Papers
Nelson, M., Dolatian, H., Rawski, J., Prickett, B (2020). Probing RNN Encoder-Decoder Generalization of Subregular Functions using Reduplication. To appear in Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 3. Code.
Mayer, C., Nelson, M (2020). Phonotactic Learning with Neural Language Models. To appear in Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 3. Code.
Prickett, B., K. Holladay, S. Hucklebridge, M. Nelson, R. Bhatt, G. Jarosz, K. Johnson, A. Nazarov, J. Pater (2020). Learning syntactic parameters without triggers by assigning credit and blame. To appear in The Proceedings of the 55th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.
Nelson, M. (2019). Word segmentation and UR acquisition with UR constraints. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 2, Article 8.
Berkson, K., Nelson, M. (2018). Phonotactic Frequencies in Marathi. Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers. Vol. 18, No. 2.
Steven M. L., Malgorzata E. C., Nelson, M. (2017). Three-dimensional ultrasound images of Polish high front vowels. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 30.
Nelson, M., Berkson, K., Khan, S. D., Esposito, C. (2016). Perception of Breathy Phonation in Gujarati. Proceedings of FASAL 6: 14-22. Download Link.
Presentations
Nelson, M., Prickett, B., Pater, J. Capturing Phonotactic Learning Biases with a Simple RNN. Poster presented at the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics at NAACL 2021. Poster. Abstract.
Nelson, M., Mayer, C. (2019). Learning and generalizing phonotactics with recurrent neural networks. Poster at the 7th Annual Meeting on Phonology. Stony Brook, New York.
Nelson, M. (2019). Revisiting abstract underlying representations: Evidence from a learning model of probabilistic URs. Talk at the 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
Prickett, B., K. Holladay, S. Hucklebridge, M. Nelson, R. Bhatt, G. Jarosz, K. Johnson, A. Nazarov, J. Pater (2019). Learning syntactic parameters without triggers by assigning credit and blame. Talk at the 55th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.
Nelson, M. (2019). Word segmentation and UR acquisition with UR constraints. Talk at the 2nd meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL). New York, New York.