I am Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at UC San Diego. My main (but not only) area of interest is discourse interpretation, studied from the perspectives of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Explore the links above and below to find out more about me.

I direct the department's Computational Linguistics Lab. My students are: Gwen Gillingham, Jasmeen Kanwal, Lara Klainerman, Gary Patterson, and Alex Stiller-Shulman.

Congratulations to former graduate student Hannah Rohde, who has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Ling-uistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh.

Congratulations to former graduate student Laura Kertz, who is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistics, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University.

On the stack (and recently off):

  • Andrew Kehler and Hannah Rohde. "A Probabilistic Reconciliation of Coherence-Driven and Centering-Driven Theories of Pronoun Interpretation", Theoretical Linguistics (target article), to appear.
  • Two invited presentations at the Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, April 9, 2013.
  • Colloquium Speaker, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, September 17, 2012.
  • Teaching a week-long course on Reference and Coherence in Discourse and Masterclass on Discourse Interpretation at the 2012 LOT summer school, Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 2-6, 2012.
  • Penn Discourse Treebank Workshop, Philadelphia, April 30-May 2, 2012.
  • Andrew Kehler and Hannah Rohde. "Reconciling Centering-driven and Coherence-driven Accounts of Pronoun Interpretation", presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (special session in memory of Ellen F. Prince), Portland, January 5-8, 2012.
  • Andrew Kehler, Emily Hayes, Jess Sullivan, and David Barner. "Grammatical and Pragmatic Biases in Children's Pronoun Interpretation", presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, January 5-8, 2012.
  • "Cohesion and Coherence". Chapter 74 in Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning (Volume 2), edited by Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner, pp. 1963--1987, 2012.
  • Two invited presentations as part of the Context Dependence in Language and Communication workshop, Stanford University, November 2-3, 2012.
  • Invited speaker, Constraints on Discourse 2011, Var, France, September 14-16, 2011.
  • "A Probabilistic Reconciliation of Coherence-Driven and Centering-Driven Theories of Pronoun Interpretation". Keynote address at the 33rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Georg August University, Göttingen, February 23-35, 2011.
  • Andrew Kehler, Emily Hayes, and David Barner. "Pragmatically-Driven Biases in Children's Pronoun Interpretation", presented at the CUNY-2011 Conference on Human Sentence Processing (poster session), Stanford, March 2011. poster
  • Mieko Ueno and Andrew Kehler, "Implicit Causality Biases in Japanese Pronoun Interpretation", to be presented at the CUNY-2011 Conference on Human Sentence Processing (poster session), Stanford, March 2011. poster
  • Hannah Rohde, Roger Levy, and Andrew Kehler, "Anticipating Explanations in Relative Clause Processing". Cognition 118, pp 339-358, 2011.
  • "Contrastive Topics and Illusory Sloppy Readings in VP-Ellipsis", presented at the California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop, Stanford, October 15-16, 2011.

  • Course announcements:

    I am not teaching during spring quarter. Contact me for an appointment if you would like to meet.