Presentations

Conference Presentations

Roland, Douglas. (2019). Relative Processing by L2 speakers of English. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), September 6-8, 2019, Moscow, Russia.

Roland, Douglas. (2019). Syntax: Computational models of sentence-level language comprehension. Presentation at “Computational psycholinguistics: Overview and prospects” workshop at the 158thmeeting of the Linguistics Society of Japan. June 22-23, 2019. Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

Roland, Douglas, Yuki Hirose, and Gail Mauner. (2018). Eye movement data and the causes of relative clause difficulty. Paper presented at Mental Architecture of Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2018, July 28-29, 2018. Tokyo, Japan.

Minemi, Itsuki, Saki Tsumura, Douglas Roland, Manabu Arai, and Yuki Hirose. (2017). Second language learners’ (un)predictive processing: Evidence from eye-tracking reading experiments. Paper presented at The Japanese Society for Language Sciences 19thAnnual International Conference (JSLS2017). July 1-2, Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto, Japan. JSLS 2017 Conference Handbook, pages 94-97.

Roland, Douglas. (2017). L1 and L2 comprehension of English relative clauses. The 89th ELSJ Annual General Meeting, May 20-21, 2017, Shizuoka Campus, Shizuoka University, Japan.

Roland, Douglas. (2016). L1 and L2 comprehension of English Relative clauses. Paper presented at The Japanese Society for Language Sciences 18th Annual International Conference (JSLS2016) as part of invited seminar on The state of the art in relative clause processing – recent findings from L1, L2, and cross-linguistic data (June 5, 2016).

Roland, Douglas, Yuki Hirose, Gail Mauner, and Stephanie Foraker. (2014). Eye movements during the processing of pronominal relative clauses by native and non-native speakers of English. Paper presented at Mental Architecture of Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2014, August 12-13, 2014. Tokyo, Japan.

Yamada, Toshiyuki, Douglas Roland, Manabu Arai, and Yuki Hirose. (2014). Corpus frequency of relative clause association in Japanese. Paper presented at Mental Architecture of Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2014, August 12-13, 2014. Tokyo, Japan.

Yun, Hongoak, Gail Mauner, Douglas Roland, and Jean-Pierre Koenig. (2012). The Effect of Semantic Similarity is a Function of Contextual Constraint. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan.

Yun, Hongoak, Gail Mauner, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Douglas Roland. (2012). Early participant role commitments have their greatest impact on the integration of unpredictable role fillers. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York City, March 14-16, 2012. 

Heider, Paul, Jeruen Dery, and Douglas Roland. (2011). "It" object relatives are also easier: Evidence against a fine-grained frequency account. Paper presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

Yun, Hongoak, Gail Mauner, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Douglas Roland. (2010). Influence of Instrument Roles and Role Fillers on Reading Times. Paper presented at the 51th Annual Meeting of the PsychonomicSociety, St. Louis, November 18-21.

Roland, Douglas. (2009). Discourse and relative clauses: building a more complete model of expectations in language processing. Invited presentation at Mental Architecture of Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2009, July 18-19, 2009, Kyushu University, Japan.

Jean-Pierre Koenig, Doug Roland, Hongoak Yun, and Gail Mauner. (2008). Which verb semantics for which cognitive task. Paper presented at Verb Concepts: Cognitive Science perspectives on verbal representation and processing. Concordia University, Montreal, October 3-4.

Roland, Douglas, Carolyn O'Meara, Hongoak Yun, and Gail Mauner. (2008). Discourse and object relative clauses: the effect of topic versus mention. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 13-15, 2008.

Roland, Douglas, Carolyn O'Meara, Hongoak Yun, and Gail Mauner. (2007). Discourse context and English object relative clauses. Paper presented at The International Conference on Processing Head-final Structures, Rochester Institute of Technology, September 21-22, 2007.

Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira. (2004). Modeling ambiguity resolution. Paper presented at The Thought and Language Symposium, University of University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, July 9, 2004.

Roland, Douglas. (2004).  Using corpus data to model ambiguity resolution and complementizer use. Paper presented at the 78thAnnual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January 8-11.

Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira. (2003). Signposts along the garden path. Paper presented at the 16thAnnual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston. 

Roland, Douglas. (2002). Predicting verb subcategorization from the semantic context preceding the verb. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York. 

Roland, Douglas and Giulia Bencini. (1995). Verb 'weight' in agrammatism: English, Japanese, French, and Italian. Paper presented at New Methods in Comparative Aphasiology, June 27-July 6, 1995. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Conference Posters

Roland, Douglas. (2023). Comprehenders do posit unforced gaps. Poster presented at the Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing,  August 31-September 2, 2023, San Sebastian, Spain.

Roland, Douglas, Gail Mauner, and Yuki Hirose. (2020). The processing of pronominal relative clauses: Evidence from eye movements. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, March 19-21, 2020, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Roland, Douglas. (2019). Relative Processing by L2 speakers of English. Poster presented at Mental Architecture of Processing and Learning of Language 2019 (MAPLL-TCP-TL 2019), July 27-28, 2018. Kobe, Japan.

Roland, Douglas, Yuki Hirose, and Gail Mauner. (2018). Eye movement data and the causes of relative clause difficulty. Poster presented at the Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, September 6-8, 2018, Berlin, Germany. Download PDF

Asami, Shiori, Douglas Roland, and Yasunori Morishima. (2018). 英語学習者向け代名詞処理を伴うリーディングスパンテストの開発. Poster presented at the 16thannual meeting of the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology. September 1-2, 2018. Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus, Japan. 

