<OT> Workshop on Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition

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Workshop on Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition

When and where: University of Alberta, Edmonton, February 13-14, 2010.
 Robert Kirchner and Anne-Michelle Tessier, organizers

Theme: Major advances have been made in recent years towards explicit
 modelling of phonological acquisition, including increasingly
 sophisticated OT learning algorithms, as well as application of general
machine learning techniques (e.g. expectation maximization and maximum
entropy learning). At the same time, evidence of token and type frequency
sensitivity in the propagation of both categorical and gradient patterns in
speech has spurred growing interest in exemplar-based models of acquisition
and processing.  This workshop aims to bring together these two strands of
research, promoting dialogue between those pursuing symbolic and subsymbolic
approaches to acquisition of the sound patterns of spoken language. We
invite oral and poster presentations from phonologists, phoneticians,
psycholinguists, computational linguists, and speech scientists on this
general theme.  Though relevant analytic, programmatic, or experimental
presentations are also welcome, priority will be given to abstracts
reflecting original computational modelling results for some aspect of
phonological/phonetic acquisition.

Invited speakers will include: Adam Albright (MIT), Michael Becker
(Harvard), Andries Coetzee (Michigan), Robert Daland (UCLA), Bruce Hayes
(UCLA), Jeff Mielke (Ottawa), Ben Munson (Minnesota), James Myers (CCU,
Taiwan), Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern), Alan Yu (Chicago).  Titles to
be announced.

Funding: The organizers anticipate sufficient funding to cover travel and
accommodation costs of all presenters whose abstracts are accepted, above
and beyond the invited speakers.

Submission: Abstracts for oral or poster presentations should be no longer
than one page (US letter or A4, 11 pt, 1 inch margins) with a second page
for references, data and/or figures. Abstracts should be emailed as a PDF
attachment to
phonmod at ualberta.ca, deadline: midnight (Mountain Time), November 20, 2009.
Unless the submitter indicates otherwise, the organizers will consider each
abstract's suitability for oral or poster presentation. Authors should
include the title, name(s), and affiliation(s) in the body of the email.
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