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2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Berwick, R.C. 2013. Keeping it simple: language acquisition without complex Bayesian models<\/a>. Proceedings of the 87th<\/sup> Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America<\/i>,Boston, MA: Linguistic Society of America.<\/li>\n
  2. Berwick, R.C. Language variation and biological variation<\/a>. GLOW<\/em> Lund, Sweden: Generative Linguists of the Old World.<\/li>\n
  3. Berwick, R.C., Ho, P. 2013. Languages do not show lineage-specific trends in word-order universals<\/a>. Proceedings of the 87th<\/sup> Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of<\/i> America<\/i>, Boston, MA: LSA.<\/li>\n
  4. Berwick, R., Indurkya, S. 2013. Language evolution is not like genomic evolution: phonemic diversity fails to detect language evolution out of Africa.<\/a> Proceedings of the 19th<\/sup> International Congress of Linguists, <\/i><\/i>July, Geneva, Switzerland:International Congress of Linguists.<\/li>\n
  5. DeGraff, M., Bass, T., Berwick, R. 2013. Computational phylogenetics, creole languages, and family values<\/a>. Proceedings of the 19th<\/sup> International Congress of Linguists, <\/i>July, Geneva, Switzerland: International Congress of Linguists.<\/li>\n
  6. Villavicencio, A., Idiart, M., Berwick, R.C., Malioutov, I., 2013. Language acquisition and probabilistic models: keeping it simple.<\/a> Proceedings of the 51st<\/sup> Annual Meeting <\/i>of the Association for Computational Linguistics, <\/i>Sofia, Bulgaria: The Association for Computational Linguistics, v.1, 1321-1330.<\/li>\n
  7. Watamull, J., Hauser, M., Berwick, R.C. 2013. Comparative evolutionary approaches to I-language\/E-language.<\/a> Proceedings of the 19th<\/sup> International Congress of Linguists, July, G<\/i>eneva, Switzerland: International Congress of Linguists.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    2012<\/h4>\n
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    1. Berwick, R. What explains the tower of Babel<\/a>? The 10th International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese <\/em>(PROPOR), Coimbra, Portugal, April. (Invited talk.)<\/li>\n
    2. DeGraff, M., Bass, R., Berwick, R., 2012. Phylogenetic magic in Creolistics: Language acquisition, feature values and family values.<\/a> Formal Approaches to Creole Syntax, III, Lisbon, November.<\/li>\n
    3. Sami, M., Hassanien, A., El-Bendary, N., Berwick, R.C. Automatic image annotation via incorporating Naive Bayes with particle swarm optimization<\/a>. World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, <\/i>Mumbai, India.<\/li>\n
    4. Villavicencio, A., Yankama, B., Wilkens, R., Idiart, M. and, Berwick, R. A large-scale annotated child language construction database.<\/a> Proceedings of the 8th International <\/i>Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation<\/i>, (LREC 2012). Istanbul, Turkey, 2370-2375.<\/li>\n
    5. Villavicencio, A., Yankama, B., Wilkens, R., Idiart, M. and, Berwick, R. An annotated English child language database.<\/a> Proceedings of the 13th EACL Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss. <\/em>Avignon, France: Association for Computational Linguistics, 43-50.<\/li>\n
    6. Villavicencio, A., Idiart, M., Ramisch, C., Araujo, V., Yankama, B., Berwick, R.C. Get out but don’t fall down: verb-particle constructions in child language<\/a>. Proceedings of the 13th EACL Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss. <\/em>Avignon, France: Association for Computational Linguistics, 43-50.<\/li>\n
    7. Wang, X., Berwick, R.C. Towards a formal framework of cognitive linguistics.<\/a> P<\/em>roceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing<\/i> (ICCI*CC 2012), Kyoto, Japan, IEEE CS Press, August 22-24.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      2011<\/h4>\n
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      1. Berwick, R.C. The biology of language evolution<\/a>. 11th International Conference on Computational Cognition<\/em>, Calgary, Ontario (Invited plenary talk.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        2010<\/h4>\n
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        1. Berwick, R.C. The evolution of language<\/a>. Proceedings of Evolang 8, <\/em>Utrecht, February. (Invited plenary talk.)<\/li>\n
        2. Berwick, R.C., Malioutov, I. Improving statistical parsing by linguistic regularization<\/a>. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Design<\/em>, Cairo, Egypt.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          2008<\/h4>\n
