My academic research focuses on the representation of linguistic knowledge and the architecture and dynamics of the cognitive systems which contain that knowledge. In addition, I am interested in the real-time utilization of linguistic and non-linguistic information during the processes of language production and comprehension. My primary research program examines the architecture and dynamics of the mental lexicon. A closely related secondary program investigates interfaces between systems within the language faculty and between linguistic and non-linguistic systems. This research relies heavily upon the application of experimental, statistical and computational methods to linguistic data and linguistic theory.

Publications

Holsinger, E. (2013). Representing Idioms: Syntactic and Contextual Effects on Idiom Processing. Language and Speech link

Holsinger, E. & Kaiser, E. (2012). Processing (non)compositional expressions: Mistakes and recovery. Article to appear in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition. link

Holsinger, E., Li, D., Kaiser, E. & Byrd, D. (In progress). From seeing to saying: On the relation of visual and prosodic grouping. Article in progress. [request manuscript]

Holsinger, E. (2011). Cutting the mustard: An experimental investigation of idiomatic expressions in the lexicon. University of Southern California Doctoral Dissertation. [dissertation]

Kaiser, E., Li, D. & Holsinger, E. (2011). Exploring the lexical and acoustic consequences of referential predictability. In I. Hendrickx, A. Branco, S. Lalitha Devi, & R. Mitkov. (Eds.) Anaphora Processing and Applications, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 7099.

Holsinger, E. & Kaiser, E. (to appear). An experimental investigation of semantic and syntactic effects on idiom recognition. Proceedings of the 2010 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL). Fresno, CA, November 2010. [paper]

Holsinger, E., & Kaiser, E. (2010). Effects of Context on Processing (non)-Compositional Expressions. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts. [paper]

Holsinger, E., Li, D., Kaiser, E., Byrd, D. (2010). Visual grouping and prosodic grouping: Effects of spatial information on prosodic boundary strength. In proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Speech & Prosody. [paper]

Conference Talks

Holsinger, E. & Kaiser, E.  (2012). An Eye-Tracking Investigation of Contextual Bias on Idiom Processing. Paper presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Portland, Oregon, January 2012.

Kaiser, E., Holsinger, E., Li, D. & Byrd, D. (2011). From seeing to saying: On the relation of visual and prosodic grouping. Paper presented at New Trends in Experimental Psycholinguistics, Madrid, Spain, September, 2011.

Kaiser, E. Li, D. & Holsinger, E. (2011). Prominence on different levels: Reference-tracking and effects of (mis)matches.  Paper presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Poitiers, France, July 2011.

Holsinger, E. & Kaiser, E. (2011). Keeping an eye on idioms: Investigating non-compositional processing with eye-tracking. Paper presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Pittsburg, PA, January 2011.

Holsinger, E. & Kaiser, E. (2010). An experimental investigation of semantic and syntactic effects on idiom recognition. Paper presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL). Fresno, CA, November 2010.

Holsinger, E. & Kaiser, E.. (2010). Effects of context on processing (non)-compositional expressions. Paper presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Baltimore, MD, January 2010.

Holsinger, E. & Kaiser, E. (2009). Processing (Non-)Compositional Expressions: Context Effects. Paper presented at the Texas Linguistics Society. Austin, TX, November 2009.

Holsinger, E. (2008). Re- Again: A semantic investigation of restitutive again and re- in English. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Meeting. Columbus, OH,  July 2008. [manuscript]

Conference Posters

Kaiser, E., Li, D., Holsinger, E. (2011). It’s all in how you say it: Predictability effects on referring expressions. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Conference on Architecuture and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Paris, France, September 2011.

Kaiser, E., Holsinger, E., & Li, D. (2011). It’s not the words, but how you say them: Effects of referential predictability on production of names and pronouns. Poster presented at PRE-CogSci: Bridging the gap between computational, empirical & theoretical approaches to reference, Boston, MA, July 2011. [poster] [paper]

Kaiser, E., Holsinger, E., Li, D. (2011). Who next? Consequences of syntax-semantic mismatches for likelihood of mention. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Palo Alto, California, March 2011. [poster]

Kaiser, E., Holsinger, E., Li, D., Byrd, D. (2010). From eye to mouth: Connecting non-linguistic visual grouping and linguistic processing. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology 12. Albuquerque, NM, July 2010. [poster]

Holsinger, E., Li, D., Kaiser, E., Byrd, D. (2010). Visual grouping and prosodic grouping: Effects of spatial information on prosodic boundary strength. Poster presented at the 5th International Conference on Speech & Prosody. Chicago, IL, May 2010. [poster]

Holsinger, E., Kaiser, E.. (2009). Processing (non-)compositional expressions: expectation effects. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLAP). Barcelona, Spain, September 2009. [poster]

Holsinger, E., Ramanarayanan, V., Byrd, D., Goldstein, L., Gorno-Tempini, M., Narayanan, S.. (2009). Beyond acoustic data: Characterizing disordered speech using direct articulatory evidence from real time imaging. Poster presented at the 157th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Portland, OR, May 2009. [poster]

Holsinger, E., Kaiser, E. (2008). Nominal Hierarchies: Hierarchical information interacts with shape on a novel word task. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY). Chapel Hill, NC, March 2008. [poster]