Jessica L. Montag

622 Psychology Bldg University of Wisconsin-Madison Dept of Psychology (WJ Brogden Hall) 1202 West Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706-1696 E-Mail: Phone: (608) 262-1897 Fax: (608) 262-4029

Graduate Student

BA in Psychology and Linguistics, 2006, University of California, Berkeley

MS in Psychology, 2008, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Research Statement:

I am a third year graduate student in the cognitive area. I am primarily interested in language production, especially how and why speakers make the choices they do when they speak.

I am currently working on a project that examines certain structure choices that speakers reliably make. The goal is to figure out what makes certain constructions more "difficult" than others and why speakers make the structural choices that they do. To further explore this, I incorporate a cross-linguistic component in my research.

In another project, I examine sentence production and comprehension in children.

Presentations & Posters:

Montag, J. L. & MacDonald, M. C. (2009). Word order doesn't matter: Relative clause production in English and Japanese. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2594-2599). Cognitive Science Society.

Montag, J. L. & MacDonald, M. C. (2009). Measuring production difficulty in object relative clauses. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, California.