{"id":10674,"date":"2017-11-27T06:01:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10674"},"modified":"2017-11-27T01:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T05:08:19","slug":"complang-1130-takashi-morita-mit-timothy-odonnell-mcgill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/11\/27\/complang-1130-takashi-morita-mit-timothy-odonnell-mcgill\/","title":{"rendered":"CompLang 11\/30 - Takashi Morita (MIT) &#038; Timothy O&#8217;Donnell (McGill)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/tmorita\/\">Takashi Morita<\/a>\u00a0(MIT) &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/people.linguistics.mcgill.ca\/~timothy.odonnell\/\">Timothy O&#8217;Donnell<\/a> (McGill)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong> Bayesian learning of Japanese sublexica<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date\/Time:<\/strong>\u00a0Thursday, November 30th, 5:00-6:30pm<br clear=\"none\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a046-5165<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Languages have been borrowing words from each other.<br clear='none'\/>\n A borrower language often has a different list of possible sound sequences (phonotactics) from a lender&#8217;s.<br clear='none'\/>\n While loanwords may be reshaped so that they fit to the borrower&#8217;s phonotactics, they can also introduce new sound patterns into the language.<br clear='none'\/>\n Accordingly, native and loanwords can exhibit different phonotactics in a single language and linguists have proposed that such a language&#8217;s lexicon is better explained by a mixture of multiple phonotactic grammars: words are classified into sublexica (e.g. native vs. loan), and words belonging to different sublexica are subject to different phonotactic constraints.<br clear='none'\/>\n This approach, however, raises a non-trivial learnability question: Can learners classify words into correct sublexica?<br clear='none'\/>\n Words are not labeled with their sublexicon, so learners need to infer the classification.<br clear='none'\/>\n In this study, we investigate Bayesian unsupervised learning of sublexica.<br clear='none'\/>\n We focus on Japanese data (coded in international phhonetic alphabet), whose sublexical phonotactics has been proposed in linguistic literature.<br clear='none'\/>\n It will turn out that even a simple Dirichlet process mixture of ngram leads to remarkably successful classification.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Takashi Morita\u00a0(MIT) &amp; Timothy O&#8217;Donnell (McGill) Title: Bayesian learning of Japanese sublexica Date\/Time:\u00a0Thursday, November 30th, 5:00-6:30pm Location:\u00a046-5165 Abstract: Languages have been borrowing words from each other. A borrower language often has a different list of possible sound sequences (phonotactics) from a lender&#8217;s. While loanwords may be reshaped so that they fit to the borrower&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10686,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions\/10686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}