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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."

Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

Contact Info
308 Smith Building
Linguistics Department
University of Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

pertsova AT unc.edu

Research areas: morphology, linguistic categorization, models of morphological and phonological learning, mental lexicon, Russian

Research

"Is phonological learning special?" with Elliott Moreton (2012) talk given at the 48th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (handout )
"Logical complexity in morphological learning," (2012) to appear in the proceedings of the 38th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society (draft )
"Machine learning of inflection," to appear in the Oxford Handbook of Inflection, ed. M. Baerman draft, (comments are welcome).
"Grounding systematic syncretism in learning" (2011) Linguistic Inquiry, 42:2
"Comparing learners for Boolean partitions: implications for morphological paradigms" in Proceedings of a workshop on Grammatical Inference, EACL 2009 (pdf)
"Genitive plural allomorphy in Russian" Ms. (e-mail me for a copy)
a handout on the priming study of Russian inflectional morphology (with Sarah VanWagenen) (pdf)
"How lexical conservatism can lead to paradigm gaps" (2005) (UCLA WPL 11)

A learner for morphological paradigms (Type 3 learner)