Post-doctoral Fellow Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences University of Rochester

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Last updated February 4^th, 2008

ACADEMIC POSITIONS [ Top ]
Nov 2004-		Post-doctoral fellow under NIH grant HD27206 “Coordinating Information in Sentence Processing” awarded to Michael K. Tanenhaus,
		Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester.

EDUCATION [ Top ]
1999-2005		Ph.D., Linguistics, Rutgers. Dissertation: Identity and Information: Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of Specificational Sentences.
		Dissertation committee: Veneeta Dayal, chair; Jane Grimshaw, Pauline Jacobson, Roger Schwarzschild.
August 2002		14th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI), Trento, Italy.
June-Dec 2001		Visiting student at Brown University, Department of Linguistic & Cognitive Sciences.
1996-1999		M.A., Linguistics (Summa Cum Laude), Tel Aviv University, Israel.
		M.A. Thesis: The Syntax and Semantics of Specificational Pseudoclefts in Hebrew.
		Advisors: Fred Landman (Tel Aviv University) and Susan Rothstein (Bar Ilan University).
Summer 1997		LSA summer institute, Cornell University.
1993-1996		B.A. (Magna Cum Laude), Linguistics and Arabic Language and Literature, Tel Aviv University.

PUBLICATIONS [ Top ]
submitted		“The Role of Perspective in Identifying Domains of References”. with Daniel Grodner and Michael K. Tanenhaus.

forthcoming		"Taking Perspective: Evidence for Real-Time Integration of Information about Common Ground" With Daniel Grodner and Michael K. Tanenhaus.
		In U. Sauerland & K. Yatsushiro (eds.), Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition.
forthcoming		“That is Rosa: Identificational sentences as intentional predication”. with Lynsey Wolter.
		In Grønn, Atle (ed.), Proceedings of SuB12, Oslo: ILOS 2008 (ISBN 978-82-92800-00-3).
2007		“The Non-Concealed Nature of Free Relatives: Implications for Connectivity in Specificational Sentences”. With Ivano Caponigro. In C. Barker and P. Jacobson (eds.) Direct Compositionality, Oxford University Press.
2002		“On the Relation of Connectivity and Specificational Pseudoclefts”, Natural Language Semantics 10.4: 243-284.
2002		“On the Construct State, Uniqueness and Genitive Relations”, Proceedings of IATL 18 (Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics)
2002		“Possession as a Lexical Relation: Evidence from the Hebrew Construct State”, in L. Mikkelsen and C. Potts (eds.), WCCFL 21 Proceedings, pp. 127-140. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS [ Top ]

upcoming		“Identity and Indeterminacy in -ever Free Relatives”. With Lynsey Wolter.
		To be presented as a talk at SALT 18 (Semantics and Linguistic Theory), Umass, Amherst. March 2008.
upcoming		“Big duck, small duck, what do you see? Real-time integration of perspective information”. With Daniel Grodner and Michael K. Tanenhaus.
		To be presented as a talk at the 21^st CUNY conference on human sentence processing, UNC Chapel Hill. March 2008.
upcoming		“What do listeners expect when the speaker is disfluent? Something unfamiliar or something hard to name?”. With Jennifer E. Arnold, Natalie Klein,
		and Michael K. Tanenhaus. To be presented as a poster at the 21^st CUNY conference on human sentence processing, UNC Chapel Hill. March 2008.
2008		“Integrating information about common ground in real-time: evidence from eye-tracking”. With Daniel Grodner and Michael K. Tanenhaus.
		Paper presented at the 2008 LSA annual meeting. Chicago, January 3^rd 2008.
2007		"Taking Perspective: Evidence for Real-Time Integration of Information about Common Ground" With Daniel Grodner and Michael K. Tanenhaus.
		Paper presented at Experimental Pragmatics 2007, Berlin, Germany, December 16^th, 2007.

2007		“That is Rosa: Identificational sentences as intentional predication” With Lynsey Wolter.
		Paper presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 12, University of Oslo, September 20^th.
2007		“What do eye movements tell us about reference resolution? Using ambiguous pronouns to evaluate the linking hypotheses”.

