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Special Invited Talk: Dr Meredith Tamminga "Architectural implications of the dynamics of variation" | 1 June 2016

1 June 2016

Time: 8:59am
Venue: Arts Two 2.07

Dr Meredith Tamminga

(University of Pennsylvania) 

Architectural implications of the dynamics of variation

In this talk I discuss the proposal from Tamminga, MacKenzie and Embick (forthcoming) of a framework that recognizes three types of factors conditioning linguistic variation: sociostylistic (s-), internal linguistic (i-), and psychophysiological (p-). I elaborate on the point that p-conditioning and i-conditioning are distinct in their mental implementation, and discuss what implications this point has for a) understanding the locality of the factors conditioning alternations, b) the universality and language-specificity of variation, and c) the general question of whether grammar and language use are distinct. 

 

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