This dissertation identifies a strong computational property of phonological and
morphological processes with local triggers. It is shown that the input-output mapping that …

We develop an evaluation metric for Optimality Theory that allows a learner to induce a
lexicon and a phonological grammar from unanalyzed surface forms. We wish to model …

The observed pronunciations or spellings of words are often explained as arising from the
“underlying forms” of their morphemes. These forms are latent strings that linguists try to …

While the vast majority of linguistic processes apply locally, consonant harmony appears to
be an exception. In this phonological process, consonants share the same value of a …

This paper explores the relative merits of constraint ranking vs. weighting in the context of a
major outstanding learnability problem in phonology: learning in the face of hidden structure …

This thesis presents an approach to phonological computation and representation which
combines the tenets of substance-free phonology, a framework which implies that …

This paper develops a novel approach to learning phonological hidden structure relying on
underexplored expectation driven learning strategies rooted in the machine learning …

Mostconstraint-basedframeworksembraceRichnessoftheBa… (PrinceandSmolensky1993/
2004): the assumption that no interesting generalizations are stated as constraints on the …

This Element surveys the various lines of work that have applied algorithmic, formal,
mathematical, statistical, and/or probabilistic methods to the study of phonology and the …

This article is an analysis of the claim that a universal ban on certain ('anti-markedness')
grammars is necessary in order to explain their nonoccurrence in the languages of the …