November 17th: Michael Becker presented his joint work with Maria Gouskova (NYU) on the productivity of Russian vowel alternations.

November 3rd: Claire Moore-Cantwell presented her upcoming NELS talk.

October 27th: Joe Pater presented on learning opacity in a stratal Maximum Entropy framework.

October 13th: Robert Staubs presented a practice talk for NECPhon on “Learning-Based Biases in Quantity-Insensitive Stress”.

October 6th: We discussed a paper by Conrad, Carreiras & Jacobs “Contrasting effects of token and type syllable frequency in lexical decision“. Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008, 23 (2), pp. 296 – 326.

September 29th: Kevin Mullin presented his work with John Kingston on spectral contrast effects on
phoneme monitoring and autonomy.

September 22nd: Joe Pater and Robert Staubs did an overview of the R-based HG learning scripts.

September 15th: Joe Pater presented on Canadian Raising with language-specific weighted constraints.