Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition

Adam Albright (MIT) Well-formedness across the word: Modeling markedness interactions 9:30-10 Vsevolod Kapatsinski (U. Oregon) Humans and models learning palatalization patterns in miniature artificial languages: In support of particular salience of typical product characteristics 10-10:30 Jeff Heinz (U. Delaware) Learning gradient long-distance phonotactics by estimating strictly piecewise distributions 1:30-2 Emily Cliff and Robert Kirchner (U. Alberta) Getting type frequency effects in an exemplar model 2-2:30 Andrew Wedel (U. Arizona) Functional load and feedback stabilization of phonemic category distinctions 2:30-3 Fred Mailhot (Carleton) Modelling the acquisition of vowel harmony with a lazy learner 3:00-4:30 Poster session I (light refreshments) 1. Hagen Peukert (U. Kassel) Phonemic distribution of sounds as a basis for word boundary detection in 6-to 8-months-olds 2. Rebecca Morley (OSU) From Sound Change to Grammar Change: words, lexicons, and learners 3. Philip Dilts & Anne-Michelle Tessier (U. Alberta) A computational implementation of Error-Selective Learning 4. Ashley Farris-Trimble (U. Iowa) Modeling the acquisition of cumulative faithfulness effects 5. Keith S Apfelbaum and Bob McMurray (U. Iowa) When discrimination is not enough: An associative model of the development of phonological cue weighting. A Darwinian account of underrepresentation of doubly marked forms *abstracts are listed in the program in alphabetical order by presenter 1:45-2:15 Paul Boersma & Katerina Chladkova (U. Amsterdam) Phonetic perception-production asymmetries reflect phonological feature structure 2:15-2:45 Michael Becker (Harvard) Target selection in error selective learning A single-stage computational model of phoneme category acquisition: Results from Inuktitut 2. Jeffrey Heinz, Cesar Koirala (U. Delaware) Feature-based Generalization 3. Rebecca Colavin, R. Levy, Sharon Rose (UCSD) Modeling OCP-Place with the Maximum Entropy Phonotactic Learner 4. Kristine Yu (UCLA) Linear separability and feature selection in the acquisition of tones 5. Jan-Willem van Leussen (U. Amsterdam) The emergence of natural vowel patterns in a phonetic/phonological acquisition model 6. An exemplar based speech production model 9. John Alderete, Paul Tupper (SFU) and Stefan Frisch (U. S. Fla.) Phonotactic learning without a priori constraints: A connectionist analysis of Arabic cooccurrence restrictions *abstracts are listed in the program in alphabetical order by presenter A Lexicon-Free Approach to the Induction of OCP-Place OCP-Place (McCarthy, 1988) has the gradient effect that labial-labial pairs across a vowel are underrepresented in the lexicons of many languages (Arabic: Frisch, Pierrehumbert, & Broe, 2004; Dutch: Kager & Shatzman, 2007). Previous proposals for the learning of constraints such as OCP-Place assume that phonotactic constraints are the result of abstractions over statistical patterns in the …