Papers

• Tooley, K.M., Konopka, A.E., & Watson, D. (submitted). Can intonational phrase structure be primed (like syntactic structure). [Sound files ]
• Breen, M., Watson, D. G., & Gibson, E. (in press). Intonational phrasing is constrained by meaning, not balance. Language and Cognitive Processes. [ PDF ]
• Lee, E.-K., & Watson, D. G. (in press). Sentence processing. In V. S. Ramachandran (Editor-In-Chief), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (2nd Edition). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.
• Watson, D. G. (in press). Prosody in Production. In H. Pashler (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Mind. Sage Publications. [ PDF ]
• Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2012). The effects of age on the stategic use of pitch accents in memory for discourse: A process-resource account. Psychology and Aging. [ PDF ]
• Fraundorf, S. H., & Watson, D. G. (2011). The disfluent discourse: Effects of filled pauses on recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 65, 161-175. [ PDF ]
• Lee, E.-K. & Watson, D. G. (2011). Effects of pitch accents in attachment ambiguity resolution. Language and Cognitive Proceses, 26, 262-297. [ PDF ]
• Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2010). Recognition memory reveals just how CONTRASTIVE contrastive accenting really is. Journal of Memory and Language, 63, 367-386. [ PDF ]
• Isaacs, A. M. & Watson, D. G. (2010). Accent detection is a slippery slope: Direction and rate of F0 change drives comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 1178-1200. [ PDF ]
• Lam, T. Q. & Watson, D. G. (2010). Repetition is easy: Why repeated referents have reduced prominence. Memory & Cognition, 38, 1137-1146. [ PDF ]
• Wagner, M. & Watson, D. G. (2010). Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody: A review. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 905-945. [ PDF ]
• Watson, D. G. (2010) The many roads to prominence: Understanding emphasis in conversation. In B. Ross (Ed.) The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 52 (163-183). Elsevier. [ PDF ]
• Diehl, J. J., Watson, D. G., Bennetto, L., McDonough, J., Young, E. C., Gunlgoson, C. (2009). An acoustic analysis of prosody in high functioning autism. Applied Psycholinguistics, 30, 1-20.
• Diehl, J. J., Bennetto, L., Watson, D. G., Gunlogson, C., McDonough, J. (2008). Resolving ambiguity: A psycholinguistic approach to understanding prosody processing in high functioning autism. Brain and Language, 106, 144-152.
• Watson, D., Gunlogson, C., & Tanenhaus, M. (2008). Interpreting pitch accents in on-line comprehension: H* vs L+H*. Cognitive Science, 32, 1232-1244. [ PDF | Sound files ]
• Watson, D., Arnold, J. A., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2008). Tic Tac TOE: Effects of predictability and importance on acoustic prominence in language production. Cognition, 106, 1548-1557. [ PDF | Corrigendum]
• Wonnacott, E. & Watson, D., (2008). Acoustic emphasis in four year olds. Cognition, 107, 1093-1101. [ PDF ]
• Watson, D.G., Gunlogson, C. A., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2006). Online methods for the investigation of prosody. In S. Sudhoff, D. Lenertov, R. Meyer, S. Pappert, P. Augurzky, I. Mleinek, N. Richter, J. Schlieer (eds.), Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. Walter de Gruyter: New York. 259-282. [ PDF ]
• Watson, D., Breen, M., & Gibson, E. A. (2006). The role of syntactic obligatoriness in the production of intonational boundaries. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32, 1045-1056. [ PDF ]
• Watson, D. & Gibson, E. (2005). Intonational phrasing and constituency in language production and comprehension. Studia Linguistica, 59, 279-300. [ PDF ]
• Watson, D. & Gibson, E. (2004). Making sense of the sense unit condition. Linguistic Inquiry, 35, 508-517. [ PDF ]
• Watson, D. & Gibson, E. (2004). The relationship between intonational phrasing and syntactic structure in language production. Language and Cognitive Processes, 19, 713-755. [ PDF ]

Talks

• Fraundorf, S. H. (2011). Keeping up with the Joneses: Effects on others' knowledge states on metacognitive control of recall. Cognitive psychology talk series, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Isaacs, A. M. (2009). Duration is speaker-centered: Testing information theorietic accounts of prosody. Language Processing Brown Bag at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Fraundorf, S. H. (2009). Are contrastive accents contrastive?: Effects of pitch accenting on memory for discourse. Language Processing Brown Bag at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Fraundorf, S. H. (2008). Through thee, uh, looking glass: Dimensions of variation in disfluency production. Language Processing Brown Bag at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Fraundorf, S. H. (2007). Alice's adventures in um-derland: Dimensions of variation in disfluency production. Cognitive Brown Bag of the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Isaacs, A. M. (2007). Accenting is more than pitch: Word duration and listeners' preferences for discourse referents. Cognitive Brown Bag of the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Lam, T. (2007). Prosodic prominence in speech production. Cognitive Brown Bag of the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Conference Presentations

• Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2011, March). Are older adults less strategic in discourse processing?: Evidence from pitch accents. Poster presented at CUNY 2011: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, CA and at Education for a Lifetime: Minds, Brains, and New Literacies, Urbana, IL.
• Lee, E.-K. & Watson, D. G. (2011, March). Hierarchical incrementality in the production of post-nominal modifiers. Poster presented at 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Language Processing, Stanford University, CA.
• Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G. (2010, September). Who cares about prosody?: Predicting individual differences in sensitivity to pitch accent in online reference resolution. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2010, York, England.
• Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G. (2010, September). The disfluent discourse: Effects of filled pauses on recall. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2010, York, England.
• Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2010, March). Working memory span modulates effect of pitch accenting on discourse memory. Poster presented at CUNY 2010: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
• Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2010, March). Recall predicted by reduction in intensity but not duration: Implications for theories of prominence. Poster presented at CUNY 2010: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
• Lee, E.-K. & Watson, D. G. (2010, March). Working memory and prosody in syntactic ambiguity resolution. Poster presented at 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Language Processing, New York, NY.
• Lee, E.-K. & Watson, D. G. (2009, March). Do listeners keep track of global prosodic information?: Evidence from an eye-tracking study. Poster presented at 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Language Processing, Davis, CA.
• Lam, T., Watson, D. G., & Arnold, J. (2009, March). Do repeated mention and expectancy independently affect prosodic prominence? Poster presentation at CUNY 2009: Conference on Human Sentence Processing Conference, Davis, CA. [ PDF ]
• Isaacs, A. M. & Watson, D. G. (2009, March). Speakers and listeners don't agree: Audience design in the production and comprehension of acoustic prominence. Poster presentation at CUNY 2009: Conference on Human Sentence Processing Conference, Davis, CA. [ PDF ]
• Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2009, March).Is contrastive accenting really CONTRASTIVE?: Effects of contrastive accenting on processing in a discourse. Poster presented at CUNY 2009: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA. [ PDF ]
• Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2008, November). Effects of prosodic stress on memory in language comprehension. Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. [ PDF ]
• Fraundorf, S. H. & Watson, D. G. (2008, June). Dimensions of variation in disfluency production in discourse. In J. Ginzburg, P. Healey, & Y. Sato (Eds.), Proceedings of LONDIAL 2008, the 12th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, pp. 131-138. London: King's College London.
• Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2008, April). Effect of pitch accents on memory in language comprehension. Poster presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody, Ithaca, NY. [ PDF ]
• Isaacs, A. M. & Watson, D. G. (2008, April). Comprehension and resynthesis of duration and pitch in ambiguous words. Oral presentation at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody, Ithaca, NY.
• Lam, T., Watson, D., & Arnold, J. (2008, April). Effects of repeated mention and predictability on the production of acoustic prominence. Poster presented at ETAP 2008: Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody, Ithaca, NY. [ PDF ]
• Lee, E-K., Mo, Y., & Watson, D. G. (2008, March). Eye-tracking evidence for the active role of intonational boundaries in parsing decisions. Poster presented at CUNY 2008: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC. [ PDF ]
• Lee, E-K. & Watson, D. G. (2008, March). Effects of focal accents on relative clause attachment: accent effects or memory effects? Poster presented at CUNY 2008: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC. [ PDF ]
• Fraundorf, S. H. & Watson, D. G. (2008, March). Alice's adventures in um-derland: Dimensions of variation in disfluency production. Poster presented at CUNY 2008: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC. [ PDF ]
• Isaacs, A. M. & Watson, D. G. (2008, March). Comprehension and resynthesis of duration and pitch in ambiguous words. Poster presentation at CUNY: Conference on Human Sentence Processing Conference, Chapel Hill, NC. [ PDF ]
• Lam, T., Watson, D., & Arnold, J. (2008, March). Effects of repeated mention and predictability on the production of acoustic prominence. Poster presented at CUNY 2008: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC. [ PDF ]
• Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (2008, March). Effect of pitch accents on memory in language comprehension. Poster presented at CUNY 2008: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC. [ PDF ]