research

journal articles

Liao, X., Boleda, G., Rohde, H., & Mayol, L. (accepted). Comparing models of pronoun production and interpretation via observational and experimental evidence. Glossa.

Long, M., Rohde, H., Oraa Ali, M., Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2024). The role of cognitive control and referential complexity on adults' choice of referring expressions: testing and expanding the referential complexity scale. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 50, 109-136.

Skarabela, B., Cuthbert, N., Rees, A., Rohde, H., & Rabagliati, H. (2023). Learning dimensions of meaning: Children’s acquisition of but. Cognitive Psychology, 147, 101597.

Lorson, A., Rohde, H., & Cummins, C. (2023). Epistemicity and communicative strategies. Discourse Processes, 60, 1-38.

Tal, S., Grossman, E., Rohde, H., & Arnon, I. (2023). Speakers use more redundant references with language learners: Evidence for communicatively-efficient referential choice. Journal of Memory and Language, 128, 104378.

Rohde, H. & Rubio-Fernandez, P. [both authors contributed equally to this work] (2022). Color interpretation is guided by informativity expectations, not by world knowledge about colors. Journal of Memory and Language, 127, 104371.

Rohde, H., Hoek, J., Keshev, M., & Franke, M. (2022). This better be interesting: A speaker's decision to speak cues listeners to expect informative content. Open Mind, 6, 118-131.

Li, W., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2021). Veritable untruths: Autistic traits and the processing of deception. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52, 4921-4930.

Bevacqua, L., Loáiciga, S., Rohde, H., & Hardmeier, C. (2021). Event and entity coreference across five languages: Effects of context and referring expression. Dialogue & Discourse, 12, 192-226.

Hoek, J., Kehler, A., & Rohde, H. (2021). Pronominalization and expectations for re-mention: Modeling coreference in contexts with three referents. Frontiers in Communication, Special issue on Rational Approaches in Language Science, 6, 674126.

Lorson, A., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2021). Strategic use of (un)certainty expressions. Frontiers in Communication, Special issue on Models of Reference, Language, Cognition, and the Manipulated Brain: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Manipulative Processes in Language Comprehension, 6, 635156.

Hoek, J., Rohde. H., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T. J. M. (2021). Expectations from relative clauses: Real-time coherence updates in discourse processing. Cognition, 210, 104581.

Rohde, H., Futrell, R., & Lucas, C. G. (2021). What's new? A comprehension bias in favor of informativity. Cognition, 209, 104491.

Hoek, J., Rohde. H., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T. J. M. (2021). Scolding the child who threw the scissors: Shaping discourse expectations by restricting referents. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36, 382-399.

Grüter, T. & Rohde, H. (2020). Limits on expectation-based processing: Use of grammatical aspect for co-reference in L2. Applied Psycholinguistics, 4, 51-75.

King, J. P. J., Loy, J. E., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2020). Interpreting nonverbal cues to deception in real time. PLoS ONE, 15(3): e0229486.

Long, M., Rohde, H., & Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2020). The pressure to communicate efficiently continues to shape language use later in life. Scientific Reports, 10, Article num. 8214.

Marzuki, E., Rohde, H., Cummins, C., Branigan, H., Clegg, G., Crawford, A., & McInnes, L. (2019). Closed-loop communication during out-of hospital resuscitation: Are the loops really closed? Communication & Medicine, 16, 54-66.

Long, M., Vega-Mendoza, M., Rohde, H., Sorace, A., & Bak, T. H. (2019). Understudied factors contributing to variability in cognitive performance related to language learning. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-11.

Loy, J., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2019). Real-time social reasoning: The effect of disfluency on the meaning of some. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 3, 159-173.

Marzuki, E., Crawford, A., Cummins, C., Rohde, H., Branigan., H. P., & Clegg, G. (2019). Verbalisation of plans during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation. Emergency Medicine Journal, 36, e7.

Kehler, A. & Rohde, H. (2019). Prominence and coherence in a Bayesian theory of pronoun interpretation. Journal of Pragmatics, Special Issue on Prominence in Pragmatics, 154, 63-78.

Loy, J., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2018). Cues to lying may be deceptive: Speaker and listener behaviour in an interactive game of deception. Journal of Cognition, 1(1):42, 1-21.

