Vita
J. Cooper Cutting

January 1, 2006

Office Address:
Department of Psychology
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4620
(309)-438-2999

E-mail: jccutti@ilstu.edu
WebPage: http://www.psychology.ilstu.edu/jccutti/cutting/index.html

Educational History

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, 1997 (Title:The production and comprehension
lexicons:What is shared and what is not. Chairperson:Dr. Kathryn Bock)
M. A. in Cognitive Psychology, 1994 (Title:That's the way the cookie
bounces:Syntactic and semantic components of experimentally
elicited idiomatic blends. Chairperson: Dr. Kathryn Bock)
Minor:Linguistics (Phonology, Syntax) and Perception and Performance
(Perception, Attention)

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Masters candidate in Psychology (Brain, Behavior and Cognition;
transferred to University of Illinois, 1992)

University of California, Santa Cruz, California
B.A. in Psychobiology, 1987

Professional Positions

Associate Professor, Illinois State University (Fall 2005-present)

Assistant Professor, Illinois State University (Fall 1998-Fall 2005)

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina (Spring 1997-Spring 1998)

Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1992-1996)
Supervisor: Dr. Kathryn Bock.

Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois (Spring 1995).
Course: Research Methods and Design
Supervisor: Dr. Brian Ross

Research Assistant, Michigan State University (1988-1992)
Supervisor: Dr. Kathryn Bock.

Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University (1989-1991)
Courses: Introduction to Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology,
Research Methods and Design
Supervisors: Dr. Kathryn Bock, Dr. Thomas Carr, Dr. Linda Gerard, Dr. David
Irwin, & Dr. Rose Zacks

Research Assistant, Michigan State University (1988-1989)
Supervisor: Dr. James Zacks.

Research Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz (1987-1988)
Supervisor: Dr. Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.

Professional Associations

Midwestern Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
American Psychological Association

Research Interests

My research interests are in psycholinguistics, primarily with a focus on the production of language. A central theme of my research is how different types of information interact during language use. I have examined this issue in the context of lexical access, figurative language production, and within-sentence agreement processes, and have recently begun a project examining the development of children's acquisition of referential language abilities.

Publications

Bock, J. K., Butterfield, S., Cutler, A., Cutting, J. C., Eberhard, K. M., & Humphreys, K. R. (2006). Number agreement in Britsh and American English: Disagreeing to agree collectively. Language., 82(1), 64-113

Eberhard, K. M., Cutting, J. C, &. Bock, J. K., (2005). Making syntax of sense: Number agreement in sentence production. Psychological Review, 112(3), 531-559.

Cutting, J. C. (2004). A call for more dialog and more details. Behavioral and Brain Science, 27(2), 194-194.

Bock, K., Eberhard, K., & Cutting, J. C. (2004). Producing Number Agreement: How Pronouns Equal Verbs. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 251-278.

Bezuidenhout, A. & Cutting, J. C. (2002). Literal meaning, minimal propositions and pragmatic processing. Journal of Pragmatics, 34, 433-356.

Bock, J. K., Eberhard, K. M., Cutting, J. C., Meyer, A. S., & Schriefers, H. (2001). Some attractions of verb agreement. Cognitive Psychology,43, 83-128.

Bock, J. K, Nicol, J., & Cutting, J. C. (1999). Controlling pronoun number boundaries. Journal of Memory and Language. 40, 330-346.

Cutting, J. C. & Ferreira, V. S. (1999). Overlapping phonological and semantic activation in spoken word production. Journal of Experimental Psychology:Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 318-344.

Cutting, J. C. (1998). Comprehension versus Production. In J. Verschueren, J. Ostman, J. Blommaert, & C. Bulcaen (Eds.), The Handbook of Pragmatics. Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Ferreira, V. S. & Cutting, J. C. (1997). Ninety-three picture and 108 questions for the elicitation of homophones. Behavior Resear ch Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 29, 619-635.

Cutting, J. C. & Bock, J. K. (1997). That's the way the cookie bounces: Syntactic and semantic components of experimentally elicited idiomatic blends. Memory & Cognition, 25, 57-71.

