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Recommended Overview papers

  • This paper reviews the ideas behind my research on how disfluency affects on-line language comprehension:
    Arnold, J. E. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (in press). Disfluency isn't just um and uh: the role of prosody in the comprehension of disfluency. In Gibson, E., and Perlmutter, N. (Eds) The processing and acquisition of reference, MIT Press. Pre-print Word Document

  • This abstract reviews my approach to the study of reference comprehension:
    Arnold, J. E. (2006). Reference resolution: both given and new can be expected. Invited talk given at the conference on intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language, Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research, Berlin, Germany (Dec. 1-2, 2006. abstract.pdf
  • Arnold, J.E. (2008). Reference Production: Production-internal and Addressee-oriented Processes. Language and Cognitive Processes. Word document preprint manuscript

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    Manuscripts Submitted for Review or under revision (Comments Welcome)

    • Arnold, J.E., Lao, S. C. (under review). Effects of non-shared attention on pronoun comprehension.PDF

    • Arnold, J.E. (under review). Women and men have different biases for pronoun interpretation.PDF

    Journal Publications

  • Arnold, J.E., Bennetto, L., & Diehl, J. J. (2009). Reference Production in Young Speakers with and without Autism: Effects of Discourse Status and Processing Constraints. Cognition PDF

  • Arnold, J.E. (2008). THE BACON not the bacon: How children and adults understand accented and unaccented noun phrases. Cognition. Corrected proof, through Science Direct

  • Arnold, J.E. (2008). Reference Production: Production-internal and Addressee-oriented Processes. Word document preprint Language and Cognitive Processes.

  • Watson, D.G., Arnold, J.E., & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2008). Tic tac TOE: Effects of predictability and importance on acoustic prominence in language production. Cognition, 106, 156-1557. PDF through Science Direct

  • Arnold, J.E. & Lao, S. C. (2007). Put in last position something previously unmentioned: word order effects on referential expectancy and reference comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes. PDF through Informaworld

  • Arnold, J.E., Hudson Kam, C., & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2007). If you say thee uh- you're describing something hard: the on-line attribution of disfluency during reference comprehension. PDF through science directJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 914-930.

  • Arnold, J.E., & Griffin, Z. (2007). The Effect of Additional Characters on Choice of Referring Expression: Everyone Competes. Journal of Memory and Language.pdf of pre-print through Science Direct

  • Arnold, J. E., Brown-Schmidt, S., & Trueswell, J. C. (2007). Pronoun comprehension in young children. Language and Cognitive Processes. pdf of pre-print through MetaPress

  • Wasow, T., & Arnold, J. E. (2005). Intuitions in Linguistic Argumentation. Lingua. 115, 1481-1496.

  • Arnold, J. E., Altmann, R., Fagnano, M., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2004). The Old and Thee, uh, New. Psychological Science. 578-582.Pdf through Blackwell Synergy

  • Arnold, J. E., Wasow, T., Asudeh, A, and Alrenga, P. (2004). Avoiding Attachment Ambiguities: The Role of Constituent ordering. Journal of Memory and Language.Pdf version through Science Direct

  • Arnold, J. E., Fagnano, M., and Tanenhaus, M. K. (2003). Disfluencies signal theee, um, new information. Journal of Psycholinguistic Researc, 32(1), 25-36 pdf

  • Arnold, J. E. (2001). The effects of thematic roles on pronoun use and frequency of reference. Discourse Processes, 31(2), 137-162. pdf

  • Arnold, J. E., Eisenband, J. G., Brown-Schmidt, S, and Trueswell, J. C. (2000). The immediate use of gender information: eyetracking evidence of the time-course of pronoun resolution. Cognition 76, B13-B26. pdf

  • Arnold, J. E., Wasow, T., Losongco, T., & Ginstrom, R. (2000). Heaviness vs. Newness: the effects of structural complexity and discourse status on constituent ordering. Language. 76(1), 28-55. pdf

  • Thornton, R., MacDonald, M.C., and Arnold, J. E. (2000). The Concomitant Effects of Phrase Length and Informational Content in Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29(2), 195-203. pdf

  • Arnold, J. E. (1997). The Inverse System in Mapudungun and Other Languages. Revista de Linguistica Teorica y Aplicada, 34, 9-48. MS Word Document

    Chapters in Edited Volumes and Proceedings

  • Arnold, J. E. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (in press). Disfluency isn't just um and uh: the role of prosody in the comprehension of disfluency. To appear in Gibson, E., and Perlmutter, N. (Eds) The processing and acquisition of reference, MIT Press. Pre-print Word document

  • Arnold, J. E., Brown-Schmidt, S., Trueswell, J., and Fagnano, M. (2004). Children's use of gender and order of mention during pronoun comprehension. In Trueswell, J. C. and Tanenhaus, M. K. (Eds)., Processing world-situated language: Bridging the language-as-product and language-as-action traditions. Boston: MIT Press. pre-print MS Word doc

  • Wasow, T., and Arnold, J. E. (2003). Postverbal constituent ordering in English. In G. Rohdenburg & B. Mondorf (Eds), Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English. The Hague: Mouton, 120-154.

  • Arnold, J.E., Novick, J.M., Brown-Schmidt, S., and Trueswell, J. (2001). Children's on-line use of gender and order-of-mention for pronoun comprehension. Proceedings from the Boston University conference on language development, 2000. pdf

  • Arnold, J. E. (2003). Multiple Constraints on Reference Form: Null, Pronominal, and Full Reference in Mapudungun. In J. W. Du Bois, L. E. Kumpf, and W. J. Ashby (Eds), Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as Architecture for Function. John Benjamins.

  • Arnold, J. E., and MacDonald, M. C. (1999). The Effects of Referent Specificity and Utterance Contribution on pronoun resolution. In Martin Hahn and Scott C. Stoness, (Eds), Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.Vancouver, British Columbia, August 19-21, 1999, 31-36. postscript

  • Arnold, J. (1994). Inverse Voice Marking in Mapudungun. In S. Gahl, A. Dolbey, and C. Johnson (Eds.), The twentieth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 28-41.

    Theses

  • Arnold, J. E. (1998). Reference Form and Discourse Patterns. Dissertation, Stanford University.

    Unpublished Manuscripts

  • Arnold, J. E. (1999). Marking salience: The similarity of topic and focus. Unpublished manuscript, University of Pennsylvania. PDF

    Edited Volumes

  • Arnold, J. E., Blake, R., Davidson, B., Schwenter, S., and Solomon, J. (Eds). (1996). Sociolinguistic Variation: Theory, Data, and Analysis. Selected Papers from the twenty-third NWAV at Stanford University. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

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    Jennifer E. Arnold's Publications

    UNC Chapel Hill ~ Dept. of Psychology