Rohde, H. & Kurumada, C. (2018). Alternatives and inferences in the communication of meaning. Invited contribution to Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 68, 215-261.

Grüter, T., Takeda, A., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. (2018). Intersentential coreference expectations reflect mental models of events. Cognition, 177, 172-176.

Elsner, M., Clarke, A. & Rohde, H. (2018). Visual complexity and its effects on referring expression generation. Cognitive Science, 42, 940-973.

Loy, J., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2017). Effects of disfluency in online interpretation of deception. Cognitive Science, 41, 1434-1456.

Long, M. R., Horton, W., Rohde, H., & Sorace, A. (2017). Individual differences in switching and inhibition predict perspective-taking across the lifespan. Cognition, 170, 25-30.

Scholman, M., Rohde, H., & Demberg, V. (2017). "On the one hand" as a cue to anticipate upcoming discourse structure. Journal of Memory and Language, 97, 47-60.

Rohde, H. Tyler, J., & Carlson, K. (2017). Form and function: Optional complementizers reduce causal inferences. Glossa, 2(1), 53.

Kehler, A. & Rohde, H. (2017). Evaluating an expectation-driven QUD model of discourse interpretation. Discourse Processes, 54(3), 219-238.

Grüter, T., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. (2017). Coreference and discourse coherence in L2: The roles of grammatical aspect and referential form. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 7(2), 199-229.

Román, D., Briceño, A., Rohde, H., & Hironaka, S. (2016). Linguistic cohesion in middle-school texts: A comparison of logical connectives usage in science and social studies textbooks. Electronic Journal of Science Education, 20(6), 1-19.

Clarke, A. D., Elsner, M. & Rohde, H. (2015). Giving good directions: order of mention reflects visual salience. Frontiers in Psychology, Special issue on Models of Reference, 6(1793), 1-10.

Cummins, C. & Rohde, H. (2015). Evoking context with contrastive stress: Effects on pragmatic enrichment. Frontiers in Psychology, Special issue on Context in communication: A cognitive view, 6(1779), 1-11.

Rohde, H. & Horton, W. (2014). Anticipatory looks reveal expectations about discourse relations. Cognition, 133(3), 667-691.

Rohde, H. & Frank, M. F. (2014). Markers of topical discourse in child-directed speech. Cognitive Science, 38, 1634-1661.

Rohde, H. & Kehler, A. (2014). Grammatical and information-structural influences on pronoun production. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, Special Issue on Production of Referring Expressions: Models and Empirical Data, 912-927.

Rose, S., Ackerman, F., Gibbard, G., Jenks, P., Kertz, L., & Rohde, H. (2014). In-situ and ex-situ wh-question constructions in Moro. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 35(1), 91-125.

Kehler, A. & Rohde, H. (2013). A probabilistic reconciliation of coherence-driven and centering-driven theories of pronoun interpretation. Theoretical Linguistics, 39, 1-37. Commentaries: pp.39-128, Response to commentaries: Aspects of a theory of pronoun interpretation.

Clarke, A., Elsner, M. & Rohde, H. (2013). Where's Wally: The influence of visual salience on referring expression generation. Frontiers in Perception Science, Special issue on Scene understanding, 4(329), 1-10. Dataset: Wally Referring Expression Corpus

Rohde, H. & Ettlinger, M. (2012). Integration of pragmatic and phonetic cues in spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(4), 967-983.

Rohde, H., Levy, R., & Kehler, A. (2011). Anticipating explanations in relative clause processing. Cognition, 118, 339-358.

Ferretti, T., Rohde, H., Kehler, A., & Crutchley, M. (2009). Verb aspect, event structure, and coreferential processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 191-205.

Kehler, A., Kertz, L., Rohde, H., & Elman, J. L. (2008). Coherence and coreference revisited. Journal of Semantics, Special Issue on Processing Meaning, 25, 1-44.

thesis

Rohde, H. (2008). Coherence-Driven Effects in Sentence and Discourse Processing. University of California, San Diego. pdf

chapters, conference proceedings, edited volumes, and other collections

Rees, A. & Rohde, H. (2023). Availability and Timing of Informativity Inferences. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. poster

Edwards, N., Rohde, H., & Conklin, H. (2023). Anaphoric Structure Emerges Between Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. poster

Rees, A. & Rohde, H. (2022). Effects of negation and knowledgeability on pragmatic inferences. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Westera, M., Mayol, L., & Rohde, H. (2020). TED-Q: TED Talks and the questions they evoke. In Proceedings of the 12th annual Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) conference.

