Research:
Primary Research Areas:
Prosody: Perception, production, acoustic correlates of linguistic structures, prosodic disambiguation.
Discourse: Semantic and pragmatic theories of discourse structure, coherence relations, lexical and non-lexical cues to discourse organization.
Experimental Methods: Linguistic methodology, Mechanical Turk.
Sociolinguistics: Social and linguistic meanings of uptalk, Perceptual dialectology of Arabic.
Dissertation:
Tyler, J. (2012). Discourse Prosody in Production and Perception. University of Michigan. (pdf)Papers:
Tyler, Joseph. (Under revision) Gender, questions and phonetic variation in uptalk: A corpus analysis of terminal rising pitch in the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English.Tyler, Joseph, Hannah Rohde, and Katy Carlson. (Under revision) Form and function: Optional complementizers reduce causal inferences.
Tyler, Joseph and Ezra Keshet. (Under revision) Prosodic disambiguation of conditional vs. logical conjunction.
Carlson, Katy and Joseph Tyler. (Under review) Accents, not just prosodic boundaries, influence syntactic attachment.
Tyler, Joseph. (2015) Expanding and Mapping the Indexical Field: Rising Pitch, the Uptalk Stereotype, and Perceptual Variation. Journal of English Linguistics, 43(4), 284-310. (link)
Tyler, Joseph (2014). Prosody and the Interpretation of Hierarchically Ambiguous Discourse, Discourse Processes. (link)
Theodoropoulou, Irene & Joseph Tyler (2014). Perceptual Dialectology of the Arab World: A Principal Analysis. Al-Arabiyya, 47, 21-39.
Tyler, Joseph. (2014) Rising pitch, continuation, and the hierarchical structure of discourse. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 20: Iss. 1, Article 36.
Tyler, Joseph (2013). Prosodic Correlates of Discourse Boundaries and Hierarchy in Discourse Production, Lingua, 133, 101-126. (link)
Conference Presentations:
2016 Tyler, Joseph. Social and semantic-pragmatic meanings of terminal rising pitch. Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, Jan 7-10, Washington, DC.
2016 Tyler, Joseph and Rachel Burdin. List intonation and speaker beliefs about listener knowledge. Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, Jan 7-10, Washington, DC.
2015 Tyler, Joseph. A social explanation for a gender difference in the size of terminal rising pitch (uptalk). New Ways of Analyzing Variation 44 (NWAV 44), Oct 22-25, Toronto, Canada.
2013 Tyler, Joseph. The many meanings of uptalk: Perceptions of rising terminal pitch on declaratives in American English. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 42 (NWAV 42), October 17-20, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (pdf)
2011 Tyler, Joseph. Prosody and listeners' interpretation of ambiguous discourse. Ilse Lehiste Memorial Symposium: Melody and Meter, Nov. 11-12, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (pdf)
2011 Tyler, Joseph. “Prosodic Correlates of Discourse Structure: A Production Study” Annual Meeting of the International Pragmatics Association, Manchester, UK, July 3-8
2011 Tyler, Joseph. “Prosodic correlates of discourse structure: a production study” Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, Jan. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA
2009 Tyler, Joseph. “Prosody and Discourse Structure” SWAMP (Semantics Workshop of the American Midwest and Prairies), Nov. 20, U of Chicago
Conference Posters:
2014 Tyler, Joseph. Duration and rise-span of rising pitch in conversational American English: Rises are never both long and large. Acoustical Society of America, May 5-9, Providence, Rhode Island (pdf)2013 Tyler, Joseph. Prosody and listeners’ interpretation of ambiguous discourse. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 3-6, Boston, Massachusetts (pdf)
2012 Tyler, Joseph. Prosody and listeners’ interpretation of ambiguous discourse. 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, July 10-12, Montreal, Canada (pdf)
2011 Tyler, Joseph. Discourse coherence in spoken vs. written discourse, and prosodic effects on coherence judgments. Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Prosody, Sept. 23-25, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (pdf)
2011 Tyler, Joseph, Jason Kahn, & Jennifer Arnold. Speakers use prosody to communicate discourse structure, and listeners use that prosody in comprehending discourse structure Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Prosody, Sept. 23-25, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (pdf)
2011 Kahn, Jason, Joseph Tyler, & Jennifer Arnold. “Speakers Use Prosody to Communicate the Intended Interpretation of an Ambiguous Discourse” CUNY 2011: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 24-26, Stanford, CA (pdf)
2010 Tyler, Joseph. “Prosody as empirical evidence for the communication and representation of discourse structure” WPSI IV (Workshop on Prosody, Syntax and Information) Sept. 17-18, U of Delaware
Colloquia and Talks:
2013 Tyler, Joseph. The many meanings of uptalk: perceptions of rising terminal pitch on declaratives in American English. English Language Research Group, July 5, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.2012 Tyler, Joseph. Prosody and listeners' interpretation of ambiguous discourse. Grammar Seminar Series, Oct. 30, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2012 Tyler, Joseph. Prosody and listeners' interpretation of ambiguous discourse. Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics Group, Aug. 8, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2011 Tyler, Joseph. Prosody and listeners' interpretation of ambiguous discourse. Student Colloquium, Dec. 9, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan