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Education
2002-2007
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Ph.D. in Linguistics
1998-2002
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Creative Writing
2007 (Summer)
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
2004 (Summer)
North American Summer School in Logic and Information
University of Indiana
Bloomington, IN
2001 (Summer)
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara
Santa Barabara, CA
Experience
(2008- ) Post-doctoral researcher. Center for Research in Language, UC-San Diego. present
(2006-7) Student Subject Pool Coordinator. Stanford University.
(2006) Research Assistant. Processing Subjacency Effects (with Ivan Sag). Stanford University.
(2004-05) Corpus Researcher. Assistant to Geoffrey Nunberg.
(2004-05) Research Assistant. Wh-movement (with Ivan Sag). Stanford University.
(2003) Grammar Writer. MURI Project, Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University.
(2003) Research Assistant. Sounds of Discourse (with David Beaver & Edward Flemming). Stanford University.
Teaching
(2005) Stanford University. Teaching Assistant. Introduction to Semantics. Instructor: David Beaver.
(2005) Stanford University. Teaching Assistant. Introduction to Syntax. Instructor: Ivan Sag.
(2004) Stanford University. Teaching Assistant. Introduction to Lexical Semantics. Instructor: Beth Levin.
(2001) Hampshire College. Teaching Assistant. Introduction to Computational Linguistics. Instructor: Steven Weisler.
(2000) Hampshire College. Teaching Assistant. Theory of Language. Instructor: Steven Weisler.
Publications
(submitted) Hofmeister, P. Representational complexity and memory retrieval in language comprehension.
(submitted) Hofmeister, P & I.A. Sag. "Cognitive constraints and island effects."
(in press) Hofmeister, P. "A linearization account of either . . . or constructions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
(2007) Hofmeister, P. Representational Complexity and Memory Retrieval in Language Comprehension. Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University.
(2007) Hofmeister, P., T.F. Jaeger, I.A. Sag, I. Arnon, & N. Snider. "Locality and accessibility in wh-questions." In S. Featherston and W. Sternefeld (eds.), Roots: Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
(2007) Hofmeister, P. Memory retrieval effects on filler-gap processing.In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1091-1096). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
(2007) Hofmeister, P. Retrievability and gradience in filler-gap dependencies. In M. Elliott, J. Kirby, O. Sawada, E. Staraki and S. Yoon (eds.), Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, vol. 43, no. 1, 109-123.
(2007) Sag, I.A., P. Hofmeister, and N. Snider. Processing complexity in subjacency violations: the complex noun phrase constraint. In M. Elliott, J. Kirby, O. Sawada, E. Staraki and S. Yoon (eds.), Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, vol. 43, no. 1, 215-229.
(2006) Arnon, I., N. Snider, P. Hofmeister, T.F. Jaeger, I.A. Sag. "Cross-linguistic variation in a processing account: The case of multiple wh-questions." To appear in Proceedings of BLS 32.
Academic Presentations
(2009) Hofmeister, P. "Encoding effects on memory retrievalin language comprehension." Talk at CUNY 2009, Davis, CA. March, 2008.
(2009) Hofmeister, P. "Semantic processing effects on memory retrieval in language comprehension." 10th Annual Semantics Fest, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. March, 2008.
(2008) Hofmeister, P. and Ivan A. Sag. "Processing Factors in the Study of Island Effects." MayFest 2008, University of Maryland, College Park. May, 2008.
(2008) Hofmeister, P. The After-effects of Linguistic Form Choice on Comprehension. Poster presented at CUNY 2008. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
(2008) Jaeger, T.F., E. Fedorenko, P. Hofmeister, and E. Gibson. Expectation-based Syntactic Processing: Anti-locality outside of Head-final Languages. Talk at CUNY 2008. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
(2007) Hofmeister, P. Memory Retrieval Effects on Filler-Gap Processing. Poster presented at 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN.
(2007) Hofmeister, P., I.A. Sag, N. Snider. Empirical Investigations of Gradience in Syntactic Islands. 43rd Regional Meeting of the the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 43), Chicago, May 2007.
(2007) Hofmeister, P. Improving Filler-Retrieval in Dependency Processing. 43rd Regional Meeting of the the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 43), Chicago, May 2007.
(2007) Hofmeister, P. Memory Retrieval in Dependency Processing. Poster presented at CUNY 2007. University of California, San Diego. La Jolla, California.
(2007) Hofmeister, P. Facilitating Memory Retrieval in Language Comprehension. Stanford Linguistics Colloquia, Dissertation Proposal Talk, January 2007.
(2007) Hofmeister, P. "Facilitating Retrieval of Wh-Phrases." 81st Annual Linguistic Society of America Meeting, Anaheim, January 2007.
(2007) Sag, I.A., P. Hofmeister, N. Snider, P. Rosenstein. "Controlling Processing Factors in the Study of Subjacency." 81st Annual Linguistic Society of America Meeting, Anaheim, January 2007.
(2006) Hofmeister, P. "Wh-dependency Processing and the Feature Depth Hypothesis." Invited talk, Experimental Syntax Group, University of Californa-San Diego, November 2006.
(2006) Hofmeister, P., T.F. Jaeger, I. Arnon, I.A. Sag & N. Snider. Locality and Accessibility in Wh-Questions. Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives, Tuebingen, Germany, February 2006.
(2006) Arnon, I., N. Snider, P. Hofmeister, T.F. Jaeger & I.A. Sag. "Processing Accounts for Gradience in Acceptability." Berkeley Linguistics Society 32, February 2006.
(2006) Hofmeister, P. Linearization of Either . . . Or Constructions." 80th Annual LSA Meeting, Albuquerque, January 2006.
(2005) Hofmeister, P. "Strange Reading Habits: the Metrics of Philip Larkin". Stanford Poetics Fest. Stanford University.
(2005) Jaeger, T. F., Snider, N., Arnon, I., Estigarribia, B., Hofmeister, P., Pettibone, J., Sag, I. A. "Wh-phrase Order Variation: Processing as a Source of 'Ungrammaticality'". SPLAT, Stanford University, May 2005.
(2005) Arnon, I., Estigarribia, B., Hofmeister, P., Jaeger, T. F., Pettibone, J., Sag, I.A. & Snider, N. "Rethinking Superiority effects a processing model." Poster presented at 18th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Arizona, March 2005.
(2005) Hofmeister, P., N. Snider, I. Arnon, B. Estigarribia, T.F. Jaeger, J. Pettibone & I.A. Sag. "Processing Accounts for Superiority." S-TREND conference, Stanford University, April 2005.
(2005) Hofmeister, P. "Ellipsis, Domains, and the Syntax of Either . . . Or ." 2nd Annual QPFest, Stanford University.
(2005) Arnon, I., Estigarribia, B., Hofmeister, P., Jaeger, F., Pettibone, J., Sag, I.A. & Snider, N. "Long-distance Dependencies Without Island Constraints". Poster presented at HOWL 3: Hopkins Workshop on Language. John Hopkins University.
(2004) Hofmeister, P. "Free Choice and Context-Sensitivity". First Annual QPFest. Stanford University.
(2002) Hofmeister, P. "Definite Singular Generics". Fourth Annual Semantics Fest. Stanford University.
Awards
2002-07 Stanford University Graduate Fellowship
2001 Linguistic Society of America Summer Fellowship
1999 DataTel Scholarship
Languages
German (advanced)