Westera, M. & Rohde, H. (2019). Asking between the lines: Elicitation of evoked questions in text. In Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium.

Rohde, H. (2019). Pronoun interpretation and production. In Cummins, C. & Katsos, N. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lorson, A., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2019). When objecting to presupposed content comes easily. In Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial).

Schafer, A. J., Camp, A., Rohde, H., & Grüter, T. (2019). Contrastive prosody and the subsequent mention of alternatives during discourse processing. In K. Carlson, C. Clifton Jr., & J. Fodor (Eds.) Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing - Essays in Honor of Lyn Frazier. Springer: Studies in Theoretical Linguistics.

Truswell, R., Cummins, C., Heycock, C., Rabern, B., & Rohde, H. (2018). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21.

Staliunaite, I., Rohde, H., Webber, B. & Louis, A. (2018). Getting to "Hearer-old": Charting referring expressions across time. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Dataset: Referring Expressions over Time (The RET Corpus)

Rohde, H., Johnson, A., Schneider, N., & Webber, B. (2018). Discourse coherence: Concurrent explicit and implicit relations. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Hardmeier, C. Bevacqua, L., Loáiciga, S., & Rohde, H. (2018). Forms of anaphoric reference to organisational named entities: Hoping to widen appeal, they diversified. In Proceedings of the 7th Named Entity Workshop (NEWS). slides

Loáiciga, S., Bevacqua, L., Rohde, H., & Hardmeier, C. (2018). Event versus entity co-reference: Effects of context and form of referring expression. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora, and Coreference (CRAC).

Rohde, H., Johnson, A., Schneider, N., & Webber, B. (2018). Choosing among alternatives: Conjunction variability comes from both inference and the semantics of discourse adverbials. In Proceedings of the Final Action Conference for the TextLink COST Action, 114-121. slides

Rohde, H., Dickinson, A., Schneider, N., Louis, A. & Webber, B. (2017). Exploring substitutability through discourse adverbials and multiple judgments. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS). slides

Marzuki, E., Rohde, H., Cummins, C., Clegg, G., & Branigan, H. (2017). Resuscitation procedures as multi-party dialogue. In Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), 67-76.

Djärv, K., Heycock, C., & Rohde, H. (2017). Assertion and factivity: Towards explaining restrictions on embedded V2 in Scandinavian. In Bailey, L. & Sheehan, M. (eds.) Order and Structure in Syntax I, 3-28. Language Science Press.

Rohde, H., Dickinson, A., Schneider, N., Clark, C. N. L., Louis, A. & Webber, B. (2016). Filling in the blanks in understanding discourse adverbials: Consistency, conflict, and context-dependence in a crowdsourced elicitation task. In Proceedings of 10th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW).

Loy, J., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2016). Lying about where the treasure lies: Pragmatic cues to deception in production and comprehension. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 8. poster

Rohde, H., Dickinson, A., Louis, A., Clark, C., & Webber, B. (2015). Recovering discourse relations: Varying influence of discourse adverbials. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Semantics: Linking Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Models. Also see poster

Stevens, H. & Rohde, H. (2015). Modeling referential coordination as a Particle Swarm Optimization task. Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), 210-211.

Kehler, A., & Rohde, H. (2015). Pronominal reference and pragmatic enrichment: A Bayesian account. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1063-1068.

Schafer, A. J., Takeda, A., Camp, A., Rohde, H., & Grüter, T. (2015). Effects of contrastive intonation and grammatical aspect on processing coreference in Mainstream American English. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

Grüter, T., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. (2014). The role of discourse-level expectations in non-native speakers' referential choices. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), 179-191.

Elsner, M., Rohde, H., & Clarke, A. (2014). Information structure prediction for visual-world referring expressions. Proceedings of the 14th Conference for the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 520-529.

Rohde, H., Seyfarth, S., Clark, B., Jaeger, G., & Kaufmann, S. (2012). Communicating with cost-based implicature: A game-theoretic approach to ambiguity. Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 107-116.

Rohde, H. & Frank, M. C. (2011). Markers of discourse structure in child-directed speech. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1607-1612.