Bock, J. K. & Cutting, J. C. (1992). Regulating mental energy: Performance units in language production. Journal of Memory and Language. 31, 99-127.

Gibbs, R. W., Nayak, N., & Cutting, J. C. (1989). How to kick the bucket and not decompose: Analyzability and idiom comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language. 28, 576-593.

Grants

Understanding utterances that involve semantically underdetermined constituents. National Science Foundation, Linguistics Program (#BCS-0080929). Illinois State University and University of South Carolina. Aug. 1, 2000 - July 31, 2001. Amount (Direct and Indirect): $50,000. Co-Principal Investigator.

The process of understanding utterances that involve semantically underdetermined constituents. Illinois State University New Faculty Initiative Grant. July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2002: $2,500. Principal Investigator.

Presentations

Coane, J., Cutting, J. C., & McBride, D. (Nov. 2004). Cats, Dogs, and Bones: Eliciting False Memories with Categorical and Semantic Associates. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.

Bock, J. K., Eberhard, K. M., & Cutting, J. C. (2003). Making syntax of sense. . Paper presented at Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Humphreys, K. R., Bock, J. K., Eberhard, K. M., Butterield, S., Cutting, J. C. & Cutler, A. (2003) . Forests or trees? Collective nouns and number agreement in British and American English. . Poster presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Bezuidenhout, A., Morris, R.,& Cutting, J. C., (1999). The role of literal meaning in the processing of utterances. Paper presented at PRAGMA99: The International Pragmatics Conference on Pragmatics and Negotiation, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Cutting, J. C., Bezuidenhout, A., Robinson, K., & Poynor, D. (1998). Literal meaning and the concurrent pragmatic processing model. Paper presented at the Autumn meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Luton, Luton, England.

Cutting, J. C. (1997). The production and comprehension lexicons: What's shared and what's not. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Cutting, J. C. (1997). The production and comprehension lexicons: What's shared and what's not. Paper presented at the Annual North Carolina Cognition Group meeting, Chapel Hill, NC.

Cutting, J. C., & Ferreira, V. S. (1996). Overlapping phonological and semantic activation in spoken word production. Paper presented at the 68th annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Cutting, J. C., & Ferreira, V. S. (1996). Overlapping phonological and semantic activation in spoken word production. Poster presented at the 9th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.

Cutting, J. C., Nicol, J., & Bock, J. K. (1995). Controlling pronoun number boundaries. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society , Los Angeles, CA.

Cutting, J. C. (1994). Experimentally elicited idiomatic blends. Paper presented at the 66th annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Bock, J. K., Meyer, A. S., Eberhard, K. M., & Cutting, J. C. (1993). How scissors cut agreement. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, DC.

Bock, J. K., Eberhard, K. M., & Cutting, J. C. (1992). Controlling number agreement on verbs and anaphors. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

Bock, J. K., & Cutting, J. C. (1990). Production units and production problems in forming long-distance dependencies. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

Zacks, J. L., Zacks, R. T., Cutting, J. C., Gerard, L., & Horowitz, T. (1990). Converging evidence for the influence of task and stimulus factors on visual search rates in aging: A non-reaction time measure of visual search rates. Paper presented at the third Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Invited Presentations

Cutting, J. C. (1998). The production and comprehension lexicons: What's shared and what's not. Paper presented at Illinois State University.

Cutting, J. C. (1996). Overlapping phonological and semantic activation in spoken word production. Paper presented at the University of Notre Dame.

Cutting, J. C. (1996). Overlapping phonological and semantic activation in spoken word production. Paper presented at the University of South Carolina.

Teaching and Training Experience

Courses Taught: Undergraduate


Student Supervision & Advising: Undergraduate


Courses Taught: Graduate


Student Supervision & Advising: Graduate

Academic Service

Internal Service

External Service

References

Professor J. Kathryn Bock
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois
603 E. Daniel St.
Champaign, IL 61801
kbock@s.psych.uiuc.edu

Professor Robin Morris
Department of Psychology
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
morris@garnet.cla.sc.edu

Professor Gordon Redding
Department of Psychology
Illinois State University
Normal, IL67190-4620
gredding@ilstu.edu