Education and Professional Experience
University of Rochester, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Rochester, NY – Laboratory Technician
From: April 2007 - present
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH – Master of Arts in Linguistics (Computational Linguistics specialization)
Graduated: June 2006
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH – Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Computer and Information Science
Graduated: June 2005
Research Interests
I am interested in how pragmatic and semantic factors affect syntactic choices in real time as the utterance unfolds in production and how comprehenders interpret these choices. Consequently, this motivates my interest in a theory of grammar that is more cognitively grounded and does not treat syntax as the only interesting level. I particularly enjoy looking at Germanic languages and Japanese, in part because of their ability to scramble and (at least sometime) head-final structures.
CV
My CV/resume (PDF)Publications
- Watts, A. & Jaeger, T.F. (2011). Balancing experimental lists without sacrificing voluntary participation. (talk) Crowdsourcing Technologies for Language and Cognition Studies Workshop at the LSA Institute 2011. Boulder, CO. July, 2011.
- Jaeger, T.F., Tily, H., Frank, M.C., Gutman, J. & Watts, A. (2011). Cultural transmission of grammatical structure: Introducing a web-based iterated language learning paradigm with human participants. (talk) Crowdsourcing Technologies for Language and Cognition Studies Workshop at the LSA Institute 2011. July, 2011.