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SUMMARY:Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Catherine Travis
DESCRIPTION:\nIt is widely recognized that grammar can be meaningfully a
	nalyzed as a variable system that is probabilistically conditioned. Over
	 decades of research\, the variationist paradigm has established that th
	is probabilistic conditioning is evidenced in the covariation between li
	nguistic elements\, as seen in the relative favoring or disfavoring of a
	 variable form across different contexts. Here\, Catherine Travis propos
	es that valuable insights about morphosyntactic variation can be gained 
	by expanding the evidence we draw on to infer the variable grammar to in
	clude both the variable context\, or the set of environments in which th
	ere is actually a choice among competing variants\, and contextual distr
	ibutions\, or the relative distribution of competing variants across con
	ditioning environments. Considering the use of a set of variables in spo
	ntaneous speech corpora from different Spanish varieties\, she demonstra
	tes how these dimensions are relevant for cross-varietal or cross-langua
	ge comparisons and for reliably identifying grammatical change.\n\nFor m
	ore details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cls-speaker-series-travis/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head></head><body><p>It is widely re
	cognized that grammar can be meaningfully analyzed as a variable system 
	that is probabilistically conditioned. Over decades of research, the var
	iationist paradigm has established that this probabilistic conditioning 
	is evidenced in the covariation between linguistic elements, as seen in 
	the relative favoring or disfavoring of a variable form across different
	 contexts. Here, Catherine Travis proposes that valuable insights about 
	morphosyntactic variation can be gained by expanding the evidence we dra
	w on to infer the variable grammar to include both the <em>variable cont
	ext</em>, or the set of environments in which there is actually a choice
	 among competing variants, and <em>contextual distributions</em>, or the
	 relative distribution of competing variants across conditioning environ
	ments. Considering the use of a set of variables in spontaneous speech c
	orpora from different Spanish varieties, she demonstrates how these dime
	nsions are relevant for cross-varietal or cross-language comparisons and
	 for reliably identifying grammatical change.</p><p>For more details: <a
	 href='https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cls-speaker-series-travis/'>https
	://events.la.psu.edu/event/cls-speaker-series-travis/</a></p></body></ht
	ml>
URL:https://cls.la.psu.edu/news-events/cls-speaker-series/
LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
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