Lattimore Eye Tracker Lab

A list of current or proposed research projects in the Eye Tracker Lab by our research group.

Main Methodologies

Head-mounted eye-tracking experiments monitoring participants' eye movements while they listen to pre-recorded auditory stimuli either to manipulate real world objects or to click on items in visual scenes displayed on a computer monitor.

Scene verification experiments probing participants' interpretations of pre-recorded auditory stimuli using visual scenes displayed on a monitor.

Magnitude estimation experiments examining participants' judgments of the acceptability of linguistic stimuli.

Projects

The role of syntactic structure in the interpretation of elided anaphors, testing theories of binding and theories of ellipsis. (With Micah Goldwater)

The role of the representational nature of PNPs and parallels with other types of representational interpretations, namely 'statue' interpretations of nominals; investigating conceptual versus structural characteristics of anaphora. (With Micah Goldwater)

The structural and discourse relations between elided material and its linguistic antecedent, focusing on the interaction of structural form and discourse parallelism. (With Christina Kim)

Focus sensitive particles: testing the effects of 'only' on interpretation of elided anaphors. (Goldwater & Runner). Contextual factors on the interpretation of focus sensitive 'only' (With Christina Kim, Christine Gunlogson & Mike Tanenhaus)

The effects of verbal semantics and pragmatics on the interpretation of pronouns and reflexives in PNPs in English, Finnish, German and Dutch. (With Elsi Kaiser, Rachel Sussman & Mike Tanenhaus)

The structure and interpretation of picture NPs with and without possessor phrases (e.g., 'Harry's picture of himself/him', 'a picture of her/herself'). (With Rachel Sussman & Mike Tanenhaus)

Equipment

Eyelink II head-mounted eye-tracker with scene camera
Tobii 1750 portable eye-tracker
I-Scan ETL-500 system head-mounted eye-tracker

Sony Digital 8 Video Camera Recorder
Sony DSR-30 Digital VCR
Samsung Color Television with built in VCR

Marantz PMD 671 solid state audio recorder

3 PCs running Windows XP
2 Macs running OSX, 2 Macs running OS9

Selected Papers and Presentations from the Lab

Goldwater, Micah & Jeffrey T. Runner (2008) The Representational Nature of Representational NP's: Using the Visual World Eye-Tracking Paradigm, poster to be presented at the 21st annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kaiser, Elsi & Jeffrey T. Runner (2008). Intensifiers in German and Dutch anaphor resolution. Talk to be presented at the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, UCLA.

Kaiser, Elsi & Jeffrey T. Runner (2008). A comparative investigation of anaphor resolution in German and Dutch, poster to be presented at the 21st annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Michael K. Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner (2008). Information integration and domain restriction: Interpreting 'only' in context, poster to be presented at the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, UCLA.

Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Michael K. Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner (2008) Domain narrowing: Interpreting 'only' in context, poster to be presented at the 21st annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kobele, Gregory, Christina Kim, John Hale & Jeffrey T. Runner (2008). A processing model for ungrammatical verb phrase ellipsis. Talk to be presented at the 21st annual CUNY human sentence processing conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus (2007). Picturing the syntax/semantics interface during on-line processing. Talk presented at the On Linguistic Interfaces conference, University of Ulster, Jordanstown campus, N. Ireland.

Goldwater, Micah & Jeffrey T. Runner (2007). An Experimental Investigation of the Representational Nature of Representational NPs. Talk presented at Texas Linguistic Society, UT Austin.

Goldwater, Micah & Jeffrey T. Runner (2007). Reference transfer and reflexive interpretation in representational noun phrases. Talk presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, California.

Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus (2007). On the interplay of syntactic and semantic effects on anaphor resolution. Talk presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago.

Kaiser, Elsi, Runner, Jeffrey T., Sussman, Rachel S. & Tanenhaus, Michael K. (2007). The real-time interpretation of pronouns and reflexives: Structural and semantic information. In Proceedings of North Eastern Linguistic Society Conference 37.

Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus (2007). Pronouns as reflexives? A look at prenominal possessive pronouns. Talk presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, California.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2007) �Free Picture NPs from Binding Theory,� in Jill Thorson & Lynsey Wolter, eds., University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences, 3.1, 57-90.

