seminaires J Bresnan octobre 2013

[Anne Abeillé]

Séminaires de Joan Bresnan (Stanford), professeur invitée du LabEx EFL

Probabilistic knowledge of grammar: empirical studies

Lundi 7 octobre 2013 16h-18h : Batiment Sophie Germain, Salle 2011, Rue Albert Einstein, 75013 Paris : The plasticity of grammar and the empirical foundations of syntax.


- Implications of syntactic variability for syntactic representation.

- The empirical foundations of syntax.

Relevant readings:

Joan Bresnan and Tatiana Nikitina. 2009. The gradience of the dative alternation. In Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language

and Life, edited by Linda Uyechi and Lian Hee Wee, pp. 161–184. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Joan Bresnan. 2007. A few lessons from typology. Linguistic Typology 11(1): 297–306.

Inbal Arnon and Neal Snider. 2010. More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases. Journal of Memory and Language 62: 67–82.

 Lundi 14 octobre 16h-18h : Batiment Olympe de Gouges, salle 165, rue A Einstein, 75013 Paris : Predicting syntactic alternations.


- A defense of corpus studies for theoretical linguistics.

- Some findings from corpus studies of syntactic alternations.

Relevant reading: Joan Bresnan, Anna Cueni, Tatiana Nikitina, and Harald Baayen. 2007. Predicting the dative alternation. In Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation, ed. by G. Boume, I. Kraemer, and J. Zwarts. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Science, pp. 69–94.


 Lundi 21 octobre 16h-18h : Batiment Olympe de Gouges, salle 165, rue A Einstein, 75013 Paris : Is grammatical competence probabilistic?


- Using corpus model probabilities to measure human predictive capacities.

- The English dative and genitive alternations.

Relevant reading: Joan Bresnan and Marilyn Ford. 2010. Predicting syntax: Processing dative constructions in American and Australian varieties of English. Language 86(1): 186–213.


 Lundi 28 octobre 16h-18h Batiment Olympe de Gouges, salle 165, rue A Einstein, 75013 Paris : Spoken syntax.

Some measurable effects of syntactic probabilities in speaking: reduction and contraction.

Relevant reading: Victor Kuperman and Joan Bresnan. 2012. The effects of construction probability on word durations during spontaneous incremental sentence production. Journal of Memory and Language 66: 588–611.

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