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)
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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)
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Symposium on Phonologization, U. Chicago.
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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
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Fall 2008: TA for Foundations of Software (CMSC 15300)
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Winter 2009: TA for Artificial Intelligence (CMSC 25000)
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Spring 2009: TA for Computational Models of Speech (CMSC 25030)
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Spring 2009: Statistics Tutorial for Phonology II (LING 20900)
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