Runner, Jeffrey T., Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus (2006). �Assigning Reference to Reflexives and Pronouns in Picture Noun Phrases�, Cognitive Science 30, 1-49.

Runner, J. T., Sussman, R.S. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2006). Reflexives and pronouns in picture noun phrases: using eye movements as a source of linguistic evidence. In S. Kepser & M. Reis (Eds.) Linguistic Evidence. Mouton de Gruyter.

Goldwater, Micah B. & Runner, Jeffrey T. (2006). Coreferential interpretations of reflexives in picture noun phrases: an experimental approach. In P. Denis, E. McCready, A. Palmer & B. Reese (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2004 Texas Linguistics Society Conference. 28-34. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Goldwater, Micah & Jeffrey T. Runner (2006). The Role of Representation in Representational Noun Phrases, poster presented at the 19th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, City University of New York.

Kaiser, Elsi, Runner, Jeffrey T., Sussman, Rachel S. & Tanenhaus, Michael K. (in press). The interpretation of pronouns and reflexives in picture noun phrases: effects of non-structural factors. In A. Alcazar, R. Mayoral Hernandez and M. Temkin Martinez (Eds.), Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics 2004. Fresno, CA: California State University at Fresno.

Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus (2005). What influences the referential properties of reflexives and pronouns in Finnish? In Christian Ebert & Cornelia Endriss (Eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 10. 155-169, ZAS Working Papers in Linguistics No. 44 Vol. 1, Berlin.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2005) �Coreferential and Bound Variable Interpretations: an Experimental Investigation,� keynote address presented at HPSG 2005, Lisbon.

Runner, Jeffrey T. and Elsi Kaiser. (2005). Binding in Picture Noun Phrases: Implications for Binding Theory. In Stefan M�ller, editor, The Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon. 594�613. Stanford: CSLI Publications. URL: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/6/.

Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus (2005). What influences the referential properties of reflexives and pronouns in Finnish? Talk presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 10, the 10th annual meeting of the Gesellschaft fuer Semantik, Berlin

Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus (2005).Whose picture? Reference resolution in and out of picture NPs, poster presented at the 18th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, University of Arizona.

Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus (2005). Reference resolution for reflexives and pronouns in Finnish, poster presented at the 18th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, University of Arizona.

Kaiser, E., Runner, J.T., Sussman, R.S. & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2004), �Pronouns, reflexives, Binding Theory, and information flow,� poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Aix-en-Provence, France.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2004) �Insights into Binding and Ellipsis from Head-mounted Eye-tracking Experiments,� in Jonathon E. Cihlar, David W. Kaiser, Irene Kimbara, and Amy Franklin (eds.), CLS 39 The Panels: Proceedings from the Panels of the Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

Runner, Jeffrey T., Sussman, Rachel S. and Tanenhaus, Michael K. (2004). The Influence of Binding Theory on the On-Line Reference Resolution of Pronouns. In M. Wolf & K. Moulton (Eds.) Proceedings of North Eastern Linguistic Society 34.

Kaiser, E., Runner, J.T., Sussman, R.S. & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2004). �An experimental approach to short-distance pronouns and logophoric reflexives,� paper presented at the Workshop on Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory, Nancy, France.

Runner, Jeffrey T., Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus (2003) �Assignment of Reference to Reflexives and Pronouns in Picture Noun Phrases: Evidence from Eye Movements,� Cognition 89, B1-B13.

Runner, Jeffrey T., Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus (2003) �The Influence of Binding Theory on the On-Line Reference Resolution of Pronouns,� poster presented at North Eastern Linguistic Society 34, SUNY Stony Brook.

Runner, Jeffrey T., Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus (2002) �Binding Reflexives and Pronouns in Picture Noun Phrases,� 8th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Tenerife, Spain.

Runner, Jeffrey T., Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus (2002) �Logophors in Possessed Picture Noun Phrases,� in L. Mikkelsen and C. Potts, eds., WCCFL 21 Proceedings, pp. 401-414. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Runner, Jeffrey T., Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus (2001) �The Role of Binding Theory in the On-line Reference Resolution of Reflexives,� poster presented at CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, U. Penn.

Runner, Jeffrey T., Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus (2000) �Binding Reflexives and Pronouns in Real-time Processing,� poster presentation at the CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, San Diego.