Harvard Boylston 303; MIT 32D-461<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nExperimental methodologies have\u00a0in<\/span>creasingly been employed within the field of linguistics to collect data\u00a0in<\/span>\u00a0service of theory building, especially understanding points of variation across languages, understanding the process of language acquisition, and understanding how linguistic representations\u00a0in<\/span>teract with other aspects of cognition.\u00a0In<\/span>\u00a0this course we\u0092ll survey the field of experimental semantics and its\u00a0in<\/span>terfaces with\u00a0syntax<\/span>\u00a0and with pragmatics with an eye toward giving students coming\u00a0in<\/span>\u00a0with foundational graduate-level background\u00a0in<\/span>\u00a0theoretical linguistics a framework for reading current experimental literature\u00a0in<\/span>\u00a0syntax<\/span>, semantics, and pragmatics, and for developing their own experimental designs. We plan to explore experimental and developmental case studies from well-established areas of formal semantics,\u00a0in<\/span>cluding presupposition and anaphora, connectives, quantification and modality, with the possibility of\u00a0in<\/span>corporating additional\u00a0topics<\/span>\u00a0based on student\u00a0in<\/span>terests.<\/p>\n
\n24.981: Topics in Computational Linguistics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Instructor: Adam Albright<\/li>\n
- Tuesdays, 2-5pm<\/li>\n
- Room: 32-D461<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Computational modeling can usefully inform many aspects of phonological theory. Implementing a theory provides a more rigorous test of its applicability to different data sets, and requires a greater degree of formal precision than is found in purely expository presentations. By training models on realistic training samples, we can test whether a posited analysis can actually be learned from representative data, and we can observe what proportion of the data is actually accounted for by that analysis. Modeling also provides a direct means of testing whether a proposed formal device facilitates the discovery of generalizations, or whether it hampers learning by greatly increasing the size of the search space. Finally, modeling has played an increasingly important role in modeling gradient experimental data, since it provides a way of comparing human behavior with statistical properties of linguistic input, filtered through a possibly non-trivial learning procedure.<\/p>\n
This class is intended to provide an introduction to the theory and practice of computational models of phonology. \u00a0We will discuss recent theoretical work informed by computational implementations, and tools for modeling phonological knowledge of various kinds. \u00a0Special attention will be paid to the relation between formal learning models and empirical data concerning early phonological acquisition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Course announcements in this post: More Advanced Syntax (24.955) Topics in Syntax (24.956) Topics in Semantics (MIT 24.979\/Harvard LING 207R) Topics in Computational Phonology (24.981) 24.955: More Advanced Syntax Instructor: Elise Newman & Sabine Iatridou Wednesdays, 10am-1pm Room: 32-D461 This class is a requirement for the\u00a0syntax\u00a0specialization and strongly recommended for those\u00a0interested\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0syntax-semantics\u00a0interface. It explores many\u00a0topics, all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17302,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836\/revisions\/17302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}