[Colloquium] Fwd: talk announcement

[Nita Yack]

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> Mark Liberman
> University of Pennsylvania
> January 22
> Tuesday 11 am
> RI 480
> Ellis Avenue
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> On the nature of linguistic knowledge
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> A number of puzzles about speech and language are solved, or at  
> least simplified, if we adopt the view that some kinds of linguistic  
> knowledge, normally modeled as symbolic strings or structures, are  
> instead discrete random variables: that is, probability  
> distributions over a space of possible strings or structures. This  
> perspective also allows a radically simple piece of antique learning  
> theory to be brought to bear, with results that may be surprising to  
> some. Illustrations of this claim will include the development of  
> shared vocabulary within a speech community; the case of  
> phonological "near mergers"; many of the phenomena generally cited  
> in support of "exemplar theory", e.g. the phonological effects of  
> common contexts of use; and some key aspects of the puzzling problem  
> of intersubjective (dis)agreement in linguistic annotation.
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> Mark Liberman is Trustee Professor of Phonetics; Professor in the  
> Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science; and Director of the  
> Linguistic Data Consortium -- all at the University of Pennsylvania.
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> He is the guest of the Computation Institute this coming Tuesday,  
> January 22 at 11am, in RI 480 (Research Institute, Ellis Avenue), as  
> part of its Deep Disciplinary Dive on language and computation.
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>

Nita

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Nita Yack
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Computer Science Department
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