@inproceedings{ceolin-sayeed-2019-modeling,
    title = "Modeling Markedness with a Split-and-Merger Model of Sound Change",
    author = "Ceolin, Andrea  and
      Sayeed, Ollie",
    editor = "Tahmasebi, Nina  and
      Borin, Lars  and
      Jatowt, Adam  and
      Xu, Yang",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change",
    month = aug,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W19-4708/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-4708",
    pages = "67--70",
    abstract = "The concept of `markedness' has been influential in phonology for almost a century. Theoretical phonology has found it useful to describe some segments as more `marked' than others, referring to a cluster of language-internal and -external properties (Jakobson 1968, Haspelmath 2006). We argue, using a simple mathematical model based on Evolutionary Phonology (Blevins 2004), that markedness is an epiphenomenon of phonetically grounded sound change."
}