Research Description

My research is in psycholinguistics. In particular, I am interested in communication and speech production. Currently I'm focused on what factors influence speakers to take a more audience design perspective versus an egocentric perspective in communication. I'm also working on a project examining the production of prosodic prominence in relation to predictability and repeated mention.

My other interest is the universality of language. I am interested in how well findings in English generalize to other languages, and when these findings don't generalize, what are the critical differences that cause them not to generalize?

Education

• B.S. Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006

Webpages

• Personal Web Page

Recent Publications

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