Curriculum Vitae for Barbara Fox

Barbara A. Fox

Curriculum Vitae
April 2000

Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado
Campus Box 295
Boulder, CO 80309

EDUCATION:

1984	Ph.D.	Linguistics	University of California, Los Angeles
1981	M.A.	Linguistics	University of California, Los Angeles
1980	B.A.	Linguistics	University of California, Los Angeles

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1998 - present	Professor	University of Colorado
1991 - 1998	Associate Professor	University of Colorado
1984 - 1991	Assistant Professor	University of Colorado, Department of Lingusitics
1982	Instructor	California State College, San Bernardino, Department of English

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

To appear	The Language of Turns and Sequences. (co-edited with C. Ford and S. Thompson). New York: Oxford University Press.
1998	Cognition, Language and Discourse (co-edited with D. Jurafsky and L. Michaelis). Stanford: CSLI.
1996	Fox, B. (Ed.) Studies in Anaphora. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1994	Voice: Form and Function (co-edited with P. Hopper). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1993	Human Tutorial Dialogue. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
1987	Discourse Structure and Anaphora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Articles:

To appear	Lexical, prosodic, and syntactic cues for dialog acts. In Proceedings of ACL/COLING-98. [with D. Jurafsky, E. Shriberg, and T.Curl] Constituency and turn increments. C. Ford, B. Fox, and S. Thompson. In C. Ford, B. Fox, and S. Thompson (Eds.). The Language of Turns and Sequences. London: Oxford University Press. An Exploration of Prosody and Turn Projection in English Conversation. In E. Couper-Kuhlen and M. Selting (Eds.) Interactional Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Interaction and grammar. C. Ford, B. Fox, and S. Thompson. In M. Tomasello (Ed.) The New Psychology of Language, vol II. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
1999	Directions in Research: Language and the Body. Research on Language and Social Interaction 32. Karen Tracy (Ed.). [Special Issue: "Language and Social Interaction at the Century's Turn"]
1998	Tone-choice repair in Mandarin conversation. L. Tao, B. Fox, and J. Gómez de García. In: B. Fox, D. Jurafsky, L. Michaelis (Eds). Stanford: CSLI.
1996	Practices in the construction of turns: the 'TCU' revisited (with Cecilia Ford and Sandra Thompson). In C Ford and J. Wagner (Eds.). Special issue of Pragmatics. Resources and repair: a cross-linguistic study of the syntactic organization of repair. (with Makoto Hayashi and Robert Jasperson). In E. Ochs, E. Schegloff & S. Thompson (Eds.). Interaction and Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Interactional motivations for reference formulation: He had. This guy had a beautiful, thirty-two Olds. (with Cecilia Ford). In B. Fox (Ed.) Studies in Anaphora. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1995	A syntactic exploration of repair in conversation. with Robert Jasperson). In P. Davis (Ed.) Descriptive and Theoretical Modes in the Alternative Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp 77-134. The category 'S' in conversational English. In W. Abraham, T. Givon and S. Thompson (Eds.), Discourse Grammar and Typology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 153-178.
