At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Amanda Doucette will present ” Causal Discovery in the Lexicon: Data, Conditional Independence, and Missingness.”
We will be meeting this Wednesday, November 13, at noon. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom at https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82524506850.
Abstract: In this talk, I will present some of my recent work on the causal structure of frequency, word length, phonotactic complexity, and morphological irregularity in the lexicon. First, I will discuss how grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) methods can be used to extract IPA lexicons from Wikipedia. Then, I will cover some of the challenges in applying causal discovery to real data: conditional independence testing and handling missing data.