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Many thanks to those who livetweeted #usephon2020 / #usephon - sounds like it was fantastic. I opted to sleep through the 4am start, but will definitely check out the videos when they're available.
#usephon was such an engaging workshop. Tons of insights into the philosophy of usage-based models, the methods available to us, and which questions remain to be answered. I'm so energized, and so ready for the rest of #labphon17
Pierrehumbert discusses: to what extent are social/emotional phonetic factors coded as random noise / coded as meaningful? it's clear that we perceive both things simultaneously, but what's the relationship between them? #labphon17 #usephon
Bybee: entrenchment protects against change, and that might be a reason why languages don't change faster than they do #labphon17 #usephon
Bybee: "Change arises from the shared conventions of language use". I'm alone in my living room, clapping. #labphon17 #usephon
No matter your linguistics subfield, looking at interactional data is probably a good idea. Joan Bybee gets it. #labphon17 #usephon
Bybee: Grammar is emergent, and there are no clear boundaries in language structure (phonetics/phonology, morphology/syntax, grammar/usage) etc. Sound change can be gradual in every sense of the word. #labphon17 #usephon
Joan Bybee is setting up, and I would be so star-struck right now if this conference wasn't digital. I still kinda am. #usephon #labphon17
Brown: words that usually occur in relatively fast speech are shorter - independent of context! So online speech rate has a cumulative effect on representations. Very cool findings! #labphon17 #usephon
Gahl shows that more frequent words have shorter predictions (this is well-known) and that this effect gradually reduces for older speakers. This is more difficult to explain! #labphon17 #usephon
Tomaschek finds that WORDS change, not necessarily SOUNDS, aligning with word-based approaches to morphology #UsePhon
Tomaschek & Hartmann studied change in a large corpus covering 700 years of German. Words change less quickly when frequency is high & when the chance of homophony is high - and the two interact #labphon17 #usephon
Turnbull does not think that an exemplar account necessarily rules out a fully specified UG. But exemplarists will often think that a fully specified UG is unnecessary. #labphon17 #usephon
Turnbull's implementation of natural selection in exemplar theory: high-frequency words are more likely to have reduced exemplars, because reduced versions of low-frequency words are more likely to remain unclassified #labphon17 #usephon
Pierrehumbert: computational models need to be interpreted through a linguistic lens. We know that children learn languages with limited data, so perhaps a model that does well with limited input is better than one that does perfectly with extreme amounts of data #usephon
Pierrehumbert: can we build a model with both phonological and semantic gang effects? #labphon17 #usephon
The Workshop on Usage-based Approaches to Phonological Change #UsePhon is THIS SUNDAY July 5, Noon-3PM Eastern! We've got 270 folks registered from 40 countries! Register here: https://t.co/QWOHcPKYGV & we'll send you a participation link
(will have ASL terps & English captions)
Don't miss out on my #UsePhon co-conspirator Volya Kapatsinski presenting his work on associative learning mechanisms in acquisition for @abralin_oficial this Saturday, June 13 (Time: 18 Eastern, 15 Pacific)
https://t.co/6bd2lPGac9
In the age of Zoom conferences #inclusionmatters so don't forget to make your workshops #Accessible. I'm happy to announce our Workshop on Usage-based Approaches to Phonology #UsePhon will have BOTH ASL interpreting & Live Captioning
https://t.co/fL7ka0gYKZ
#UsagebasedApproaches
Volya & I are happy to announce that registration for the 1st biennial Workshop on Usage-based Phonology (UsePhon) is now open! Registration is free, but you need to register to get updates & the link to join via Zoom
https://t.co/fu7m6sloK7
Talks & discussions to be captioned
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