On January 6, 2024, there was a session held on Formal Language Theory in Morphology and Phonology at the 100th meeting of the LSA organized by Jeffrey Heinz, Scott Nelson, and Jon Rawski. This webpage is a record of who presented what there. Session Abstract

Tutorial

• Jane Chandlee, Adam Jardine and Scott Nelson. Tutorial: Logic and Model Theory for Phonology.

Session 1

• Tatevik Yolyan. Weak Determinism and Simultaneous Application via Boolean Monadic Recursive Schemes.
• Connor Mayer. One (semi)ring to rule them all: Reconciling categorical and gradient models of phonotactics

Session 2

• Andrew Lamont. Optimality Theory is not computable.
• Yang Wang. What does formal language theory tell us about the nature of reduplication?

Session 3

• Magda Markowska. Empirical and Theoretical Arguments for Using Phonological Features for the Learning of Subsequential Functions
• Caleb Belth. The Interaction Between Learning Algorithms and Formal Language Theory