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    • Selecting for and Selecting Despite: A Javanese case study 

      Lesure, Cora (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)
      This is an investigation of the argument structure of Javanese (Austronesian, Indonesia) which focuses on the distribution of four core derivational morphemes: the Actor Voice prefix, and the suffixes -ake, -i, and -an. ...

    • Uncovering Mandarin Speaker Knowledge with Language Game Experiments 

      Fu, Boer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)
      Mandarin Chinese offers many intriguing puzzles for linguists because it has a shortage of morphophonological alternations. This has resulted in indeterminacy in various aspects of its phonological grammar, triggering much ...

    • Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Safety Constraints 

      Feng, Meng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      Safety is a critical concern in reinforcement learning (RL) and learning-based systems more broadly, as ensuring reliable and safe decision-making is essential for their deployment in real-world applications. Traditional ...