Winter 2011 Workshop

Quantitative Measures in Morphology and Morphological Development

University of California, San Diego
January 15-16, 2011
Faculty Organizer: Farrell Ackerman, UCSD Department of Linguistics

Saturday, January 15, 2011
8:45am	*Continental Breakfast*
9:15am - 10:15am	*Paradigmatics, syntagmatics, and the agglutinative ideal* [slides] Farrell Ackerman (UC San Diego) and Rob Malouf (San Diego State University)
10:15am - 11:15am	*Measuring inflectional complexity: French and Mauritian* [slides] Olivier Bonami (Paris-Sorbonne U.), Gilles Boyé (Bordeaux U.) and Fabiola Henri (U. of Mauritius)
11:15am - 12:15pm	*Explaining inflectional defectiveness: Information theory and the inflectional paradigm from synchronic and diachronic perspective* [slides] Andrea Sims (Ohio State University)
12:15pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Break
1:30pm - 2:30pm	*Item and pattern morphology* [slides] Jim Blevins (Cambridge University, England)
2:30pm - 3:30pm	*Entropy, relative entropy, and naive discriminative learning* [slides] Harald Baayen (University of Alberta, Canada)
3:30pm - 3:45pm	Break
3:45pm - 4:45pm	*The Effective Complexity of morphological systems: Can we hope to ever obtain a complete and correct description of a language's morphology?* [slides] Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université Lumiére Lyon 2)
4:45pm - 5:45pm	*Lexical learning and lexical diffusion: studies on dispersion, social factors, and cultural consumption* [slides] Paula Chesley (University of Minnesota)

Sunday, January 16, 2011
8:45am	*Continental Breakfast*
9:15am - 10:15am	*Input, Uncertainty and the Early Course of Language Development* [slides] Colin Bannard (University of Texas at Austin)
10:15am - 11:15am	*Information structure and learning: the artificiality of grammar* [slides] Michael Ramscar
11:15am - 12:15pm	*Entropy measures and predictive recognition as mirrored in gating and lexical decision over multimorphemic Hungarian noun forms* [slides] Csaba Pléh (BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék), Kornél Németh (BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék), Judit Fazekas (BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék) and Daniel Varga (MOK BME)
12:15pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Break
1:30pm - 2:30pm	*Blinkered vision: Sources of opacity in inflectional paradigms* [slides] Raphael Finkel (U. of Kentucky, Lexington) and Greg Stump (U. of Kentucky, Lexington)
2:30pm - 3:30pm	*Parsing with Paradigms: a Realizational Approach for Specification and Statistical Learning of Grammatical Descriptions* [slides] Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)
3:30pm - 3:45pm	Break
3:45pm - 4:45pm	*Self-organization in the English suffix system* [slides] Mark Lindsay (SUNY, Stonybrook)
4:45pm - 5:45pm	*Towards a Stochastic Model of Linguistic Competence* [slides] Shalom Lappin (King’s College London)