Faculty Publications

Ohio State Linguistics faculty have been productive in the last six months. See below for some of their recent publications.

Clopper, Cynthia

2019. Clopper, C. G., Burdin, R. S., & Turnbull, R. Variation in /u/ fronting in the American Midwest. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146, 233-244.
2019. Clopper, C. G., & Wagner, L. Regional dialect intelligibility across the lifespan. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2324-2328.
2019. Jones, Z., & Clopper, C. G. Influences of listener demographics on the processing of phonetic variation. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 3235-3239.
2019. Jones, Z., & Clopper, C. G. Subphonemic variation and lexical processing: Social and stylistic factors. Phonetica, 76, 163-178.
2019. McCullough, E. A., Clopper, C. G., & Wagner, L. The development of regional dialect locality judgments and language attitudes across the life span. Child Development, 90, 1080-1096.

Elsner, Micha

2019. Cory Shain and Micha Elsner. Measuring the perceptual availability of phonological features during language acquisition using unsupervised binary stochastic autoencoders. NAACL-HLT (1): 69-85
2019. Alexander Erdmann, David Joseph Wrisley, Benjamin Allen, Christopher Brown, Sophie Cohen-Bodénès, Micha Elsner, Yukun Feng, Brian Joseph, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe. Practical, Efficient, and Customizable Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition in the Digital Humanities. NAACL-HLT (1): 2223-2234

Joseph, Brian

2019. Brian D. Joseph, Donald Dyer and Mary Allen Johnson, eds. The Current State of Balkan Linguistics: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Kenneth E. Naylor Lectures (= Balkanistica 32.1). Oxford, MS: University Printing Services.
2019. Lars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh, and Lene Schøsler, eds. Perspectives on language structure and language change. Studies in honor of Henning Andersen. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Vol. 345).
2019.Lars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh, and Lene Schøsler. Perspectives on language structure and language change: An introduction. Perspectives on language structure and language change. Studies in honor of Henning Andersen, ed. by Lars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh, and Lene Schøsler, 1-10. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2019. Hope C. Dawson and Brian D. Joseph. Andersen 1973 and Dichotomies of Change. Perspectives on language structure and language change. Studies in honor of Henning Andersen, ed. by Lars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh, and Lene Schøsler, 13-34. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2019. Brian D. Joseph. Balkan infinitive-loss, event structure, and switch reference. ЧЕКАЈ: Papers for Christina E. Kramer on the occasion of her retirement, ed. by Donald L. Dyer and Jane Hacking (Balkanistica 32:2), 137-154. Oxford, MS: The South East European Studies Association.
2019. Brian D. Joseph. Multiple Determination in Greek and the Balkans. The Current State of Balkan Linguistics: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Kenneth E. Naylor Lectures (= Balkanistica 32.1), ed. by Brian D. Joseph, Donald L. Dyer and Mary Allen Johnson, 171-184. Oxford, MS: The South East European Studies Association.
2019. Brian D. Joseph. Can there be Language Continuity in Language Contact? Linguistic Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, ed. by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef, and Moshe Taube, 257-285. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2019. Victor A. Friedman and Brian D. Joseph. The Importance of Slovene for Understanding Balkanisms. A Festschrift for Marc Greenberg, ed. by Mark Lauersdorf and Stephen Dickey, 79-89. Bloomington: Slavica.
2019. Brian D. Joseph, Alexander Novik, Andrey Sobolev, and Aristotle Spiro. Greek and Albanian in Palasa and Environs: A Report from the Field. Proceedings of MGDLT8 (8^th Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory), Gjirokastër, 4-6 October 2018, ed. by Panajot Barka, Brian Joseph, & Angela Ralli, 69-78. Gjirokastër: Modern Greek Studies, Eqrem Çabej University.
2019. Brian D. Joseph. What Speakers Know — Or Don't Know — about History and about Typology. Language Dynamics and Change 9.1.33-60.
2019. Brian D. Joseph. Neoelliniki tipi parelθondikon xronon pou ligoun se -ηκα (Modern Greek Past Tense Forms that end in –ήκα). In Glossiki pikilia. Meletes afieromenes stin Angeliki Ralli(Linguistic Variation. Studies dedicated to Angeliki Ralli), ed. by Argyris Archakis, Nikos Koutsoukos, Giorgos Xydopoulos, and Dimitris Papazachariou, 195-204. Athens: Kapa Ekdotiki.
2019. Alexander Erdmann, David Joseph Wrisley, Benjamin Allen, Christopher Brown, Sophie Cohen-Bodénès, Micha Elsner, Yukun Feng, Brian Joseph, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe. Practical, Efficient, and Customizable Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition in the Digital Humanities. NAACL-HLT (1) 2019: 2223-2234

Köhnlein, Björn

2019. Köhnlein, B. Why metrical approaches to tonal accent are worth pursuing. Phonology 36.3: 531-535.
2019. Köhnlein, B., Dickerson, C., Leow, J. & Pinillos Chávez, P. Lexical tone or foot structure in Hong Kong English? A response to Lian-Hee Wee. Language 95.3, e394-e405.

