BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17022-f3309ce26b79e01e67de1ac2f757175d@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260422T032942Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T103000 SUMMARY:Dr. Frances Blanchette (CLS, Penn State) DESCRIPTION:\n \;\n\n    "Sound\, Structure\, and Meaning in Central Pennsylvanian English: Evidence from Experiments"\n\nFrances Blanchette \, Ph.D.\n\n Assistant Director\, Center for Language Science\n\n Associ ate Research Professor\, Psychology\n\n Penn State\n\n           Friday\ , November 10  9:00–10:30 a.m. EST\n\n            Foster Auditorium\, 10 2 Paterno Library\n\nThis talk presents results from two studies that ex plore regional features of Central Pennsylvanian English\, part of a lar ger Central Pennsylvania Dialect Project that aims to contribute to our understanding of variation in this region. Located toward the north end of the Appalachian Mountain range and overlapping with the Midland Diale ct region\, Central Pennsylvania is shaped by a unique set of factors co ntributing to the emergence of a diverse range of linguistic features. O ne study explores an intonational pattern known as the Pennsylvania (PA) Dutch question\, which is marked by a final rising and falling prosodic tune in polar (yes-no) questions. A pair of production and perception e xperiments contribute new information on both the prosodic tune and the pragmatic meaning of this regional variant. Another study explores the a cceptability of different verbs within the “needs washed” construction ( e.g.\, “the car needs washed”\, “the baby wants cuddled”). Replicating p atterns from studies of naturalistic usage\, we provide new information on how the semantic relationship between the subject (e.g.\, the car\, t he baby) and the verb (e.g.\, needs\, wants) shapes acceptability of thi s construction. Since both studies involve comparison with a control gro up of speakers from outside the region\, the results further lend themse lves to broader discussion of what constitutes shared knowledge in conte xts of dialect diversity\, and how we might identify and delineate genui ne grammatical differences that exist across groups.\n\nFor more details : https://events.la.psu.edu/event/frances-blanchette-cls/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

 

    "Sound, Structure, and Meaning in C entral Pennsylvanian English: Evidence from Experiments"

Frances Blanchette, Ph.D.
 Assistant Director, Center for Language Science
 Associate Research Professor, Psychology
 Penn State

           Friday, November 10  9:00–10:30 a.m. EST
            Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library

This talk pr esents results from two studies that explore regional features of Centra l Pennsylvanian English, part of a larger Central Pennsylvania Dialect P roject that aims to contribute to our understanding of variation in this region. Located toward the north end of the Appalachian Mountain range and overlapping with the Midland Dialect region, Central Pennsylvania is shaped by a unique set of factors contributing to the emergence of a di verse range of linguistic features. One study explores an intonational p attern known as the Pennsylvania (PA) Dutch question, which is marked by a final rising and falling prosodic tune in polar (yes-no) questions. A pair of production and perception experiments contribute new informatio n on both the prosodic tune and the pragmatic meaning of this regional v ariant. Another study explores the acceptability of different verbs with in the “needs washed” construction (e.g., “the car needs washed”, “the b aby wants cuddled”). Replicating patterns from studies of naturalistic u sage, we provide new information on how the semantic relationship betwee n the subject (e.g., the car, the baby) and the verb (e.g., needs, wants ) shapes acceptability of this construction. Since both studies involve comparison with a control group of speakers from outside the region, the results further lend themselves to broader discussion of what constitut es shared knowledge in contexts of dialect diversity, and how we might i dentify and delineate genuine grammatical differences that exist across groups.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/frances-blanch ette-cls/

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