We are a research lab housed at the University of Utah under the direction Caleb Belth. Our research contributes to questions in theoretical linguistics and language acquisition from a computational perspective.

Members

Alumni

Casey Miller

External Collaborators

Jordan Kodner (Assistant Professor, Stonybrook University)
Sarah Brogden Payne (PhD Student, Stonybrook University)
Charles Yang (Professor, University of Pennsylvania)
Jack Ying (PhD Student, University of Maryland)

Recent Publications

2025

A Learning Based Account of Turkish Laryngeal Alternations
Caleb Belth
Annual Meeting on Phonology
[pdf]

2024

A Learning-Based Account of Phonological Tiers
Caleb Belth
Linguistic Inquiry
[pdf] [code] [algophon]

A Learning-Based Account of Local Phonological Processes
Caleb Belth
Phonology
[pdf] [code] [algophon]

Meaning-Informed Low-Resource Segmentation of Agglutinative Morphology
Caleb Belth
Society for Computation in Linguistics
[pdf] [code] [algophon]

Resources

• algophon: Code for working on computational phonology and morphology in Python.
  [github] [pypi]
• Python script for making random groups of students in a course.
  [link]