Allison Blodgett

Assistant Research Scientist blodgett@ling.ohio-state.edu
Center for Advanced Study of Language 7005 52nd Ave
University of Maryland College Park MD 20742
301-226-8889
Research Interests Downloadable Papers, Posters, and Sound Files Complete CV ToBI Clinic Teaching

Research Interests

Psycholinguistics, Sentence Processing: My dissertation focused on the ways in which prosodic phrasing and lexically-based syntactic frequencies influence syntactic and semantic processing.

Downloadable Papers, Posters, and Sound Files

Blodgett, A., Owens, J., & Rockwood, T. (2007). An initial account of the intonation of Emirati Arabic. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1137-1140. (Click here to download the accompanying sound files.)
Boland, J. E. & Blodgett, A. (2006). Argument status and PP-attachment. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 35, 385-403.
Blodgett, A. (2004). Functions of intonation boundaries during spoken language comprehension in English. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH - 2004, 2997-3000. (Click here to download the accompanying poster in pdf.)
Blodgett, A. (2004). The interaction of prosodic phrasing, verb bias, and plausibility during spoken sentence comprehension. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University.
  • Click here to access the sound files that I used in my dissertation experiments.
Blodgett, A. (2004, March). Whenever the psycholinguist checks, prosodic phrasing and verb bias interact. Poster session at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD.
Blodgett, A. & Boland, J. E. (2004). Differences in the timing of implausibility detection for recipient and instrumental prepositional phrases. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 33(1), 1-24.
Blodgett, A. & Boland, J. E. (2003, March). Readers cling to poor recipients and quickly reject poor instruments. Poster session at the 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA.
Boland, J. E. & Blodgett, A. (2002). Eye movements as a measure of syntactic and semantic incongruity in unambiguous sentences. Unpublished manuscript, University of Michigan.
Blodgett, A. & Boland, J. E. (2001, March). Eye movements as a measure of syntactic and semantic incongruity in globally anomalous sentences. Poster session at the 14th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, PA.
Boland, J. E. & Blodgett, A. (2001). Understanding the constraints on syntactic generation: Lexical bias and discourse congruency effects on eye movements. Journal of Memory and Language, 45, 391-411.
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ToBI Clinic

For more than a year, Laurie Maynell and I ran this once-a-week ToBI transcription practice group. To learn more, visit the ToBI Clinic Homepage.
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Teaching

Ling 201:
Introduction to Language		 Ling/Psych 371:
Language and the Mind
201 Syllabus(SP2002) 371 Syllabus(SP2002)
Assignments:
  • Personal Speech Styles
  • -ing/-in' Variation
  • Pragmatics & Advertising
  • Ambiguity in Nature
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  • Categorical Perception
  • Language & Computers
  • Speech Errors in Nature
  • Lexical Priming
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    Linguistics Outside of the Classroom
    This requirement enables students who are enrolled in Introduction to Language (Ling 201/202) or Language and the Mind (Ling/Psych 371) to earn course credit for attending select linguistic events outside of class.
    Click here to open a new window that contains links about the requirement (i.e., the list of talks, list of experiments, information pages for students, and information pages for department instructors and researchers).
     
    Grammar Refresher
    Grammar Refresher Syllabus
    I reviewed the basics of English grammar in this non-credit course offered through OSU's Office of Continuing Education.
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