Research Description

Language production, comprehension, prosody and disfluencies

Education

• Ph.D. from MIT

Webpages

• Communications and Language Lab (CaLL)
• Papers & Sound Files

Courses

• PSYC 331
• PSYCH 525

Recent Publications

Fraundorf, S. H., Watson, D. G., & Benjamin, A. S. (in press). Recognition memory reveals just how contrastive contrastive accenting really is. Journal of Memory and Language.

Lam, T. Q. & Watson, D. G. (in press). Repetition is easy: Why repeated referents have reduced prominence. Memory & Cognition.

Watson, D. & Gibson, E. (2004). The relationship between intonational phrasing and syntactic structure in language production. Language and Cognitive Processes, 19, 713-755.

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. Elsevier.

Watson, D., Gunlogson, C., & Tanenhaus, M. (2008). Interpreting pitch accents in on-line comprehension: H* vs L+H*. Cognitive Science, 32, 1232-1244.