1994	Semantics and interaction: Three exploratory case studies. (with Robert Jasperson and Makoto Hayashi). In P. Hopper and S. Thompson (Eds.), special issue of Text 14: 555-580. Contextualization, indexicality, and the distributed nature of grammar. Language Sciences 16: 1-37. (Special issue edited by P. Davis.) Active voice and middle diathesis: A cross-linguistic perspective (with M. Arce-Arenales and M. Axelrod). In Fox and Hopper (eds.) Voice: Form and Function. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1993	Correction in tutoring. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. University of Colorado, Boulder.
1992	Review of The Pragmatics of Word Order, by Doris Payne. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. American Anthropologist.
1991	On formulating reference: an interactional approach to relative clauses in English conversation (with S. Thompson). In A. Duranti and B. Schieffelin (eds.) Papers in Pragmatics. Cognitive and interactional aspects of correction in tutoring dialogues. In P. Goodyear (ed.) Teaching Knowledge and Intelligent Tutoring. New Jersey: Ablex.
1990	A discourse explanation of the grammar of relative clauses in English conversation (with S. Thompson). Language 66: 51-64. Human tutorial dialogue. In Working Notes: AAAI Spring Symposium Series.
1988	Anaphora in popular stories: Implications for narrative theory. Empirical Studies of the Arts 6.2: 149-169. (Invited submission) Review of Analysing Conversation, by Talbot Taylor and Deborah Cameron. Language and Speech 31.1: 87-93. Collaborative cognition (with L. Karen). In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Computer-aided reasoned discourse (with P.Smolensky). In R. Guindon (ed.). Cognitive Science and its Application to Computer-Human Interaction. New Jersey: L. Erlbaum. The discourse definition of ergativity: a study in Chamorro and Tagalog texts (with A. Cooreman and T. Givon). Reprinted in R. McGinn (ed.) Studies in Austronesian Linguistics. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. Variation and patterning in discourse and grammar. Proceedings of NWAV-XV. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Constraint-based hypertext for argumentation (with P. Smolensky, B. Bell, R. King and C.Lewis). Proceedings of Hypertext-87.
1987	The noun phrase accessibility hierarchy revisited: subject primacy or the absolutive hypothesis. Language 63: 856-870. Interactional reconstruction in real-time language processing. Cognitive Science 11: 365-387. Morphosyntactic markedness and discourse structure. Journal of Pragmatics. Anaphora in written English narratives. In R. Tomlin (ed.) Coherence and Grounding in Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1986	Local patterns and general principles in cognitive processes. Text 16.1: 25-51. On the creation of discourse by grammar. In S. DeLancey and R. Tomlin (eds.) Proceedings of the First Pacific Linguistics Conference, Eugene, Oregon. Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon.
1985	Discourse continuity and word-order inversion in Tagalog. Text 5: 39-54.
1984	The discourse definition of ergativity (with A. Cooreman and T. Givon). Studies in Language 8: 1-34. Participant tracking in Toba Batak. In P. Schachter (ed.) Studies in the Structure of Toba Batak. Los Angeles: UCLA.
1983	The discourse function of the participle in Ancient Greek." In F. Klein-Andreu (ed.) Discourse Perspectives on Syntax: 23-41. New York: Academic Press.
1982	Review of Language Typology: Cross-Linguistic Studies in Syntax by G. Mallinson and B. Blake, 1981. In Australian Journal of Linguistics, 2.2: 261-265. Figure Ground in Language. Glossa 16.2: 149-180.
1981	Body part syntax. Studies in Language 5.3: 323-342.

