Computational Phonology (LIN 655)

Course Information

Course: TThu 09:30-10:50, Compling lab

Instructor: Jeffrey Heinz, jeffrey.heinz@stonybrook.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 2-5pm and by appointment

We discussed logical transductions as they can be applied to phonological processes.

We finished discussing Chapter 2.
If you are interested in attending the Rutgers workshop on subregular phoonology, please let me know this week.
For Thursday, please finish read up to Chapter 3.3 in Part 1 of DCP/DPC.

We discussed the Chapter up to 2.6. In particular, how the successor model of strings, with and without features, can be combined with FO logic to provides a way to define well-formedness constraints. The representational primitives can be thought of as claims regarding the psychologically real primitives. They are the aspects of the representation that can be “looked up” for free.
For Tuesday, please finish reading chapter 2 in Part 1 of DCP/DPC. (Note it has been updated again to fix more errors).

We discussed Chapter 1 and began discussion of models of strings and FO logic in Chapter 2.
For Thursday, please read up to section 2.6 (p.43) in Part 1 of DCP/DPC. (Note it has been updated to fix some errors).

We went over the syllabus.
As an overview of the class, I presented a talk I gave last week at the Phonology Forum sponsored by the Phonological Society of Japan.
Here is Part 1 of “Doing Computational Phonology”/“Doing Phonology, Computationally”.
For Thursday, please read Chapter 1 of Part 1.