This paper establishes that unbounded circumambient processes, phonological processes
for which crucial information in the environment may appear unboundedly far away on both …

The aim of this paper is to show that weighted constraints hold much promise as the basis of
models of Universal Grammar (UG), as in Optimality Theory (OT; Prince and Smolensky …

This paper explores the relative merits of constraint ranking vs. weighting in the context of a
major outstanding learnability problem in phonology: learning in the face of hidden structure …

This paper develops a novel approach to learning phonological hidden structure relying on
underexplored expectation driven learning strategies rooted in the machine learning …

This dissertation investigates the soft typology of phonological patterns. By studying the
types of patterns observed in the world's languages, we can do more than determine what is …

Across languages, elements at the edges of prosodic domains are often subject to different
phonotactic restrictions than non-edge elements. Flack (2009) identifies two types of pattern …

In this handbook, renowned scholars from a range of backgrounds provide a state of the art
review of key developmental findings in language acquisition. The book places language …

Various authors have recently endorsed Harmonic Grammar (HG) as a replacement for
Optimality Theory (OT). One argument for this move is that OT seems not to have close …

This paper investigates the typology of word-initial and word-final place of articulation
contrasts in stops, revealing two typological skews. First, languages tend to make restrictions …

In this squib, we explore the generative consequences of candidate omission for constraint-
based grammars. In principle, the candidate set for an input form i is the range of Gen (i) for …