Publications

Lena Strobl, Dana Angluin, David Chiang, Jon Rawski, Ashish Sabharwal (2024). Transformers as Transducers.

Daniel Levenstein, Aniello De Santo, Saskia Heijnen, M. Narayan, Freek Oude Maatman, Jon Rawski, Cory wright (2023). The Problem-Ladenness of Theory.

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Jon Rawski, Lucie Baumont (2023). Modern Language Models Refute Nothing. manuscript.

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Jon Rawski, Hossep Dolatian, Jeffrey Heinz, Eric Raimy (2023). Regular and Polyregular Theories of Reduplication. Glossa.

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Josef Valvoda, Naomi Saphra, Jon Rawski, Ryan Cotterell, Adina Williams (2022). Benchmarking Compositionality with Formal Languages. COLING 2022.

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Jeffrey Heinz, Jon Rawski (2022). History of Phonology: Learnability. In the Oxford Handbook of the History of Phonology.

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Eric Bakovic, Jeffrey Heinz, Jon Rawski (2022). Phonological Abstractness in the Mental Lexicon. In the Oxford Handbook of the Mental Lexicon.

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Aniello De Santo, Jon Rawski (2022). Mathematical Linguistics & Cognitive Complexity. The Springer Handbook of Cognitive Mathematics..

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Dakotah Lambert, Jon Rawski, Jeffrey Heinz (2021). Typology Emerges from Simplicity in Representations and Learning. Journal of Language Modeling.

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Mark Aronoff, Jon Rawski, Wendy Sandler (2021). Talk isn't so Cheap. Inference.

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Jon Rawski, William Idsardi, Jeffrey Heinz (2021). Comment on Nonadjacent Dependency Processing in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans. Science Advances.

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Hossep Dolatian, Nate Koser, Jon Rawski, Kristina Strother-Garcia (2021). Computational Restrictions on Iterative Prosodic Processes. In AMP 2020.

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Hossep Dolatian, Jon Rawski, Jeffrey Heinz (2020). Strong Generative Capacity of Morphological Processes. SCiL 2021.

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Hossep Dolatian, Jon Rawski (2020). Computational Locality in Nonlinear Morphophonology. In review.

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Alena Aksenova, Jon Rawski, Thomas Graf, Jeffrey Heinz (2020). The Computational Power of Harmony. In the Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony.

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Jon Rawski (2020). The Logical Nature of Phonology Across Speech and Sign. In Review.

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Aniello De Santo, Jon Rawski (2020). What can formal language theory do for animal cognition studies?. Royal Society Open Science, 7(2).

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Max Nelson, Hossep Dolatian, Jon Rawski, Brandon Prickett (2020). Probing RNN Encoder-Decoder Generalization of Subregular Functions using Reduplication. In Proceedings of SCiL.

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Jon Rawski, Hossep Dolatian (2020). Multi-Input Strictly Local Functions for Tonal Phonology. In SCiL 2020.

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Hossep Dolatian, Jon Rawski (2020). Multi-Input Strictly Local Functions for Templatic Morphology. In SCiL 2020.

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Jon Rawski (2019). Tensor Product Representations of Subregular Formal Languages. In NeSy @ IJCAI 2019.

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Jane Chandlee, Remi Eyraud, Jeffrey Heinz, Adam Jardine, Jon Rawski (2019). Learning with Partially Ordered Representations. In MoL.

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Hossep Dolatian, Jon Rawski (2019). Finite-State Locality in Semitic Root-and-Pattern Morphology. In Proceedings of PLC.

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Jon Rawski, Jeffrey Heinz (2019). No Free Lunch in Linguistics or Machine Learning: Reply to Pater. Language, 95(1).

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Aniello De DeSanto, Jon Rawski, John Drury, Amanda Yazdani (2018). Quantified Sentences as a Window into Prediction and Priming: An ERP Study. In CLS 54.

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Jon Rawski (2017). Phonological Complexity is Subregular: Evidence from Sign Language. In CLS 53.

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