@inproceedings{ilie-etal-2026-learning,
    title = "Learning tone sandhis in Structural Optimality",
    author = "Ilie, Izabel  and
      Lamont, Andrew  and
      Prickett, Brandon",
    editor = "Voigt, Rob  and
      Warstadt, Alex  and
      Feldman, Naomi  and
      Linzen, Tal",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, CA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.scil-main.30/",
    pages = "329--337",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-412-5",
    abstract = "This paper examines the learnability of different types of tone sandhi in Structural Optimality, a constraint-based framework that posits hierarchical scales and defines constraints over the scales. Approached as a hidden structure problem, we show that Expectation Driven Parameter Learning can acquire these grammars, but that their properties can make learning difficult."
}