Jeffrey Heinz Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics and Cognitive Science University of Delaware 42 E. Delaware Avenue Newark, DE 19716

phone: (302) 831-2924 fax: (302) 831-6896 heinz@udel.edu

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Papers

• Heinz, J. Learning Long-Distance Phonotactics. Submitted MS. [pdf] Comments welcome!


• Heinz, J. String Extension Learning. Submitted MS. [pdf] Comments welcome!


• Rogers J., Heinz J., Bailey G., Visscher M., Wellcome D., Edlefsen M., and Wibel S. 2009. On Languages Piecewise Testable in the Strict Sense. Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the Association of Mathematics of Language.
  • link to proceedings
  • preprint as [pdf]
  
  
• Heinz, J. 2009. On the role of locality in learning stress patterns. Phonology 26:2. 303-351.
  • link to paper on Phonology website
  • Preprint as [pdf]
  • Go to the Stress Pattern Database
  • Sources and FSAs can be viewed and downloaded from the database


• Heinz, J., Kobele G., and Riggle, J. 2009. Evaluating the Complexity of Optimality Theory. Linguistic Inquiry. Vol. 40, No. 2: 277-288. [pdf]


• Heinz, J. 2008. Learning left-to-right and right-to-left iterative languages. Proceedings of the International Colloquium of Grammatical Inference (ICGI).
• link to paper on Springer's website
• preprint version [pdf]


• Blanchard, D. and Heinz, J. 2008. Improving Word Segmentation by Simultaneously Learning Phonotactics. Proceeedings of the Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL). Preprint as [pdf]


• Heinz, J. 2007. Learning Unbounded Stress Patterns via Local Inference. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS 37). Preprint version [pdf]. (link to slides below)


• Heinz, J. 2006. Learning Quantity-Insensitive Stress Patterns via Local Inference. Proceedings of The Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group in Phonology 6 (ACL-SIGPHON 06) [pdf]


• Heinz, J. 2006. Learning Phonotactic Patterns from Surface Forms. Proceedings of The 25th West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25). [pdf]


• Heinz, J. 2005. Reconsidering Linearity: Evidence from Kwara'ae. Proceedings of The 24th West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 24). [pdf]


• Heinz, J. 2005. Optional Partial Metathesis in Kwara'ae. UCLA Working Papers no. 12, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA). [pdf]


• Heinz, J. 2005. Descriptons and Generalizations of Kwara'ae Surface Forms. UCLA Working Papers in Lingustics, no. 11, Papers in Phonology 6. [pdf]


• Heinz, J. 2004. CV Metathesis in Kwara'ae. University of California, Los Angeles. Unpublished master's thesis (Adviser: Kie Zuraw).[pdf][abstract]

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Talks

• 2008. Learning left-to-right and right-to-left iterative languages. Proceedings of the International Colloquium of Grammatical Inference (ICGI). Slides as [pdf] and [video]


• 2007. Learning Long-Distance Agreement Phonotactics. The 81st Meeting of Linguistics Society of America (LSA). (slides) [pdf] (handout) [pdf]


• 2006. Learning Unbounded Stress Patterns via Local Inference. The 37th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS 37). (slides) [pdf]


• 2006. Learning Quantity-Insensitive Stress Patterns via Local Inference. The Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group in Phonology 6 (ACL-SIGPHON 06)


• 2006. Learning Phonotactic Patterns from Surface Forms. The 25th West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25).


• 2005. Optional partial metathesis in Kwara'ae. The 12th Annual Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA). University of California, Los Angeles.


• 2005. CV metathesis in Kwara'ae: implications for a theory of stress. The 28th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Colloquium. Geneva, Switzerland. (handout) [pdf]


• 2005. Reconsidering Linearity: evidence from Kwara'ae. The 24th West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 24). Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. (handout) [pdf]


• 2005. Exploring the typology of quantity-insensitive stress systems without gradient constraints. With Greg Kobele and Jason Riggle. Lingustic Society of America. Oakland, California. (handout) [pdf]


• 2005. CV metathesis as copy and deletion: synchronic evidence from Kwara'ae. Lingustic Society of America. Oakland, California. (handout) [pdf]


• 2004. CV metathesis as syncope: evidence from Kwara'ae. Western Conference of Lingustics (WECOL). University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. (handout) [pdf]

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