Scholar
Elsi Kaiser
Google Scholar ID: 6WbuF9AAAAAJ
Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California
Citations & Impact
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1,953
H-index
22
i10-index
52
Publications
20
Co-authors
46
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Background
- Professor and current Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California
- Primary research focus in psycholinguistics, particularly human sentence processing
- Research interests include issues at the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interfaces, such as encoding and processing of information structure (e.g., word order and prosody), coherence relations in discourse (especially causality)
- Explores perspective-taking, predicates of personal taste, subjectivity, free indirect discourse, and related phenomena
- Studies reference resolution and dependency formation, including comprehension and production of pronouns, demonstratives, reflexives, and reciprocals
- Investigates generic and impersonal reference, and representation/processing of linguistic and non-linguistic dependencies (e.g., wh-dependencies, satiation effects)
- Conducts crosslinguistic work on typologically diverse languages including Finnish, Estonian, French, German, Dutch, and collaborative projects on Bangla, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and Vietnamese
