The evaluation metric in generative grammar. A version of the paper presented at the 50th annivesary celebration for the MIT Department of Linguistics, December 2011. Slides. It will appear in a volume in memory of Raj Singh.

Learning morphophonology from morphology and MDL. First, second, and third order string differences: where morphology and phonology come from -- handout from the workshop on information theory in linguistics at the LSA Summer Institute, July 17, 2011.

Information theory for linguists: a tutorial introduction. From the workshop on information theory in linguistics at the LSA Summer Institute, July 16, 2011.

Segmentation and morphology. In The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. An overview of computational work on morphology and on the problem of learning to segment words and morphemes.

Information theoretic approaches to phonology: the case of Finnish vowel harmony With Jason Riggle. This appeared in Natural Language and Linguistic Inquiry.

Draft of: Your Turing Machine or Mine? June 2007.
A video presentation of this at UCL: meeting on Machine Learning and Cognitive Science of Language Acquisition

Towards a new empiricism. A revised version will appear as part of a book written with Alex Clark, Nick Chater, and Amy Perfors.

Analogy in morphology.

Learning phonological categories December 2006. With Aris Xanthos. This paper appeared in Language, March 2009.

Probability for linguists. March 2007

An algorithm for the unsupervised learning of morphology

A paper (with Bernard Laks, Université de Paris X) on the history of generative phonology.

A review of Saussure, a biography of Ferdinand de Saussure, by John Joseph, which appeared in Nature in 2012.

A review of Chomskyan (R)evolutions, a festschrift for Konrad Koerner, edited by Douglas Kibbee. A shorter version will appear in Language,.

A review article on Bruce Nevin's book on Zellig Harris.

Le tournant cognitif et les sciences du langage.A paper presented at the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Université de Paris Nanterre, to be published in the proceedings of the conference.

Theory, kernels, data, methods.To appear in the proceedings from the Chicago Linguistics Society, 2010.

Generative phonology in the late 1940s. February 2007. This appeared more recently in Phonology.

My 2004 CLS paper on the role of the algorithm in generative grammar.

See also the reference to a paper below on information theory, entropy, and phonology in the 20th century.

Geoff Huck and I wrote a book Ideology and Linguistic Theory (1995) dealing with generative semantics and interpretive semantics in the post-Aspects period, showing how many of the critical suggestions of generative semantics were integrated into mainstream linguistic thought in following generations, and that the professional battle waged during this period was often disconnected from the intellectual issues that were referenced. One of our earlier papers is available here: Distributionalist and Mediationalist Themes in the Development of Linguistic Theory.

A review article on Robert Barsky's Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent.