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Research Publications and Bibliography

  
Some of the papers listed below are available for downloading (PDF formatted, requires Adobe Acrobat to read).  Please email me for reprints of others.
Tomlin, R. S., Forrest, L., & Pu, M. M. (1997). Discourse semantics. In T. van Dijk (Ed.), Discourse as structure and process (pp. 63-111). London: Sage.

Tomlin, R. S. (1997). Mapping conceptual representations into linguistic representations: The role of attention in grammar. In J. Nuyts & E. Pederson (Eds.), Language and conceptualization (pp. 162-189). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tomlin, R. S. (1995a). Modeling individual tutorial interactions: theoretical and empirical bases for ICALL. In M. Holland, J. Kaplan & M. Sams (Eds.), Intelligent language tutors: balancing theory and technology (pp. 221-242). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Tomlin, R. S. (1995b). Focal attention, voice, and word order: an experimental, cross-linguistic study. In P. Downing & M. Noonan (Eds.), Word order in discourse (pp. 517-554). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Tomlin, R. S., & Villa, V. (1994). Attention in cognitive science and SLA. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 16(2), 183-203.

Tomlin, R. S. (1994a). Functional grammars, pedagogical grammars, and communicative language teaching. In T. Odlin (Ed.), Perspectives on pedagogical grammar (pp. 140-178). London: Cambridge University Press.

Tomlin, R. S. (1994b). Repetition in second language acquisition. In B. Johnstone (Ed.), Repetition in discourse (Vol. 1, pp. 172-194). New York: Ablex.

Tomlin, R. S., & Rhodes, R. (1992). Information distribution in Ojibwa. In D. Payne (Ed.), The pragmatics of word order flexibility (pp. 117-135). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [NB: This is a republication, with slight changes, of Tomlin and Rhodes 1979].

Tomlin, R. S., & Pu, M. M. (1991). The management of reference in Mandarin discourse. Cognitive Linguistics, 2, 65-93.

Tomlin, R. S. (1990). Functionalism in second language acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 12, 155-177.

Dollaghan, C. A., Campbell, T. F., & Tomlin, R. S. (1990). Video narration as a language sampling context. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 55, 582-590.

Tomlin, R. S. (1987). Linguistic reflections of cognitive events. In R. S. Tomlin (Ed.), Coherence and grounding in discourse (pp. 455-479). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Douglas, S. A., Novick, D. G., & Tomlin, R. S. (1987). Consistency and variation in spatial reference, Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 417-426). HIllsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Tomlin, R. S. (1986a). Basic word order: Functional principles. London: Croom Helm.

Tomlin, R. S. (1986b). The identification of foreground-background information in on-line descriptive discourse. Papers in Linguistics, 19, 465-494.

Selinker, L., & Tomlin, R. S. (1986). An empirical look at the integration and separation of skills in ELT. ELT Journal, 40, 227-235.

Tomlin, R. S. (1985a). Foreground-background information and the syntax of subordination. Text, 5, 85-122.

Tomlin, R. S. (1985b). Interaction of subject, theme, and agent. In J. R. Wirth (Ed.), Beyond the sentence: Discourse and sentential form (pp. 61-82). Ann Arbor: Karoma. [Reprint of Tomlin 1983].

Tomlin, R. S. (1984a). The treatment of foreground-background information in the on-line descriptive discourse of second language learners. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 6, 115-142.

Tomlin, R. S. (1984b). The frequency of basic constituent orders. Papers in Linguistics, 7, 163-196.

Tomlin, R. S. (1983). On the interaction of syntactic subject, thematic information, and agent in English. Journal of Pragmatics, 7, 411-432.

Tomlin, R. S., & Rhodes, R. (1979). An introduction to information distribution in Ojibwa. In P. Clyne, W. F. Hanks & C. L. Hofbauer (Eds.), Papers from the Fifteenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (pp. 307-321). Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.

Bayless, R., & Tomlin, R. S. (1979). The role of expected information in the analysis of English texts. University of Michigan Publications in Linguistics, 3(2), 1-16.

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Volumes Edited


Tomlin, R. S., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (Eds.). (1994). Cognitive foundations of second language acquisition. Special Issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition (Vol. 16).

Tomlin, R. S. (Ed.). (1987). Coherence and Grounding in Discourse (Vol. 11). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

DeLancey, S., & Tomlin, R. S. (Eds.). (1987). Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. Eugene, OR: Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon.

DeLancey, S., & Tomlin, R. S. (Eds.). (1986). Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. Eugene, OR: Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon.

DeLancey, S., & Tomlin, R. S. (Eds.). (1985). Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. Eugene, OR: Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon.

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