Lab publications

Journal publications   

Gaskell, M.G., & Brown, H. (submitted). Language Processing.  In N. Braisby, & A. Gellatly (Eds.), Cognitive Psychology, Second Edition.

Bürki, A., Fougeron, C., Gendrot, C. & Frauenfelder, U. (in press). Acoustic and perceptual aspects of the realization of French schwa in schwa zero alternating contexts. Journal of Phonetics.

Henderson, L.M., Clarke, P.J., & Snowling., M.J. (in press). Accessing and selecting word meaning in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Henderson, L.M., Baseler, H., Clarke, P.J., Watson, S., & Snowling, M.J. (in press). The N400 effect in children: Relationships with comprehension, vocabulary and decoding. Brain and Language.

Bürki, A., Ernestus, M. & Frauenfelder, U. (2010). Is there only one ‘fenêtre’ in the production lexicon? On-line evidence about the nature of phonological representations. Journal of Memory and Language, 62, 421-437.

Lindsay, S., & Gaskell, M. G. (2010). A complementary systems account of word learning in L1 and L2. Language Learning.

Tamminen, J., Payne, J. D., Stickgold, R., Wamsley, E. J., & Gaskell, M. G. (2010). Sleep spindle activity is associated with integration of new memories and existing knowledge. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 14356-14360.

Davis, M. H. & Gaskell, M. G. (2009). A complementary systems account of word learning: neural and behavioural evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 3773-3800.

Gaskell, M. G. & Ellis, A. W. (2009). Word learning and lexical development across the lifespan. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 3607-3615.

Lindsay, S. & Gaskell, M. G. (2009). Spaced learning and the lexical integration of novel words. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2517-2522). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Snoeren, N. D., Gaskell, M. G. & Di Betta, A.M. (2009). The perception of assimilation in newly learned novel words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 35, 542-549.

Davis, M.H., Di Betta, A.M., Macdonald, M.J.E., and Gaskell, M.G. (2009) Learning and consolidation of novel spoken words. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 21, 803–820.

Bürki, A., Gendrot, C., Gravier, G., Linarès, G. & Fougeron, C. (2008). Alignement automatique et analyse phonétique: comparaison de différents systèmes pour l'analyse du schwa. Traitement Automatique des Langues, 49, 165-197.

Gaskell, M. G.  & Snoeren, N. D. (2008). The impact of strong assimilation on the perception of connected speech. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 1632-1647.

Gaskell, M.G., Quinlan, P.T., Tamminen, J.T., & Cleland, A.A. (2008). The nature of phoneme representation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 282-302.

Tamminen, J., & Gaskell, M. G. (2008). Newly learned spoken words show long-term lexical competition effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 361-371.

Chéreau, C., Gaskell, M. G., & Dumay, N. (2007). Reading spoken words: Orthographic effects in auditory priming. Cognition, 102, 341-360.

Dahan, D., & Gaskell, M. G. (2007). The temporal dynamics of ambiguity resolution: Evidence from spoken-word recognition. Journal of Memory & Language, 57, 483-501.

Dumay, N. & Gaskell, M. G. (2007). Sleep-associated changes in the mental representation of spoken words.  Psychological Science, 18, 35-39.

Gaskell, M. G. (2007). The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Gaskell, M. G. (2007). Statistical and connectionist models of speech perception and word recognition. In M. G. Gaskell (Ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Henderson, L.M., Barca, L., & Ellis, A.W. (2007). Interhemispheric cooperation and non-cooperation during word recognition: evidence for callosal transfer dysfunction in dyslexic adults. Brain and Language, 103 (3), 276-291.

Snoeren, N.D. & Gaskell, M.G. (2007). Computational modeling of assimilated speech: Cross-linguistic evidence. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1509-1514). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Cleland, A. A., Gaskell, M. G., Quinlan, P.T., & Tamminen, J. (2006). Frequency effects in spoken and visual word recognition: Evidence from dual-task methodologies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 104-119.

