Employment and affiliations:

2017 – present	Assistant Professor University of California, Santa Cruz
2018	Honorary Visiting Fellow ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University

Education:

2017	Ph.D. in Linguistics University of Massachusetts Amherst
2011	B.A. magna cum laude in Linguistics and Languages with highest departmental honors New York University

Papers:

Hoeks, M., Toosarvandani, M., & Rysling, A. (to appear). Processing of linguistic focus depends on contrastive alternatives. Journal of Memory and Language. final version pdf

Rysling, A., & Kingston, J. (to appear). Phonetic and functional precursors to vowel harmony. In Nancy Ritter & Harry Van Der Hulst (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony, Oxford University Press. final version pdf

Kingston, J., & Rysling, A. (to appear). When is enough, enough? VOT judgments vary by voicing intensity, aspiration intensity, voice quality, and rate of change. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. final version pdf

Duff, J., Anand, P., Brasoveanu, A., & Rysling, A. (2023). Pragmatic representations and online representations: Lessons from direct discourse and clausal adjuncts. Glossa Psycholinguistics. doi

Breiss, C., Harris, J. A., & Rysling, A. (2021). The online advantage of repairing metrical structure: Stress shift in pupillometry. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 43. doi

Rysling, A., Bishop, J., Clifton, C., & Yacovone, A. (2020). Preceding syllable cues are necessary for the accent advantage effect. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America – Express Letters. 148(3), EL285-EL288. doi

Kroll, M., & Rysling, A. (2019). The search for truth: Appositives weigh in. In Semantics and Linguistic Theory 29, pp. 180-200. doi

Rysling, A., & Kingston, J. (2019). Sibilant and non-sibilant fricatives are parsed alike. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 2772-2776). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. pdf

Rysling, A., Jesse, A., & Kingston, J. (2019). Regressive spectral assimilation bias in speech perception. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(4), 1127-1146. doi

Jarosz, G., & Rysling, A. (2017). Sonority Sequencing in Polish: the Combined Roles of Prior Bias and Experience. In Karen Jesney, Charlie O’Hara, Caitlin Smith, and Rachel Walker (eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology. pdf

Kingston, J., Levy, J., Rysling, A., & Staub, A. (2016). Eye movement evidence for an immediate Ganong effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. pdf

Rysling, A. (2016). Polish yers revisited. In Eulàlia Bonet and Francesc Torres-Tamarit (eds.), Exceptions in Phonology. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 15. pdf

Rysling, A., Kingston, J., Staub, A., Cohen, A., & Starns, J. (2015). Early Ganong effects. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Phonetic Association, London, UK. pdf

Refereed presentations and posters:

Balachandran, L., Hoeks, M., Van Handel, N., & Rysling, A. (2023). Top-down expectations versus bottom-up information in prosodic memory. Poster at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Hoeks, M., Rysling, A., & Toosarvandani, M. (2023). Integrating contextual information in on-line alternative set construction. Poster at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Sasaki, K., Anand, P., & Rysling, A. (2023). Animacy and event structure modulate long-distance pronominal anaphora in discourse. Poster at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Balachandran, L., Duff, J., Anand, P., & Rysling, A. (2022). Compression versus partition: Memory domains and the processing of appositives. Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 28. University of York, York, United Kingdom.

Duff, J., Brasoveanu, A., & Rysling, A. (2021). Task influences on lexical underspecification: Insights from the Maze and SPR. Parallel session talk at the 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hoeks, M., Toosarvandani, M., & Rysling, A. (2021). Decomposing the focus effect: Evidence from reading. Parallel session talk at the 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Van Handel, N., Balachandran, L., Rich, S., & Rysling, A. 2021. Singular vs. plural themselves: Evidence from the ambiguity advantage. Parallel session talk at the 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Van Handel, N., Wagers, M., & Rysling, A. 2021. Guiding implicit prosody with delexicalized
melodies: Evidence from a match/mismatch task. Parallel session talk at the 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Breiss, C., Harris, J. A., & Rysling, A. The online advantage of repairing metrical structure: Stress shift in pupillometry. Poster at the 33rd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Sloggett, S., Van Handel, N., Sasaki, K., Duff, J., Rich, S., Orth, W., Anand, P., & Rysling, A. 2020. “Ambiguous” isn’t “underspecified”: Evidence from the Maze task. Poster at the 33rd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Sloggett, S., Van Handel, N., & Rysling, A. 2020. A-maze by any other name. Poster at the 33rd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Duff, J., Anand, P., Brasoveanu, A., & Rysling, A. 2020. The processing of direct discourse: When a subordinate speech act sticks around. Poster at the 33rd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Rysling, A., & Kingston, J. Sibilant and non-sibilant fricatives are parsed alike. Poster at the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia.

