Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics / Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1995
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Office: Room 302, 18 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus
Office hours for Spring 2007: T 10:00 am - 11:00 am (or by appointment)
Phone: 732-932-6933
Tesar, Bruce. 2007. A Comparison of Lexicographic and Linear Numeric Optimization Using Violation Difference Ratios. Manuscript, Linguistics Dept., Rutgers University. ROA-939. 26 pages.
Tesar, Bruce. 2006. Faithful contrastive features in learning. Cognitive Science 30:5, 863-903.
Tesar, Bruce. 2006. Learning from paradigmatic information. In The Proceedings of NELS 36. ROA-795. 20 pages.
Merchant, Nazarré, & Bruce Tesar. to appear. Learning underlying forms by searching restricted lexical subspaces. In The Proceedings of CLS 41. ROA-811. 15 pages.
Alderete, John, Adrian Brasoveanu, Nazarré Merchant, Alan Prince, & Bruce Tesar. 2005. Contrast analysis aids in the learning of phonological underlying forms. In The Proceedings of WCCFL 24, pp. 34-42.
Tesar, Bruce. 2004. Contrast analysis in phonological learning. Manuscript, Linguistics Dept., Rutgers University. ROA-695. 32 pages.
Prince, Alan, and Tesar, Bruce. 2004. Learning phonotactic distributions. In Constraints in Phonological Acquisition, ed. by René Kager, Joe Pater, and Wim Zonneveld, 245-291. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Revised version of Technical Report RuCCS-TR-54, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, 1999)
Tesar, Bruce, & Alan Prince. (2003 / to appear). Using phonotactics to learn phonological alternations. Revised version will appear in The Proceedings of CLS 39, Vol. II: The Panels. ROA-620.
Tesar, Bruce, John Alderete, Graham Horwood, Nazarré Merchant, Koichi Nishitani, and Alan Prince. 2003. Surgery in language learning. In The Proceedings of WCCFL 22, pp. 477-490. ROA-619. See also Tesar et. al. 2002.
Alderete, John, and Bruce Tesar. 2002. Learning covert phonological interaction: an analysis of the problem posed by the interaction of stress and epenthesis. RuCCS Technical Report TR-72, Rutgers University. ROA-543. 12 pages.
Tesar, Bruce. 2002. Enforcing grammatical restrictiveness can help resolve structural ambiguity. In The Proceedings of WCCFL 21, pp. 443-456. ROA-618.
Tesar, Bruce, John Alderete, Graham Horwood, Koichi Nishitani, and Alan Prince. 2002. The PAKA World. Manuscript, Linguistics Dept., Rutgers University. 7 pages.
Tesar, Bruce. 2000. Using inconsistency detection to overcome structural ambiguity in language learning. Technical Report RuCCS-TR-58, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University. ROA-426. 41 pages.
Tesar, Bruce. 1999. Robust interpretive parsing in metrical stress theory. In The Proceedings of WCCFL 17, pp. 625-639. ROA-262.
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Tesar, Bruce. 1998. An iterative strategy for language learning. Lingua 104:131-145. 25 pages.
Tesar, Bruce, and Paul Smolensky. 1996. Learnability in Optimality Theory (short version). Technical Report JHU-CogSci-96-2, Cognitive Science Department, The Johns Hopkins University. ROA-155. 64 pages.
A revised version of this paper has appeared as Tesar & Smolensky 1998: Learnability in Optimality Theory. Linguistic Inquiry 29:229-268.
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Tesar, Bruce. 1996. Computing optimal descriptions for Optimality Theory grammars with context-free position structures. In The Proceedings of ACL 34, 101-107.
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Tesar, Bruce. 1995. Computational Optimality Theory. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder. ROA-90. 121 pages.
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Tesar, Bruce. Learning from paradigmatic information. Invited talk, NELS36, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 29, 2005.
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Tesar, Bruce. Surgery. Colloquium, Linguistics Department, University of California, Los Angeles, January 17, 2003.
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