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Colin Wilson

Wilson

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Associate Professor

Research Interests

  • Theoretical phonology -- constraint interaction, targeted constraints, learnability
  • Experimental phonology -- artificial grammar learning, substantive bias
  • Computational cognitive science -- finite state, maximum entropy, and Bayesian methods

Publications

acceptedA Maximum Entropy Model of Phonotactics and Phonotactic Learning
(with Bruce Hayes) (.pdf)
Linguistic Inquiry
2006Learning Phonology with Substantive Bias:
An Experimental and Computational Study of Velar Palatalization (.pdf)
Cognitive Science 30.5:945-982
2005Local Optionality (with Jason Riggle) (.pdf)
NELS 35 Proceedings
2003Experimental Investigation of Phonological Naturalness (.pdf)
WCCFL 22 Proceedings
2001Consonant cluster neutralisation and targeted constraints
Phonology 18:147-197
2001Prosodic structure and wh-questions (with Kathleen Straub, Courtney McCollum, and William Badecker)
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 30(4):379-94
2001Transparency, Strict Locality, and Targeted Constraints (with Eric Bakovic)
WCCFL 19 Proceedings
2001Bidirectional Optimization and the Theory of Anaphora
In Geraldine Legendre, Jane Grimshaw, and Sten Vikner (eds.), Optimality-theoretic Syntax, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Talks

2008A Constraint-Based Model of Gradient Phonotactics (.pdf)
Johns Hopkins University
2007Slides from Analytic Bias in Phonology, co-taught with Donca Steriade, MIT
Linguistic Institute 2007, Stanford University
2006Unbounded spreading is myopic (.pdf)
PhonologyFest, Indiana University
2005Similarity and bias in phonological learning (.pdf)
Rumelhart Prize Symposium


Contact Information

e-mail: wilson@cogsci.jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-8958
Fax:     (410) 516-8020
Office: 145 Krieger Hall
Office hours: By Appointment
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 Department of Cognitive Science
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Telephone: 410-516-5250
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