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.)