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          1. Berwick, R.C. The song and the word<\/a>. Proceedings of the American Society for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting<\/em>, Boston, MA, January.<\/li>\n
          2. Berwick, R., Chomsky, N., Poverty of the stimulus revisited<\/a>. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society<\/em>, Washington, D.C., July.<\/li>\n
          3. Fong, S., Berwick, R.C. Treebank parsing and knowledge of language: a cognitive perspective<\/a>. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society<\/em>, Washington, D.C., July.<\/li>\n
          4. Fong, S., Berwick, R.C. Can statistical parsers wow you?<\/a> Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition Workshop, Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society<\/i>, Washington, D.C., July.<\/li>\n
          5. Niygoi, P., Berwick, R.C. Two eras in learning theory<\/a>. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society<\/em>, Washington, D.C., July.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            2007<\/h4>\n
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            1. Berwick, R.C., Coen M., Fong, S. Niyogi, P. The great Penn Treebank robbery: when statistics is not enough<\/a>. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Workshop on Natural Language and Learning (CONLL),<\/em> Lexington, Kentucky, July.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              2002<\/h4>\n
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              1. Leyfer, D., Funari, V., Berwick, R.C., Haverty, P., Tolan, D. A novel algorithm for in-silico EST expression profiling<\/a>. Third International Conference on Genomics<\/em>, Moscow, 190-192.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

                2001<\/h4>\n
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                1. Niyogi, S. and Berwick, R.C., A minimalist theory of Hale-Keyser incorporation theory<\/a>. Proceedings of the 7th <\/em>International Workshop on Parsing Technologies<\/em>, Beijing, China, 2001.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  1990s<\/h4>\n
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                  1. Yang, C., Berwick, R.C., Niyogi, P. 1998. The evolutionary dynamics of natural language<\/a>. DIMACS Conference on Language and Computation, <\/em>Princeton, NJ.<\/li>\n
                  2. Niyogi, P., Berwick, R.C. 1997. Populations of learners: the case of European Portuguese<\/a>. Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,<\/em> August, Stanford, CA.<\/li>\n
                  3. Berwick, R.C., Epstein, S. On the convergence of ‘minimalist’ syntax and categorial grammars<\/a>. In Algebraic Methods in Language Processing 1995: Proceedings of the Twente Workshop on Language Technology 10, jointly held with the First Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST) Workshop on Language Processing<\/i>, A. Nijholt, G. Scollo, and R. Steetkamp (eds.) Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 143-149.<\/li>\n
                  4. Niyogi, P., Berwick, R.C. 1994. A Markov learning model for finite parameter spaces<\/a>. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Computational Linguistics Society<\/em>, 171-180.<\/li>\n
                  5. Nomura, N., Jones, D., Berwick, R.C., 1994. An architecture for a universal lexicon: a case study on shared syntactic information in Japanese, Hindi, Bengali, Greek, and English<\/a>. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, <\/em> 243-249.<\/li>\n
                  6. Albro, D., Berwick, R.C., 1994. AMAR: An implementation of autosegmental phonology. Proeedings of the ACL Sigphon.<\/em><\/li>\n
                  7. Berwick, R.C., Jones, D., Nomura, N., 1994. Causal mechanisms and syntactic constraints on thematic structure. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society<\/em>, Atlanta, GA: LEA.<\/li>\n
                  8. Niygoi, P., Berwick, R.C., 1994. A dynamical systems model for language change. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Mathematics of Language, <\/em>Philadelphia, PA.<\/li>\n
                  9. Niyogi, P., Berwick, R.C. 1994. How to learn parameters. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Grammatical Inference, 1994.<\/li>\n
                  10. Fong, S., Berwick, R.C. 1992. Isolating cross-linguistic parsing complexity with a principles and parameters parser<\/a>. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics,<\/em> 631-637.<\/li>\n
                  11. Berwick, R.C., and S. Fong, 1991. Parsing Japanese with principles. 1st International Symposium on Japanese Syntactic Processing<\/em>, Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC.<\/li>\n