		With Eiling Yee and Julie Sedivy. Poster presented at the 20^th CUNY conference on human sentence processing, San Diego, March 29^th.
2002		“On the Construct State, Uniqueness and Genitive Relations”. Talk presented at IATL 18 (Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics),Bar Ilan University, June 24^th.
2002		“Possession as a Lexical Relation: Evidence from the Hebrew Construct State.” Talk presented at WCCFL 21 (West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics), UC Santa Cruz, April 5^th.
2000		“On the Relation of Connectivity and Specificational Pseudoclefts”. Talk presented at The Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Relative Clause Constructions, Tel Aviv University, June 14^th.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS [ Top ]
2007		“Common ground in Real-time Processing: Evidence from eye-tracking”. Department of Phonetics & Linguistics, University College London, June 20^th.
2007		“The Use of Perspective Information in Language Comprehension: What Eye-movements tell us about Real-time Processing “.
		Max-Wertheimer Minerva Center for Cognitive Processes and Human Performance. University of Haifa, March 8^th.
2007		“The Use of Perspective Information in Real-time Processing: Two eye-tracking studies”. Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, March 1^st.
2007		“The Use of Perspective Information in Real-time Processing: Evidence from eye-movements””. Colloquium, Department of English, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, February 27^th.
2003		“The Non-Concealed Nature of Free Relatives: Implications for Connectivity Crosslinguistically”. With Ivano Caponigro. Invited talk to the Workshop on Direct Compositionality, Brown University, June 19^th.
1999		“Two Pronominal Copulas and Three Pseudoclefts in Hebrew”. Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, May 13.

ACADEMIC HONORS & AWARDS [ Top ]

2002		Pre-dissertation travel award from Rutgers University for ESSLLI 2002 (the European Summer School on Language, Logic and Information), Trento, Italy.
1999-2001		Graduate School Fellowship, Rutgers University.
1999-2002		Cognitive Science Enhancement Fellowship, Rutgers University.
1998-1999		Fellowship from the grant “A Tripartite Typology of Relative Clause Constructions” from the Israeli Academy of Sciences to Alexander Grosu and Fred Landman
1997		Linguistics Society of America Fellowship for the Summer Institute at Cornell University.
1995		Academic Excellence Award commemorating fallen Israeli soldiers, Tel Aviv University.
1995		Cited on the Dean’s list for academic achievements, Tel Aviv University.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE [ Top ]
2001-2002		Graduate Assistantship from NSF grant BCS-9905600 to Rutgers awarded to Maria Bittner. Project title: Temporal Anaphora in Crosslinguistic Dynamic Semantics.
1998-1999		Fellowship from the grant “A Tripartite Typology of Relative Clause Constructions” from the Israeli Academy of Sciences awarded to Alexander Grosu and Fred Landman

TEACHING EXPERIENCE [ Top ]
2004 Spring			Teaching Assistant, Introduction to the Study of Language. Primary instructors: Bruce Tesar and Jane Grimshaw. Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University.
2003 Spring & Fall			Instructor, Introduction to the Study of Language. Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University.
2002 Fall			Teaching Assistant, Introduction to the Study of Language. Primary instructor: Akinbiyi Akinlabi. Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University.
1999 Spring 1998 Spring 1997 Spring			Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Linguistics. Primary instructor: Tanya Reinhart. Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature, Tel Aviv University.
ACADEMIC SERVICES [ Top ]
ad-hoc reviewer		The Linguistic Review (2002- ) , John Benjamins (2005- ), Research on Language and Computation (2006- ), Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (2007-)
Dec 2007		Abstract reviewer, The 21^st CUNY conference on human sentence processing, UNC Chapel Hill.
Dec 2007		Abstract reviewer, Semantics and Linguistic Theory XVIII (SALT 18), University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jan 2007		Abstract reviewer, Semantics and Linguistic Theory XVII (SALT 17), University of Connecticut.
May 2006		Abstract reviewer. Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics 22 (IATL 22), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2001-2002		Vice President, Linguistics Graduate Student association, Rutgers.
2000-2001		President, Linguistics Graduate Student association, Rutgers.
2000-2001		Organizer of SURGE (the semantics reading group at Rutgers), Rutgers

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