Klaas Seinhorst

Presentations

2021:
  • A gradually developing lexicon leads to robust emergence of phonological features in a neural network. With Paul Boersma and Silke Hamann. 18th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP), University of the Balearic Islands, Eivissa.
  • Phonemes and features may coexist in phonological representations in a neural network: the role of feature economy. With Paul Boersma and Silke Hamann. Workshop "Establishing phoneme inventories: argumentation and cross-linguistic comparability", University of Oslo.

  • 2019:
  • Does size matter? Regularization in different inventory sizes: experimental and typological evidence. GLOW 42, workshop "Rules and Learning Strategies in the Acquisition of Signed and Spoken Phonologies", University of Oslo.
  • Regularity versus phonetics in sound systems: experimental and typological data. With Floor van de Leur. Workshop "Interaction and the evolution of linguistic complexity", University of Edinburgh.
  • Iterated distributional and lexicon-driven learning in a symmetric neural network explains the emergence of features and dispersion. With Paul Boersma and Silke Hamann. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), University of Melbourne.
  • Phonology and phonetics in FDG: interfaces, mismatches and the direction of processing. International Workshop on Functional Discourse Grammar: Interfaces in FDG, University of Oviedo.

  • 2018:
  • Time flies like an arrow: how the passage of time shapes languages. Nerd Nite 38, CREA Amsterdam.
  • It's (not) the economy, stupid! Possible restrictions on regularization. 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon), University of Lisbon.
  • Complexity and regularization of phonological patterns. ACLC lecture, University of Amsterdam.
  • The role of complexity in the learnability of phoneme inventories. LANGU-dag, University of Amsterdam.
  • Phonological conspiracies: independent causes of regularization in sound systems. Workshop on the Emergence of Universals, Ohio State University, Columbus.

  • 2017:
  • The Russian adaptation of [y] as L1 bimodal perception. Phonetics and Phonology in Loanword Adaptation 2017, Phonology and Phonetics in Europe, University of Cologne.
  • Coronal underspecification as a possible result of transmission noise. With Silke Hamann. 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM), University of Manchester.
  • Regularization can be explained by transmission noise alone. 4th International Workshop on Sound Change, University of Edinburgh.
  • Coronal underspecification as a possible result of transmission noise. Cancelled due to illness. With Silke Hamann. 14th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP), Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.

  • 2016:
  • Mind the gap: inductive biases in phonological feature learning. Evolang XI, The University of Southern Mississippi / Tulane University, New Orleans.
  • Prevoicing in Standard German plosives: implications for phonological representations? With Silke Hamann. 13th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

  • 2015:
  • The role of complexity in possible sound changes. 2nd Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh.
  • Filling in the blanks — acquisition meets typology. LEC Talk, research group Language Evolution and Computation, University of Edinburgh.
  • Phonological mind tricks: how acquisition affects typology. Phonetik/Phonologiekolloquium, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.
  • Inductive biases in plosive inventories: an experimental approach. GLOW 38, workshop "The Implications of Computation and Learnability for Phonological Theory", Université Paris Diderot.

  • 2014:
  • Learning biases in phonological typology. Sound Change in Interacting Human Systems, University of California, Berkeley.

  • 2013:
  • The learnability of phoneme inventories. LEC Talk, research group Language Evolution and Computation, University of Edinburgh.
  • Simulating the acquisition of Dutch word-initial consonant clusters with q-HG. With Tamás Biró. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 23, Twente University, Enschede.