                  12. Brent, M., Berwick, R.C. 1991. Automatic acquisition of subcategorization frames from tagged text<\/a>. HLT Speech and Language Technology, 342-345.<\/li>\n
                  13. Berwick, R.C., 1991. Acquisition of phrase structure via genetic algorithms. American Association of Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium<\/em>, March, D. Powers (ed.) 330-336.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    1980s<\/h4>\n
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                    1. Berwick, R.C. and Fong, S., 1989. The computational implementation of principle-based parsers<\/a>. First International Workshop on<\/em>
                      \n Parsing Technologies,<\/em> Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie-Mellon University, 75-84.<\/li>\n
                    2. Pilato, S., Berwick, R.C., 1985. Reversible automata and induction of the English auxiliary system<\/a>. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, <\/em>July, 70-75.<\/li>\n
                    3. Fong, S., Berwick, R.C., 1985. New approaches to parsing conjunctions using Prolog<\/a>. Proceedings of the Ninth <\/em>International Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/em>, Los Angeles, California, August, 870-876.<\/li>\n
                    4. Barton, E., Berwick, R.C., 1985. Parsing with assertion sets and information monotonicity<\/a>. Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, <\/em> 769-771.<\/li>\n
                    5. Berwick, R.C., 1984. Deterministic parsing, a modern view. Proceedings of the New England Linguistic Conference 15<\/em> , Brown University, Providence, RI, November, 15\u201329.<\/li>\n
                    6. Berwick, R.C., Weinberg, A., 1983. Syntactic constraints and efficient parsability<\/a>. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, <\/em>Cambridge, MA, 119-122.<\/li>\n
                    7. Berwick, R.C., 1983a. Learning word meanings from examples.<\/a> Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, <\/em>459-461.<\/li>\n
                    8. Berwick, R.C. 1983b. A deterministic parser with broad coverage<\/a>. P<\/em>roceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/em>, 710-712.<\/li>\n
                    9. Berwick, R.C. 1983c. Learning from positive-only examples: the subset principle and three case studies. J. Anderson, R. Milkalski, J. Carbonell, T. Mitchell (eds.) Machine Learning: an Artificial Intelligence Approach<\/em>. v. 1, Morgan-Kaufman, 625-645.<\/li>\n
                    10. Berwick, R.C., Wexler, K., 1982. Parsing efficiency, binding, and C-command. Proceedings of the First Annual West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics,<\/em> Stanford, CA, January, 29\u201334. (Published under journal articles section.)<\/li>\n
                    11. Berwick, R.C., 1981. The formal language theory of lexical functional grammar. Association for Computational Linguistics\u2014Linguistic Society of America<\/em> Annual Convention<\/em>, New York, December.<\/li>\n
                    12. Berwick, R.C., 1981. Computational complexity and lexical functional gramma<\/a>r. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics<\/em>, Stanford, CA, July, 7-12.<\/li>\n
                    13. Berwick, R.C., 1980. Computational analogs of constraints on grammars<\/a>. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics<\/em>, Philadelphia, PA, June, 49-54.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      1970s<\/h4>\n
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                      1. Berwick, R.C., 1979. Learning structural descriptions of grammar rules from examples<\/a>. Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/em>, Tokyo, Japan, 56-58.<\/li>\n
                      2. Berwick, R.C., 1978. Stormwater management in new residential areas-methodological developments. Third International Symposium on Urban Hydrology<\/em>, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, July, 199-209.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                        2013 Berwick, R.C. 2013. Keeping it simple: language acquisition without complex Bayesian models. Proceedings of the 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America,Boston, MA: Linguistic Society of America. Berwick, R.C. Language variation and biological variation. GLOW Lund, Sweden: Generative Linguists of the Old World. Berwick, R.C., Ho, P. 2013. Languages do not show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":117,"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}