Camille Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 109279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camille Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camille |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7565-0743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How Does English Encode ‘Tight’ Vs. ‘Loose-fit’ Motion Events? It’s Complicated
Linguistic encoding of spatial events has long provided a forum for examining how languages encode space, how children learn their native encodings, and whether cross-linguistic differences affect non-linguistic representations of space. One prominent case concerns motion events in which objects are moved into tight or loose-fit relationships of containment or support. Seminal findings from Bowerman showed that young children learning Korean regu…
Contribution of the language network to the comprehension of Python programming code
Anti-racist research practice partnerships as critical education: Dismantling the Master’s House With Their Own Tools
This paper reflects upon "Justice Now Coalition" (JNC), an anti-racist research practice partnership (RPP). The Coalition drew from the Black Emancipatory Action Research (BEAR) Framework as well as Black feminist, Afro-futurist, and critical race epistemologies to answer two research questions: 1) How can an urban education RPP that includes academic, community, and youth partners engage in a collaborative inquiry process that helps to dismantle…
Uniformity in phonetic realization: Evidence from sibilant place of articulation in American English
Phonetic realization is highly variable and highly structured within and across talkers. We examine three constraints that could structure the phonetic space of related speech sounds: target, contrast, and pattern uniformity. Target uniformity requires a uniform mapping from distinctive features to their corresponding phonetic targets within a talker, contrast uniformity requires a consistent difference in the phonetic targets that realize featur…
The whole is more than the sum of its parts – assessing writing using the consensual assessment technique
Evaluating the impact of Academic Literacies teaching (Lea and Street [1998. “Student Writing in Higher Education: An Academic Literacies Approach.” Studies in Higher Education 23 (2): 157–72. doi:10.1080/03075079812331380364]) is difficult, as it involves gauging whether writers (1) gain better understanding of what influences written social interactions, and (2) improve their ability to manipulate language to address readers. Self-report can as…
Predictability of stop consonant phonetics across talkers: Between-category and within-category dependencies among cues for place and voice
The present study investigates patterns of covariation among acoustic properties of stop consonants in a large multi-talker corpus of American English connected speech. Relations among talker means for different stops on the same dimension (between-category covariation) were considerably stronger than those for different dimensions of the same stop (within-category covariation). The existence of between-category covariation supports a uniformity …
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Accidental Gaps and Surface-Based Phonotactic Learning: A Case Study of South Bolivian Quechua
The lexicon of a natural language does not contain all of the phonological structures that are grammatical. This presents a fundamental challenge to the learner, who must distinguish linguistically significant restrictions from accidental gaps ( Fischer-Jørgensen 1952 , Halle 1962 , Chomsky and Halle 1965 , Pierrehumbert 1994 , Frisch and Zawaydeh 2001 , Iverson and Salmons 2005 , Gorman 2013 , Hayes and White 2013 ). The severity of the challeng…
Structure in talker-specific phonetic realization: Covariation of stop consonant VOT in American English
Processing nonnative consonant clusters in the classroom: Perception and production of phonetic detail
Recent research has shown that speakers are sensitive to non-contrastive phonetic detail present in nonnative speech (e.g. Escudero et al. 2012; Wilson et al. 2014). Difficulties in interpreting and implementing unfamiliar phonetic variation can lead nonnative speakers to modify second language forms by vowel epenthesis and other changes. These difficulties may be exacerbated in the classroom, as previous studies have found that classroom acousti…
Black Educational Activism for Community Empowerment: International Leadership Perspectives
This article discusses themes emerging from studies of Black educational activism conducted in London, Toronto, and Detroit. A critical meta-analysis reveals that Black educational activists resist racism and other forms of oppression; act as border crossers and/or boundary spanners as they navigate complex community-based, institutional, and political terrains; serve as change agents from the grassroots to institutional level; and, develop and e…
On the Role of Variables in Phonology: Remarks on Hayes and Wilson 2008
A computational model by Hayes and Wilson (2008) seemingly captures a diverse range of phonotactic phenomena without variables, contrasting with the presumptions of many formal theories. Here, we examine the plausibility of this approach by comparing generalizations of identity restrictions by this architecture and human learners. Whereas humans generalize identity restrictions broadly, to both native and nonnative phonemes, the original model an…
