Abstract
Transducers are a valuable tool in several distinct areas of linguistics. In morphology, they can be used to produce explicit and consistent descriptions of morphological paradigms, both for well-endowed languages and for languages with an oral tradition. In historical linguistics, they can be used to model phonetic changes, and to automatically reconstruct protoforms from attested languages. This presentation will illustrate these two types of applications, and show the benefits they can bring to these disciplines.
Guillaume Jacques
Guillaume Jacques is a field linguist documenting endangered oral languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, spoken in Sichuan (Japhug, Stau) and Nepal (Khaling). His research focuses on both typology and historical linguistics, and he is particularly interested in the application of phylogenetic methods to linguistic data.
