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SUMMARY:Dr. Frances Blanchette
DESCRIPTION:“What’s in a Grammar? Shared Representations in Contexts of
Dialect Diversity”\n\nFrances Blanchette\, Ph.D.\n\nAssistant Director\,
Center for Language Science\n\nAssociate Research Professor\, Psycholog
y\n\nPenn State\n\nSpeakers of different dialects of the same language d
isplay substantial overlap in the types of sentences that they produce.
In comprehension\, this overlap appears even greater: Speakers readily c
omprehend many sentence types they would not say themselves. For\n\nexam
ple\, English speakers generally know that the negative sentences I didn
’t eat nothing and I didn’t eat anything can both be used to express tha
t the speaker did not eat\, even if they would not themselves produce bo
th of these sentences. How do we account for such differences between pr
oduction and comprehension? Does the larger overlap in comprehension ref
lect broader areas of overlapping linguistic knowledge than can be obser
ved in production\, or are speakers of different varieties arriving at t
he same interpretation by different means? This talk presents the result
s of a series of experiments on negative sentences suggesting that\, in
contexts of dialect diversity\, areas of overlapping linguistic knowledg
e may be larger than what can be observed in production. The results hig
hlight an important distinction between social and grammatical linguisti
c representations\, and illustrate one way in which these distinct repre
sentations may interact in shaping behaviors related to language process
ing\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-frances-blan
chette/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:“What’s in a Grammar? Shared Representations in Cont
exts of Dialect Diversity”
Frances Blanchette, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Center
for Language Science
Associate Research Professor, Psychology
Penn State
Speakers of different dialects of the same language dis
play substantial overlap in the types of sentences that they produce. In
comprehension, this overlap appears even greater: Speakers readily comp
rehend many sentence types they would not say themselves. For
examp
le, English speakers generally know that the negative sentences I didn’t
eat nothing and I didn’t eat anything can both be used to express that
the speaker did not eat, even if they would not themselves produce both
of these sentences. How do we account for such differences between produ
ction and comprehension? Does the larger overlap in comprehension reflec
t broader areas of overlapping linguistic knowledge than can be observed
in production, or are speakers of different varieties arriving at the s
ame interpretation by different means? This talk presents the results of
a series of experiments on negative sentences suggesting that, in conte
xts of dialect diversity, areas of overlapping linguistic knowledge may
be larger than what can be observed in production. The results highlight
an important distinction between social and grammatical linguistic repr
esentations, and illustrate one way in which these distinct representati
ons may interact in shaping behaviors related to language processing
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-frances-blanchette/
LOCATION:102 Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
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