UCLA/USC Joint Phonology Seminar I describe an implemented system for learning the allomorphs of morphemes. It inputs glossed paradigms and outputs the allomorphs of each morpheme. The system takes the form of a maxent grammar, with constraints preferring minimal alternation and segmental contiguity. Learning the allomorphs first greatly simplifies the learning of underlying forms: string...

Canaan+Bruce talk: More on leaking grammars: sentence construction respects phonological markedness Cassidy poster: An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Vowel Harmony in Kazan Tatar.

Talk: Substantive bias and word-final obstruents Poster 1: Corpus & experimental evidence for lexical propensity in French liaison Poster 2: Equal learning of natural and unnatural phonotactics

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