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SUMMARY:Representation\, generalisation\, and innovation in the lexicon. -
  Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
DTSTART:20151119T160000Z
DTEND:20151119T173000Z
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CONTACT:Theodora Alexopoulou
DESCRIPTION:Educated adults know some 100\,000 distinct words\, and they e
 ncounter and create new words all the time.  They learn words from instanc
 es of words as they are produced by different speakers and in different co
 ntexts. The words they know in turn provide the foundation for generalisat
 ions about words\,  supporting lexical productivity.\n\nIn this talk\, I w
 ill review several projects that shed light on what and how people learn 
 words and word formation patterns. These projects use a diverse methodolog
 y\, bring together data from lab experiments\,  on-line experiments that r
 esemble computer games\, and analysis of large corpora. Results indicate t
 hat  lexical representations are  both phonologically abstract and phoneti
 cally detailed. They include socio-indexical information. Statistical patt
 erns matter\, but sometimes in surprising ways: more is not always better 
 or more productive. Competition within the lexicon\, social factors\, and 
 individual differences all play a role in shaping lexical generalisations.
  I conclude by drawing some connections to historical change.
LOCATION:Lecture Block\, Room 1\, Sidgwick Site
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