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.
