Gaja Jarosz - Teaching
Fall 2007
141a/541a/PSYC327a Language and Computation The computational study of natural language and the use of linguistic theories in applied problems. Topics include finite state tools, computational morphology and phonology, grammar and parsing, discourse models, machine translation, and language learning in children and machines.
Spring 2008
135b/535b Phonological Theory Topics in the architecture of a theory of sound structure. Levels of representation; classical phonological rules and their interaction. Ordering paradoxes; cyclicity and Lexical Phonology. Motivations for replacing a system of rules with a system of constraints. Optimality theory: constraint types and their interactions. Correspondence theory. Opacity and stratal OT.
251b/651b Learnability and Development An interdisciplinary investigation of language learning from an integrated perspective of computational learning and language development. Topics include: formal learning theory, formal and computational modeling of language acquisition, statistical learning in infants and machines, and nativism versus empiricism. The course will cover development and learnability at various levels of linguistic structure.
