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  • Academic
    wasow@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: Academic Secy's Office Position: Academic Secretary
    University - Emeritus faculty Department: Linguistics Position: Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2095
  • Other Names:
    Thomas Wasow

2023-24 Courses

Stanford Advisees

  • Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
    Jiayi Lu

All Publications

  • Flexible processing and the design of grammar. Journal of psycholinguistic research Sag, I. A., Wasow, T. 2015; 44 (1): 47-63

    Abstract

    We explore the consequences of letting the incremental and integrative nature of language processing inform the design of competence grammar. What emerges is a view of grammar as a system of local monotonic constraints that provide a direct characterization of the signs (the form-meaning correspondences) of a given language. This "sign-based" conception of grammar has provided precise solutions to the key problems long thought to motivate movement-based analyses, has supported three decades of computational research developing large-scale grammar implementations, and is now beginning to play a role in computational psycholinguistics research that explores the use of underspecification in the incremental computation of partial meanings.

    View details for DOI 10.1007/s10936-014-9332-4

    View details for PubMedID 25385276

  • The appeal of the PDC program. Frontiers in psychology Wasow, T. 2013; 4: 236-?

    View details for DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00236

    View details for PubMedID 23637692

  • The sociolinguistics of a short-lived innovation: Tracing the development of quotative all across spoken and internet newsgroup data LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE Buchstaller, I., Rickford, J. R., Traugott, E. C., Wasow, T., Zwicky, A. 2010; 22 (2): 191-219

    View details for DOI 10.1017/S0954394510000098

    View details for Web of Science ID 000284051600002

  • Intensive and quotative all: Something old, something new AMERICAN SPEECH Rickford, J. R., Wasow, T., Zwicky, A., Buchstaller, I. 2007; 82 (1): 3-31

    View details for DOI 10.1215/00031283-2007-001

    View details for Web of Science ID 000246711800001

  • Intuitions in linguistic argumentation LINGUA Wasow, T., Arnold, J. 2005; 115 (11): 1481-1496

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.lingua.2004.07.001

    View details for Web of Science ID 000231722700002

  • The puzzle of ambiguity 2nd Workshop on Morphology held in Memory of Steven G Lapointe Wasow, T., Perfors, A., Beaver, D. CSLI PUBL, CTR STUDY LANGUAGE INFORMATION. 2005: 265–282

    View details for Web of Science ID 000230643300012

  • Avoiding attachment ambiguities: The role of constituent ordering JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE Arnold, J. E., Wasow, T., Asudeh, A., Alrenga, P. 2004; 51 (1): 55-70

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jml.2004.03.006

    View details for Web of Science ID 000221986600003

  • Domain minimization in English verb-particle constructions LANGUAGE Lohse, B., Hawkins, J. A., Wasow, T. 2004; 80 (2): 238-261

    View details for Web of Science ID 000222202600007

  • Heaviness vs. newness: The effects of structural complexity and discourse status on constituent ordering Meeting of the Linguistic-Society-of-America Arnold, J. E., Wasow, T., Losongco, A., Ginstrom, R. LINGUISTIC SOC AMER. 2000: 28–55

    View details for Web of Science ID 000086288300002

  • Repeating words in spontaneous speech COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Clark, H. H., Wasow, T. 1998; 37 (3): 201-242

    Abstract

    Speakers often repeat the first word of major constituents, as in, "I uh I wouldn't be surprised at that." Repeats like this divide into four stages: an initial commitment to the constituent (with "I"); the suspension of speech; a hiatus in speaking (filled with "uh"); and a restart of the constituent ("I wouldn't."). An analysis of all repeated articles and pronouns in two large corpora of spontaneous speech shows that the four stages reflect different principles. Speakers are more likely to make a premature commitment, immediately suspending their speech, as both the local constituent and the constituent containing it become more complex. They plan some of these suspensions from the start as preliminary commitments to what they are about to say. And they are more likely to restart a constituent the more their stopping has disrupted its delivery. We argue that the principles governing these stages are general and not specific to repeats.

