Claire Moore-Cantwell
moore.cantwell at ucla dot edu
CV: (pdf)
Assistant Professor - UCLA
github.com/clairemoorecantwell

Claire Moore-Cantwell


The Gradient Lexicon and Phonology Learner (GLaPL). ( Project page )
with Bruce Hayes. A guide to analysis in MaxEnt Optimality Theory. Textbook, in progress. ( Manuscript ch. 1-2 | Supplementary materials )
with Gaja Jarosz. Empirical neighborhoods of nonwords ( Poster, AMLaP 2024 )
with Anne-Michelle Tessier and Ashley Farris-Trimble. Learning accurate onset clusters: Perception lags behind production ( Manuscript | Data )
2024. with Dana Bosch, Ethan Kahn, Christine Kim, and Grace Shoemaker. Production priming of stress in nonwords ( Paper | Data  )
2023. with Joe Pater, Robert Staubs, Benjamin Zobel and Lisa Sanders. Violations of Lab-Learned Phonological Patterns Elicit a Late Positive Component ( Paper )
2021. Weight and final vowels in the English stress system. ( Paper )
2018. with Lisa Sanders. Effects of probabilistic phonology on the perception of words and nonwords ( Paper )
2017. with Brian W. Smith. Emergent idiosyncracy in English comparatives. ( Paper )
2016. with Joe Pater. Gradient Exceptionality in Maximum Entropy Grammar with Lexically Specific Constraints. ( Paper )
2016. Contexts for epenthesis in Harmonic Serialism. ( Paper )
2016. The representation of probabilistic phonological patterns: Neurological, behavioral, and computational evidence from the English stress system. Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst. ( full text )
2014. with Robert Staubs. Modeling morphological subgeneralizations. ( Paper )
2013. Syntactic probability influences duration: Production of prosodic boundaries in clefted structures ( Project page )
2011. with Bruce Hayes Gerard Manley Hopkins's sprung rhythm: corpus study and stochastic grammar. ( Paper )
2011. Over- and Under-generalization in derivational morphology. ( Project page )

Balancing type and token frequency using lexically indexed constraints
Talk at AMP 2024, Rutgers
Slides 
Empirical neighborhoods of nonwords: Assessing the 1-edit model
with Gaja Jarosz
Poster at AMLaP 2024, Edinburgh
Poster pdf 
(Some syllabi are publicly available. Please contact me if you would like additional materials.)
Ling 201A - Graduate Phonology II
UCLA, winter quarters
Syllabus
Ling 217 - Graduate Experimental Phonology
UCLA, every few years
Syllabus
Ling 236 - Graduate Computational Phonology
UCLA, every few years
Syllabus
Ling 20 - Intro to Linguistics for majors
UCLA, various quarters
Syllabus


         Seminars

Learning Models of Exceptionality - Graduate Seminar
UCLA. Winter, 2023
Syllabus
The Lexicon-Phonology Interface - Graduate Seminar
UCLA. Winter, 2021
Syllabus
Sign Language Phonology - Undergraduate Seminar
Simon Fraser University. Summer, 2019
Syllabus
Models of Phonological Variation - Graduate Seminar
Yale. Fall, 2015
Syllabus

UCLA Phonology Lab logo

Balancing type and token frequency using lexically indexed constraints
Talk at AMP 2024, Rutgers
Slides 
Empirical neighborhoods of nonwords: Assessing the 1-edit model
with Gaja Jarosz
Poster at AMLaP 2024, Edinburgh
Poster pdf