no code implementations • ACL (SIGMORPHON) 2021 • James Kirby
This paper investigates how the ordering of tone relative to the segmental string influences the calculation of phonotactic probability.
1 code implementation • WS 2018 • Philippa Shoemark, James Kirby, Sharon Goldwater
Sociolinguistics is often concerned with how variants of a linguistic item (e. g., \textit{nothing} vs. \textit{nothin{'}}) are used by different groups or in different situations.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Philippa Shoemark, James Kirby, Sharon Goldwater
Sociolinguistic research suggests that speakers modulate their language style in response to their audience.
no code implementations • 16 Jul 2015 • James Kirby, Morgan Sonderegger
We find that population structure itself can act as a source of stability, but that both stability and change are possible only when both types of bias are active, suggesting that it is possible to understand why sound change occurs at some times and not others as the population-level result of the interplay between forces promoting each outcome in individual speakers.