Northeast Computational Phonology Circle 2019 (NECPhon 2019), hosted by the Rutgers Department of Linguistics and the Rutgers Computational Linguistics Lab.
November 16, 2019
Academic Building Rm 1170
15 Seminary Pl, New Brunswick, NJ (map)
Time | Speakers | University | Title | |
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11:00 | Lunch outside Room 1170 | |||
11:55 | Opening Remarks | |||
12:00 | Jon Rawski | Stony Brook | Tensor Product Representations of Subregular Constraints | [slides] |
12:30 | Wenyue Hua, Huteng Dai, & Adam Jardine | Rutgers | Subregular Learning of a Phonology and a Set of Underlying Forms | [slides] |
13:00 | Break | |||
13:15 | Kyle Gorman | CUNY | Weird Inflects but OK: Making Sense of Morphological Generation Errors | [abstract][slides] |
13:45 | Craig Thorburn, Naomi Feldman, and Schatz | UMD | A Quantitative Model of the Language Familiarity Effect | [slides][pdf] |
14:15 | Break | |||
14:30 | Chris Yang and Kevin Ellis | MIT | On the effect of UR learning on the acquisition of phonological interactions | [slides] |
15:00 | Ryan Budnick | UPenn | Word Segmentation as a Filter on Learnable Stress Systems | [slides] |
15:30 | Cassidy Henry & Naomi Feldman | UMD | Evaluating Cross-Linguistic Harmonicity Across Multiple Features | |
16:00 | Break | Break | ||
16:15 | Spencer Caplan | UPenn | Now You Hear Me, Later You Don't: The Markovian Nature of Phonological Categorization | [slides] |
16:45 | Chris Oakden, Adam Jardine, and Jane Chandlee | Rutgers/Haverford | Modelling Phonological Processes with Recursive Programs Schemes | [slides] |
17:15 | Andrew Lamont | UMass | Nasal cluster dissimilation and tier-based strict locality | [handout] |
17:45 | Closing Remarks and Business Meeting | |||
18:00 | Dinner(informal) |
For crash space for grads, please contact Dine Mamadou (dine.mamadou (at) rutgers.edu).
There are two hotels close to campus, but they are on the expensive side:
Unfortunately, there is no free parking near campus. Metered parking can be found throughout New Brunswick, but we suggest the following garage.