Papers

2024

Jarosz, Gaja, Cerys Hughes, Andrew Lamont, Brandon Prickett, Maggie Baird, Seoyoung Kim, and Max Nelson. submitted. Type and Token Frequency Jointly Drive Learning of Morphology.

Lamont, Andrew. submitted. Optimality Theory is not computable.

Lamont, Andrew. submitted. Phonotactics conspire to reduce computational complexity.

Lamont, Andrew. under revision. Simple constraints motivate autosegmental spreading in directional Harmonic Serialism. Glossa.

Lamont, Andrew. to appear. Optimality Theory. In Adam Jardine and Paul de Lacy (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, 2nd edition.

McPherson, Laura and Andrew Lamont. to appear. Poko postlexical tone requires serial, directional evaluation. Phonology.

Lamont, Andrew. 2024. Shift is derived. Journal of Linguistics.

2023

Lamont, Andrew. 2023. Serial reduplication is empirically adequate and typologically restrictive. Linguistic Inquiry 54(4):797-839.

Lamont, Andrew. 2023. A restrictive, parsimonious theory of footing in directional Harmonic Serialism. Phonology 39(1):41-78.

2022

Lamont, Andrew. 2022. Directional Harmonic Serialism. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Lamont, Andrew. 2022. Directional constraint evaluation solves the problem of ties in Harmonic Serialism. Linguistic Inquiry 53(3):617-632.

Lamont, Andrew. 2022. Optimality Theory implements complex functions with simple constraints. Phonology 38(4):729-740.

2021

Lamont, Andrew. 2021. Optimizing over subsequences generates context-sensitive languages. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 9:528-537.

2019

Lamont, Andrew. 2019. Precedence is Pathological: The Problem of Alphabetical Sorting. In Richard Stockwell, Maura O'Leary, Zhongshi Xu, & Z.L. Zhou (eds.), Proceedings of the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 243-249.

Lamont, Andrew. 2019. Obstacles for gradual place assimilation. In Emily Clem, Peter Jenks, & Hannah Sande (eds.). Theory and description in African Linguistics: Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Berlin: Language Science Press. 231-248.

Lamont, Andrew, Charlie O'Hara, & Caitlin Smith. 2019. Weakly deterministic transformations are subregular. In Garrett Nicolai & Ryan Cotterell (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. 196-205.

Lamont, Andrew. 2019. Majority Rule in Harmonic Serialism. In Katherine Hout, Anna Mai, Adam McCollum, Sharon Rose, & Matthew Zaslansky (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, D.C.: Linguistic Society of America.

Lamont, Andrew & Jonathan North Washington. 2019. Turkic Nasal Harmony as Surface Correspondence. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 25.1. 169-178.

Hughto, Coral, Andrew Lamont, Brandon Prickett, & Gaja Jarosz. 2019. Learning exceptionality and variation with lexically scaled MaxEnt. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) 2019. 91-101.

2018

Lamont, Andrew. 2018. Drawing the krtań: Laryngeal alternations in Polish. In Gillian Gallagher, Maria Gouskova, & Sora Heng Yin (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, D.C.: Linguistic Society of America.

Lamont, Andrew. 2018. Decomposing phonological transformations in serial derivations. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) 2018. 91-101.

2017

Lamont, Andrew. 2017. The small matter of the Afrikaans diminutive. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 2(30). Washington, D.C.: Linguistic Society of America.

2016

Lamont, Andrew. 2016. Directionality and the Coda Condition. Adam Albright & Michelle A. Fullwood (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2014 Meeting on Phonology. Washington, D.C.: Linguistic Society of America.

Lamont, Andrew & Jonathan North Washington. 2016. Phylogenetic simulations over constraint-based grammar formalisms. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop. 102-108.

Liu, Can, Wen Li, Bradford Demarest, Yue Chen, Sara Couture, Daniel Dakota, Nikita Haduong, Noah Kaufman, Andrew Lamont, Manan Pancholi, Kenneth Steimel, & Sandra Kübler. 2016. IUCL: An Ensemble Model for Stance Detection in Twitter. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016). 394-400.

2015

Lamont, Andrew. 2015. Progressive Place Assimilation in Optimality Theory. M.A. thesis, Eastern Michigan University.

Lamont, Andrew. 2015. Lateral Place Assimilation in Kuman. In Proceedings of WIGL 12. LSO Working Papers in Linguistics 10. Madison, WI: Linguistics Student Organization. 44-58.