Kroll, M., & Rysling, A. 2019. Appositive relation to truth: Pragmatic judgments of multi-clausal sentences. Talk at Experimental Pragmatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Kroll, M., & Rysling, A. 2019. The search for truth: Appositives weigh in. Talk at the 29th Semantics and Linguistic Theory. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

Sloggett, S., Rysling, A., Staub, A. 2019. Focus directs attention, but slows processing. Poster at the Psychonomic Society 60th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Kroll, M., & Rysling, A. 2019. Evaluating truth: Experimental evidence from appositives and conjunctions. Poster at the 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado.

Sloggett, S., Rysling, A., & Staub, A. 2019. Linguistic focus as predictive attention allocation. Poster at the 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado.

Rysling, A., Clifton, C. Jr., Van Handel, N., Geguera, R., Choi, H., & Cutler, A. 2019. Listeners’ predictions of sentence lengths are categorical, not gradient. 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado.

Rysling, A. & Kingston, J. 2018. Listeners generate all possible predictions from fricative-vowel coarticulation. Poster at Laboratory Phonology 16. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.

Rysling, A., Clifton, C., Bishop, J., & Yacovone, A. 2017. Listeners rely on local context, not global prosody, to anticipate pitch accents. Poster at the 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Rysling, A., Rotello, C. M., & Dillon, B. 2017. Illusions of plausibility: ROC evidence for cue-based retrieval. Poster at the 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Rysling, A., Kingston, J., Staub, A., Cohen, A., Starns, J., & Yacovone, A. 2016. Lexical knowledge is available, but not always used, very early. Poster at the Psychonomic Society 57th Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.

Rysling, A., Rotello, C. M., & Dillon, B. 2016. Illusions of plausibility: ROC evidence for cue-based retrieval. Poster at the Psychonomic Society 57th Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.

Jarosz, G.,  & Rysling, A. 2016. Sonority Sequencing in Polish: the Combined Roles of Prior Bias and Experience. Talk at the 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

Rysling, A., Kingston, J., Staub, A., Cohen, A., Starns, J., & Yacovone, A. 2016. Lexical knowledge is available, but not always used, very early. Poster at LabPhon 15. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Rysling, A., Kingston, J., & Jesse, A. 2015. Leftward association as a default in speech perception. Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. University of Malta, Valletta, Malta.

Rysling, A., Kingston, J., Staub, A., Cohen, A., & Starns, J. 2015. Early Ganong effects. Poster at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Rysling, A., Clifton, C., & Frazier, L. 2015. Ellipsis incurs a penalty in parentheticals. Poster at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 3. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

Rysling, A. 2015. Polish yers are epenthetic: an argument from lexical statistics. Talk at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 24. New York University, New York, New York.

Rysling, A., Clifton, C., & Frazier, L. 2015. Crossing the Not At Issue-At Issue Divide: Ellipsis incurs a penalty in parentheticals. Poster at the 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

Rysling, A., & Gouskova, M. 2015. A rule with exceptions or a minor rule? Polish yers revisited. Talk at the Workshop on Exceptionality, 12th Old World Conference in Phonology. University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Rysling, A., Kingston, J., Jesse, A., & Moura, R. 2014. Misparsing: a productive effect of following context. Poster at the Acoustical Society of America spring semi-annual meeting. Providence, Rhode Island.