Cognitive Neurosciences course: Powerpoint slides

John Goldsmith

Spring 2006

 

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Initial lectures on language:

Overview of language and linguistics: Phonetics, phonology, and a bit of morphology (updated for 2006)

Syntax (Microsoft IE)

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With regard to the class in May on statistical approaches to language learning:

here are the class lecture slides:

Statistical approaches to morphology learning

( From a previous year on this topic:

Language learning, especially statistical approaches (Microsoft IE)  )

Please read the following paper:

Overview paper on statistical approach to learning morphology(Microsoft IE)

 

Check on the Linguistica homepage.

 

A more technical description may be found in Computational Linguistics 27:2 (2001) pp. 153-198, under the title Unsupervised Learning of the Morphology of a Natural Language.