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.

Finals Week: Project presentations