Relevant Dissertations

The following dissertations are listed in reverse chronological order. Anything relevant to computational morphology and phonology is included. Please see the bottom of this page to submit updates.

2007

Heinz, Jeffrey (2007)

Inductive Learning of Phonotactic Patterns
PhD thesis, University of California Los Angeles

2006

Creutz, Mathias (2006)

Induction of the Morphology of Natural Language: Unsupervised Morpheme Segmentation with Application to Automatic Speech Recognition
Doctor of Science in Technology, Helsinki University of Technology

2002

Wicentowski, Richard (2002)

Modeling and Learning Multilingual Inflectional Morphology in a Minimally Supervised Framework
PhD thesis, The Johns Hopkins University.

2001

Neugebauer, Moritz (2001)

Laryngeal Features in German - Feature Geometry and Prosodic Licensing in a constraint-based model (in German)
Master's thesis, University of Cologne.

2000

Chew, Peter (2000)

A Computational Phonology of Russian
PhD thesis, University of Oxford.

1990s

Wareham, Todd (1999)

Systematic Parameterized Complexity Analysis in Computational Phonology
PhD thesis, University of Victoria.
[ROA 318-0599]

Boersma, Paul (1998)

Functional Phonology: Formalizing the interaction between articulatory and perceptual drives
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam.
Published by Holland Academic Graphics
[fonsg3.hum.uva.nl/paul/diss/]

Miller, Corey (1998)

Pronunciation Modeling in Speech Synthesis
PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
[ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/ircs/tr/98-09/]

Frisch, Stefan (1997)

Similarity and Frequency in Phonology.
PhD Thesis, Northwestern University.
[ROA 198-0597]

Wagner, Petra (1997)

Phonologie und automatische Sprachsynthese
M.A. Thesis, University of Bielefeld.

Walther, Markus (1997)

Declarative prosodic morphology - constraint-based analyses and computational models of Finnish and Tigrinya.
PhD Thesis, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf (in German).
[English abstract]

Theriault, Alain (1996)

Description de la syllabe française; une approche declarative.
Master's thesis, Université de Montreal.
[theriault.ps.Z]

Tesar, Bruce (1995)

Computational Optimality Theory.
PhD Thesis, Rutgers University.
[ROA 90-0000]

Albro, Daniel (1994)

AMAR: A Computational Model of Autosegmental Phonology
B.S. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Broe, Michael (1993)

Specification Theory: the Treatment of Redundancy in Generative Phonology.
PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh.

Russell, Kevin (1993)

A Constraint-Based Approach to Phonology.
PhD Thesis, University of Southern California.

Williams, Sheila (1993)

LexPhon: A Computational Implementation of Lexical Phonology.
PhD Thesis, University of Reading.

Ellison, Mark (1992)

Machine Learning of Phonological Structure.
PhD Thesis, University of Western Australia.

Idsardi, William (1992)

The Computation of Prosody.
PhD Thesis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology.

Larson, Gary (1992)

Dynamic Computational Networks and the Representation of Phonological Information.
PhD Thesis, University of Chicago.

Walther, Markus (1992)

Deklarative Silbifizierung in einem Constraintbasierten Grammatikformalismus.
Diploma Thesis, University of Stuttgart.

Wiebe, Bruce (1992)

Modelling Autosegmental Phonology with Multi-Tape Finite State Transducers.
Master's Thesis, Simon Fraser University.

Bourgeois, Thomas (1991)

Instantiative Phonology.
PhD Thesis, University of Arizona.

Coleman, John (1991)

Phonological Representations - their names, forms and powers.
PhD Thesis, University of York.

Corina, David (1991)

Towards an Understanding of the Syllable: Evidence from Linguistic, Psychological, and Connectionist Investigations of Syllable Structure.
PhD Thesis, University of California, San Diego.

Kornai, András (1991)

Formal Phonology
PhD Thesis, Stanford University.
[Published by Garland Press, 1995]

Scobbie, James (1991)

Attribute-Value Phonology.
PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh.
[Published by Garland Press, 1997]

Bird, Steven (1990)

Constraint-Based Phonology.
PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh.
[Published by Cambridge University Press, 1995]

Cahill, Lynne (1990)

Syllable-Based Morphology for Natural Language Processing.
PhD Thesis, University of Sussex.

1980s

Daelemans, Walter (1987)

Studies in Language Technology: An Object-Oriented Computer Model of Morphophonological Aspects of Dutch.
PhD Thesis, University of Leuven.

Church, Kenneth W. (1983)

Phrase-structure parsing: a method for taking advantage of allophonic constraints.
PhD Thesis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology. (Published by Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1983, and under the title Phonological Parsing in Speech Recognition by Kluwer in 1987).

Koskenniemi, Kimmo (1983)

Two-Level Morphology: A General Computational Model for Word-Form Recognition and Production.
PhD Thesis, University of Helsinki.