Employment

Whitney TaborDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of Connecticut

Storrs, CT 06269

U.S.A.(860) 486-4910 (Office)(860) 429-2729 (Home)tabor@uconn.edu

http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~ps300vc/tabor.html

Education

Stanford University, Ph.D., Linguistics, August, 1994.

Dissertation: Syntactic Innovation: A Connectionist Model.

Committee: Elizabeth Traugott (Chair), Paul Kiparsky, David Rumelhart, Thomas Wasow.

Middlebury College, B.A., Mathematics 1984.Research Interests

Flexibility in structured systems, language processing, language learning,language change, formal syntax, neural network (connectionist) theory,dynamical systems theory, theory of computation.EmploymentFall 98 -PresentFall 97 -Summer 98Fall 96 -SummerFall 94 -Summer 96

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology,University of Connecticut

Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology Department, Cornell University.Advisor: Michael Spivey-Knowlton.Learning complex grammars.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Mind Articulation Project, MIT.Advisor: Edward Gibson.

Neurally plausible models of syntax.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Sciences of Language (CSL), U. of RochesterAdvisors: Robert Jacobs, Elissa Newport, Michael Tanenhaus.Dynamical systems analysis of neural networks.

Research AssistantshipsSummer 92

Stanford Linguistics Bantu Project.

Advisors: Joan Bresnan, Andrew Garrett, and Sam Mchombo.History/Typology of auxiliary coalescence in 5 Bantu languages.Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI).Advisors: Joan Bresnan and Sam Mchombo.Auxiliary coalescence in Chichewa.

Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI).Advisors: David Rumelhart and Ivan Sag.Neural network model of English ditransitives.

Summer 9090-91Summer 89

FellowshipsSummer 96Summer 93

Complex Systems Summer School,

Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Summer Workshop on Formal Modeling in Social Theory,Stanford University.

University Fellow, Stanford University.

88-89, 89-90, 91-92Summer 91Summer 90Summer 89

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute,University of California at Santa Cruz.Annual Connectionist Models Summer School,University of California at San Diego.

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute,University of Arizona at Tucson.

Teaching ExperienceSpring 99Fall 98Winter 93Winter 92Fall 92Fall 91Fall 84 -Spring 86

Cognitive Psychology, Psychology Department, Univesity of ConnecticutSentence Processing, Psychology Department, Univesity of ConnecticutTeaching Assistant, Linguistics Department, Stanford

Introduction to Linguistics. Instructors: Joan Bresnan, William Poser.Teaching Assistant, Linguistics Department, Stanford.Introduction to Semantics. Instructor: Alessandro Zucchi.Teaching Assistant, Linguistics Department, Stanford.Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Instructor: John Rickford.Teaching Assistant, Linguistics Department, Stanford.Introduction to Syntax. Instructor: Peter Sells.

High School Teacher, The White Mountain School, Littleton, New Hampshire.Courses: Calculus, Physics, Computer Programming, Rock Climbing.

Submitted Papers

Tabor, W. (submitted) ‘Fractal encoding of context-free grammars in connectionistnetworks.’ Submitted to Expert Systems: The International Journal of KnowledgeEngineering and Neural Networks.

Tabor, W. and Tanenhaus, M. K. (submitted) `Dynamical systems for sentenceprocessing.’ In M. Christiansen and N. Chater, Connectionist Psycholinguistics.Norwood, N.J: Ablex.Publications

Tabor, W. and Tanenhaus, M. K. (in press) `Dynamical models of sentence processing'.Cognitive Science.

Tabor, W. (1998). Dynamical Automata. Technical Report No. TR98-1694, CornellComputer Science Department. Available at http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu.

Tabor, W. and Traugott, E. C. (1998). `Structural scope expansion and

grammaticalization'. In Anna Giacolone Ramat and Paul Hopper, eds., The Limits ofGrammaticalization. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 227-270.

Tabor, W., Juliano, C. and Tanenhaus, M. K. (1997). `Parsing in a dynamical system: Anattractor-based account of the interaction of lexical and structural constraints in sentenceprocessing.' Language and Cognitive Processes, v. 12, no. 2/3, pp. 211--271.Tabor, W. (1997). Review of The Human Semantic Potential: Spatial Language andConstrained Connectionism by Terry Regier (MIT Press, 1996). ComputationalLinguistics. Vol. 23, Issue 4.

Tabor, W., Juliano, C., and Tanenhaus, M. K. (1996). `A dynamical system for languageprocessing'. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Cognitive Science Conference.

Tabor, W. (1995). `Lexical change as nonlinear interpolation'. In Proceedings of the 17thAnnual Cognitive Science Conference, J. D. Moore and J. F. Lehman, eds. Mahwah,New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.

Tabor, W. (1994). `The development of degree modifier sort of and kind of: a corpusproximity model'. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Chicago LinguisticsSociety, K. Beals, G. Cooke, D. Kathman, K. McCullough, S. Kita, and D. Testen, eds.Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Tabor, W. (1993). `Auxiliary coalescence in Chichewa: mismatch not required'. InProceedings of the Eleventh West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, JonathanMead, ed. Stanford: CSLI.

