Charlie O’Hara


2021

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Emergent Gestural Scores in a Recurrent Neural Network Model of Vowel Harmony
Caitlin Smith | Charlie O’Hara | Eric Rosen | Paul Smolensky
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2021

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Learnability of derivationally opaque processes in the Gestural Harmony Model
Caitlin Smith | Charlie O’Hara
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2021

2020

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Frequency Matching Behavior in On-line MaxEnt Learners
Charlie O’Hara
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2020

2019

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Weakly deterministic transformations are subregular
Andrew Lamont | Charlie O’Hara | Caitlin Smith
Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Whether phonological transformations in general are subregular is an open question. This is the case for most transformations, which have been shown to be subsequential, but it is not known whether weakly deterministic mappings form a proper subset of the regular functions. This paper demonstrates that there are regular functions that are not weakly deterministic, and, because all attested processes are weakly deterministic, supports the subregular hypothesis.