Volume 4 (2021)
Papers
Preface: SCiL 2021 Editors' Note
Allyson Ettinger, Ellie Pavlich, and Brandon Prickett
A Network Science Approach to Bilingual Code-switching
Qihui Xu, Magdalena Markowska, Martin Chodorow, and Ping Li
Look at that! BERT can be easily distracted from paying attention to morphosyntax
Rui P. Chaves and Stephanie N. Richter
Capturing gradience in long-distance phonology using probabilistic tier-based strictly local grammars
Connor Mayer
Drivers of English Syntactic Change in the Canadian Parliament
Liwen Hou and David Smith
Emergent Gestural Scores in a Recurrent Neural Network Model of Vowel Harmony
Caitlin Smith, Charlie O'Hara, Eric Rosen, and Paul Smolensky
Emerging English Transitives over the Last Two Centuries
Liwen Hou and David Smith
Epistemic Semantics in Guarded String Models
Eric H. Campbell and Mats Rooth
Effects of Duration, Locality, and Surprisal in Speech Disfluency Prediction in English Spontaneous Speech
Samvit Dammalapati, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Sidharth Ranjan, and Sumeet Agarwal
Formalizing Inflectional Paradigm Shape with Information Theory
Grace LeFevre, Micha Elsner, and Andrea D. Sims
Structure Here, Bias There: Hierarchical Generalization by Jointly Learning Syntactic Transformations
Karl Mulligan, Robert Frank, and Tal Linzen
Inflectional paradigms as interacting systems
Eric R. Rosen
Learning Interactions of Local and Non-Local Phonotactic Constraints from Positive Input
Aniello De Santo and Alëna Aksënova
Learning Morphological Productivity as Meaning-Form Mappings
Sarah R. Payne, Jordan Kodner, and Charles Yang
Consonant harmony, disharmony, memory and time scales
Adamantios Gafos
Modeling cross-linguistic production of referring expressions
Brandon Waldon and Judith Degen
Multiple alignments of inflectional paradigms
Sacha Beniamine and Matías Guzmán Naranjo
Strong Generative Capacity of Morphological Processes
Hossep Dolatian, Jonathan Rawski, and Jeffrey Heinz
Tell Me Everything You Know: A Conversation Update System for the Rational Speech Acts Framework
Carolyn Jane Anderson
Every ambiguity isn’t syntactic in nature: Testing the Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity
Sherry Yong Chen and Bob van Tiel
Multiple Wh-Movement is not Special: The Subregular Complexity of Persistent Features in Minimalist Grammars
Thomas Graf and Kalina Kostyszyn
Tuiteamos o pongamos un tuit? Investigating the Social Constraints of Loanword Integration in Spanish Social Media
Ian Stewart, Diyi Yang, and Jacob Eisenstein
Using Word Embeddings to Uncover Discourses
Quentin Dénigot and Heather Burnett
Vowel Harmony Viewed as Error-Correcting Code
Yvo Meeres and Tommi A. Pirinen
‘Most’ vs ‘More Than Half’: An Alternatives Explanation
Fausto Carcassi and Jakub Szymanik
What's in a Span? Evaluating the Creativity of a Span-Based Neural Constituency Parser
Daniel Dakota and Sandra Kübler
Comparing methods of tree-construction across mildly context-sensitive formalisms
Tim Hunter and Robert Frank
Pragmatically Informative Color Generation by Grounding Contextual Modifiers
Zhengxuan Wu and Desmond C. Ong
Supersense and Sensibility: Proxy Tasks for Semantic Annotation of Prepositions
Luke Gessler, Shira Wein, and Nathan Schneider
Will it Unblend?
Yuval Pinter, Cassandra L. Jacobs, and Jacob Eisenstein
Extended Abstracts
Information flow, artificial phonology and typology
Adamantios Gafos
Can RNNs trained on harder subject-verb agreement instances still perform well on easier ones?
Hritik Bansal, Gantavya Bhatt, and Sumeet Agarwal
How to apply for financial aid: Exploring perplexity and jargon in texts for non-expert audiences
Laura Manor, Yiran Su, Zachary W. Taylor, and Junyi Jessy Li
Extracting English Lexical Borrowings from Spanish Newswire
Elena Alvarez-Mellado
Human-Model Divergence in the Handling of Vagueness
Elias Stengel-Eskin, Jimena Guallar-Blasco, and Benjamin Van Durme
Learnability of derivationally opaque processes in the Gestural Harmony Model
Caitlin Smith and Charlie O'Hara
Strong Learning of Probabilistic Tree Adjoining Grammars
Alexander Clark
Modeling German Word Order Acquisition via Bayesian Inference
Annika L. Heuser and Polina Tsvilodub
Deep neural networks easily learn unnatural infixation and reduplication patterns
Coleman Haley and Colin Wilson
Overview of AMALGUM – Large Silver Quality Annotations across English Genres
Luke D. Gessler, Siyao Peng, Yang Liu, Yilun Zhu, Shabnam Behzad, and Amir Zeldes
Predicting Scalar Inferences From "Or" to "Not Both" Using Neural Sentence Encoders
Elissa Li, Sebastian Schuster, and Judith Degen
SNACS Annotation of Case Markers and Adpositions in Hindi
Aryaman Arora, Nitin Venkateswaran, and Nathan Schneider
Structure-(in)dependent Interpretation of Phrases in Humans and LSTMs
Cas W. Coopmans, Helen de Hoop, Karthikeya Kaushik, Peter Hagoort, and Andrea E. Martin
Testing for Grammatical Category Abstraction in Neural Language Models
Najoung Kim and Paul Smolensky
Abstracts
A Data-driven Approach to Crosslinguistic Structural Biases
Alex Kramer and Zoey Liu
A Rate–Distortion view of human pragmatic reasoning
Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Hu, and Roger P. Levy
Apparent Communicative Efficiency in the Lexicon is Emergent
Spencer Caplan, Jordan Kodner, and Charles Yang
CCG Supertagging as Top-down Tree Generation
Jakob Prange, Nathan Schneider, and Vivek Srikumar
Frequency-Dependent Regularization in Syntactic Constructions
Zoey Liu and Emily Morgan
Every Quantifier Isn't the Same: Informativity Matters for Ambiguity Resolution in Quantifier-Negation Sentences
Noa Attali, Gregory Scontras, and Lisa S. Pearl
Learning the surface structure of wh-questions in English and French with a non-parametric Bayesian model
An Nguyen and Colin Wilson
Multilingual BERT, Ergativity, and Grammatical Subjecthood
Isabel Papadimitriou, Ethan A. Chi, Richard Futrell, and Kyle Mahowald
How to marry a star: Probabilistic constraints for meaning in context
Katrin Erk and Aurelie Herbelot
Consistent unsupervised estimators for anchored PCFGs
Alexander Clark and Nathanaël Fijalkow