I'm a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. I'm also in Linguistics a lot.

Papers

  • M. Sonderegger. (accepted) Applications of graph theory to a rhyming corpus. Computer Speech and Language. (draft, revisions pending)
  • M. Sonderegger and Partha Niyogi. (accepted) Variation and change in English noun/verb pair stress: Data, dynamical systems models, and their interaction. In Yu, A.C.L. (Ed.), Origins of Sound Patterns: Approaches to Phonologization. Oxford: OUP. (draft, revisions pending)
  • Max Bane, Jason Riggle, and M. Sonderegger. (2009/in press) The VC dimension of constraint based grammars. Lingua (in press). (preprint | paper)
  • Xuemin Chi and M. Sonderegger. (2007) Subglottal coupling and its influence on vowel formants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122: 1735-1745. (preprint | paper)

Presentations

  • M. Sonderegger. (2010) Testing for frequency and structural effects in an English stress shift. Berkeley Linguistics Society 36th meeting.
    • ( email me for slides, data -- to be posted)
  • M. Sonderegger. (2010) Automatic discriminative measurement of voice onset time. Computer Science Graduate Seminar, U. Chicago. (slides)
  • M. Sonderegger. (2010) Combining data and mathematical models to study change: An application to an English stress shift. Linguistics Society of America 84th Annual Meeting, Baltimore. (slides)
  • M. Sonderegger and Alan Yu. (2009) A rational account of perceptual compensation for coarticulation. Linguistics Society of America 83rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco. (handout)
  • M. Sonderegger. (2009) Rhyme graphs, sound change, and perceptual similarity. Linguistics Society of America 83rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco. (handout)
  • M. Sonderegger and Xuemin Chi. (2008) Subglottal coupling as a quantal basis for the feature [back]. Acoustical Society of America 156th Meeting, Miami. (slides)
  • Partha Niyogi and M. Sonderegger. (2008) When does variation lead to change? A dynamical systems model of a stress shift in English.
    • Laboratory Phonology 11, Wellington, New Zealand. (handout | poster)
    • Symposium on Phonologization, U. Chicago.
    • Language Dynamics Group, Northwestern University. (slides)

Data

  • English stress shift:
    • Stress vs. time trajectories for the 149 N/V pairs. (pdf)
    • Stress data, stress vs. time trajectories. (zip)
  • Rhyme graphs: 1900 subcorpus graph (10M, components with 2 or 3 words omitted) (image)
  • Subglottal resonances: Wav files of microphone and accelerometer signals of English vowels for 14 speakers; F2 and second subglottal formant (SubF2) measurements in my B.S. thesis.

Theses

  • M. Sonderegger. (2009) Dynamical systems models of language variation and change: An application to an English stress shift. M.S. paper, U. Chicago. (paper)
  • M. Sonderegger. (2004) Subglottal coupling and vowel space. B.S. thesis, MIT. (thesis)

Other

  • A review of experimental results on infant word segmentation. (notes)
  • My Bibtex file (2/2010). (bib)

Teaching

  • Fall 2008: TA for Foundations of Software (CMSC 15300)
  • Winter 2009: TA for Artificial Intelligence (CMSC 25000)
  • Spring 2009: TA for Computational Models of Speech (CMSC 25030)
  • Spring 2009: Statistics Tutorial for Phonology II (LING 20900)

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