Below is a selection of language & computation-themed work to have come out of the lab. As of late, we’ve been particularly interested in how sounds in language become linked to particular real-world meanings and attributes, and have been using novel linguistic corpora to investigate these language-real world connections.
On sound symbolism in baseball player names.
Shih, Stephanie S & Deniz Rudin. 2019. Names. Available here.
Pokémonastics: A cross-linguistic comparison of sound-meaning correspondences.
Shih, Stephanie S; Jordan Ackerman; Noah Hermalin; Sharon Inkelas; Hayeun Jang; Jessica Johnson; Darya Kavitskaya; Shigeto Kawahara; Miran Oh; Rebecca L. Starr; and Alan Yu. 2019. Manuscript available soon on lingbuzz.
Pokémonikers: A study of sound symbolism and Pokémon names.
Shih, Stephanie S; Jordan Ackerman; Noah Hermalin; Sharon Inkelas; and Darya Kavitskaya. 2018. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. Vol. 3. Available here.
Morphologically-conditioned tonotactics in multilevel Maximum Entropy grammar.
Shih, Stephanie S and Sharon Inkelas. In Gunnar Ólafur Hansson; Ashley Farris-Trimble; Kevin McMullin; and Douglas Pulleyblank (eds). Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. Available here.
Constraint conjunction in weighted probabilistic grammar.
Shih, Stephanie S. 2017. Phonology 34.2: 243-268. Available here.