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Whitney Tabor

Whitney Tabor

Title: Associate Professor


Departmental Program: Experimental: Language and Cognition

E-mail: whitney.tabor@uconn.edu

Office: BOUS 172

Office Phone: (860) 486-4910
Lab Phone: (860) 486-6080

Web site: Home page

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

Research Interests:

  • Change in structured systems
  • Connectionist (neural) networks
  • Language change

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Representative Publications:

  • Tabor, W., Juliano, C., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (1997). Parsing in a dynamical system: An attractor-based account of the interaction of lexical and structural constraints in sentence processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 12, 211-271.
  • Tabor, W., & Traugott, E. (1998). Structural scope expansion and grammaticalization. In A. Giacalone Ramat and P. J. Hopper (Eds.), The Limits of Grammaticalization (pp. 229-272). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Tabor, W., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (in press). Dynamical models of Sentence Processing. Cognitive Science.