News & Updates
January--February 2007:Joan Bresnan and Tom Wasow, together with collaborators Dan Jurafsky, Michael Ramscar, and Susanne Gahl, have been awarded a three-year NSF grant for research on "The Dynamics of Probabilistic Grammar" through the Human Social Dynamics program.
Harry Tily's research in collaboration with Inbal Arnon, Joan Bresnan, Anubha Kothari, and Neal Snider has been accepted as a talk at the CUNY 2007 conference on May 29-31 in La Jolla: "What makes a construction predictable? Using semantic and contextual cues to better model phonetic reduction."
Neal Snider's research on syntactic priming will also be presented as a talk at the CUNY 2007 conference on May 29-31 in La Jolla: Jaeger and Snider, "Surprisal and Cumulativity in Syntactic Priming -- Evidence for Implicit Learning".
Tily et al (2007) and Jaeger and Snider (2007) are both based on temporal data from Gabe Recchia's spoken dative database.
Joan Bresnan presented an invited talk at the 2007 BLS conference: "Is Syntactic Competence Probabilistic? Evidence from English dative constructions," in which she reviewed recent work from the Spoken Syntax Lab (Tily et al 2007 and Ford and Bresnan 2006).
Vivienne Fong presented "Verbs, Sources, and Goals" at the 2007 LSA Annual Meeting on January 4 in Anaheim, California.