Maxent grammars for the metrics of Shakespeare and Milton
We propose a new approach to metrics based on maxent grammars, which employ weighted constraints and assign well-formedness values to verse lines. Our approach provides an account of metricality and complexity that has a principled mathematical basis and integrates information from all aspects of scansion. Our approach also makes it possible to detect vacuous constraints through statistical evaluation. We begin with a system built on earlier work…
A Maximum Entropy Model of Phonotactics and Phonotactic Learning
The study of phonotactics is a central topic in phonology. We propose a theory of phonotactic grammars and a learning algorithm that constructs such grammars from positive evidence. Our grammars consist of constraints that are assigned numerical weights according to the principle of maximum entropy. The grammars assess possible words on the basis of the weighted sum of their constraint violations. The learning algorithm yields grammars that can c…
Learning Phonology With Substantive Bias: An Experimental and Computational Study of Velar Palatalization
There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A new framework is proposed in which substance acts as a bias, or prior, on phonological learning. Two experiments tested this framework with a method in which participants are first provided highly impoverished evidence of a new phonological pattern, and then tested o…
Bidirectional Optimization and the Theory of Anaphora
Consonant cluster neutralisation and targeted constraints
In this paper, I propose an optimality-theoretic account of the generalisation that deletion processes that apply to intervocalic biconsonantal clusters canonically delete the first consonant (schematically, VC 1 C 2 V → VC 2 V). The approach to contextual neutralisation proposed here has two main components. First, I follow the licensing-by-cue framework (e.g. Steriade 1997) in identifying ‘weak’ elements as those without strong perceptual cues.…
Prosodic Structure and wh-Questions
Dreamworking Amistad: Representing Slavery, Revolt, and Freedom in America, 1839 and 1997
The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence
An ordinary family house in a quiet West Country town - 25 Cromwell Street, Glouster. Now known throughout the world as the House of Horror: The home of Fred and Rosemary West and the scene of one of the most shocking cases of serial murder England has ever seen. United by acts of unimaginable cruelty, the West's partnership was one of the most deadly in criminal history. And serial killers are increasing. Triggered by either sexual fantasies or …
A Criminal History of Mankind
The Book of Time
The Real Face of the Palestinians
A Maximum Entropy Model of Phonotactics and Phonotactic Learning
The study of phonotactics is a central topic in phonology. We propose a theory of phonotactic grammars and a learning algorithm that constructs such grammars from positive evidence. Our grammars consist of constraints that are assigned numerical weights according to the principle of maximum entropy. The grammars assess possible words on the basis of the weighted sum of their constraint violations. The learning algorithm yields grammars that can c…
Learning Phonology With Substantive Bias: An Experimental and Computational Study of Velar Palatalization
There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A new framework is proposed in which substance acts as a bias, or prior, on phonological learning. Two experiments tested this framework with a method in which participants are first provided highly impoverished evidence of a new phonological pattern, and then tested o…
Structure in talker-specific phonetic realization: Covariation of stop consonant VOT in American English
Black Educational Activism for Community Empowerment: International Leadership Perspectives
This article discusses themes emerging from studies of Black educational activism conducted in London, Toronto, and Detroit. A critical meta-analysis reveals that Black educational activists resist racism and other forms of oppression; act as border crossers and/or boundary spanners as they navigate complex community-based, institutional, and political terrains; serve as change agents from the grassroots to institutional level; and, develop and e…
On the Role of Variables in Phonology: Remarks on Hayes and Wilson 2008
A computational model by Hayes and Wilson (2008) seemingly captures a diverse range of phonotactic phenomena without variables, contrasting with the presumptions of many formal theories. Here, we examine the plausibility of this approach by comparing generalizations of identity restrictions by this architecture and human learners. Whereas humans generalize identity restrictions broadly, to both native and nonnative phonemes, the original model an…
Maxent grammars for the metrics of Shakespeare and Milton
