| week # | TOPICS | assignments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: Writing Simple Perl Programs | Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion (PDF) |
| 2 | What is Learning? Basic Terms and Concepts |
Learning Rule Orderings (PDF) |
| 3 | Learning Models (for Phonology) | Calculating Phonotactic Probability (PDF) Related Files Baayen, Piepenbrock, and van Rijn. "The CELEX Lexical Data Base on CD-ROM." Linguistic Data Consortium. Philadelphia: PA, 1993. Exp1-High.txt (TXT) Exp1-Low.txt (TXT) Exp3-High.txt (TXT) Exp3-Low.txt (TXT) AlbrightHayes.txt (TXT) |
| 4 | Calculating Statistical Generalizations | Phonotactic Probability (cont.) (PDF) Related Files AlbrightHayes.txt (TXT) |
| 5 | Statistical Models (cont.) | |
| 6 | Learning OT Grammars - Introduction | Understanding Recursive Constraint Demotion (PDF) Related Files RCD.pl (PL) RCD-Readme.txt (TXT) |
| 7 | Learning in OT (cont.) - Ranking Biases | The azba Language (PDF) Related Files LFCD.pl (PL) RCD.pl (PL) |
| 8 | Learning in OT (cont.) - Reasoning about Rankings |
Comparing Ranking Algorithms (PDF) |
| 9 | Learning in OT (cont.) - Stochastic Constraint Ranking | |
| 10 | Learning in OT (cont.) | |
| 11 | Learning Alternations | |
| 12 | Learning Alternations (cont.) |