Papers

  • Morley, R. Bayesian Learning over Conflicting Data: Predictions for language change. In Proceedings of 10th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology, pages 2-11. [PDF]

  • Morley, R. Rapid learning of morphologically conditioned phonetics: vowel nasalization across a boundary. In A. Yu (ed.), Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. To appear. [PDF]

  • Morley, R. From Phonetics to Phonology: Learning Epenthesis. In Proceedings of the 47th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. (2011) To appear. [PDF]

  • Morley, R. Likely Input and the Reasonable Learner. Under Review. [PDF]
      Separate Appendix of all derivations in text [PDF]

  • Morley, R. How Likely Are Impossible Languages? /t/ Epenthesis Reconsidered. Under Review. [PDF]

  • Morley, R. The Emergence of Epenthesis: An Incremental Model of Grammar Change. Under Review. [PDF]

  • Morley, R. Allophony, Implication and Contrast: An Exemplar-Theoretic Model of Phoneme Genesis. Under Review. [PDF]


Presentations

  • Morley, R. A Gradient Treatment of Contrast: Repercussions for Implicational Universals. Talk to be presented at CUNY Conference on the Segment in Phonology. (2012)

  • Morley, R. From Phonetics to Phonology: Learning Epenthesis. Talk presented at the 47th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. (2011)

  • Morley, R. Deletion or Epenthesis? Repercussions for a Theory of Phonological Universals. Talk presented at the 16th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology. Chicago, IL. (2010)

  • Morley, R. From Probabilistic Sound Changes to Phonological Universals. Invited Talk, Northwestern University. Chicago, IL. (2010)

  • Morley, R. From Sound Change to Grammar Change: words, lexicons, and learners. Poster presented at the Workshop for Modeling Phonological Acquisition, Edmonton, Alberta. (2010) [Poster Slide]

  • Morley, R. Inducing Epenthesis: Phonetic, Phonological and Morphological Considerations. Talk presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, MD. (2010)
    [4 page abstract]

  • Morley, R. Natural Interactions and the Limits of Unnaturalness. Talk presented at the 15th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, Bloomington, IN. (2009)

  • Morley, R. How Likely Are Impossible Languages? An Experimental Study of Epenthesis. Talk presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA. (2009)

  • Morley, R. Integrating Sub-phonemic Cues: Learning across a morpheme boundary. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology 11, Wellington, NZ. (2008)

  • Morley, R. Bayesian Learning over Conflicting Data: Predictions for language change. Talk presented at SIGMORPHON 2008, Columbus, OH. (2008)
    In Proceedings of 10th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology, pages 2-11.

  • Morley, R. Phonetic Detail in the grammar: Learning conditioned coarticulation patterns. Talk presented at the Symposium on Phonologization, Chicago. (2008)

  • Morley, R. Diachronic Change, The Learner and the Lexicon. Poster presented at the 4th annual Hopkins Workshop on Language (2007)

  • Morley, R., W. Badecker, and P. Smolensky. Some limits on statistical learning. Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Vancouver, Canada. (2006)


Dissertation

  • Generalization, Lexical Statistics, and Typologically Rare Systems. (September 2008) [PDF] (all 388 pages of it!)