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 9, 97-129.

10.1. Words and constructions in learning Leader: Hideko

Goldberg, A. E., D. Casenhiser, & N. Sethuraman. 2004. Learning argument structure generalizations. Cognitive Linguistics, 14, 289-316.

507: Boyd, J. K., & A. E. Goldberg. 2011. Learning what not to say: the role of statistical preemption and categorization in “a”-adjective production. Language, 81, 1-29.

10.2. Probabilistic syntax Leader: Emily

Coleman, John. 2005. Chapters 7-9 in Introducing speech and language processing. CUP.

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