text_combined: usage based models symposium announcing sixth biennial symposium rice university department linguistics usagebased models language rice university march 1518 1995 invited speakers mira ariel tel aviv university joan bybee university new mexico john du bois university california santa barbara michael israel university california san diego sydney lamb rice university ronald langacker university california san diego tom givon university oregon brian macwhinney carnegie mellon university janet pierrehumbert northwestern university john sinclair university birmingham u k arie verhagen university utrecht description goal symposium explore approaches linguistic theory common aim accounting linguistic usage empirical data theories restricted linguistic intuitions acceptibility comes usage events varied types focus patterns found various sorts usage data examined patterns extracted represented used human mind research variety traditions represented including corpusbased analyses discourse studies experimental studies language processing language acquisition instrumental phonetics approaches taken called datadriven rather modeldriven fewest possible prior assumptions made types data relevant large sets usage events observed detailed patterns found actual usage emerge moreover various approaches taken show signs converging toward view language dynamic system linguistic knowledge separate processing language use linguistic models representing view usagebased virtue three factors 1 importance placed usage data theory construction 2 direct incorporation processing production comprehension linguistic theory 3 requirement models arrived whatever direct source evidence must testable reference language use registration charge symposium attendance spaceavailable basis information contact suzanne kemmer kemmer ruf rice edu michael barlow barlow ruf rice edu snailmail dept linguistics rice university houston tx 772511892