Education:
| 2017 | Ph.D. in Linguistics University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2015-present | M.S. candidate in Psychological and Brain Sciences, Cognitive Division University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2011 | B.A. magna cum laude in Linguistics and Languages with highest departmental honors New York University |
Papers:
Jarosz, Gaja, and Amanda Rysling. to appear. 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.
Kingston, John, Joshua Levy, Amanda Rysling, and Adrian Staub. 2016. Eye movement evidence for an immediate Ganong effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Rysling, Amanda. 2016. Polish yers revisited. In Eulàlia Bonet and Francesc Torres-Tamarit (eds.), Exceptions in Phonology. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 15.
Rysling, Amanda, John Kingston, Adrian Staub, Andrew Cohen, and Jeffrey Starns. 2015. Early Ganong effects. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Phonetic Association, London, UK.
Editing:
Huang, Hsin-Lun, Ethan Poole and Amanda Rysling, eds. 2014. Proceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society. Graduate Linguistics Student Association. Amherst, Massachusetts.
Refereed presentations and posters:
Rysling, Amanda, Charles Clifton, Jr., Jason Bishop, and Anthony Yacovone. 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, Amanda, Caren M. Rotello, and Brian Dillon. 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, Amanda, John Kingston, Adrian Staub, Andrew Cohen, Jeffrey Starns, and Anthony Yacovone. 2016. Lexical knowledge is available, but not always used, very early. Poster at the Psychonomic Society 57th Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.
Rysling, Amanda, Caren M. Rotello, and Brian Dillon. 2016. Illusions of plausibility: ROC evidence for cue-based retrieval. Poster at the Psychonomic Society 57th Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.
Jarosz, Gaja, and Amanda Rysling. 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, Amanda, John Kingston, Adrian Staub, Andrew Cohen, Jeffrey Starns, and Anthony Yacovone. 2016. Lexical knowledge is available, but not always used, very early. Poster at LabPhon 15. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Rysling, Amanda, John Kingston, and Alexandra Jesse. 2015. Leftward association as a default in speech perception. Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. University of Malta, Valletta, Malta.
Rysling, Amanda, John Kingston, Adrian Staub, Andrew Cohen, and Jeffrey Starns. 2015. Early Ganong effects. Poster at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Rysling, Amanda, Charles Clifton, Jr., and Lyn Frazier. 2015. Ellipsis incurs a penalty in parentheticals. Poster at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 3. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
Rysling, Amanda. 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, Amanda, Charles Clifton, Jr., and Lyn Frazier. 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, Amanda, and Maria Gouskova. 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, Amanda, John Kingston, Alexandra Jesse, and Robert Moura. 2014. Misparsing: a productive effect of following context. Poster at the Acoustical Society of America spring semi-annual meeting. Providence, Rhode Island.
Workshop presentations:
Rysling, Amanda, John Kingston, Adrian Staub, Andrew Cohen, Jeffrey Starns, and Anthony Yacovone. 2016. Lexical knowledge is available, but not always used, very early. Talk at New England Sequencing and Timing, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Rysling, Amanda. 2015. Toward a detection theoretic analysis of sensitivity to lexical restriction. Talk at Phonology in the North East, annual Harvard-MIT-NYU-Rutgers-UMass-Yale joint meeting. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Experience:
| Spring 2017 | Teaching assistant to Adrian Staub Psychology 240: Statistics in Psychology |
| Fall 2016 | Teaching assistant to Lyn Frazier Linguistics 412: Language Processing and the Brain |
| Summer 2016 | Research assistant to Gaja Jarosz |
| Spring 2016 | Teaching assistant to Gaja Jarosz Linguistics 402: Speech Sounds and Struture |
| Fall 2015 | Research assistant to Gaja Jarosz |
| Spring 2015 | Teaching assistant to John Kingston Linguistics 414: Introduction to Phonetics for Linguists |
| Fall 2014 | Research assistant to Kristine Yu |
| 2013-2014 | Research assistant to Lyn Frazier and Charles Clifton, Jr. National Institutes of Health Grant No. R01HD-18708 on sentence comprehension |
| 2013-2014 | Research assistant to John Kingston |
Honors:
| 2016 | Graduate School Dissertation Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2012-2013 | Graduate School Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2012 | National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention |
| 2011-2012 | Fulbright Student Research Grant to Poland |
| 2011 | Phi Beta Kappa |
| 2011 | Sherborne Vernon Damerel Memorial Prize |
| 2010 | Beinecke Scholar |
Service:
| 2015-2016 | coordinator of the Psycholinguistics Workshop Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2013-2014 | coordinator of the open house for prospective students Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2012-2014 | graduate student representative to the Curriculum Committee Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2012-2014 | graduate student representative to the faculty Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2010-2011 | (by invitation) student representative to the Student-Faculty Discipline Committee College of Arts and Science, New York University |
| 2010-2011 | (by invitation) student representative to the Distinguished Teaching Award Nomination Committee College of Arts and Science, New York University |