“A Preliminary Model of Haryanvi Intonation” - Cor Zanda & Sakshi Singh “Cross-linguistic variation in coarticulation in two Australian languages” - Coralie Cram “Investigating the Perceptual Basis of Labial Dissimilation in Paiwan”  - Jian-Leat Siah, Yu-An Lu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Shih-Chi Stella Yeh (National Kaohsiung Normal University), & Kie Zuraw “A Computational Model...

Kevin Liang and Gemma Repiso Puigdelliura, “Infants learn saltatory alternations: evidence from Catalan” Jian-Leat Siah and Khang Ðinh, “Syllabification of Vocoids in Malay: Evidence from Musical Text-Setting

A case for iterative morphophonological learning: the morpheme-boundedness of Arabic OCP Acquisition research shows that the timelines of early phonotactic learning and morphological learning largely overlap. This conflicts with a common simplification in computational modeling of phonological learning, where phonotactic generalizations are learned from input with complete morphological information. I demonstrate a case of discrepancy...

A weekly meeting group to discuss practical and theoretical issues in fieldwork and language documentation.

Students enrolled in the Field Methods course will present their final research projects during a mini-conference open to members of the department and interested members of the community.

Title: How children discover the difference between know and think Abstract: Linguistic input is not directly intended to support language acquisition, but instead comes from ordinary conversations where speakers try to achieve practical goals. Despite this, children make rapid progress with word learning, managing to strip away layers of contextual information to discern subtle semantic...