Russell S Tomlin

Ph.D., University of Michigan (1979)
Email: tomlin@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541) 346-3909
Website: http://logos.uoregon.edu/tomlin/index.html

Russ Tomlin works in the general areas of language and cognition, second language acquisition, and functional and cognitive linguistic theory. His research in language and cognition has focused on the role of attention in discourse production, with particular focus on cross-linguistic comparisons of voice and word order using the FishFilm paradigm developed at Oregon. More recently, he has begun work on the nature of event representations in cognition and their mapping into clause structures in discourse production.

In second language acquisition, he has extended the study of attention in language production to the developing interlanguage grammars of second language learners. In addition, he has worked on empirical strategies for investigating very early acquisition and the role of input and interaction in individual learners.

Finally, he has been interested in the development of functional and cognitive theory, with particular attention to the interplay of theoretical claims and the empirical means used to argue for them.