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Grodner, D. & Sedivy, J. (In press). The effects of speaker-specific information on pragmatic inferences. In N. Pearlmutter & E. Gibson (eds). The Processing and Acquisition of Reference. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

Yee, E., Blumstein, S. & Sedivy, J. (In press). Lexical activation in Broca's and Wernicke's Aphasia: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Sedivy, J. (2007). Implicatures in real-time conversation: A view from language processing research. Philosophy Compass, 2/3 475-496, 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2007.00082.x

Yee, E. & Sedivy, J. (2006). Eye movements reveal transient semantic activation during spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32(1), pp. 1-14.

Myung, J-Y., Blumstein, S. & Sedivy, J. (2006). Playing on the Typewriter, Typing on the Piano: Manipulation Knowledge of Objects. Cognition 98, 224-243

Sedivy, J. (2003). Pragmatic versus form-based accounts of referential contrast: Evidence for effects of informativity expectations. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.

Sussman, R. & Sedivy, J. (2003). The time course of processing syntactic dependencies: Evidence from eye movements during spoken narratives. Language and Cognitive Processes.18, 143-163.>

Spivey, M., Tanenhaus, M., Eberhard, K., & Sedivy, J. (2002). Eye Movements and Spoken Language Comprehension: Effects of Visual Context on Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution. Cognitive Psychology, 45, 447-481.

Sedivy, J. (2002). Invoking discourse-based contrast sets and resolving syntactic ambiguities. Journal of Memory and Language, 341-370.

Nadig, A. & Sedivy, J. (2002). Evidence of perspective-taking constraints in children's on-line reference resolution. Psychological Science, 13 (4), pp. 329-336.

Sedivy, J., Tanenhaus, M., Chambers, C., & Carlson, G. (1999). Achieving incremental semantic interpretation through contextual representation. Cognition, 71, 109-147.

Spivey-Knowlton, M., & Sedivy, J. (1995). Parsing attachment ambiguities with multiple constraints. Cognition, 55, 227-267.

Eberhard, K., Spivey-Knowlton, M., Sedivy, J., & Tanenhaus, M. (1995). Eye movements as a window into real-time spoken language comprehension in natural contexts. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 24, 409-436.

Tanenhaus, M., Spivey-Knowlton, M., Eberhard, K., & Sedivy, J. (1995). Integration of visual and linguistic information during spoken language comprehension. Science, 268, 1632-1634.

Sedivy, J., Tanenhaus, M., Eberhard, K., Spivey-Knowlton, M., & Carlson, G. (1995). Using intonationally-marked presuppositional information to study spoken- language comprehension: Evidence from eye movements to a visual model. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 375-380.