Colin Wilson
Associate Professor
Telephone: (410) 516-8958
Email: wilson@cogsci.jhu.edu
Office: 247 Krieger Hall
Office hours: By Appointment
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Research Interests
- Theoretical phonology — constraint interaction, targeted constraints, learnability
- Experimental phonology — artificial grammar learning, substantive bias
- Computational cognitive science — finite state, maximum entropy, and Bayesian methods
Publications
| accepted | A Maximum Entropy Model of Phonotactics and Phonotactic Learning (with Bruce Hayes) (.pdf) Linguistic Inquiry |
| 2006 | Learning Phonology with Substantive Bias: An Experimental and Computational Study of Velar Palatalization (.pdf) Cognitive Science 30.5:945-982 |
| 2005 | Local Optionality (with Jason Riggle) (.pdf) NELS 35 Proceedings |
| 2003 | Experimental Investigation of Phonological Naturalness (.pdf) WCCFL 22 Proceedings |
| 2001 | Consonant cluster neutralisation and targeted constraints Phonology 18:147-197 |
| 2001 | Prosodic structure and wh-questions (with Kathleen Straub, Courtney McCollum, and William Badecker) Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 30(4):379-94 |
| 2001 | Transparency, Strict Locality, and Targeted Constraints (with Eric Bakovic) WCCFL 19 Proceedings |
| 2001 | Bidirectional Optimization and the Theory of Anaphora In Geraldine Legendre, Jane Grimshaw, and Sten Vikner (eds.), Optimality-theoretic Syntax, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. |
Talks
| 2008 | A Constraint-Based Model of Gradient Phonotactics (.pdf) Johns Hopkins University |
| 2007 | Slides from Analytic Bias in Phonology, co-taught with Donca Steriade, MIT Linguistic Institute 2007, Stanford University |
| 2006 | Unbounded spreading is myopic (.pdf) PhonologyFest, Indiana University |
| 2005 | Similarity and bias in phonological learning (.pdf) Rumelhart Prize Symposium |