Lee. C., & Kurumada, C. (under review). Learning absolute meaning from variable exemplars.

        Kurumada, C., & Grimm, S. (under review). Communicative efficiency in language production and          learning: Optional plural marking.

        Kurumada, C., & Jaeger, T. F. (2015). Communicative efficiency in language production: Case-

        marker omission in Japanese. Journal of Memory and Language, 83, 152-178.

        Ryskin, R., Kurumada, C.,& Brown-Schmidt, S. (under review). Information integration

in online modulation of pragmatic inferences during language comprehension.

Dix, S., Gardner, B., Morgan, C., Lawrence, R., Sullivan, A., & Kurumada, C., (under review).
Online pragmatic interpretations of scalar adjectives are affected by speaker reliability.

        Rohde, H., & Kurumada, C. (2018). Alternatives and inferences in the communication of meaning. 
        In Fedemeier, C., & Watson, D. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 68 (pp. 215-252).
        Academic Press. 

Pogue. A, Kurumada, C. & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2016). Talker-specific generalization of pragmatic inferences based on under- or over-informative prenominal adjective use. Frontiers in Psychology. [here]

Kurumada, C. & Clark, E. (2016). Pragmatic inferences in context: Learning to interpret
contrastive prosody. Journal of Child Language, available on CJO2016. doi:10.1017/S0305000916000246.

Collaboration with Eve V. Clark: Gricean maxims and language acquisition

Clark, E.V., & Kurumada, C. (2013). "Be brief": From necessity to choice. In L. Goldstein. (Ed.). Brevity. Oxford University Press. 

Collaboration with Meredith Brown and Mike Tanenhaus: the prosody-pragmatics interface
 

Kurumada, C., Brown, M., Bibyk, S., Pontillo, D., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2014). Is it or isn’t it: Listeners make rapid use of prosody to infer speaker meanings. Cognition, 133, 335-342. [pdf]

Kurumada, C., Brown, M., Bibyk, S., Pontillo, D., & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2014). Rapid adaptaton in online pragmatic interpretation of contrastive prosody. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Kurumada, C., Brown, M., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2013a). Comprehension and acquisition of contrastive prosody:Rational inference helps adults and children cope with noisy input. The 26th CUNY conference of sentence processing, South Carolina, March 21st. [presentation slides]

Kurumada, C., Brown, M., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2012). Pragmatic interpretation of contrastive prosody: It looks like speech adaptation. The proceedings of the 35^th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan, August. [pdf]  

Collaboration with Mike Frank and Stephan Meylan: Statistical word segmentation

 Kurumada, C., Meylan, S.C., & Frank, M.C. (2013). “Zipfian frequency distributions facilitate word segmentation in context”. Cognition. 439-453 [pdf]

Kurumada, C., Meylan, S.C., & Frank, M.C. (2011b). “Statistical word segmentation of Zipfian frequency distributions". Paper presented at BUCLD 36, November 5th. [slides (pdf)]

Relative clause production in Japanese

Kurumada, C. (2011b). Syntactic context affects probability estimation: Evidence from Japanese relative clauses. Paper presentation at 2011 LSA meeting, Pittsburgh, January 6.

Collaboration with Meghan, Roey and Middy on speech perception

Sumner, M., Kurumada, C., Gafter, R., & Casillas, M. (2013). Phonetic variation and the recognition of words with pronunciation variants. Proceedings of the 36^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Collaboration with T.Florian Jaeger on communciative efficiency on language production

Kurumada, C. & T. Florian Jaeger (2013). Communicatively efficient language production and case-marker omission in Japanese. Proceedings of the 36^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society [pdf]

Child-mother interaction and the acquistion of the topic marker wa in Japanese

Kurumada, C. (2009). The acquisition and development of the topic marker wa in L1 Japanese: the role of NP-wa? in child-mother interaction. In Corrigan, B., Moravcsik, E., Ouali, H., and Wheatly, K (eds), Formulaic language (Typological studies in language). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [pdf]

Collaboration with Shoichi Iwasaki: Pragmatics before semantics??: the acquisition of the adjective ii 'good' in Japanese

Kurumada, C., & Iwasaki, S. (2012). Negotiating desirability: The acquisition of the uses of ii 'good' in mother-child interactions in Japanese. Proceedings of the 19^th conference of Japanese Korean Linguistics. [pdf]