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Bresnan, Joan W. |
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Stanford University |
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Psychological and Cognitive Sciences |
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Dr. Bresnan's research focuses on broadening the empirical foundations of Syntax---the skeletal structure of language---by synthesizing multiple sources of quantitative experimental evidence together with qualitative linguistic judgments, in order to understand how language is cognitively represented. She is one of the original designers and developers of Lexical-Functional Grammar, a formal grammar system which has allowed both flexible, typologically diverse linguistic descriptions for field linguistics, and computational implementations and extensions to theoretical models of exemplar-based syntax, optimality-theoretic syntax, and probabilistic grammars. |
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