Dale J. Barr

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1999.

Office: Olmstead 2329
Phone: 951-827-2574
Email: dale.barr@ucr.edu

Barr's interests lie in cognitive science, pragmatics (language use), and psycholinguistics. A major goal of his work is to uncover the nature of the cognitive mechanisms by which people coordinate shared understanding in communication. His research has focused on the mental processes underlying perspective-taking, as well as the interactive and multimodal dimensions of conversation. He directs the conversational psycholinguistics laboratory (“TalkLab”) at UCR. Please see the TalkLab website for more information.

See also Barr's website on analyzing data from visual world experiments.

Full curriculum vitae (pdf)

Selected publications:

Barr, D. J., & Seyfeddinipur, M. (in press). The role of fillers in listener attributions for speaker disfluency. Language and Cognitive Processes. pdf (preprint)

Barr, D. J. (2008). Pragmatic expectations and linguistic evidence: Listeners anticipate but do not integrate common ground. Cognition, 109, 18-40. pdf (uncorrected ms)

Barr, D. J. (2008). Analyzing 'visual world' eyetracking data using multilevel logistic regression. Journal of Memory and Language, 59, 457-474. pdf (uncorrected ms) | website

Kronmüller, E., & Barr, D. J. (2007). Perspective-free pragmatics: Broken precedents and the recovery-from-preemption hypothesis. Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 436-455.

Barr, D. J. & Keysar, B. (2006). Perspective-taking and the coordination of meaning in lanuage use. In M. J. Traxler and M. A. Gernsbacher (Eds.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics: Second Edition (pp. 901-938). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Barr, D. J., & Keysar, B. (2005). Making sense of how we make sense: The paradox of egocentrism in language use. In H. Colston & A. Katz (Eds.), Figurative language processing: Social and cultural influences (pp. 21-41). Mahwaw, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Barr, D. J. (2004). Establishing conventional communication systems: Is common knowledge necessary? Cognitive Science, 28, 937-962. pdf | website

Barr, D. J. (2003). Paralinguistic correlates of conceptual structure. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 462-467.

Keysar, B., Lin, S., & Barr, D. J. (2003). Limits on theory of mind use in adults. Cognition, 89, 25-41.

Barr, D. J., & Keysar, B. (2002). Anchoring comprehension in linguistic precedents. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 391-418.

Barr, D. J. (2001).Trouble in mind: Paralinguistic indices of effort and uncertainty in communication. In C. Cavé, I. Guaïtella, & S. Santi (Eds.) Oralité et gestualité: Interactions et comportements multimodaux dans la communication, pp. 597-600. Paris: L'Harmattan. pdf

Keysar, B., Barr, D. J., Balin, J. A., & Brauner, J. S. (2000). Taking perspective in conversation: The role of mutual knowledge in comprehension. Psychological Science, 11, 32-38.

Kelly, S. D., Barr, D. J., Church, R. B., & Lynch, K. (1999). Offering a hand to pragmatic understanding: The role of speech and gesture in comprehension and memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 577-592.