{"id":17425,"date":"2025-09-29T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17425"},"modified":"2025-09-28T21:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:29:06","slug":"elsewhere-9-25-zhouyi-sun-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/09\/29\/elsewhere-9-25-zhouyi-sun-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsewhere 9\/29 - Zhouyi Sun (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Zhouyi Sun (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Magri and Anttila (submitted), &#8220;Probabilistic phonology is intrinsically categorical&#8221;<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Monday, September 29th, 5pm - 6:30pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong>32-D831<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>We say that an implicational universal (x, y) ? (x?, ?) holds for a (probabilistic) phonological grammar G if the probability of realizing the underlying form x? as the surface form ? is at least as high as realizing x as y (G(y | x) ? G(? | x?)). I\u0092ll try to present the general technique in Appendix F of the manuscript for exploring principles governing implicational universals in MaxEnt phonology, and then discuss two resulting properties developed in \u00a7\u00a74\u00965, both of which are argued to be problematic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Zhouyi Sun (MIT) Title: Magri and Anttila (submitted), &#8220;Probabilistic phonology is intrinsically categorical&#8221; Time: Monday, September 29th, 5pm - 6:30pm Location:32-D831 Abstract: We say that an implicational universal (x, y) ? (x?, ?) holds for a (probabilistic) phonological grammar G if the probability of realizing the underlying form x? as the surface form ? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17451,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions\/17451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}