Charlie O'Hara

Charlie O'Hara

Compuational Linguist

Publications

(publications without authors listed are single authored.)

Journal Articles

  1. in revision. Caitlin Smith and Charlie O’Hara. Learning Derivationally Opaque Patterns in the Gestural Harmony Model.
  2. accepted. Emergent Learning Bias and the underattestation of simple patterns.
  3. 2017, How Abstract is More Abstract: Learning Abstract Underlying Representations, Phonology 34.2 pp. 325-345. preprint

Conference Proceedings

  1. in press, Charlie O’Hara and Caitlin Smith. Typological Asymmetries in Underapplication Opacity: A Gestural Account, In the Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 40, 10pps.
  2. 2022, Charlie O’Hara. MaxEnt Learners are Biased Against Giving Probability to Harmonically Bounded Candidates, In the Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics. 6pp [Extended Abstract].
  3. 2021, Caitlin Smith, Charlie O’Hara, Eric Rosen, and Paul Smolensky. Emergent Gestural Scores in a Recurrent Neural Network Model of Vowel Harmony. In the Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics. 10pp (refereed)
  4. 2021, Caitlin Smith, Charlie O’Hara. Learnability of derivationally opaque processes in the Gestural Harmony Model. In the Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics. 5pp [Extended Abstract]
  5. 2020, Language-Specific Factors Influence Learnability: Case Study from Contour Tone Licensing. In The Proceedings of the 50th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society.
  6. 2020, Frequency Matching Behavior in On-Line MaxEnt Learners. Abstract in the Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2020.
  7. 2019, Andrew Lamont, Charlie O’Hara, and Caitlin Smith. Weakly deterministic transformations are subregular. In SIGMORPHON 2019: Proceedings of the 16th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. 10 pp. (refereed).
  8. 2019, Charlie O’Hara and Caitlin Smith. Computational Complexity of Sour-Grapes-Like Patterns. In the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2018. 11 pp.
  9. 2019, Caitlin Smith and Charlie O’Hara. Formal Characterizations of True and False Sour Grapes. Extended Abstract in the Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2019.
  10. 2019, Place and Position Are Computationally Different. Extended Abstract in the Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2019.
  11. 2018, Hilary Clinton is not Mitt Romney rich: Nouns modifying degree and dimension of adjectives. In The Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 21. 18 pp.
  12. 2017, Sonority Based Stress in Harmonic Grammar: Nontransitive Conflation in Phonological Hierarchies, In Jessica Kantarovich, Tran Truong, and Orest Xherija (eds.) Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. 375-390
  13. 2017, Nouns Attributively Modifying Adjectives in English, In Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Miranda K. McCarvel, and Edward J. Rubin (eds.) The Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 34, pp. 404-412. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
  14. 2016, Harmony in Harmonic Grammar by Reevaluating Faithfulness, In Christopher Hammerly and Brandon Prickett (eds.), NELS 46: The Proceedings of the 46th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society. Vol. 3. pp. 71-84
  15. 2016, Positionally Abstract Underlying Representations in Klamath, In The Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 51, pp. 397–411.
  16. 2016, Pathological Effects of Local Disjunction, In Albright, Adam and Michelle A. Fullwood (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. 10 pp.