This zipped package of files is connected with the paper "Segmental Environments of Spanish Diphthongization," by Adam Albright, Argelia Andrade, and Bruce Hayes.  The paper is obtainable from the Web site from which you obtained this file package.  

The file package contains the results of a test in which the Gradual Learning Algorithm was used to rank a set of constraints learned from the Spanish data corpus by the minimal generalization learner.  See the main text for why we carried out this learning simulation.

Files:

SpanishGLA.xls:  Excel file, used as input to the Gradual Learning Algorithm.  For the software that was used, visit http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/linguistics/people/hayes/otsoft/.

RankingValues.txt:  the ranking values that define the grammar.  For background on ranking values, see Boersma and Hayes, "Empirical Tests of the Gradual Learning Algorithm," at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/hayes/GLA/index.htm

Frequencies.txt:  frequencies of forms generated, with error computation.

ReadMe.txt:  this file

July 19, 2000


