{"pk":31694,"title":"Learnability and Markedness: Dutch Stress Assignment","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the computational\ngrounding of learning theories developed\nwithin a metrical phonology approach to\nstress assignment. In current research\nthe Principles and Parameters approach\nto learning stress is pervasive. W e point\nout some inherent problems associated with\nthis approach in leaxning the stress sys-\ntem of Dutch. T h e paper focuses on two\nspecific aspects of the learning task: w e\nempirically investigate the eflFect of input\nencodings on learnability, and w e exam-\nine the possibility of a data-oriented ap-\nproach as an alternative to the Principles\nand Parameters approach. W e show that\na data-oriented similarity-based machine\nlearning technique (Instance-Based Learn-\ning), working on phonemic input encodings\nis able to learn metrical phonology abstrac-\ntions based on concepts like syllable weight,\nand that in addition, it is able to extract\ngeneralizations which cannot be expressed\nwithin a metrical framework.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9ks6z67z","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Steven","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gillis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Antwerp","department":""},{"first_name":"Walter","middle_name":"","last_name":"Daeleman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Gert","middle_name":"","last_name":"Durie","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Antwerp","department":""},{"first_name":"Antal","middle_name":"","last_name":"van den Bosch","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31694/galley/22762/download/"}]}