@InProceedings{burchill-jaeger:2017:CMCL,
  author    = {Burchill, Zachary  and  Jaeger, T. Florian},
  title     = {Grounding sound change in ideal observer models of perception},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2017)},
  month     = {April},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {20--28},
  abstract  = {An important predictor of historical sound change, functional load, fails to
	capture insights from speech perception. Building on ideal observer models of
	word recognition, we devise a new definition of functional load that
	incorporates both a priori predictability and perceptual information. We
	explore this new measure with a simple model and find that it outperforms
	traditional measures.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-0703}
}