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:

	2000	Challenges in working with prosody in talk-in-interaction. Paper as part of an invited symposium, American Association of Applied Linguistics, March, 2000, Vancouver, Canada. Conversation Analysis and Corpus Linguistics: Research directions at their intersection. Invited talk, Applied Linguistics program, Cornell University, April, 2000.
	1998	Lexical, prosodic, and syntactic cues for dialog acts (with D. Jurafsky, E. Shriberg, and T. Curl). Paper given at ACL/COLING-98, Montreal, Canada, August, 1998.
	1996	Simultaneous practices of turn projection (with Cecilia Ford and Sandra Thompson). Paper given at the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, California, November, 1996.
	1995	On the embodied nature of grammar: embodied being-in-the-world. Plenary talk at the International Conference on Functional Grammar, University of New Mexico, July, 1995. Practices in the construction of turns: the 'TCU' revisited (with Cecilia Ford and Sandra Thompson). Invited talk at the Symposium on Conversation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July, 1995. The Human Tutorial Dialogue Project. Invited talk at AERA, San Francisco, CA, April, 1995.
	1994	Syntax and repair: a cross-linguistic study. Invited talk at the Linguistics department at the University of New Mexico, November 4, 1994. Interactional motivations for reference formulation: He had. This guy had a beautiful, thirty-two O:lds. (with Cecilia Ford). Paper presented at the 20th "Charles Li" symposium, Allenspark, Colorado, May 20-22, 1994.
	1993	The grammar of repair, or: How to be fluently dysfluent. Invited talk at COTESOL. Denver, CO, November, 1993. Correction in tutoring. Invited paper for the symposium on tutorial dialogue, 15th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Colorado, Boulder, June, 1993. A syntactic exploration of repair in conversation. (with Robert Jasperson). Invited paper at the Fifth Biennial Symposium of the Department of Linguistics, Rice University (Descriptive and Theoretical Modes in the Alternative Linguistics), March 30-April 3, 1993.
	1992	A linguist's thoughts on "Transparent Vision." Invited discussant at the Workshop on Interaction and Grammar, UCLA, May 1-2, 1992. Functional syntax/discourse analysis and its implications for cognitive science. Invited talk delivered to the Cognitive Science Program, University of Costa Rica, San Jose Costa Rica, February, 1992. The Human Tutorial Dialogue Project: Implications for Interactive Instructional Systems. Invited talk delivered to the Cognitive Science Program, University of Costa Rica, San Jose Costa Rica, and to the Fundacion Omar Dengo, February, 1992.
	1991	Contextualization, indexicality, and the organization of grammar. Invited participant, Rice Symposium on Language and Its Cognitive Interpretation, Rice University, April, 1991. Invited speaker, Twelfth Annual Milwaukee Symposium on Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April, 1991.
	1990	Human Tutorial Dialogue. Panel member at AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University, March, 1990. Human Tutorial Dialogue. ONR Contractors' meeting, Princeton University, March, 1990. Another look at voice: Ksanta and Kartri Diatheses in Cross-linguistic perspective (with M. Arce-Arenales and M. Axelrod). Presented at Voice Symposium, Santa Barbara, CA, March, 1990.
	1989	Research on Human Tutorial Dialogue. Talk delivered to the Applied Linguistics Department, University of California, Los Angeles, June, 1989. Discourse and cognition (with S. Thompson). Paper given at the Symposium on Cognitive Linguistics, Duisburg, Germany, March, 1989. Human tutorial dialogue. Presentation at ONR Contractors' meeting, Orlando Florida, March, 1989. Human tutorial dialogue. Invited talk given at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Cognitive Science Program, February, 1989. Human tutorial dialogue. Talk given at the Rocky Mountain Artificial Intelligence Group, School of Mines, Colorado, February, 1989. On the symbiosis of interaction and cognition: relative clauses in English conversation. Paper given at the University of Hawaii, Department of Linguistics, January, 1989.
	1988	On the symbiosis of interaction and cognition: relative clauses in English conversation (with S. Thompson). Anthropological Association of America, Phoenix, Arizona, November, 1988. Collaborative Cognition (with L. Karen). The Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, August, 1988. Human tutorial dialogue: issues in interface design. ONR contractors' meeting, Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), Pittsburgh, March, 1988.
	1987	Constraint-based hypertext for argumentation (with P. Smolensky, B. Bell, R. King, and C. Lewis). Presented at the First Annual Hypertext Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Invited speaker on panel, "Social science and system design: interdisciplinary collaborations. CHI '87, Toronto. Learning as an interactional achievement. ONR Contractors' meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, March, 1987.
	1986	Variation and patterning in discourse and grammar. NWAV-XV, Stanford University, October, 1986. The Keenan-Comrie Accessibility Hierarchy revisited. Pacific Linguistics Conference, University of Oregon, November, 1986. Research on Human tutorial dialogue. University of Colorado. Meeting on Research in Cognition. Rhetorical Structure Analysis and theories of reading. Invited talk at the University Learning Center, University of Colorado, Boulder. Research on Human Tutorial Dialogue. ONR Contractors' Meeting, Champaign-Urbana, IL, July, 1986. Computer-aided reasoned discourse. Symposium, Cognitive Science: theory, methodology, and application to Human-Computer interaction. Boulder, Colorado. Interactive reconstruction in real-time language processing. University of Colorado. Meeting on Research in Cognition.
	1985	On the creation of discourse by grammar. First Pacific Linguistics Conference, Eugene, Oregon. Communicative repair in human tutorial conversation. COTESOL, Denver, Colorado. General principles and local patterns in natural language processing. University of Colorado, Meeting on Research in Cognition.
	1983	Continuity and discourse structure. Winter meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
	1982	Discourse and the accessibility hierarchy (with P. Hopper and S. Thompson). Summer meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Clause-linking in Old Javanese. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.