Rohde, H. & Ettlinger, M. (2010). Effects of pragmatic inference on phoneme identification. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 381-386.

Bicknell, K. & Rohde, H. (2009). Dynamic integration of pragmatic expectations and real-world event knowledge in syntactic ambiguity resolution. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1216-1221.

Rohde, H., Kehler, A., & Elman, J. L. (2007). Pronoun interpretation as a side effect of discourse coherence. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 617-622.

Gibbard, G., Rohde, H., & Rose, S. (2007) Moro noun class morphology. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 106-117.

Rohde, H., Kehler, A., & Elman, J. L. (2006). Event structure and discourse coherence biases in pronoun interpretation. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 697-702.

Rohde, H. (2006) Rhetorical questions as redundant interrogatives. San Diego Linguistics Papers, Issue 2, pp. 134-168.

presentations

Cheuk, K., Rohde, H., & Cummins C. (2024). Reference production: how discourse relevance shapes modifier choice. CORE Project Workshop Unpacking Efficient Communication: The Roles of Cognitive Bias and Extralinguistic Context in Referring Expression Choice. abstract

Cheuk, K., Rohde, H., & Cummins C. (2024). Reference production in context: how discourse goals and relevance shape modifier choice. DGfS, Workshop on Naturalistic Approaches to Reference. abstract

Hinata, S., Rohde, H. & Templeton, A. (2024). From Staying Away to Working Together: A Systematic Review of Communication Practices in Emergency Response. Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. poster

Hinata, S., Templeton, A., & Rohde, H. (2023). From staying away to working together: A systematic review of communication practices in emergency response. Blitz presentation at the Annual Meeting of the British Psychological Society, Social Psychology Section.

Hinata, S., Templeton, A. & Rohde, H. (2023). Interactions between the public and emergency services/government agencies in disasters: A systematic review. Talk at the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology.

Rabagliati, H., Wolf, N., Skarabela, B., & Rohde, H. (2023). Sources of evidence for acquiring discourse connectives: Explaining production-comprehension asymmetry in the acquisition of but. Talk at the 48th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD).

Reksnes, V., Rees, A., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2023). Expectations about upcoming content: The role of the addressee. Talk at the 10th Biennial XPRAG Conference. abstract

Rees, A. Lu, Y., & Rohde, H. (2023). Children’s sensitivity to informativity inferences. Poster at the 10th Biennial XPRAG Conference. abstract, poster

Li, W., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2023). Early non-plural interpretation of 'some' in context: Mouse-tracking evidence for the role of real-time social reasoning. Poster at the 10th Biennial XPRAG Conference. abstract

Long, M., Rohde, H., & Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2023). The role of cognitive control and referential complexity on referential choice over the adult lifespan. Poster at the Individual Differences in Pragmatics in Discourse Workshop (IndiPRAG). abstract, poster

Reksnes, V., Rees, A., Kucuk, E., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2023). Expectations for upcoming content: Do children reason about speakers' informativity goals? Poster at the 29th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. abstract, poster

Li, W., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2023). Contextual non-plural interpretations of 'some': Mouse-tracking evidence for quick social reasoning in real time. Poster at the 29th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. abstract

Wilke, H., Hoek, J., & Rohde, H. (2022). The effects of information structure and sentence structure on sentence processing. Talk at the Linguistics Evidence conference. abstract

Lorson, A., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2022). Experimentally investigating the production of additive presupposition triggers. Talk at the 9th Biennial XPRAG Conference. abstract

Reksnes, V., Rees, A., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2022). Awareness of speaker intentions affects expectations about upcoming content. Talk at the 9th Biennial XPRAG Conference. abstract

Rees, A. & Rohde, H. (2022). It isn't usually like that: Knowledgeability and negation in inferencing. Talk at the 9th Biennial XPRAG Conference. abstract

Shi, J., Rees, A., & Rohde, H. (2022). Adapting to children: information redundancy in language production. Talk at the 9th Biennial XPRAG Conference. abstract

Li, W., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2022). Early interpretation of scalar quantifiers in context: Mousetracking evidence for the role of social reasoning. Poster at the 9th Biennial XPRAG Conference. abstract

Wolf, N., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2022). A really great study it is, isn't it? Poster at the 9th Biennial XPRAG Conference. abstract

