About this Journal
The Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) is devoted to facilitating and promoting research on computational and mathematical approaches in Linguistics. SCiL aims to provide a central forum for exchange of ideas and dissemination of original research results on computational approaches in any area of linguistics. In addition to providing a forum for researchers already working in these areas, SCiL hosts regular meetings (the first of which was co-located with LSA 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah) that feature high-quality research presentations and peer-reviewed proceedings published with the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Anthology as well as in our own standalone open access publication, the Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.
Volume 7 • 2024
Editors' Note
Preface: SCiL 2024 Editors' Note
Richard Futrell, Connor Mayer and Noga Zaslavsky
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • i
Papers
Tensor Product Representations of Regular Transductions
Zhouyi Sun and Jonathan Rawski
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 1–9
Can Syntactic Log-Odds Ratio Predict Acceptability and Satiation?
Jiayi Lu, Jonathan Merchan, Lian Wang and Judith Degen
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 10–19
Learning Phonotactics from Linguistic Informants
Canaan Breiss, Alexis Ross, Amani Maina-Kilaas, Roger Levy and Jacob Andreas
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 20–31
Morphologically simplex D-quantifiers are strictly 2-local
Thomas Graf
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 32–42
Reassessing a model of syntactic island acquisition
Avni Gulrajani and Jeffrey Lidz
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 43–51
BERT's Insights Into the English Dative and Genitive Alternations
Qing Yao and Simon Todd
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 52–62
A Generalized Algorithm for Learning Positive and Negative Grammars with Unconventional String Models
Sarah Payne
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 75–85
Pragmatics-utilizing distributional learner (PUDL) without deterministic hypothesis space
Boram Kim and Joonsuk Kang
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 86–95
Meaning-Informed Low-Resource Segmentation of Agglutinative Morphology
Caleb Belth
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 96–106
Tiers, Paths, and Syntactic Locality: The View from Learning
Kenneth Hanson
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 107–116
Correlation Does Not Imply Compensation: Complexity and Irregularity in the Lexicon
Amanda Doucette, Ryan Cotterell, Morgan Sonderegger and Timothy J. O'Donnell
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 117–128
Algebraic Reanalysis of Phonological Processes Described as Output-Oriented
Dakotah Lambert and Jeffrey Heinz
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 129–138
Do speakers minimize dependency length during naturalistic dialogue?
Meghna Hooda, Mudafia Zafar and Samar Husain
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 139–149
Do language models capture implied discourse meanings? An investigation with exhaustivity implicatures of Korean morphology
Hagyeong Shin and Sean Trott
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 150–161
Computational Approaches for Integrating out Subjectivity in Cognate Synonym Selection
Luise Häuser, Gerard Jäger and Alexandros Stamatakis
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 162–172
Stranger than Paradigms: Word Embedding Benchmarks Don't Align With Morphology
Timothee Mickus and Maria Copot
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 173–189
How many maximum entropy grammars are predicted by a constraint set when we ignore small differences among grammars?
Giorgio Magri
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 190–204
Generating Feature Vectors from Phonetic Transcriptions in Cross-Linguistic Data Formats
Arne Rubehn, Jessica Nieder, Robert Forkel and Johann-Mattis List
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 205–216
Computing Ellipsis Constructions: Comparing Classical NLP and LLM Approaches
Damir Cavar, Zoran Tiganj, Ludovic Veta Mompelat and Billy Dickson
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 217–226
Modeling morphosyntactic agreement as neural search: a case study of Hindi-Urdu
Alan Zhou and Colin Wilson
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 227–239
Interference Predicts Locality: Evidence from an SOV language
Sidharth Ranjan, Sumeet Agarwal and Rajakrishnan Rajkumar
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 240–256
Online Learning of ITSL Grammars
Jacob K. Johnson and Aniello De Santo
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 257–267
Abstracts
Sentiment Analysis of Russian Political Discourse: Does Translation Matter?
Lindy Comstock, Brandon Soung and Priyanshu Sharma
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 268–272
Naturalistic Reading Time Data Support Information Locality
Hailin Hao, Himanshu Yadav and Elsi Kaiser
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 273–274
Psycholinguistic Adequacy of Left-corner Parsing for Minimalist Grammars
Lei Liu
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 275–280
Modeling exemplar production from speech tokens with acoustic targets
Frédéric "Fred" Mailhot and Cassandra L. Jacobs
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 281–284
Transformer Performance on Case in Balto-Slavic Languages
Lorenss Martinsons
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 285–288
What representations do RNNs learn and use from morpho-phonological processes?: an exploration of PCA and PC neutralizations on Turkish vowel harmony
Jane Li, Kyle Rawlins and Paul Smolensky
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 289–290
Words, Subwords, and Morphemes: What Really Matters in the Surprisal-Reading Time Relationship?
Sathvik Nair and Philip Resnik
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 291–292
Investigating valency-changing prefixes in Czech and German using large syntactically annotated data
Hana Hledíková
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 293–296
Measuring Second Language Acquisition of Spanish Lenition
Rachel Meyer, Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Sophia Vellozzi and Rahul Sengupta
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 297–301
Why we need asymmetric measures to classify multi-word expressions: The case of Tibetan light verb constructions
Ryan Ka Yau Lai
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 302–306
Information Value: Measuring Utterance Predictability as Distance from Plausible Alternatives
Mario Giulianelli, Sarenne Wallbridge and Raquel Fernández
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 307–310
A multifactorial analysis on dative alternation in Russian
Yue Zou and Hao Lin
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 311–315
Neural language model gradients predict event-related brain potentials
Stefan Frank
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 316–323
Discontinuous constructions in spoken Chinese varieties: Extraction and contrastive covarying collexeme analysis
Ryan Ka Yau Lai
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 324–328
aligned-textgrid: Lightweight access to structured phonetic data
Josef Fruehwald and Christian Brickhouse
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 329–330
Dynamic computational social network analysis of language learner interactions: Novel insights for study-abroad second language acquisition
Michał B. Paradowski, Piotr Bródka, Michał Czuba and Nicole Whitby
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 331–332
Bridging semantics and pragmatics in information-theoretic emergent communication
Eleonora Gualdoni, Mycal Tucker, Roger Levy and Noga Zaslavsky
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 333–335
Natural-Language-Like Systematicity from a Constraint on Excess Entropy
Richard Futrell
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 336–335
Modeling the Dative Alternation in English Early Child Language
Zoey Liu, Haiyin Yang, Jarrod Cruz and Stefanie Wulff
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 338–342
On the communicative utility of code-switching
Yanting Li, Gregory Scontras and Richard Futrell
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 343–349
Regularized Conventions: Equilibrium Computation as a Model of Pragmatic Reasoning
Athul Paul Jacob, Gabriele Farina and Jacob Andreas
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 350–351
Underspecification without Underspecified Representations
Scott Nelson and Eric Bakovic
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 352–356
Identifying Questions Under Discussion in Naturalistic Discourse
Karl Mulligan and Kyle Rawlins
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 357–361
CCG parsing effort and surprisal jointly predict RT but underpredict garden-path effects
Satoru Ozaki, Aniello De Santo, Tal Linzen and Brian Dillon
2024-06-24 Volume 7 • 2024 • 362–364