Phonology guru Elliott Moreton has arrived, and will be leading three sessions this week.
On Wednesday in Tobin 207 from 10:10 - 11:25, he will lead a discussion in Joe Pater and Lisa Sanders' seminar of the following paper:
Moreton, Elliott (2012). Inter- and intra-dimensional dependencies in implicit phonotactic learning. Journal of Memory and Language 67 (1):165-183. [Draft (pdf), December 2011]
On Thursday at 4 he will give a general audience talk on "Biased learning in phonology and elsewhere” in Machmer W-15.
On Friday, he will talk in the sound workshop about some affordances of the weightless MaxEnt learner described in this paper:
Moreton, Elliot, Joe Pater and Katya Pertsova. 2013/in submission. Phonological concept learning. Ms, University of North Carolina and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Submitted version. Current draft.