Reksnes, V., Rees, A., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2022). Guesses about upcoming content reflect awareness of speakers as intentional communicators. Poster at the 28th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. abstract, poster

Li, W., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2022). Early interpretation of scalar quantifiers in context: Mouse-tracking evidence for the role of social reasoning. Poster at the 28th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. abstract, poster

Badaya, E., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2022). Pragmatic cues to deception survive translation. Poster at the 28th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. abstract, abstract

Wilke, H., Hoek, J., & Rohde, H. (2022). At-issue status affects coreference via clause type and position. Poster at the 28th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. abstract

Li, W., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2022). Disambiguation of scalar quantifiers' meanings in context: Mouse-tracking evidence for the role of real-time social reasoning. Poster at the Processing Meets Semantics (PROMS) workshop. abstract

Simons, M. & Rohde, H. (2022). Effects of entity relatedness and definiteness on bridging inferences. Poster at the 2nd Annual Conference on Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM). abstract

Wilke, H., Hoek, J., & Rohde, H. (2022). It was/wasn't what I expected: Predicting the right antecedent. Talk at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). abstract

Lin, Y., Rohde, H., & Wiener, S. (2022). More participants, fewer trials: A silver lining of moving eye-tracking experiments online. Poster at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP). abstract, poster

Reksnes, V., Rees, A., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2022). Awareness of speakers as intentional communicators affects next-word expectations in a Cloze task. Poster at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP). abstract

Cummins, C., Marzuki, E., Rohde, H., & Branigan, H. (2021) Team interaction in cardiac arrest resuscitation. 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland. Panel on Social Interaction in High Stakes Crisis Communication.

Lin, Y., Rohde, H., & Wiener, S. (2021). Immediate Integration of Location and Classifier Information in L1 and L2 Mandarin Processing: Evidence from Online Webcam Eye-tracking. Talk at the 9th National Conference on Cognitive Neurolinguistics (NCCN), Shanghai, China. abstract

Rees, A., Reksnes, V., & Rohde, H. (2021). Hey guess why I'm speaking to you: The role of knowledgeability in inferencing. Short talk at the 27th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. abstract

Lorson, A., Rohde, H., & Cummins, C. (2021). Strategic reasoning when formulating and comprehending knowledge ascriptions. Short talk at the 27th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. abstract

Tal, S., Grossman, E., Rohde, H., & Arnon, I. (2021). Efficient adaptation to listener proficiency: The case of referring expressions. Poster at the 43rd Annual Cognitive Science Society. poster

Gu, C., Rohde, H., & Sturt, P. (2021). Consciousness presentation and reference. Talk at the Poetics and Linguistic Association (PALA) annual conference. abstract

Wiener, S. & Rohde, H. (2021). What did you expect? Linguistic prediction occurs in both a first and second language but there are differences. Poster at the 3rd International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC). abstract, poster

Naylor, F., Macuch, V., & Rohde, H. (2021). Non-actual 'actual': Expectations for upcoming figurative language arise from cues about message truth. Talk at the 5th Usage-Based Linguistics (UBL) Conference. abstract

Macuch, V., Naylor, F., & Rohde, H. (2021). Do truth-endorsing adjectives act as cues to non-literality in the processing of modified metaphors? A psycholinguistic investigation of English 'actual', 'literal', and 'real'. Talk at TExMod2020: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Modification. abstract

Hoek, J., Kehler, A., & Rohde, H. (2019). Modeling coreference in contexts with three referents. Talk at Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS). abstract, slides

Lorson, A., Rohde, H., & Cummins, C. (2019). Expectations about discourse relevance can license direct objections to presupposed content. Talk at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC). abstract

Hoek, J., Kehler, A., & Rohde, H. (2019). Pronominalization and expectations for re-mention: Evidence from benefactives. Alternate talk at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC). abstract, poster

Wilke, H., Hoek, J., Los, B., Sorace, A., & Rohde, H. (2019). Expectations for novelty: The role of information structure in syntactic processing. Poster at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC). abstract, poster

Hoek, J. & Rohde, H. (2019). Is pronominalization influenced by predictability?. Poster at the 8th Biennial XPRAG conference. Edinburgh, UK. abstract, poster

