Society for Computation in Linguistics

There is a new co-conference to the LSA, the Society for Computation in Linguistics, that offers a new venue for researchers that apply computational approaches to linguistic questions. The first meeting of SCiL was a great success and we were happy to be a part of it!

Jeff Parker, Rob Reynolds, and Andrea Sims presented a poster at SCiL (“A Bayesian investigation of factors shaping the network structure of inflection class systems”) based on an iterated learning model that they have been building to model analogical change in inflection class systems. The goal of the project is to better understand the role played by the network structure of inflection class systems in analogical change. To what extent and how does this network structure provide structural motivation for how inflectional systems change? Do different kinds of networks lead to different changes and different emergent patterns?

An abstract for the poster is available in the SCiL proceedings. A full paper based on this work is forthcoming (in the Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition volume).