Structure and Substance in Artificial-phonology Learning, Part I: Structure

Structure and Substance in Artificial-phonology Learning, Part I: Structure

Artificial analogues of natural-language phonological patterns can often be learned in the lab from small amounts of training or exposure. The difficulty of a featurallydefined pattern has been hypothesized to be affected by two main factors, its formal structure (the abstract logical configuration of the defining features) and its phonetic substance (the concrete phonetic interpretation of the...

Structure and Substance in Artificial-Phonology Learning, Part II: Substance

Artificial analogues of natural-language phonological patterns can often be learned in the lab from small amounts of training or exposure. The difficulty of a featurallydefined pattern has been hypothesized to be affected by two main factors, its formal structure (the abstract logical relationships between the defining features) and its phonetic substance (the concrete phonetic interpretation o...

Structure and substance in artificial-phonology learning

2 Formal complexity 3 2.1 Number of relevant features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Relations between features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2.1 Featural agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2.2 Contiguity-similarity tradeoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3 Summary: Complexity . . . ....

Structure Learning and Statistical Estimation in Distribution Networks - Part I

Traditionally power distribution networks are either not observable or only partially observable. This complicates development and implementation of new smart grid technologies, such as those related to demand response, outage detection and management, and improved load-monitoring. In this two part paper, inspired by proliferation of metering technology, we discuss estimation problems in struct...

Phonology Project Part II: Laryngeal Neutralization and Syllable Structure