Jack Tomlinson

About me:

I am a psycholinguist who studies how people create meaning from many fringe aspects of language. My dissertation dealt with how people comprehend “uptalk” or rising declarative speech.

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher working under Meghan Sumner

Education

Ph.D University of California at Santa Cruz

B.S./B.A. University of Georgia

Research Interests

Prosody, Phonetics, Experimental Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics; Cognitive Science

Publications

Richardson, D. C., Dale, R. & Tomlinson, Jr. J.M. (in press). Conversation, gaze coordination, and beliefs about visual context. Cognitive Science.

Tomlinson, Jr., J. M. & Fox Tree, J. E. (2009). Talking it up: how the functions of rising declaratives depend on prolongations and listeners’ expectations. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), The 31st Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society

Fox Tree, J. E. & Tomlinson, Jr., J. M. (2008). The rise of like in spontaneous quotations. Discourse Processes, 45, 1-18.

Tomlinson, Jr. J. M. & Richardson, D. C. (2007). Do you believe what eye believe? In B. Kokinov, D. C. Richardson, T. R. Roth- Berghofer, & L. Vieu (Eds.), Modeling and Using Context: The Proceedings of the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference of CONTEXT 2007. (pp. 482-492). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.