Gradience in Grammar
    

Friday, January 17 2014

         9:30 - 10:00        Roger Levy (UCSD) Introduction: triangulating on linguistic gradience through theory, computation, and experiment

       10:00 - 11:00        T. Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester) Beyond Gradience: Representing Structured Linguistic Variability

       11:00 - 11:15        Break

       11:15 - 12:15        Edward Gibson (MIT) Language as Rational Inference

       12:15 - 2:00        Lunch

       2:00 - 3:00        Maryellen MacDonald (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Mechanisms of Language Production Shape the Distribution of Sentence Forms

       3:00 - 3:15        Break

       3:15 - 4:15        Steven Piantadosi (University of Rochester) Cognitive Determinants of Word Frequency: an Evaluation of Current Accounts

       4:15 - 4:30        Break

       4:30 - 5:30        Roger Levy (UCSD) Exemplars, rule-based generalization, and gradient grammatical knowledge in syntactic processing and acquisition

       6:00        Dinner

Saturday, January 18 2014

        9:00 -  9:30        Bagels and coffee

        9:30 - 10:30        Antal van den Bosch (Radboud University Nijmegen) Implicit Grammar in Memory-based Models of Syntactic Variation
       10:30 - 10:45        Break

       10:45 - 11:45        Amy Perfors (University of Adelaide) The Informational Value of Negative Evidence
       10:30 - 10:45        Break

       12:30 - 1:30        Harald Baayen (Eberhard Karls University Tubingen Naive Discrimination Learning: an Overview of What It Can Do, and What It Cannot

       1:30        Lunch