Mike Hammond
General stuff
I work in the Linguistics
Department at the University of
Arizona. I am also affiliated with the
Human Language Technology Program,
the Cognitive
Science Program, the joint Linguistics-Anthropology
Ph.D. Program, and the SLAT program.
My research areas include: phonology, morphology, computational linguistics,
English phonology and morphology, poetic meter, psycholinguistics, Welsh,
and Scottish Gaelic. I have a
lab for my experimental research (SPAM Lab).
I was also involved in the
Arizona Native American Online
Dictionary Project.
(Click here to see my current CV).
Selected computational projects
Some of these are dated and here for historical interest.
- Gen with Lazy Evaluation: paper and
Haskell code. (Note that the code/paper are
written in Literate Haskell style, which means the code file "is"
the paper source.
- Finite State Playground. A set of
xml-based command-line utilities for manipulating FSAs. These are
beta and not industrial strength.
Transducers are not included; comments welcome (v 1.02; 1/21/07).
- LingML:
This is a very rough idea for general XML/XSLT applications for linguistics
analogous to the MathML initiative of the W3 consortium.
- Slides and demos from my presentation "Toward
LingML: is the notation really the theory" (10/6/03).
- A web interface to my
1997 constraint-based syllable parser. (The paper "Parsing syllables: modeling
OT computationally", Rutgers Archive)
- Code for the
above.
-
The code in Perl
for my 1995 constraint-based syllable parser. (The paper: "Syllable parsing in
English and French", Rutgers Archive)
Various presentations
- Handout from a recent talk in Aberystwyth,
Wales on 'Variability in Welsh grammatical gender' (July 2014).
- Handout from a recent invited
talk in Japan: "Phonological complexity and input optimization"
(Sept. 2013).
- Slides from my part of a panel
discussion at the LSA annual meeting on computational technologies
in the graduate curriculum.
- Slides from Bangor talk on "Cynghanedd and phonology" (11/16/11).
- April 16, 2010 Cog. Sci brownbag presentation on The
Metrical Mind.
- A workshop
on R (3/4/11, 3/11/11, 3/25/11, 4/1/11, & 4/8/11). An
earlier
workshop (5/27/08 & 6/3/08). An advanced workshop
on R (9/16/13).
- Materials for a tutorial in Taiwan in
April of 2007 on empirical techniques in phonology.
- Slides from a second presentation in
Taiwan on "Corpus data vs. experiments in English phonotactics".
- Slides
from a presentation on "Dirty words, Pig Latin, and the structure of
language" (even though it doesn't mention Pig Latin at all).
- Handout
from a presentation to SLAT students on "What is OT".
- Handout (with programs and slides) from a tutorial on "Perl for Linguists" at
Berkeley (2/2004).
- Slides from my presentation "Frequency, cyclicity, and
Optimality".
- The slides from my fall '98 remote presentation at ITESM-Monterrey "Learnability
theory"
- The slides from my fall '98 colloquium presentation "Prosody, parsing, and
perception".
- The handout
from my presentation on "OT and Prosody" in the OT for Nonspecialists
series.
Materials associated with my books
- List of errata
from my book The Phonology of English.
- Programs from my book Programming in Java for Linguists. Available as
a gzipped tar
file, as a jar file, as a
Mac
self-extracting archive, as a Mac binhexed
self-extracting archive, or as a zipped archive.
- Programs from my book Programming in Perl for Linguists. Available as
a gzipped
tar file, as a zipped
archive, or as a Mac
self-extracting archive. (The websearch.pl
program and sentences.pl program can be downloaded separately.) Answers to selected exercises.
- List of errata from my book
Programming in Perl for Linguists.
Psychophonology links
- SPAM Lab.
- Here is a web-based
experiment on linguistic rhythm. (I'm no longer collecting these data, but
the interface is interesting.)
- Just for fun: a little java
applet for doing an ANOVA over the web.
Some links
- Current and past
courses.
- LinguistList.
- Rutgers Optimality Archive
Fooling around
- A greeting.
-
Some pictures.
- The
Java-linguistics group. (This group is no longer active, but I retain the
link for historical interest.)
- Experimenting with RSS:
Mike Hammond: hammond at u dot arizona dot edu