Judith Koehne





Judith Koehne
Post-doctoral researcher
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A
Philadelphia, PA
19104-6228

phone: 215.898.0327
email: jkoehne AT sas DOT upenn DOT edu

        



I am a postdoc studying language acquisition and processing in the Trueswell and Gleitman lab
at the University of Pennsylvania. In November 2011, I received my PhD in psycholinguistics
from Saarland University in Germany. My thesis (supervised by Matthew Crocker) is on the
interaction of word learning mechanisms [pdf].

My research is focussed on how children and adults exploit multiple and multi-modal cues to
learn the meanings of words. Specifically, I am investigating, firstly, the word learner's on-line
and off-line use of the linguistic context and, secondly, the word learner's ability to collect,
store, and use information such as co-occurrences of words and referents across situations.

I am also interested in sentence and discourse processing. With Martin Pickering, I did some
work on syntactic priming in language production. With Vera Demberg, I am working on the
on-line use of discourse markers.



PAPERS.

Koehne, J. & Crocker, M.W. (in preparation). 'The complex interplay of cross-situational word learning and sentence-level constraints'.

Koehne, J., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (under revision). 'The relationship between sentence meaning and word order: Evidence from structural priming in German'.

Alishahi, A., Fazley, A., Koehne, J., & Crocker, M.W. (accepted).'The interaction between verb selectional restrictions and the cross-situational learning of nouns: Evidence from a computational model'. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology (Special edition: Grounding Word Learning in Attention, Perception, and Memory).

Koehne, J. & Crocker, M.W. (2011). 'The interplay of multiple mechanisms in word learning', In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. F. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1930-1936): Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Koehne, J. & Crocker, M.W. (2010). 'Sentence processing mechanisms influence cross-situational word learning', In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2458-2564): Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]


SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

with Vera Demberg. 'Incremental and predictive discourse processing based on causal and concessive discourse markers: A visual world study', Talk presented at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, USA, 2012. [pdf]

with M.W. Crocker. 'The nature and interaction of word-learning mechanisms determine how meanings are represented', Poster presented at the 17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Paris, France, 2011. [pdf]

with M.W. Crocker. 'Sentence processing mechanisms trump statistical word learning', Poster presented at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, USA, 2011. [pdf]

with M.W. Crocker. 'Statistics and Language-World Knowledge Interact in Foreign-Language Word Learning', Poster presented at the 16th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), York, England, 2010. [pdf]

with M.W. Crocker. 'Top-down Cues Help to Understand Foreign Language Input and Improve Word Learning', Talk presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association Conference (EUROSLA), Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2010. [pdf]

with M.W. Crocker. 'Sentence Processing Mechanisms Influence Foreign Language Word Learning', Poster presented at the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, USA, 2010. [pdf]

with M.W. Crocker. 'The Dynamics of Processing and Learning Foreign Language in Natural Contexts', Poster presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Barcelona, Spain, 2009. [pdf]

with M.W. Crocker. 'Situated Language Learning', Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2009. [pdf]

with M.J. Pickering. 'Getting to the Bottom of Syntactic Priming - Which Structures Can be Primed?', Poster presented at the 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, USA, 2008. [pdf]

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