    View details for Web of Science ID 000077736900001

    View details for PubMedID 9892548

  • End-weight from the speaker's perspective 9th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing Wasow, T. PLENUM PUBL CORP. 1997: 347–61

    View details for Web of Science ID A1997XB85400005

  • An optimality theoretic approach to variation in negative inversion in AAVE 23rd Annual Conference on New Ways of Analysing Variation Sells, P., Rickford, J., Wasow, T. SPRINGER. 1996: 591–627

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996VF67800004

  • SYNTACTIC VARIATION AND CHANGE IN PROGRESS - LOSS OF THE VERBAL CODA IN TOPIC-RESTRICTING AS FAR AS CONSTRUCTIONS LANGUAGE RICKFORD, J. R., MendozaDenton, N., WASOW, T. A., ESPINOZA, J. 1995; 71 (1): 102-131

    View details for Web of Science ID A1995RD50600003

  • IDIOMS LANGUAGE Nunberg, G., Sag, I. A., Wasow, T. 1994; 70 (3): 491-538

    View details for Web of Science ID A1994PE76300003

  • DEBATABLE CONSTRAINTS BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES Wasow, T. 1991; 14 (4): 636-636

    View details for Web of Science ID A1991GX82700051

  • WHY DEGREE-0 BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES Wasow, T. 1989; 12 (2): 361-362

    View details for Web of Science ID A1989U938600091

  • THE WIZARDS OF LING NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY Wasow, T. 1985; 3 (4): 485-491

    View details for Web of Science ID A1985AXC9500003

  • COORDINATION AND HOW TO DISTINGUISH CATEGORIES NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY Sag, I. A., GAZDAR, G., Wasow, T., Weisler, S. 1985; 3 (2): 117-171

    View details for Web of Science ID A1985AKH6800001

  • COORDINATION AND TRANSFORMATIONAL-GRAMMAR LINGUISTIC INQUIRY GAZDAR, G., Pullum, G. K., Sag, I. A., Wasow, T. 1982; 13 (4): 663-677

    View details for Web of Science ID A1982PP57800004

  • CATEGORY AUX IN UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR LINGUISTIC INQUIRY AKMAJIAN, A., Steele, S. M., Wasow, T. 1979; 10 (1): 1-64

    View details for Web of Science ID A1979GR67600001

  • CONSTRAINING CLASS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LANGUAGES SYNTHESE Wasow, T. 1978; 39 (1): 81-104

    View details for Web of Science ID A1978FP60600002

  • MORE ON HAVE GOT LINGUISTIC INQUIRY Wasow, T. 1977; 8 (4): 772-776

    View details for Web of Science ID A1977EK15500018

  • REVIEW OF CONJECTURES AND REFUTATIONS IN SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS BY BRAME,MICHAEL,K LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS Wasow, T. 1977; 3 (4): 377-395

    View details for Web of Science ID A1977EK15400003

  • TASK-SPECIFICITY AND SPECIES-SPECIFICITY IN STUDY OF LANGUAGE - METHODOLOGICAL NOTE COGNITION Osherson, D. N., Wasow, T. 1976; 4 (2): 203-214

    View details for Web of Science ID A1976BY67600006

  • MCCAWLEY ON GENERATIVE SEMANTICS - REVIEW OF GRAMMAR AND MEANING BY MCCAWLEY,JD LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS Wasow, T. 1976; 2 (3): 279-301

    View details for Web of Science ID A1976CN58300004

  • CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE OF VP AND AUX AND POSITION OF VERB BE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AKMAJIAN, A., Wasow, T. 1975; 1 (3): 205-245

    View details for Web of Science ID A1975AS33900001

  • ANAPHORIC PRONOUNS AND BOUND VARIABLES LANGUAGE Wasow, T. 1975; 51 (2): 368-383

    View details for Web of Science ID A1975AC73100008