Long, M., Rohde, H., Ali, M., & Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2019). The role of communicative strategies and cognitive control on referential efficiency across the adult lifespan. Poster at the 8th Biennial XPRAG conference. Edinburgh, UK. abstract, poster

Rohde, H. & Franke, M. (2019). If you don't have anything nice (or interesting) to say, don't say anything at all. Poster at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boulder, CO. abstract, poster

Hoek, J. & Rohde, H. (2019). Effects of predictability and optionality on pronominalization. Poster at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boulder, CO. abstract, poster

Long, M., Rohde, H., Ali, M., & Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2019). Referential efficiency across adulthood: communicative strategies and cognitive control. Poster at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boulder, CO. abstract, poster

Grisot, C. & Rohde, H. (2019). On predicting temporal relations: assessing the role of verbal tenses and lexical aspect. Poster at XPRAG.it 2019. Cagliari, Italy. abstract, poster

Marzuki, E., Crawford, A., Cummins, C., Rohde, H., Branigan, H., & Clegg, G. (2018). Verbalisation of plans during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation. Poster at the 999 EMS Research Forum, Stirling, UK.

Rabagliati, H., Wolf, N., Skarabela, B., & Rohde, H. (2018). The pitfalls of strong predictions: Learning new words from discourse. Talk at the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, MA. abstract

Hoek, J., Rohde, H., Evers-Vermeul, J. Sanders, T. J. M. (2018). Updating Discourse-level Expectations during Online Processing. Talk at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D). Brighton, UK.

Scholman, M., Demberg, V. & Rohde, H. (2018). Signaling with one hand: A cross-linguistic comparison of the facilitative effect of "On the one hand". Talk at the workshop on implicit and explicit marking of discourse relations, Osnabruek, Germany. abstract

Rohde, H., Webber, B., Schneider, N. & Johnson, A. (2018). Multiple concurrent discourse relations. Talk at the workshop on implicit and explicit marking of discourse relations, Osnabruek, Germany. abstract, slides

Rabagliati, H., Wolf, N., Skarabela, B., & Rohde, H. (2018). U-shaped development in children's discourse bootstrapping. Poster at the 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA. abstract, poster

Webber, B., Rohde, H., Dickinson, A., Louis, A., & Schneider, N. (2018). Hidden AND in plain sight? Implicit and explicit relations cooperate in the construction of meaning in discourse. Talk at Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT): Approaches to Discourse. Washington, DC. abstract

Wiener, S. & Rohde, H. (2018). Immediate integration of real-world knowledge and classifier cues during Mandarin sentence processing. Talk at the 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL). Columbus, OH. abstract, slides

Webber, B., Rohde, H., Dickinson, A., Louis, A., & Schneider, N. (2018). Explicit discourse connectives / Implicit discourse relations. Talk at the 1st Annual Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL). Salt Lake City, UT. abstract

Hoek, J. & Rohde, H. (2017). Restrictive relative clause constructions as implicit coherence relations. Talk at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Zurich, Switzerland. slides

Michaelov, J., Culbertson, J., & Rohde, H. (2017). How universal are prominence hierarchies? Evidence from native English speakers. Poster at the 23rd AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Lancaster, UK. abstract, poster

Hoek, J., Rohde, H., Evers-Vermeul, J. Sanders, T. J. M. (2017). Coherence-driven discourse expectations from restrictive relative clauses. Talk at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D). Philadelphia, PA. abstract

Hoek, J., Rohde, H., Evers-Vermeul, J. Sanders, T. J. M. (2017). Shaping discourse expectations by restricting referents. Talk at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC). Nijmegen, Netherlands. abstract

Grüter, T., Takeda, A., Wenyi, L., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. J. (2017). Event structure modulates anticipatory looks to potential next referents. Talk at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boston, MA. abstract

Carlson, K. & Rohde, H. (2017). Prosodic distance iconically disrupts causal inferencing. Poster at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boston, MA. abstract, poster

Long, M. R., Horton, W. S., Rohde, H., & Sorace, A. (2017). Individual differences in perspective taking: Inhibition and switching across the lifespan. Poster at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boston, MA. abstract

Grüter, T., Takeda, A., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. J. (2016). L2 listeners show anticipatory looks to upcoming discourse referents. Poster at the 41st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, MA. poster

Loy, J., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2016). Lying about where the treasure lies: Pragmatic cues to deception in production and comprehension. Poster at the 22nd AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Bilbao, Spain. poster

Scholman, M., Rohde, H. & Demberg, V. (2016). Predictions of upcoming discourse structure based on "On the one hand". Poster at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Kassel, Germany.

