Publications (Peer-reviewed)
Tomlinson, Jr., J.M.(in prep). Be timely: deriving implicatures from different pause types.
Tomlinson, Jr., J.M. (invited) Mouse-tracking in linguistic research. Invited book chapter for the Handbook of Experimental Pragmatics.
Tomlinson, Jr. J.M, & Rodriguez-Ronderos, C. (accepted with minor revisions). Listeners’ use intonation to assess commitment before focus.
Tomlinson, Jr. J.M. & Rodriguez-Ronderos, C. (resubmitted). What’s behind an implication: how speakers use underspecification to communicate epistemic states.
Zygîs, M., Tomlinson, Jr. J.M., Pfütze, D., & Petrone, C. (2019). Acoustic cues of prosodic boundaries in German at different speech rates. Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 5th to 9th, 2019.
Tomlinson, Jr. J.M., Gotzner, N. Bott, L.A. (2017). Intonation and pragmatic enrichment: how intonation constrains ad-hoc scalar implicatures. Langauge and Speech60(2), 200-223.
Sauerland, U., Tamura, A, Koizmui, M., & Tomlinson, Jr. J. M. (2017). Tracking down disjunction. In Otake, M., Kurahashi, S., Ota, Y., Satoh, K., Bekki, D. (Eds. ).New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, pps.109-121. Kanawaga, Japan. Springer Verlag.
Tomlinson, Jr., J. M., Liu, Q, & Fox Tree, J. E. (2014). The perceptual nature of the stress shift. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, 29(6), 1046-1058.
Tomlinson, Jr, J. M. & Rodriguez-Ronderos, C. (2014). The production of partial answers and ad-hoc inferences: evidence from semi-spontaneous speech. In J. Degen, M. Franke, and N. Goodman (Eds.), Proceedings of the Formal & Experimental Pragmatics Workshop, pp. 51-55, Tübingen.
Tomlinson, Jr., J. M., Bott, L. A. & Bailey, T. (2013). All of that and then some: the dynamics of processing scalar implicature. Journal of Memory and Language, 69 (1), 18-35.
Tomlinson, Jr. J. M., & Assimakopolous, S. (2013). Contextual effects on metaphor processing: activation vs. suppression. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, S., I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Tomlinson, Jr., J. M. & Fox Tree, J.E. (2011). Listeners’ comprehension of uptalk in spontaneous speech. Cognition, 119(1), 58-69.
de Marneffe, M., Tomlinson, Jr., J. M., Pineda, M., & Sumner, M. (2011). The integration of frequency and phonetic variation in the perception of accented speech. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Richardson, D. C., Dale, R. & Tomlinson, Jr., J. M. (2009). Conversation, gaze coordination, and beliefs about visual context. Cognitive Science, 33, 1468-1482.
Fox Tree, J. E. & Tomlinson, Jr. J. M. (2008). The rise of like in spontaneous quotations. Discourse Processes, 45, 1-18.
Presentations(Talks, Posters, Symposia)
Tomlinson, J. M., Jr. (2019). When do turn-taking gaps become meaningful. Talk given at 3rd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, Cagliari, Italy.
Rodriguez-Ronderos, C., Tomlinson, Jr. J.M., & Noveck, I. (2019). The processing of ironic utterances in expectation-biased contexts. Poster at XPrag 2019, Edinburgh, UK.
Tomlinson, J. M., Jr. & Baier, I. (2019) When are gaps understood as symptoms or signs?. Poster given at the 33th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, Boulder, CO..
Tomlinson, J. M., Jr. (2018) Be timely: how turn-taking gaps constrain the integration of alternatives. Poster given at the 32th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing,Davis, CA.
Panizza, D. & Tomlinson, Jr. J.M. (2017) Pragmatic inferences towards prototypical meanings: a visual world study. Poster at XPrag 2017,Köln, Germany. Tomlinson, Jr. J.M (2017). Accomadating QUDs in turn-taking. Poster at DETEC 2017, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Sauerland, U., Tamura, A, Koizmui, M., & Tomlinson, Jr. J. M. (2016). Conjunctive Disjunction: A Japanese Counterexample to Grcie’s Detachability. Poster given at. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2016), Bilbao Spain.
Tomlinson, Jr. J.M. (2016). Lack of commitment: how prosody allows speakers to implicate and constrain the derivation of pragmatic inferences Talk given at the satellite workshop at TIE2016: The role of prosody in conveying epistemic and evidential meaning, University of Kent, Kent
Tomlinson, J. M., Jr.& Rondriguez-Ronderso, C. (2015). Ignorant before exhaustive: Mouse-tracking inferences from under-informative partial answers. Talk given at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2015), Valletta, Malta, 3 - 5 September, 2015
Tomlinson, J. M., Jr.& Rondriguez-Ronderos, C. (2015). Implying exhaustivity in partial answers. Poster given at the 29th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, Los Angeles, CA.
Tomlinson, Jr, J.M. & Bott, L. (2013) How intonation constrains pragmatic inferences. Talk given at the 7th biennial conference on Experimental Pragmatics, Utrecht, Netherlands.
O’Hora, D., Duran, N.D., Dale, R., Freeman, J. B., Tomlinson, Jr, J.M. (2013). Scales of Cognition Evident in Action. Symposium at 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany
Tomlinson, Jr. J. M., Assimakopolous, S., Bott, L. A. (2011). Activation vs. suppression mechanisms in figurative language processing. Poster given at the 25th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, New York, NY.
Tomlinson, Jr. J. M., Assimakopolous, S., Bott, L. A. (2011). Varieties of Lexical Adjustment. Talk given at the second EURO-XPRAG workshop, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.
Tomlinson, Jr., J. M., Bott, L. A. & Bailey, T. (2011). Order implicatures are faster (but less accurate) than explicit meaning. Poster presented at AMLAP.
Tomlinson, Jr., J. M., Bott, L. A. & Bailey, T. (2011). Basic meanings before pragmatic: Mouse-tracking scalar implicature. Talk given at the 6th biennial conference on Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, Spain.
Assimakapolous, S, Tomlinson, Jr., J. M., & Bott, L.A. (2011). The dynamics of local context on the processing of figurative speech. Poster presented at the 6th biennial conference on Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, Spain.
Tomlinson, Jr., J. M., Bott, L. A. & Bailey, T. (2011). Literal before pragmatic: Mouse-tracking scalar implicature. Poster given at the 24th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, Stanford, CA.
Tomlinson, Jr., J. M. & Fox Tree, J. E. (2009). Uptalk in time: how prolongations differentiate conflicting functions of rising pitch. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual CUNY confer ence on human sentence processing, Davis, CA.
Richardson, D. C., Dale, R., & Tomlinson, Jr., J. M (2009). Conversation, gaze coordination and beliefs about visual context Poster presented at the 22nd Annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, Davis, CA.
Tomlinson, Jr., J.M., Liu, Q., & Fox Tree, J. E. (2009). The auditory illusion of the stress shift. Poster presented at 2009 APS Annual Convention, May 22 -25, 2009 in San Francisco, CA.
Tomlinson, J. M. Jr. & Fox Tree, J.E. (2005). Like, all like, just like, and said; How people use and understand these new and old quotatives. Poster presented at the Annual meeting for the Society of Discourse and Text, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Invited Talks
Uni Tübingen (2018) Uni Köln (2017) Wasada University, Tokyo, Japan (2016) Universitat Pompeu Farbre, Barcelona (2015) University of Malta, Malta (2014) Emory University, Atlanta, GA, (2013) University of Warwick (2012) University of Granada( 2012) CNRS Lyon (2009)