Work
Eric Meinhardt, Anna Mai, Eric Baković, and Adam McCollum. 2024. Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. [NLLT][lingbuzz/006712 ]
Original manuscript: On the proper treatment of weak determinism: subsequentiality and simultaneous application in phonological maps. [lingbuzz/005565]
Eric Meinhardt, Rob Malouf, and Farrell Ackerman. 2022. Morphology gets more and more complex, unless it doesn’t. In A. Sims, A. Ussishkin, J. Parker & S. Wray (eds.), Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition. Cambridge University Press. [Cambridge University Press][preprint]
Eric Meinhardt. 2021. Functional pressures and linguistic typology. Doctoral dissertation, UC San Diego Linguistics. [UC eScholarship (Open Access)]
Eric Meinhardt, Eric Baković, and Leon Bergen. 2020. Speakers enhance contextually confusable words. Talk/long paper at 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Seattle. [Proceedings of ACL 2020 (Open Access)]
Adam McCollum, Eric Baković, Anna Mai, and Eric Meinhardt. 2020. Unbounded circumambient patterns in segmental phonology. Phonology, 37.2, 215-255. [Phonology][lingbuzz/005051]
Original title + manuscript: The expressivity of segmental phonology and the definition of weak determinism. [lingbuzz/004197 ]
The content of the second half of the original has been incorporated into another (submitted) manuscript covering the revised definition of weak determinism and discussion of function interaction (cf. Meinhardt et al. 2020 SCiL presentation, Meinhardt et al. accepted).
Eric Meinhardt, Anna Mai, Eric Baković, and Adam McCollum. 2020. Questioning to resolve transduction problems. Poster/presentation at Formal Language Theory in Linguistics Works In Progress session, Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) 2020, New Orleans.
Shraddha Barke, Rose Kunkel, Nadia Polikarpova, Eric Meinhardt, Eric Baković, and Leon Bergen. 2019. Constraint-based Learning of Phonological Processes. Conference paper at 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '19), Hong Kong. [Proceedings of EMNLP 2019 (Open Access)]
Eric Meinhardt. 2019. Priority union, interacting compositions, and the algebra of partial functions. Manuscript.
Eric Meinhardt, Adam McCollum, Anna Mai, and Eric Baković. 2018. Weak determinism and its discontents: An alternative to the definition of weakly deterministic regular functions. Presentation at Southern California April Meeting on Phonology (SCaMP) 2018, University of Southern California.
Adam McCollum, Eric Baković, Anna Mai, and Eric Meinhardt. 2017. Conditional blocking in Tutrugbu requires non-determinism: implications for the subregular hypothesis. Presentation at NELS 2017, University of Iceland.
Eric Meinhardt, Rob Malouf, and Farrell Ackerman. 2017. Morphology gets more and more complex, unless it can’t. Presentation at the 2017 LSA Workshop on Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition, University of Kentucky.
Eric Meinhardt. 2017. Consequences of top-down listener expectations for theories of perceptibility effects. Poster presented at the 2017 CLS Workshop on Dynamic Modeling in Phonetics & Phonology and Southern California April Meeting on Phonology (SCaMP) 2017, UCLA.
Eric Meinhardt. 2016/2017. Non-stationarity and other critical mathematical problems for channel coding-based explanations of variation in language production. Presentations at LSA 2017 (Austin) and at the SST2016 satellite Predictability Symposium. [pdf]