Djarv, K., Heycock, C., & Rohde, H. (2016). Embedded V2, factivity and Main Point of Utterance. DGfS Workshop on Verb Second in Grammar and Processing: its Causes and its Consequences. Konstanz, Germany. abstract, slides

Scholman, M., Rohde, H. & Demberg, V. (2016). "On the one hand" as a cue to anticipate upcoming discourse structure. Discourse Relational Devices, Linguistic & Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring (LPTS). Valencia, Spain. abstract, poster

Schafer, A. J., Takeda, A., Rohde, H., & Grüter, T. (2015). Mapping prosody to reference in L2. Poster at the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, MA. poster

Loy, J., Rohde, H., Corley, M. (2015). The truth about lying: Pragmatic judgements about speaker reliability are made online. Talk at the 21st AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Malta. abstract, slides

Grüter, T., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. (2015). Discourse expectations in a non-native language. Talk at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC). Edmonton, Alberta. abstract, slides

Demberg, V., Rohde, H., Scholman, M., Cummins, C., & Nicolet, E. (2015). "On the one hand" as a cue in the comprehension of discourse structure. Talk at First Conference of the TextLink COST Action Network on "Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe". Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. abstract, slides

Dickinson, A., Rohde, H., Louis, A., Clark, C., & Webber, B. (2015). Crowdsourcing concurrent relations. Talk at First Conference of the TextLink COST Action Network on "Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe". Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. abstract, slides

Schafer, A., Rohde, H., & Grüter, T. (2015). Contrastive intonation in native- vs non-native coreference processing. Poster at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, CA. abstract, poster

Tyler, J., Rohde, A., & Carlson, K. (2015). Blocking causal interpretations between juxtaposed propositions: experimental evidence. Talk at the 89th Annual LSA Meeting, Portland, OR. abstract, slides

Kehler, A. & Rohde., H. (2015). Pronominal reference and pragmatic enrichment: a Bayesian analysis. Talk at the 89th Annual LSA Meeting. Portland, OR. abstract

Rohde, H. & Kehler, A. (2014). Pronominal reference and inferred explanations: a Bayesian account. Talk at the RefNet Workshop on Psychological and Computational Models of Reference Comprehension and Production, Edinburgh, UK. abstract, slides

Ward, E., Rohde, H., Clarke, A., & Elsner, M. (2014). Distractor heterogeneity in visual arrays may affect referring expression production. Poster at the RefNet Workshop on Psychological and Computational Models of Reference Comprehension and Production, Edinburgh, UK. abstract, poster

Rohde, H., Clarke, A., & Elsner, M. (2014). Influence of visual complexity on referring expression generation. Poster at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, OH. abstract, poster

Kehler, A. & Rohde, H. (2014). The Effect of Inferred Explanations in a Bayesian Theory of Pronominal Reference. Poster at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, OH. abstract, poster

Grüter, T., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. (2013). Discourse-driven biases in native- vs non-native speakers' coreference processing. Talk alternate at the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Langauge Development (BUCLD). Boston, MA. abstract, poster

Grüter, T., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. (2013). Discourse-driven biases in native- vs non-native speakers' coreference processing. Poster at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC. abstract, poster

Grüter, T. & Rohde, H. (2013). L2 processing is affected by RAGE: Evidence from reference resolution. Talk at the 12th conference on Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA). University of Florida, FL. abstract, slides

Rohde, H., Seyfarth, S., Clark, B., Jaeger, G., & Kaufmann, S. (2012). Cost and implicature in word use: Testing predictions of a game-theoretic model of alignment. Talk at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY. abstract, slides

Futrell, R. & Rohde, H. (2012). Expecting the Unexpected: How discourse expectations can reverse predictability effects in reading time. Poster at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY. abstract, poster

Kehler A. & Rohde, H. (2012). Reconciling centering-driven and coherence-driven accounts of pronoun interpretation. Talk at the 86th Annual LSA Meeting (special session in memory of Ellen Prince). Portland, OR. abstract, slides

Román, D. X., Rohde, H. & Hironaka, S. (2012). Exploring semantic discontinuity in middle school science texts: Implications for science literacy development. Talk at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC.

