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Phonetics, phonology, morphology
- Modeling morphological affixation with interpretable recurrent networks: sequential rebinding controlled by hierarchical attention
Colin Wilson (accepted)
Proceedings of CogSci 40[pdf]
- Predictability of stop consonant phonetics across talkers: between-category and within-category dependencies among cues for place and voice
Eleanor Chodroff and Colin Wilson (accepted)
Linguistics Vanguard
- Accidental gaps and surface-based phonotactic
learning: a case study of South Bolivian Quechua
Colin Wilson and Gillian Gallagher (accepted)
Linguistic Inquiry
- Structure in talker-specific phonetic realization: Covariation of stop consonant VOT in American English
Eleanor Chodroff and Colin Wilson (2017)
Journal of Phonetics 61:30-47[pdf]
- Markedness effects in the visual processing of nonnative onset clusters
Mackenzie Young and Colin Wilson (2017)
WCCFL 34 Proceedings [pdf]
- Processing nonnative consonant clusters in the classroom: perception and production of phonetic detail
Lisa Davidson and Colin Wilson (2016)
Second Language Research 32:471-502[pdf]
- Structured variability in acoustic realization: A corpus study of voicing onset time in American English stops
Eleanor Chodroff, John Godfrey, Sanjeev Khudanpur, and Colin Wilson
Proceedings of ICPhS 2015 [pdf]
- Acoustic characteristics of open transition in nonnative consonant cluster production
Colin Wilson and Lisa Davidson
Proceedings of ICPhS 2015 [pdf]
- Stabilizing the production of nonnative consonant clusters with acoustic variability
Lisa Davidson, Sean Martin, and Colin Wilson (2015)
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137(2):856-872 [pdf]
- Effects of acoustic-phonetic detail on cross-language speech production
Colin Wilson, Lisa Davidson, and Sean Martin (2014)
Journal of Memory and Language 77:1-24 [pdf]
- Burst spectrum as a cue for the stop voicing contrast in American English
Eleanor Chodroff and Colin Wilson (2014)
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 136(5):2762-2772 [pdf]
- Cognitive biases, linguistic universals, and constraint-based grammar learning
Jennifer Culbertson, Paul Smolensky, and Colin Wilson (2013)
Topics in Cognitive Science 5(3):392-424 [pdf]
- Bayesian speech production: evidence from latency and hyperarticulation
Christo Kirov and Colin Wilson (2013)
Proceedings of CogSci 35 [pdf]
- Maxent grammars for the metrics of Shakespeare and Milton
Bruce Hayes, Colin Wilson, and Anne Shisko (2012)
Language 88(4):691-731 [pdf]
software available for download
- On the role of variables in phonology (Remarks on Hayes and Wilson 2008)
Iris Berent, Colin Wilson, Gary Marcus, and Douglas Bemis (2012)
Linguistic Inquiry 43(1):97-119 [pdf]
- The specificity of online variation in speech production
Christo Kirov and Colin Wilson (2012)
Proceedings of CogSci 34 [pdf]
- A targeted spreading imperative for Nasal Place Assimilation
Colin Wilson (2011)
NELS 41 Proceedings [pdf]
- Bayesian analysis of non-native cluster production
Colin Wilson and Lisa Davidson (2010)
NELS 40 Proceedings [pdf]
- A maximum entropy model of phonotactics and phonological learning
Bruce Hayes and Colin Wilson (2008)
Linguistic Inquiry 39(3):379-440 [pdf]
software available for download
- A hierarchical Bayesian model of multi-level phonetic imitation
Kuniko Nielsen and Colin Wilson (2008)
WCCFL 27 Proceedings [pdf]
- Learning phonology with substantive bias: an experimental and computational study of velar palatalization
Colin Wilson (2006)
Cognitive Science 30(5):945-982 [pdf]
- Local optionality
Jason Riggle and Colin Wilson (2006)
NELS 35 Proceedings [pdf]
- Experimental investigation of phonological naturalness
Colin Wilson (2003)
WCCFL 22 Proceedings [pdf]
- Consonant cluster neutralisation and targeted constraints
Colin Wilson (2001)
Phonology 18(1):147-197 [pdf]
- Transparency, strict locality, and targeted constraints
Eric Bakovic and Colin Wilson (2001)
WCCFL 19 Proceedings
Language learning and development, visual perception, other research
- The importance of lexical verbs in the acquisition of spatial prepositions: The case of in and on
Kristen Johannes, Colin Wilson, and Barbara Landau (2016)
Cognition 157:174-189 [pdf]
- The effects of alphabet and expertise on letter perception
Robert Wiley, Colin Wilson, and Barbara Landau (2016)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 42(8):1186-1203 [pdf]
- Spatial language and the embedded listener model in parents' input to children
Katrina Ferrara, Malena Silva, Colin Wilson, and Barbara Landau (2015)
Cognitive Science 40(8):1877-1910
[pdf]
- Why do people appear not to extrapolate trajectories during multiple object tracking? A computational investigation
Sheng-hua Zhong, Zheng Ma, Colin Wilson, Yan Liu, and Jonathan Flombaum (2014)
Journal of Vision 14(12):12 [pdf ]
- Stimulus-specific variability in color working memory with delayed estimation
Gi-Yeul Bae, Maria Olkkonen, Sarah Allred, Colin Wilson, and Jonathan Flombaum (2014)
Journal of Vision 14(4):7, 1-23 [pdf]
- Artificial grammar learning of shape-based noun classification
Jennifer Culbertson and Colin Wilson (2013)
Proceedings of CogSci 35 [pdf]
- Prosodic structure and wh-questions
Kathleen Straub, Colin Wilson, Courtney McCollum, and William Badecker (2001)
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 30(4):379-94
- Bidirectional optimization and the theory of anaphora
Colin Wilson (2001)
In Geraldine Legendre, Jane Grimshaw, and Sten Vikner (eds.), Optimality-theoretic Syntax, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.