I'm interested in the processing of (seemingly) ambiguous sentences. These are sentences that potentially have multiple potential interpretations, such as sentences with pronouns or idioms. For interpreting these sentences correctly, the listeners need to combine different sources of information in a relative short time (for example, world knowledge, visual context, and preceding linguistic information).
My research focuses on 1) how listeners combine different sources of information during sentence processing, and 2) how regularities in the linguistic input may facilitate this process. I combine computational simulations (error-driven learning), experimental studies, and advanced statistical methods to answer my research questions.
PhD students
- Dorothée Hoppe
Topic: Using error-driven learning to explain order effects in language.
Co-supervised by Prof. Petra Hendriks
- Abby Toth
Topic: Influence of visual context on the acquisition of discourse processing.
Other supervisors are Prof. Petra Hendriks and Prof. Niels Taatgen
- Mark Ji
Topic: Modeling infant's acquisition of rule-like algebraic patterns using PRIMs
Primary supervisor is Prof. Niels Taatgen
recent publications
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submitted, under revision, accepted, or in press:
Jacolien van Rij, Nemanja Vaci, Lee H. Wurm, and Laurie Beth Feldman: Alternative quantitative methods in psycholinguistics: Implications for theory and design. To appear in Word Knowledge and Word Usage: a Cross-disciplinary Guide to the Mental Lexicon, edited by Vito Pirrelli, Ingo Plag, and Wolfgang U. Dressler. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pdf
Dorothée Hoppe, Jacolien van Rij, Petra Hendriks, and Michael Ramscar: Order matters! Influence of linear order on learning linguistic categories. Under review.
recent publications:
Simone Sprenger, Amélie la Roi, and Jacolien van Rij (2019): The Development of Idiom Knowledge across the Life Span. Frontiers in Communication 4, p. 1-29. link
Laurie Beth Feldman, Rick Dale, and Jacolien van Rij (2019): Lexical and frequency effects on keystroke timing: Challenges to a lexical search account from a type-to-copy task. Frontiers in Communication 4, p. 1-17. link
Jacolien van Rij, Petra Hendriks, Hedderik van Rijn, R. Harald Baayen, and Simon N. Wood (2019): Analyzing the time course of pupillometric data. Trends in Hearing Science 23, 1-23. link
Supplementary Materials: GitLab | html
conference proceedings:
Abigail Toth, Monique Charest, Jacolien van Rij, and Juhani Järvikivi (2019). Applying the Visual World Paradigm in the Investigation of Preschoolers’ Online Reference Processing in a Naturalistic Discourse. In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2981-2987). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society. link
Mark Y. Ji, Jacolien van Rij, and Niels A. Taatgen (2019): Discoveries of the Algebraic Mind: A PRIMs Model. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (ICCM) 2019. link
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