HONORS and AWARDS:

	1988	Alumni Association Teaching Recognition Award, University of Colorado
	1981	National Science Foundation 3-year Graduate Fellowship University of California Regent Fellowship (not taken)
	1980	Phi Beta Kappa

GRANTS:

	1994	The syntax of self-repair. CRCW. $3500. Anaphora symposium. GCAH. $1100. Funds to bring Andrej Kibrik to the Anaphora Symposium. IREX. $1700.
	1989	IMPART grant for course development (Language and Gender, Lx 2400) $3,000
	1980	"Textual Corpora in Linguistic Education" with Lise Menn Proposal to Council on Teaching "Gender, Public Policy, and the Legislative Process" with Susan Clarke and Lyn Kathlene Rutgers Institute on Women $10,000
	1987	"EUCLID: Computer-aided reasoned discourse" with Paul Smolensky, Roger King and Clayton Lewis NSF ($479,000 for 3 years)
	1985	"Research on Human Tutorial Dialogue." ONR Personnel and Training Research Division. $138,000 for 3 years. "Communicative Repair in Human Tutorial Dialogue" Junior Faculty Development Award CRCW $7,000

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

1994: Organized the 20th "Charles Li" symposium, on anaphora. Allenspark, Colorado May 20-22, 1994.

Editorial Boards:

Discourse Studies, a new journal edited by Teun van Dijk.
Research on Language in Social Interaction, a journal edited by Karen Tracy.

Societies:

Linguistic Society of America

Reviewer for:

MIT Press, 1990.
Cambridge University Press, 1991.
University of Chicago Press, 1992.
St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Oxford University Press, 1996, 1997.

Ad hoc reviewer for the following journals:

International Journal of American Linguistics
Frontiers
Language
Cognitive Science
Cognition and Instruction
Memory and Cognition
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction Text

Referee for National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research

COURSES TAUGHT:

LING 1000: Language in U.S. Society
LING 2200: Language in its Social Context
LING 2400: Language and Gender
LING 4420/5520: Morphology and Syntax
LING 5430: Semantics
LING 7000: Methods of Typological Research
LING 7420: Syntactic Theory
LING 7430: Semantic Theory
LING 8420: Seminar in Syntax

GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED:

