Dr. Jonathan Dunn - Language as a Complex System: Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations
CU Linguistics is pleased to present in a lecture by UIUC professor and computational linguist, Dr. Jonathan Dunn, in partnership with the Institute of Cognitive Science.
Language as a Complex System: Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations
Thursday, March 14
3:30 - 5:00pm
MUEN E113
This talk presents a computational approach to syntactic variation that brings together 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó of (i) individual differences across speakers, (ii) dialectal differences across populations, and (iii) register differences across contexts. This work is based in Construction Grammar because its usage-based representations allow us to capture differences in productivity across multiple levels of abstraction. Rather than focus on discrete variables in isolation, we view the grammar as a complex system in which interactions between constructions can be widely distributed.
Dr. Jonathan Dunn is a computational linguist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó both (i) the emergence of grammatical structure within individuals and (ii) variation in grammatical structure across populations and registers.
