Probabilistic Syntax: Phonetics, Diachrony, and Synchrony

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When	Mar 21, 2010 09:00 AM to Mar 24, 2010 06:00 PM
Where	FRIAS Seminarraum, Albertstr. 19
Contact Name	Dr. Gesa von Essen
Attendees	nach Anmeldung
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Organized by Joan Bresnan and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

There is a growing body of evidence demonstrating the centrality of probabilistic reasoning and statistical inference in mastering spoken and written discourse. Even for higher-level linguistic choices between close paraphrases speakers of a language have powerful predictive abilities that enable them to match their variable linguistic environments and anticipate the linguistic choices of others. In this spirit, the meeting seeks to bring together syntacticians, phoneticians, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, and computational linguists to discuss probabilistic approaches to modeling syntactic variation in synchrony and diachrony.

Confirmed participants:

Harald Baayen
Mirjam Ernestus
Marilyn Ford
Teo Juvonen
Victor Kuperman
Janet Pierrehumbert
Anette Rosenbach
Hinrich Schuetze
Sali Tagliamonte

Monday, March 22

9:30h	Joan Bresnan & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
	Introduction
10.00h	Marilyn Ford
	Variation and probabilistic syntax: a psycholinguistic perspective
11:15h	Victor Kuperman
	Effects of accessibility and syntactic probability on the acoustic production of dative verbs
14:30h	Anette Rosenbach
	Probabilistic syntax: evidence from genitive variation, past and present
15:15h	Sali Tagliamonte
	A sociolinguistic perspective on dative and genitive variability: Canadian English
16:30h	Christoph Wolk, Katharina Ehret, Joan Bresnan, & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
	Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English

Tuesday, March 23

9:45h	Harald Baayen
	From nominal case in Serbian to prepositions in English: modeling exemplar and prototype effects without exemplars and without prototypes
11:00h	Mirjam Ernestus
	The roles of exemplars and abstract representations in the processing of acoustically reduced speech
11:45h	Teo Juvonen
	Genitive variation and text type features in Late Middle and Early Modern English
14:30h	Christoph Wolk, Lars Konieczny, Peter Baumann, Barbara Hemforth, Sascha Wolfer
	Probabilistic interference in Second Language Acquisition?
15.15h	Janet Pierrehumbert
	Word frequency, predictability, and availability
16:30h	Hinrich Schütze
	The genesis of exemplars: Where do they start and end?

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