Chair of thesis or advisory committee (Linguistics Department):
- Arce-Arenales, Manuel. Doctoral student. (graduated Spring 1989)
- Curl, Traci. Doctoral student.
- Diekmann, Barbara. Doctoral student (co-advisor with Clayton Lewis) (graduated Summer 1996)
- Hayashi, Makoto. Doctoral student. (defended Spring 2000)
- Heintzelmann, Lori. Doctoral student.
- Hudson, Faridah. Doctoral student.
- Jasperson, Robert. Doctoral student. (graduated Summer 1998)
- Liu, Mei-chun. Doctoral student. (graduated Spring 1993)
- Nicita, Linda. Doctoral student.
- O'Dowd, Elizabeth. Doctoral student. (graduated Spring 1994)
- Sparks, Randy. Doctoral student. (graduated Summer 1994)
- Tao, Liang. Doctoral student. (graduated Winter 1993)
- Thomas-Ruzic, Maria. Doctoral student. (graduated Summer 1998)
- Weber, Tilo. Doctoral student (graduated Spring 1998)
- Caerjon-Abeija, Maria Herminda. Masters student. (graduated Spring 1994)
- Erringer, Anu. Masters student. (graduated Winter 1996)
- Rosier, Elyse. Masters student. (graduated Winter 1994)
- Takenaka, Michi. Masters student. (graduated Spring 1996)
Member of thesis or advisory committee (Linguistics Department):
- Awad, Maher. Doctoral student.
- Biasca, Debra. Doctoral student. (graduated spring 1999)
- Feldman, Andrea. Doctoral student. (graduated Summer 1998)
- Fisher, Julia. Doctoral student. (graduated Spring 1998)
- Gómez de García, Jule. Doctoral student. (graduated May 1994)
- Lee, Cheol. Doctoral student.
- Shay, Erin. Doctoral student. (graduated winter 1999)
Member of thesis committee (outside Linguistics department):
- Bott, Robin. Doctoral student. English. (graduated summer 1997)
- Hegstrom, Jane. Doctoral student. Sociology. (graduated Fall 1996)
- Herzog, Nancy. Doctoral student, Education. (graduated Spring 1995)
- Leimkuhler, Meg. Doctoral student, Education. (graduated Spring 2000)
- Quigley, Jean. Doctoral student, Psychology, University of Ireland (graduated Spring 1998).

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

University
- Chancellor's Committee on Women, Co-Chair, 1996 - 1997.
- Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs, 1993 - 1996.
- Member of Internal Review Team, Program Review for Fine Arts Department, 1990.
- Graduate Committee for the Arts and Humanities, 1989 - 1992.
- University of Colorado, Search committee for Director of Libraries, 1987 - 1988.
- University of Colorado, Boulder Faculty Assembly Libraries Committee, 1984 - 1987.
College of Arts and Sciences
- Women's Advisory Team, Chair, 1997 - present.
- Member of Dean's Personnel Committee, 1992 - 1995.
Institute of Cognitive Science
- Executive Committee, 1993 - 1995
- Self-study Committee, 1992 - 1993
- Curriculum Committee, 1990.
- Chair of Seach Committee for Discourse Processing, 1987 - 1988.
- Executive Committee, 1984 - 1987.
- University-Industry project, 1986 - 1987.
- Search Committee for Director position, 1984 - 1985
- Search Committee for Assistant to the Director position, 1985 - 1986
- Search Committee for Expert Systems/Natural Language Processing position, 1985 - 86.
Linguistics Department
- Chair, 1999 - present
- Search Committee for Syntax position, Chair, 1997 - 1998.
- Diversity Committee, Chair, 1996 - present.
- Graduate Advisor, 1992 - present.
- Undergraduate Advisor, 1989 - 1990.
- Honors Program Coordinator, 1985 - 1990.
- Library Acquisitions Committee, 1986 - 1987.
- Graduate Admissions Committee, Chair, 1984 - 1986.
- Search Committee for Language Acquisition position, 1984 - 1985.
- Search Committee for TESOL position, 1985 - 1986.
- PRP Self Study Committee, 1984 - 1985.
Women Studies
- Women Studies, Executive Committee, 1986 - 1988.
- Search Committee, Women Studies, 1989 - 1990.

OTHER SERVICE ACTIVITIES:

Member of workshop panel on teaching large-lecture classes, sponsored by FTEP, November, 1995.
Lectures on Language and Gender to various groups, including:
- Campus Women's Organization
- Women's Group of EPO Biology
- TA Training Program Workshop.
Member of Panel on "Teaching Tips for Women Graduate Students," organized by Mary Ann Shea, for Women Graduate Students in the Political Science Dept, October 12, 1990.

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