We propose a new approach to metrics based on maxent grammars, which employ weighted constraints and assign well-formedness values to verse lines. Our approach provides an account of metricality and complexity that has a principled mathematical basis and integrates information from all aspects of scansion. Our approach also makes it possible to detect vacuous constraints through statistical evaluation. We begin with a system built on earlier work…
Accidental Gaps and Surface-Based Phonotactic Learning: A Case Study of South Bolivian Quechua
The lexicon of a natural language does not contain all of the phonological structures that are grammatical. This presents a fundamental challenge to the learner, who must distinguish linguistically significant restrictions from accidental gaps ( Fischer-Jørgensen 1952 , Halle 1962 , Chomsky and Halle 1965 , Pierrehumbert 1994 , Frisch and Zawaydeh 2001 , Iverson and Salmons 2005 , Gorman 2013 , Hayes and White 2013 ). The severity of the challeng…
Anti-racist research practice partnerships as critical education: Dismantling the Master’s House With Their Own Tools
This paper reflects upon "Justice Now Coalition" (JNC), an anti-racist research practice partnership (RPP). The Coalition drew from the Black Emancipatory Action Research (BEAR) Framework as well as Black feminist, Afro-futurist, and critical race epistemologies to answer two research questions: 1) How can an urban education RPP that includes academic, community, and youth partners engage in a collaborative inquiry process that helps to dismantle…
Uniformity in phonetic realization: Evidence from sibilant place of articulation in American English
Phonetic realization is highly variable and highly structured within and across talkers. We examine three constraints that could structure the phonetic space of related speech sounds: target, contrast, and pattern uniformity. Target uniformity requires a uniform mapping from distinctive features to their corresponding phonetic targets within a talker, contrast uniformity requires a consistent difference in the phonetic targets that realize featur…
Processing nonnative consonant clusters in the classroom: Perception and production of phonetic detail
Recent research has shown that speakers are sensitive to non-contrastive phonetic detail present in nonnative speech (e.g. Escudero et al. 2012; Wilson et al. 2014). Difficulties in interpreting and implementing unfamiliar phonetic variation can lead nonnative speakers to modify second language forms by vowel epenthesis and other changes. These difficulties may be exacerbated in the classroom, as previous studies have found that classroom acousti…
Prosodic Structure and wh-Questions
The Real Face of the Palestinians
The Book of Time
A Criminal History of Mankind
The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence
An ordinary family house in a quiet West Country town - 25 Cromwell Street, Glouster. Now known throughout the world as the House of Horror: The home of Fred and Rosemary West and the scene of one of the most shocking cases of serial murder England has ever seen. United by acts of unimaginable cruelty, the West's partnership was one of the most deadly in criminal history. And serial killers are increasing. Triggered by either sexual fantasies or …
Dreamworking Amistad: Representing Slavery, Revolt, and Freedom in America, 1839 and 1997
Bidirectional Optimization and the Theory of Anaphora
Consonant cluster neutralisation and targeted constraints
In this paper, I propose an optimality-theoretic account of the generalisation that deletion processes that apply to intervocalic biconsonantal clusters canonically delete the first consonant (schematically, VC 1 C 2 V → VC 2 V). The approach to contextual neutralisation proposed here has two main components. First, I follow the licensing-by-cue framework (e.g. Steriade 1997) in identifying ‘weak’ elements as those without strong perceptual cues.…
Prosodic Structure and wh-Questions
Learning Phonology With Substantive Bias: An Experimental and Computational Study of Velar Palatalization
There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A new framework is proposed in which substance acts as a bias, or prior, on phonological learning. Two experiments tested this framework with a method in which participants are first provided highly impoverished evidence of a new phonological pattern, and then tested o…
A Maximum Entropy Model of Phonotactics and Phonotactic Learning
The study of phonotactics is a central topic in phonology. We propose a theory of phonotactic grammars and a learning algorithm that constructs such grammars from positive evidence. Our grammars consist of constraints that are assigned numerical weights according to the principle of maximum entropy. The grammars assess possible words on the basis of the weighted sum of their constraint violations. The learning algorithm yields grammars that can c…
On the Role of Variables in Phonology: Remarks on Hayes and Wilson 2008
A computational model by Hayes and Wilson (2008) seemingly captures a diverse range of phonotactic phenomena without variables, contrasting with the presumptions of many formal theories. Here, we examine the plausibility of this approach by comparing generalizations of identity restrictions by this architecture and human learners. Whereas humans generalize identity restrictions broadly, to both native and nonnative phonemes, the original model an…
Maxent grammars for the metrics of Shakespeare and Milton
