{"id":15120,"date":"2022-10-31T06:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15120"},"modified":"2022-10-31T11:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:12:59","slug":"exp-comp-group-11-4-huteng-dai-rutgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/10\/31\/exp-comp-group-11-4-huteng-dai-rutgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Exp\/Comp Group (11\/4) - Huteng Dai (Rutgers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><b>Date\/Time: <\/b>Friday<b>\u00a0(<\/b>11\/4) from 2-3:30pm<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><b>Location:<\/b> 32-D831 and on Zoom<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><b>Speaker:<\/b> Huteng Dai (Rutgers)<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><b>Title:<\/b>\u00a0A Neo-Trubetzkoyan approach to phonotactic learning in the presence of exceptions<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><b>Abstract:<\/b> Lexicalized exceptions are a major source of noise in phonological acquisition. In a positive-evidence-only setting, it is common to cope with exceptions with indirect negative evidence\u00a0from distributional information (Clark &amp; Lappin 2010). Most distribution-sensitive models\u00a0assume a probabilistic grammar that evaluates the grammaticality of words by their predicted\u00a0likelihood (Hayes &amp; Wilson 2008). However, a probabilistic grammar conflates all words into\u00a0the same spectrum of probability and grammaticality. As a result, short attested exceptions\u00a0become more \u0091grammatical\u0092 than longer grammatical words with lower probabilities (Daland\u00a02015). This can be problematic because it blurs the boundary between exceptions and grammatical\u00a0words. In this talk, I spell out a Neo-Trubetzkoyan\u00a0algorithm that learns a categorical grammar in the presence of exceptions\u00a0with respect to a restrictive\u00a0Subregular (Heinz 2010) hypothesis space and iterative Observed\/Expected comparison. I argue that this approach is at least as good as, and\u00a0appears to be superior to the \u0093Probabilistic grammar + Probabilistic inference\u0094 approaches\u00a0in handling exceptions in the case study of Turkish nonlocal vowel phonotactics.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Date\/Time: Friday\u00a0(11\/4) from 2-3:30pm Location: 32-D831 and on Zoom Speaker: Huteng Dai (Rutgers) Title:\u00a0A Neo-Trubetzkoyan approach to phonotactic learning in the presence of exceptions \u00a0 Abstract: Lexicalized exceptions are a major source of noise in phonological acquisition. In a positive-evidence-only setting, it is common to cope with exceptions with indirect negative evidence\u00a0from distributional information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15122,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions\/15122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}