12:30–1:00pm | Lunch/snacks available | |
1:00–1:30pm | Brandon Prickett (UMass) | Probabilistic Feature Attention as an Alternative to Variables |
1:30–2:00pm | Jane Chandlee (Haverford) and Adam Jardine (Rutgers) | Quantifier-free least fixed point functions for phonology |
2:00–2:15pm | Break | |
2:15–2:45pm | Eileen Blum (Rutgers) | Vowel harmony is local over multi-tiered autosegmental representations |
2:45–3:15pm |
Max Nelson (UMass) | Word segmentation and UR acquisition with UR constraints |
3:15–3:30pm | Break | |
3:30–4:00pm |
Tristan Thrush (MIT) | A neural model for learning a humanlike vowel feature space |
4:00–4:30pm |
Alayo Tripp (UMD) | A Model of Informant Evaluation in Early Word Learning |
4:30–4:45pm | Break | |
4:45–5:15pm | Nate Koser (Rutgers) | Strictly local patterns are not closed under optimization |
5:15–5:45pm |
Jonathan Rawski, Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook), Jane Chandlee (Haverford), Remi Eyraud (Aix-Marseille), Adam Jardine (Rutgers) | How the Structure of the Constraint Space Enables Learning |
5:45–6pm | Business meeting |