We propose a new approach to metrics based on maxent grammars, which employ weighted constraints and assign well-formedness values to verse lines. Our approach provides an account of metricality and complexity that has a principled mathematical basis and integrates information from all aspects of scansion. Our approach also makes it possible to detect vacuous constraints through statistical evaluation. We begin with a system built on earlier work…
Black Educational Activism for Community Empowerment: International Leadership Perspectives
This article discusses themes emerging from studies of Black educational activism conducted in London, Toronto, and Detroit. A critical meta-analysis reveals that Black educational activists resist racism and other forms of oppression; act as border crossers and/or boundary spanners as they navigate complex community-based, institutional, and political terrains; serve as change agents from the grassroots to institutional level; and, develop and e…
Processing nonnative consonant clusters in the classroom: Perception and production of phonetic detail
Recent research has shown that speakers are sensitive to non-contrastive phonetic detail present in nonnative speech (e.g. Escudero et al. 2012; Wilson et al. 2014). Difficulties in interpreting and implementing unfamiliar phonetic variation can lead nonnative speakers to modify second language forms by vowel epenthesis and other changes. These difficulties may be exacerbated in the classroom, as previous studies have found that classroom acousti…
Structure in talker-specific phonetic realization: Covariation of stop consonant VOT in American English
Predictability of stop consonant phonetics across talkers: Between-category and within-category dependencies among cues for place and voice
The present study investigates patterns of covariation among acoustic properties of stop consonants in a large multi-talker corpus of American English connected speech. Relations among talker means for different stops on the same dimension (between-category covariation) were considerably stronger than those for different dimensions of the same stop (within-category covariation). The existence of between-category covariation supports a uniformity …
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An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Accidental Gaps and Surface-Based Phonotactic Learning: A Case Study of South Bolivian Quechua
The lexicon of a natural language does not contain all of the phonological structures that are grammatical. This presents a fundamental challenge to the learner, who must distinguish linguistically significant restrictions from accidental gaps ( Fischer-Jørgensen 1952 , Halle 1962 , Chomsky and Halle 1965 , Pierrehumbert 1994 , Frisch and Zawaydeh 2001 , Iverson and Salmons 2005 , Gorman 2013 , Hayes and White 2013 ). The severity of the challeng…
The whole is more than the sum of its parts – assessing writing using the consensual assessment technique
Evaluating the impact of Academic Literacies teaching (Lea and Street [1998. “Student Writing in Higher Education: An Academic Literacies Approach.” Studies in Higher Education 23 (2): 157–72. doi:10.1080/03075079812331380364]) is difficult, as it involves gauging whether writers (1) gain better understanding of what influences written social interactions, and (2) improve their ability to manipulate language to address readers. Self-report can as…
Uniformity in phonetic realization: Evidence from sibilant place of articulation in American English
Phonetic realization is highly variable and highly structured within and across talkers. We examine three constraints that could structure the phonetic space of related speech sounds: target, contrast, and pattern uniformity. Target uniformity requires a uniform mapping from distinctive features to their corresponding phonetic targets within a talker, contrast uniformity requires a consistent difference in the phonetic targets that realize featur…
Anti-racist research practice partnerships as critical education: Dismantling the Master’s House With Their Own Tools
This paper reflects upon "Justice Now Coalition" (JNC), an anti-racist research practice partnership (RPP). The Coalition drew from the Black Emancipatory Action Research (BEAR) Framework as well as Black feminist, Afro-futurist, and critical race epistemologies to answer two research questions: 1) How can an urban education RPP that includes academic, community, and youth partners engage in a collaborative inquiry process that helps to dismantle…
How Does English Encode ‘Tight’ Vs. ‘Loose-fit’ Motion Events? It’s Complicated
Linguistic encoding of spatial events has long provided a forum for examining how languages encode space, how children learn their native encodings, and whether cross-linguistic differences affect non-linguistic representations of space. One prominent case concerns motion events in which objects are moved into tight or loose-fit relationships of containment or support. Seminal findings from Bowerman showed that young children learning Korean regu…
Contribution of the language network to the comprehension of Python programming code
Computer Science (15 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Phonology (6 works)