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 models 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 models both (i) the emergence of grammatical structure within individuals and (ii) variation in grammatical structure across populations and registers.