Conference Presentations

Tabor, W. (1999) 'Dynamical Models of Language'. Presentation at the Univeristy ofConnecticut Conference on Cognitive Science, Storrs, CT.

Tabor, W. (1999) 'Grammar and memory in connectionist networks'. Paper presented atthe Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), Providence, RI.Tabor, W. and Richardson, D. (1999). 'Ungrammatical influences in sentenceprocessing'. Poster presented at the 12th Annual CUNY Sentence ProcessingConference, New York, NY.

Tabor, W. (1999) 'Connecting the symbolic and subsymbolic: analysis of memory loadeffects in a neural network architecture'. Poster presented at the 12th Annual CUNYSentence Processing Conference, New York, NY.

Tabor, W. (1998). 'Context Free Grammar Representation in Neural Networks'. Paperpresented at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) workshop on HybridNeural Symbolic Systems. Breckenridge, Colorado.

Tabor, W. (1998). `Semantic versus Syntactic Anomaly in a Dynamical System'.

Presentation at the 11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, NewBrunswick, New Jersey.

Tabor, W. (1997). `Representation in Neural Network Models of Sentence Processing:Insights from Dynamical Systems Theory'. Presentation at the Neural InformationProcessing Systems (NIPS) workshops, Breckenridge, Colorado.

Tabor, W. (1997). `The interaction of syntactic and lexical constraints in sentenceprocessing: A dynamical systems approach'. Presentation at the 10th Annual CUNYConference on Human Sentence Processing, Santa Monica, California.

Tabor, W. (1996). `A dynamical system for language processing'. Poster at the 18thAnnual Cognitive Science Conference, University of California, San Diego.

Tabor, W. (1995). `Continuous categories strengthen diachronic theory'. Presentation atthe 24th annual conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), Universityof Pennsylvania.

Tabor, W. (1995). `Lexical change as nonlinear interpolation'. Presentation at the 17thAnnual Cognitive Science Conference, University of Pittsburgh.

Tabor, W. and Juliano, C. (1995). `Frequency contrast and grammatical representation:the case of frequency by regularity interaction'. Poster at the 8th Annual CUNYConference on Human Sentence Processing, Tucson, Arizona.

Tabor, W. (1994). `A new way of analyzing function/grammar interaction'. Presentation

at the 23rd annual conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE),Stanford.

Tabor, W. (1994). `Reanalysis is analogy'. Presentation at the 68th Annual Meeting of theLinguistic Society of America (LSA), Boston, Massachusetts.

Tabor, W. (1993), `Syntactic innovation as a ``Same Slope'' effect'. Presentation at the22nd annual conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), Univeristy ofOttawa.

Tabor, W. (1993). `The gradualness of syntactic change: a corpus proximity model'.Presentation at the XIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL),University of California, Los Angeles.

Tabor, W. (1993). `Rule Frequency and Syntactic Innovation'. Presentation at the 68thAnnual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Boston, Massachusetts.Tabor, W. (1992). `Auxiliary coalescence in {Chiche\\^{wa: Mismatch not Required'.Presentation at the Eleventh West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL),University of California, Los Angeles.

Tabor, W. (1992). `Reanalysis is early'. Presentation at the 66th Annual Meeting of theLinguistic Society of America (LSA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Invited Presentations

Tabor, W. (1999) 'Ungrammatical Influences in Sentence Processing.' Department ofPsychology, Northeastern University.

Tabor, W. (1999) 'Insight into Context Free Grammar Representation and Processing inNeural Networks.'

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Tabor, W. (1999) 'Fractal Grammars.' Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut.Tabor, W. (1997). `Linguistic structure in neural network models of sentence processing'.Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University.Tabor, W. (1997). `Metric relations among analog computers'. Theory Seminar,Department of Computer Science, Cornell University.

Tabor, W. (1995). `History shows how grammars bend'. Cognitive Science Colloquim,SUNY, Buffalo.

Tabor, W. (1994). `The gradualness of syntactic change: a corpus proximity model'.Linguistics Colloquium, University of California at Berkeley.

Tabor, W. (1994). `Using the continuous metrical properties of connectionist

representations to model syntactic change'. Center for Research on Language, Universityof California, San Diego.

References

Edward Gibson, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,MIT Building E10-034C, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.(617) 253-8609

gibson@psyche.mit.edu

Robert Jacobs, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, U.S.A.(716) 275-0753

robbie@bcs.rochester.edu

Paul Kiparsky, Department of Linguistics,

Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.(650) 725-1566

kiparsky@csli.stanford.edu

Elissa Newport, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, U.S.A.(716) 275-8689

newport@bcs.rochester.edu

David Pesetsky, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy,MIT Building 20D-219, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.(617) 253-0957pesetsk@mit.edu

David Rumelhart, Department of Psychology,Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.(650) 725-2457

der@psych.stanford.edu

Michael Spivey-Knowlton, Department of Psychology,Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A.(607) 255-9365

spivey-knowlton@cornell.edu

Michael Tanenhaus, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, U.S.A.(716) 275-5491

mtan@bcs.rochester.edu

Elizabeth Traugott, Department of Linguistics,Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.(650) 723-1578

traugott@csli.stanford.edu