Levine, Robert

2019. (with Yusuke Kubota). Modal auxiliaries and negation: a type-logical account. In Logic, Language, Information and Computation (Lecture Notes on Computer Science 11541), ed. by Rosalie Iemhoff, Michael Moortgat and Ruy de Queiroz. Berlin: Springer.

de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine

2019. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Joakim Nivre. Dependency Grammar. Annual Review of Linguistics, 5:197-218 (invited contribution).
2019. Bruno Guillaume, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Guy Perrier. Conversion et am ́eliorations de corpus du fran ̧cais annot ́es en Universal Dependencies. Traitement Automatique des Langues, ATALA, 60 (2):71-95.
2019. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Tonhauser. Inferring meaning from in- direct answers to polar questions: The contribution of the rise-fall-rise contour. “Question in Discourse” in Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics interface (Edgar Onea, Malte Zimmermann, and Klaus von Heusinger, eds.).
2019. Nanjiang Jiang and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe. Evaluating BERT for natural language inference: a case study on the CommitmentBank. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019).
2019. Nanjiang Jiang and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe. Do you know that Florence is packed with visitors? Evaluating state-of-the-art models of speaker commitment. Pro- ceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019). Best short paper award.
2019. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Mandy Simons and Judith Tonhauser. The CommitmentBank: Investigating projection in naturally occurring discourse. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23.
2019. Alexander Erdmann, David Joseph Wrisley, Benjamin Allen, Christopher Brown, Sophie Cohen-Bodén‘es, Micha Elsner, Yukun Feng, Brian Joseph, Béatrice Joyeaux- Prunel and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe. Practical, Efficient, and Customizable Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition in the Digital Humanities. Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
2018. Jackson Luken, Nanjiang Jiang and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe. QED: A fact verification system for the FEVER shared task. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER).

Morley, Rebecca

2019. Rebecca Morley. Sound structure and sound change: A modeling approach. Conceptual Foundations of Language Science Series Vol. 4. Language Science Press.

Schuler, William

2019. Lifeng Jin, Finale Doshi-Velez, Timothy Miller, Lane Schwartz and William Schuler. Unsupervised Learning of PCFGs with Normalizing Flow. Proceedings of the 2019 meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'19), Florence, Italy, 2019.
2019. Lifeng Jin and William Schuler. Variance of average surprisal: a better predictor for quality of grammar from unsupervised PCFG induction. Proceedings of the 2019 meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'19), Florence, Italy, 2019.
2019. Kellen R Maicher, Laura Zimmerman, Bruce Wilcox, Beth Liston, Holly Cronau, Allison Macerollo, Lifeng Jin, Evan Jaffe, Michael White, Eric Fosler-Lussier, William Schuler, David P Way, Douglas R Danforth. Using virtual standardized patients to accurately assess information gathering skills in medical students. Medical Teacher, 41(9):1053–1059, 2019.

Sims, Andrea

2019. Davidson, Kathryn, Annemarie Kocab, Andrea D. Sims and Laura Wagner. The relationship between verbal form and event structure in sign languages. Glossa 4(1), Article 123, 1-36.DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.924
2019. Sims, Andrea D. When the default is exceptional: Word stress in Modern Greek nouns. In And thus you are everywhere honored: Studies dedicated to Brian D. Joseph, edited by James J. Pennington, Victor A. Friedman, and Lenore Grenoble. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 325-351.

White, Michael

2019. Kartikeya Upasani, David King, Jinfeng Rao, Anusha Balakrishnan and Michael White. The OSU/Facebook Realizer for SRST 2019: Seq2Seq Inflection and Serialized Tree2Tree Linearization. In Proc. of the 2nd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation (MSR 2019). (bib)
2019. Jinfeng Rao, Kartikeya Upasani, Anusha Balakrishnan, Michael White, Anuj Kumar and Rajen Subba. A Tree-to-Sequence Model for Neural NLG in Task-Oriented Dialog. In Proc. of INLG-19.
2019. Anusha Balakrishnan, Jinfeng Rao, Kartikeya Upasani, Michael White and Rajen Subba. Constrained Decoding for Neural NLG from Compositional Representations in Task- Oriented Dialogue. In Proc. of ACL-19. (arxiv) (bib)
2019. Kellen R. Maicher, Laura Zimmerman, Bruce Wilcox, Beth Liston, Holly Cronau, Allison Macerollo, Lifeng Jin, Evan Jaffe, Michael White, Eric Fosler-Lussier, William Schuler, David Way, Douglas R. Danforth. Using Virtual Standardized Patients to Accurately Assess Information Gathering Skills in Medical Students. Medical Teacher, DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2019.1616683.