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.