Dale J. BarrAssistant
Professor |
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.
Barr, D. J. (in press). Pragmatic expectations and linguistic evidence: Listeners anticipate but do not integrate common ground. Cognition. pdf (uncorrected ms)
Barr, D. J. (in press). Analyzing 'visual world' eyetracking data using multilevel logistic regression. Journal of Memory and Language: Special Issue on Emerging Data Analysis and Inferential Techniques. 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).
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.
Recent conference presentations:
Barr, D. J. (2007). Audience design and automatic processing in reference generation. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Turku, Finland. pdf
Barr, D. J., & Kronmüller, E. (2004). Can talker identity constrain spoken word recognition? Poster presented at the 45th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis. pdf
Barr, D. J. (2003). Listeners are mentally contaminated. Poster presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver. pdf
Barr, D. J. (2001) Paralinguistic correlates of discourse structure. Poster presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL. pdf