| In Press | Embodied Grammar and Humor. To Appear in Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research, Geert Brone, Tony Veale, and Kurt Feyaerts (eds.). Mouton de Gruyter. (With Kim Binsted) [Draft] |
| Meaning in the palm of your hand. In Sally Rice and John Newman (eds.) Empirical and Experimental Methods in Conceptual structure, Discourse, and Language. Stanford: CSLI. (With Kathryn Wheeler) | |
| 2008 | Computational Models in the Debate over Language Learnability. Infant and Child Development 17:55-80. (With Frederic Kaplan and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer) [Draft] |
| Embodied concept learning. In Paco Calvo and Toni Gomila (eds.) Handbook of Cognitive Science. Elsevier. (With Jerome Feldman) | |
| 2007 | Spatial and linguistic aspects of visual imagery in sentence comprehension. (with Shane Lindsay, Teenie Matlock and Srini Narayanan). Cognitive Science. |
| Mental simulation in literal and figurative language. In Seana Coulson and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (eds.) The Literal/Non-Literal Distinction. | |
| Experimental methods for simulation semantics. In Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson, and Michael J. Spivey (eds.) Methods in Cognitive Linguistics: Ithaca. John Benjamins. | |
| Searching for Happiness or Full of Joy? Source Domain Activation Matters. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.. (With Meylysa Tseng, Yiran Hu, and Wen-Wei Han) | |
| 2006 | On the Emergence of Compositionality. Proceedings of the 6th evolution of language conference. (With Joachim De Beule) |
| Frame-Shifting Humor in Simulation- Based Language Understanding. In IEEE Intelligent Systems. (With Seana Coulson) | |
| 2005 | Writing Direction Influences Spatial Cognition. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (With Ting Ting Chan) |
| Mental Simulation in Spatial Language Processing. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. | |
| Sentence Understanding Engages Motor Processes. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (With Kathryn Wheeler) | |
| Lexical Processing Drives Motor Simulation. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (With Meylysa Tseng) | |
| The convergent evolution of radial constructions: French and English deictics and existentials. Cognitive Lingusitics. (With Madelaine C. Plauché) | |
| Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-Based Language Understanding. In Jan-Ola Östman and Miriam Fried (Eds.), Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions (With Nancy C. Chang) | |
| 2004 | Embodied verbal semantics: evidence from a verb-verb matching study. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. (With Shweta Narayan and Zach Weinberg) [Draft] |
| Simulated Action in an Embodied Construction Grammar. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (With Nancy Chang and Shweta Narayan) | |
| The psychological reality of phonaesthemes. Language 80(2). | |
| To awaken a sleeping giant: Blending and metaphor in editorial cartoons after September 11. In Michel Achard and Suzanne Kemmer (Eds.) Language, Culture, and Mind. CSLI. | |
| The cognitive linguistics of scalar humor. In Michel Achard and Suzanne Kemmer (Eds.) Language, Culture, and Mind. CSLI. | |
| 2003 | Embodied verbal semantics: evidence from an image-verb matching task. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (With Jerome Feldman and Shweta Narayan.) |
| Pun and non-pun humor in second-language learning. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Humor Modeling in the Interface at Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) (With Kim Binsted and Justin McKay) | |
| 2001 | Of sound, mind, and body: neural explanations for non-categorical phonology. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Linguistics, U.C. Berkeley. (Advisor: George Lakoff) |
| Nativization processes in L1 Esperanto. Journal of Child Language. 28(3): 575-595 | |
| Voilà voilà: Extensions of deictic constructions in French. In Alan Cienki, Barbara Luka, and Michael Smith (Eds.), Conceptual and Discourse Factors in Linguistic Structure. CSLI. (With Madelaine C. Plauché.) | |
| 2000 | Probability in phonological generalizations: Modeling optional French final consonants. In Alan Yu et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. |
| Ramifications of phonology-syntax interactions for phonological models. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquim, 27-36. | |
| 1999 | Markedness and the Evolution of Binary Spatial Deictics: French voilà and voici. In Steve Chang et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. (With Madelaine C. Plauché.) |
| Handouts from recent presentations | |
| 2002 | The linguistics of scalar humor. UH Manoa Linguistics Dept. Tuesday Seminar. |
| 2003 | Simulation Semantics. UH Manoa Linguistics Dept. Tuesday Seminar. |