Jens Roeser

Biographic Data

ID1684057
NAMEJens Roeser
GIVEN NAMESJens
FAMILY NAMERoeser
SIGNATUREROESER J
AFFILIATIONSNottingham Trent University
ORCID0000-0002-4463-0923
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Online data collection to address language sampling bias

    Open AccessRowena Garcia, Jens Roeser et al.ARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2025

    The COVID-19 pandemic has massively limited how linguists can collect data, and out of necessity, researchers across several disciplines have moved data collection online. Here we argue that the rising popularity of remote web-based experiments also provides an opportunity for widening the context of linguistic research by facilitating data collection from understudied populations. We discuss collecting production data from adult native speakers …

  • Semantic contrast ahead

    Open AccessJens Roeser, Morag Torrance et al.ARTICLELanguage and Cognition2025References: 69

    Whether or not pre-planning extends beyond the initial noun in a noun phrase depends, in part, on the phrase’s dependency structure. Dependency structure disambiguates, in many contexts, the noun phrase’s reference. In the present experiment ( N = 64), we demonstrate that advance planning is affected by the extent to which a dependency supports semantic disambiguation. Participants produced noun phrases in response to picture arrays. Syntax and l…

  • Evaluating earwitness identification procedures

    Open AccessHarriet M J Smith, Jens Roeser et al.ARTICLEMemory2023

    Voice identification parades can be unreliable, as earwitness responses are error-prone. In this paper we tested performance across serial and sequential procedures, and varied pre-parade instructions, with the aim of reducing errors. The participants heard a target voice and later attempted to identify it from a parade. In Experiment 1 they were either warned that the target may or may not be present (standard warning) or encouraged to consider …

  • Writing by hand or digitally in first grade

    Open AccessEivor Finset Spilling, Vibeke Rønneberg et al.ARTICLEComputers & Education2023

    In a natural experiment we compared development of writing composition skill in five Norwegian first-grade classes in which children (N = 90) learned to compose text by handwriting on paper and in five classes in which children (N = 91) learned by typing on a digital tablet using software that additionally provided read-back via text-to-speech synthesis. Children completed narrative composition probe tasks at five timepoints over eight months, wr…

  • Finding your voice

    Open AccessRowena Garcia, Jens Roeser et al.ARTICLECognition2023

  • Automating individualized, process-focused writing instruction

    Open AccessEmily Dux Speltz, Jens Roeser et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2022

    Writing quality is dependent upon the organization and sequencing of cognitive processes during writing. College students need writing-strategy advice that is tailored to their individual needs and is cognizant of their already-established writing processes. However, there is an obstacle to providing such advice: Both writing instructors and the writers lack awareness of the moment-by-moment actions by which text was produced. This is because swi…

  • Concurrent visual learning of adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies in adults and children

    Lai-Sang Iao, Jens Roeser et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2021

    Concurrent learning of adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies has been shown in adults only. This study extended this line of research by examining dependency-specific learning for both adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies concurrently in both adults and children. Seventy adults aged 18 to 64 (40 women, 30 men; Experiment 1) and 64 children aged 10 to 11 years (40 girls, 24 boys; Experiment 2) were tested with a new serial reaction time (SRT) tas…

  • Children's online use of word order and morphosyntactic markers in Tagalog thematic role assignment

    Open AccessRowena Garcia, Jens Roeser et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2020

    We investigated whether Tagalog-speaking children incrementally interpret the first noun as the agent, even if verbal and nominal markers for assigning thematic roles are given early in Tagalog sentences. We asked five- and seven-year-old children and adult controls to select which of two pictures of reversible actions matched the sentence they heard, while their looks to the pictures were tracked. Accuracy and eye-tracking data showed that agent…

  • Structure in mind, structure in vocal tract

    Open AccessAdamantios I Gafos, Adamantios Gafos et al.ARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…2020Cited by: 3References: 37

  • Word order preferences of Tagalog-speaking adults and children

    Open AccessRowena Garcia, Jeruen E Dery et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2018

    This article investigates the word order preferences of Tagalog-speaking adults and five- and seven-year-old children. The participants were asked to complete sentences to describe pictures depicting actions between two animate entities. Adults preferred agent-initial constructions in the patient voice but not in the agent voice, while the children produced mainly agent-initial constructions regardless of voice. This agent-initial preference, des…