24.964 | Fall 2004 | Graduate

Topics in Phonology

Assignments

week # TOPICS assignments
1 Introduction: Writing Simple Perl Programs Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion (PDF)
2

What is Learning?

Basic Terms and Concepts

Learning Rule Orderings (PDF)
3 Learning Models (for Phonology)

Calculating Phonotactic Probability (PDF)

Related Files

Baayen, Piepenbrock, and van Rijn. “The CELEX Lexical Data Base on CD-ROM.” Linguistic Data Consortium. Philadelphia: PA, 1993.

Exp1-High.txt (TXT

Exp1-Low.txt (TXT)

Exp3-High.txt (TXT)

Exp3-Low.txt (TXT)

AlbrightHayes.txt (TXT)

4 Calculating Statistical Generalizations

Phonotactic Probability (cont.) (PDF)

Related Files

AlbrightHayes.txt (TXT)

5 Statistical Models (cont.)  
6 Learning OT Grammars - Introduction

Understanding Recursive Constraint Demotion (PDF)

Related Files

RCD.pl (PL

RCD-Readme.txt (TXT)

7 Learning in OT (cont.) - Ranking Biases

The azba Language (PDF)

Related Files

LFCD.pl (PL

RCD.pl (PL)

8 Learning in OT (cont.) - 
Reasoning about Rankings
Comparing Ranking Algorithms (PDF)
9 Learning in OT (cont.) - Stochastic Constraint Ranking  
10 Learning in OT (cont.)  
11 Learning Alternations  
12 Learning Alternations (cont.)  

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