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: Henry Beecher, Lucien Carroll, Emily Hayes, Laura Kertz, and Lara Taylor. Check out what they're up to!

Congratulations to Hannah Rohde, who completed her PhD this summer. She has now joined the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow.

On the stack (and recently off):

  • Invited Speaker, Symposium on Discourse Relations, 84th Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, San Francisco, March 31-April 4.
  • Presenting at the University of Michigan Workshop in Philosophy and Linguistics, October 2-4, 2009.
  • "Coherence and the (Psycho-) Linguistics of Pronoun Interpretation", Colloquium, USC/ISI, May 12, 2009.
  • Todd Ferretti, Hannah Rohde, Andrew Kehler, and Melanie Crutchley, "Verb Aspect, Event Structure, and Coreferential Processing". Journal of Memory and Language 61, pp. 191-205, 2009.
  • Hannah Rohde, Roger Levy, and Andrew Kehler, "Anticipating Explanations in Relative Clause Processing". Under revision. Comments welcome.
  • "Cohesion and Coherence". To appear in "Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning", edited by Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner.
  • Hannah Rohde and Andrew Kehler, "The Interaction of Structural and Semantic Biases in Coherence and Coreference", poster presented at the CUNY-2009 conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, March 2009.
  • Hannah Rohde and Andrew Kehler, "Grammatical and Coherence-Driven Biases in Pronoun Interpretation", presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 2009.
  • Hannah Rohde and Andrew Kehler, "QUD-Driven Expectations in Discourse Interpretation", presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 2009.
  • NSF Workshop on Annotation of Animacy and Information Status, Northwestern University, September 25-28, 2008.
  • "Coherence and the (Psycho-) Linguistics of Pronoun Interpretation", Seminar, Northwestern University Linguistics Colloquium, May 23, 2008.
  • Posters at CUNY 2008 in Chapel Hill, March 2008 (all first-authored by Hannah Rohde, and the first also co-authored with Roger Levy):
    • Implicit Causality Biases Influence Relative Clause Attachment
    • The Bidirectional Influence between Coherence Establishment and Pronoun Interpretation
    • Demanding an Explanation: Implicit Causality Biases in Discourse Interpretation
    • Coherence-Driven Expectations in Discourse and Dialog
  • "Coherence-Driven Effects in Relative Clause Processing", (with Hannah Rohde and Roger Levy), LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2008.
  • "Coherence and Coreference Revisited" (with Laura Kertz, Hannah Rohde, and Jeffrey Elman). Journal of Semantics special issue on Processing Meaning, 25:1, pp. 1-44.

Course announcements:

  • Office hours over the summer are by appointment. Contact me if you would like to set up a meeting.
  • I'll be teaching Computational Corpus Linguistics (Lign 245) in the fall.