Gradience in Grammar
    

For most linguists it is now clear that most, if not all, grammaticality judgments are graded. This insight is leading to a renewed interest in implicit knowledge of "soft" grammatical constraints and generalizations from statistical learning and in probabilistic or variable models of grammar, such as probabilistic or exemplar-based grammars.

This workshop aims to stimulate discussion of the empirical techniques and linguistic models that gradience in grammar calls for, by bringing internationally known speakers representing various perspectives on the cognitive science of grammar from linguistics, psychology, and computation.

This January 17-18, 2014 event is
sponsored by the Center for the Study of Language and Information
and
supported by the Spoken Syntax Lab and NSF Grant No. BCS-1025602 (PI Joan Bresnan).

Attendance is free.