@inproceedings{burchill-jaeger-2017-grounding,
    title = "Grounding sound change in ideal observer models of perception",
    author = "Burchill, Zachary  and
      Jaeger, T. Florian",
    editor = "Gibson, Ted  and
      Linzen, Tal  and
      Sayeed, Asad  and
      van Schijndel, Marten  and
      Schuler, William",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics ({CMCL} 2017)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/W17-0703/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-0703",
    pages = "20--28",
    abstract = "An important predictor of historical sound change, functional load, fails to capture insights from speech perception. Building on ideal observer models of word recognition, we devise a new definition of functional load that incorporates both a priori predictability and perceptual information. We explore this new measure with a simple model and find that it outperforms traditional measures."
}