Rohde, H. & Ward, G. (2011). Reference, telicity, and information structure. Talk at the 85th Annual LSA Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. abstract, slides

Ettlinger, M. & Rohde, H. (2010). The pragmatic-phonetics interface: Inferences about pronouns influence phonetic category perception. Talk at the 46th Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago, IL. abstract

Rohde, H. & Horton, W. (2010). Why or what next? Eye movements reveal expectations about discourse direction. Talk at the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY. abstract, slides

Rohde, H. & Horton, W. (2009). Anticipating upcoming discourse relations: Using eye movements to measure verb-driven pragmatic expectations. Poster at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA. abstract, poster

Vaughn, C., Pierrehumbert, J., & Rohde, H. (2009). Using character n-grams to classify native language in a non-native English corpus of transcribed speech. Talk at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics. Edmonton, Alberta. abstract, slides

Rohde, H. & Kehler, A. (2009). The interaction of structural and semantic biases in coherence and coreference. Poster at the 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA. abstract, poster

Rohde, H. & Kehler, A. (2009). QUD-driven expectations in discourse interpretation. Talk at the 83rd Annual LSA Meeting. San Francisco, CA. abstract, slides

Rohde, H. & Kehler, A. (2009). Grammatical and coherence-driven biases in pronoun interpretation. Talk at the 83rd Annual LSA Meeting. San Francisco, CA. abstract, slides

Rohde, H., Levy, R., & Kehler, A. (2008). Implicit causality biases influence relative clause attachment. Poster at the 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Chapel Hill, NC. abstract, poster

Rohde, H. & Kehler, A. (2008). Demanding an explanation: Implicit causality biases in discourse interpretation. Poster at the 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Chapel Hill, NC. abstract, poster

Rohde, H. & Kehler, A. (2008). The bidirectional influence between coherence establishment and pronoun interpretation. Poster at the 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Chapel Hill. abstract, poster

Rohde, H. & Kehler, A. (2008). Coherence-driven expectations in discourse and dialog. Poster at the 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Chapel Hill, NC. abstract, poster

Rohde, H., Levy, R. & Kehler, A. (2008). Coherence-driven effects in relative clause processing. Talk at the 82nd Annual LSA Meeting. Chicago, IL. abstract, slides

Ferretti, T., Rohde, H., Crutchley, M., & Kehler, A. (2007). Verb aspect, event structure, and pronoun interpretation: An ERP investigation. Poster at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Long Beach, CA. abstract, poster

Rohde, H., Kehler, A., & Elman, J. L. (2007). Where to next? Pronoun interpretation as a side effect of discourse direction. Talk at the 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. La Jolla. abstract, slides

Rohde, H. (2006). Information theoretic approach to rhetorical questions. Poster at the OSU Workshop on Presupposition Accommodation. Columbus, OH. abstract, poster

Rohde, H. (2006). The syntax of questions in Moro. Talk at the 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Oregon. abstract, handout

Rohde, H., Kehler, A., & Elman, J. L. (2006). Aspectual effects on pronoun interpretation. Poster at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY. abstract, poster

Rohde, H., Kehler, A., & Elman, J. L. (2006). Thematic roles and event structure biases in pronoun interpretation. Talk at the 80th Annual LSA Meeting. Albuquerque, NM. handout

Carroll, L., Colavin, R., Rohde, H., & Taylor, L. (2005). Head-noun proto-properties for semantic role Labeling. Presented at the 28th Annual San Diego State University Linguistics Student Association Spring Colloquium. slides

grant-funded projects

Philip Leverhulme Prize in Languages and Literatures (2017-2019), PI, with postdoc Jet Hoek

TextLink: Structuring discourse in multilingual Europe (2014-2017), Steering committee, co-leader of WG3 on "Empirical and Cognitive Soundness"

ConnText: Automated recognition of concurrent discourse relations (2014-2017), Nuance Foundation Inc., with co-Pi Bonnie Webber

Discourse and prosody in non-native speakers' reference resolution (2014-2017), Consultant to PIs Dr. T. Grüter & Dr. A. Schafer's National Science Foundation project #1251450