Minemi, Itsuki, Saki Tsumura, Douglas Roland, Manabu Arai, and Yuki Hirose. (2017). L2 structural prediction depends on the nature of learners' exposure to the target language. Poster presented at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 30 - April 1, 2017, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tsumura, Saki, Itsuki Minemi, Douglas Roland, Manabu Arai and Yuki Hirose. (2017). L2 Garden-Path Eye Movement Patterns: Proficiency and Native Language. Poster presented at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 30 - April 1, 2017, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hirotani, Masako, Koike, Takahiko, Okazaki, Shuntaro, Sumiya, Motofumi, Hashiguchi, Maho, Ito, Yoshikuni, Roland, Douglas and Sadato, Norihiro. (2016). Neural basis for goal-oriented conversation.  Poster presented at the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 3-5, 2016, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Roland, Douglas and Yuki Hirose. (2015). Eye movement data for L1 and L2 speakers of English reflects processing difficulties in different ways. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, September 3-5, 2015, University of Malta Valletta Campus, Valletta, Malta.

Roland, Douglas, Yuki Hirose, Gail Mauner, and Stephani Foraker. (2015). Reversal in reading times for pronominal relative clauses: Difference in expectations or spillover? Poster presented at the 21stAnnual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, September 3-5, 2015, University of Malta Valletta Campus, Valletta, Malta.

Roland, Douglas, Yuki Hirose, Gail Mauner, and Stephani Foraker. (2015). Expectations and pronominal relative clauses: Eye movement data vs. self-paced reading. Poster presented at 28th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 19-21, 2015, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

Roland, Douglas, Yuki Hirose, Gail Mauner, and Stephani Foraker. (2014). Eye movements during the processing of pronominal relative clauses. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, September 3-6, 2014, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Bai, Chunhua, Douglas Roland, and Yuki Hirose. (2014). Certain people don’t need modification: The effect of indefiniteness on Japanese relative clause association preferences. Poster presented at the 20thAnnual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, September 3-6, 2014, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Deng, Ying, Douglas Roland, and Yuki Hirose. (2014). Can Word Order be Overridden by Conceptual Level Factors: Evidence From Structural Priming Effects in Japanese Sentence Production. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, September 3-6, 2014, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Deng, Ying, Douglas Roland, and Yuki Hirose. (2014). Can word order be overridden by conceptual factors: evidence from structural priming effects in Japanese sentence production. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production, July 16-18, Geneva, Switzerland.

Yi, Eunkyung, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Douglas Roland. (2012). Semantic attractors and constructional frequency in the English ditransitive construction. Poster presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

Roland, Douglas. (2009). Relative clauses remodeled: The problem with Mixed-Effect Models. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California, Davis, March 26-28, 2009.

Roland, Douglas. Relative clauses and surprisal. (2008). Poster presented at the 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, 4-6 September 2008, Cambridge, UK.

Yun, Hongoak, Douglas Roland, Jean-Pierre Koenig and Gail Mauner. (2008). The effects of semantic predictability and shared similarity with the other possible fillers on processing. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marcy 13-15, 2008.

Roland, Douglas, Carolyn O'Meara, Hongoak Yun, and Gail Mauner. (2007). Processing object relative clauses: Discourse or frequency? Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the CUNY 2007 Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego.

Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira. (2003). Why 'that'?. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, University of Glasgow, August 25-27 2003.

McRae, Ken, Mary Hare, Jeffrey L. Elman, Douglas Roland. (2003). Implementing the resolution of the temporary DO/SC ambiguity. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston.

Gahl, Susanne, Douglas Roland, and Daniel Jurafsky. (2002). A new resource and methodological considerations on verb subcategorization biases. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York.

Roland, Douglas, Daniel Jurafsky, and Laura Michaelis. (1999). Verb Behavior is not Verb Nature: Sense and Genre Bias as Sources of Subcategorization Probabilities. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York.

Roland, Douglas and Daniel Jurafsky. (1998). How verb subcategorization frequencies are affected by the way you measure them. Poster presented at the 11th Annual meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Roland, Douglas and Daniel Jurafsky. (1997). Computing verbal valence frequencies: corpora versus norming studies. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Santa Monica, California.

Bencini, Giulia and Douglas Roland. (1996). Verb access difficulties and pragmatics in agrammatic aphasic narratives. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, San Diego, California 

Invited Talks

Roland, Douglas. (2016). The state of the art in relative clause processing – recent findings from L1, L2, and cross-linguistic data: L1 and L2 comprehension of English relative clauses. The Japanese Society for Language Sciences 18th Annual International Conference (JSLS2016), June 5, 2016. Tokyo, Japan.

Roland, Douglas. (2016). What role does discourse play in relative clause processing? Invited presentation at Discourse Psychology Research Group, Hosei University. March 5, 2016.

Roland, Douglas. (2014). Analyzing Reading Time Data with Linear Mixed Effects Regression Models. Invited presentation at The University of Tokyo, February 20, 2014.

Roland, Douglas. (2009). Seminar on computational psycholinguistics, Hiroshima University, Japan (2 days).

Roland, Douglas. (2009). Discourse and relative clauses: building a more complete model of expectations in language processing. Invited presentation at Mental Architecture of Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2009, July 18-19, 2009, Kyushu University, Japan.

Roland, Douglas. (2007). Class on UNIX for linguists/using corpora, LSA Summer Institute, Stanford University.