Probabilistic Syntax: Phonetics, Diachrony, and Synchrony
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21.03.2010 um 09:00 bis 24.03.2010 um 18:00 |
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Wo | FRIAS Seminarraum, Albertstr. 19 |
Name | Dr. Gesa von Essen |
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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? |