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

I will be an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at McGill University starting in Fall 2012.

CV

Refereed publications

  • M. Sonderegger and Joseph Keshet. (submitted) Automatic measurement of voice onset time using discriminative structured prediction.
  • M. Sonderegger. (2011) Applications of graph theory to an English rhyming corpus. Computer Speech and Language 25: 655–678. (preprint | paper)
  • M. Sonderegger and Partha Niyogi. (2010/in press) Variation and change in English noun/verb pair stress: Data, dynamical systems models, and their interaction. In A.C.L. Yu (Ed.), Origins of Sound Patterns: Approaches to Phonologization. Oxford: OUP. (preprint)
  • Max Bane, Jason Riggle, and M. Sonderegger. (2010) The VC dimension of constraint based grammars. Lingua 120: 1194–1208. (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)

Conference proceedings

  • Carissa Abrego-Collier, Julian Grove, M. Sonderegger, and Alan Yu. (2011) Effects of speaker evaluation on phonetic convergence. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 192–195). (paper)
  • Alan Yu, Julian Grove, Martina Martinović, and M. Sonderegger. (2011) Effects of working memory capacity and "autistic traits" on phonotactic effects in speech perception. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2236–2239). (paper)
  • Matthew Carlson, Max Bane, and M. Sonderegger. (2011) Global properties of the phonological network in child-directed speech. In N. Danis, K. Mesh, and H. Sung (Eds.), BUCLD 35: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 97–109). (paper)
  • Max Bane, Peter Graff, and M. Sonderegger. (2010/in press) Longitudinal phonetic variation in a closed system. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. (paper)
  • M. Sonderegger. (2010/in press) Testing for frequency and structural effects in an English stress shift. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. (paper)
  • M. Sonderegger and Joseph Keshet . (2010) Automatic discriminative measurement of voice onset time. Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, pp. 2242–2245. (paper)
  • M. Sonderegger and Partha Niyogi. (2010) Combining data and mathematical models of language change. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1019–1029. (paper)
  • M. Sonderegger and Alan Yu. (2010) A rational account of perceptual compensation for coarticulation. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 375–380). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (paper)

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

  • Winter 2012: Lab TA for Honors Introduction to Computer Science 2 (CMSC 16200)
  • Fall 2011: TA for Foundations of Software (CMSC 15300)
  • Spring 2011: TA for Phonological Analysis II (LING 30102)
  • Winter 2011: Lab TA for Honors Introduction to Computer Science 2 (CMSC 16200)
  • Fall 2010: TA for Introduction to Formal Languages (CMSC 28000)
  • Spring 2009 (with James Kirby): Formal Methods and Statistics in Linguistics
  • Spring 2009: TA for Computational Models of Speech (CMSC 25030)
  • Winter 2009: TA for Artificial Intelligence (CMSC 25000)
  • Fall 2008: TA for Foundations of Software (CMSC 15300)

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