Tamminen, J.,&  Gaskell, M. G. (2006). Learning new words: effects of lexical competition and age of acquisition. In R. Sun (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 822-827). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Tamminen, J., Cleland, A.A., Quinlan, P.T., & Gaskell, M.G. (2006). Processing semantic ambiguity: different loci for meanings and senses. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 2222-2227). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Dumay, N., & Gaskell, M. G. (2005). Do words go to sleep? Exploring consolidation of spoken forms through direct and indirect measures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 69-70.

Gaskell, M. G. (2005). Language Processing. In N. Braisby et al. (Eds.) Cognitive Psychology. (pp. 197-230). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Dumay, N., Gaskell, M. G. & Feng, X. (2004). A day in the life of a spoken word. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 339-344). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Huettig, F., Gaskell, M. G. & Quinlan, P. T. (2004). How speech processing affects our attention to visually similar objects. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Rodd, J. M., Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2004). Modelling the effects of semantic ambiguity in word recognition. Cognitive Science, 28, 89-104.

Zhou, X., Qu, Y., Shu, H., Gaskell, G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. (2004). Constraints of lexical tone on semantic activation in Chinese spoken word recognition. Acta Psychological Sinica, 36, 379-392.

Gaskell, M. G., (2003). Modelling regressive and progressive effects of assimilation in speech perception. Journal of Phonetics, 31, 447-463.

Gaskell, M. G., Cox, H., Foley, K., Grieve, H & O’Brien, R. (2003). Constraints on definite article alternation in speech production: to “thee” or not to “thee”? Memory & Cognition, 31, 715-727.

Gaskell, M. G., & Dumay, N. (2003). Lexical competition and the acquisition of novel words. Cognition, 89, 105-132.

Gaskell, M. G., & Dumay, N. (2003). Effects of vocabulary acquisition on lexical competition in speech perception and production. In M.J. Solé, D. Recasens & J. Romero (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th ICPhS Conference (pp. 1485-1488). Adelaide, Australia: Causal Productions.

Boudelaa, S. & Gaskell, M. G. (2002). A re-examination of the default system for Arabic plurals. Language and Cognitive Processes, 17, 321-343.

Davis, M. H., Marslen-Wilson, W. D. &  Gaskell. M. G. (2002). Leading up the lexical garden-path: segmentation and ambiguity in spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 218-244.

Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2002). Representation and competition in the perception of spoken words. Cognitive Psychology, 45, 220-266.

Gaskell, M. G., Spinelli, E., & Meunier, F. (2002). Perception of resyllabification in French. Memory and Cognition,  30, 798-810.

Rodd, J., Gaskell, G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. (2002). Making sense of semantic ambiguity:  semantic competition in lexical access. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 245-266.

Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). Lexical ambiguity and spoken word recognition: bridging the gap. Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 325-349.

Gaskell, M. G. (2001). Phonological variation and its consequences for the word recognition system. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16, 723–729.

Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). Simulating parallel activation in spoken word recognition. In M. Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.), Connectionist Psycholinguistics. Ablex.

Rodd, J., Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). For better or worse: modelling effects of semantic ambiguity. In  J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 891-896). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Boudelaa, S. & Gaskell, M. G. (2000). In search of the minority default: the case of Arabic plurals. In L. R. Gleitman & A. K. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 48-53). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Rodd, J., Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2000). The advantages and disadvantages of semantic ambiguity. In L. R. Gleitman & A. K. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp 405-410). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Spinelli, E., Gaskell, G. & Meunier, F. (2000). Traitement du langage parlé: resyllabation, liaison et enchaînement. Actes des XXIIIèmes Journées d’Etude sur la Parole.

Davis, M., Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2000). Onset embedded words, segmentation and ambiguity: Experimental and computational investigations. Proceedings of SWAP. (pp. 71-74). Nijmegen: MPI for Psycholinguistics.

Gaskell, M. G. (2000). A quick rum picks you up, but is it good for you? Sentence context effects in the identification of spoken words. Proceedings of SWAP. (pp. 7-10). Nijmegen: MPI for Psycholinguistics.

Rodd, J., Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2000). Semantic ambiguity in spoken word recognition. Proceedings of SWAP. (pp. 103-106). Nijmegen: MPI for Psycholinguistics.

Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1999). The perception of assimilated speech. In O Fujimura, B. D. Joseph and B. Palek (Eds).  Item Order in Language and Speech (pp. 671-687).

Moss, H. E., & Gaskell, M. G. (1999). Lexical semantic processing during speech. In Garrod, S. & Pickering, M. (Eds).  Language Processing (pp. 59-99). Hove: Psychology Press.

Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1999). Ambiguity, competition and blending in spoken word recognition. Cognitive Science, 23, 439-462.

Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1998). Mechanisms of phonological inference in speech perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 24, 380-396.

Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1997). Integrating form and meaning: a distributed model of speech perception. Language and Cognitive Processes, 12, 613-656

Davis, M., Gaskell. M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (1997). Recognising embedded words in connected speech: context and competition. In J.A. Bullinaria, D. W. Glasspool & G. Houghton (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (pp. 254-266). London: Springer-Verlag.

Davis, M., Marslen-Wilson, W. D., & Gaskell. M. G. (1997). Ambiguity and competition in lexical segmentation. In M. G. Shafto & P. Langley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 167-172). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1997) Discriminating local and distributed models of competition in spoken word recognition. In M. G. Shafto & P. Langley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 247-252). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Gaskell, M. G. (1997). Type-2 problems are difficult to learn, but generalize well (in general). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 73.

Gaskell, M. G. (1996). Parallel activation of distributed concepts: Who put the P in the PDP? In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society G.W. Cottrell (ed.) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (pp. 284-289).

Gaskell, M. G., and Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1996) Phonological variation and inference in lexical access. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , 22, 144-158.

Gaskell, M. G., Hare, M. and Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (1995). A connectionist model of phonological representation in speech perception, Cognitive Science, 19, 407-439.

Gaskell, M. G. and Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (1995). Modeling the perception of spoken words. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society , J D Moore and J F Lehman (eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, (pp. 19-24).

Marslen-Wilson, W., Nix, A., & Gaskell, G. (1995) Phonological variation in lexical access: abstractness, inference and English place assimilation. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10, 285-308.

Gaskell, G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1994) Phonological inference in lexical access. In A. Ram & K Eiselt (Eds.) Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 341-345). Hillsdale, NJ:Erlbaum.

Gaskell, G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1993) Match and mismatch in phonological context. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 446-451). Hillsdale, NJ:Erlbaum.

Selected conference publications

Cairney, S.A., Durrant, S.J., Hulleman, J., Lewis, P.A. (2012). Cuing neural replay with sounds during slow-wave sleep has dissociative effects upon emotionally negative and neutral memories. 21st Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, Paris, France.

Reid, A. & Gaskell, G. (2010). Semantic memory consolidation over 24 hours. Poster presented at Plasticity Across Systems: Linking Neuronal, Immune and Metabolic Memory. Winter School, Lubeck, Germany.

Bürki, A., Alario, F.-X., Ernestus, M. & Frauenfelder, U. (2010). Phonological variation and the production lexicon. 6th International Workshop on Language Production, Edinburgh, UK.

Bürki, A. & Frauenfelder, U. (2010). Evidence for abstract lexical representations in the production lexicon. 6th International Workshop on Language Production, Edinburgh, UK.

Bürki, A., Racine, I. & Spinelli, E. (2010). On the roles of canonicity, variant frequency and context in the recognition of phonological variants. Proceedings of AMLAP, York, UK.

Brown, H., & Gaskell, M.G. (2010, September).  Talker-specific and lexical competition effects follow different time-courses during word learning.  Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, York, UK

Brown, H., & Gaskell, M.G. (2010, January).  Episodic and lexical competition effects follow different time-courses in word learning.  Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, London, UK. 

Brown, H., Gaskell, M.G., & Weighall, A. (2010, October).  Word learning in children benefits from a period of offline consolidation.  Poster presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, Manchester, UK.

Brown, H., Gaskell, M.G., & Weighall, A. (2009, October). The time-course of word learning in children.  Poster presented at the Sixth Bennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development, San Antonio, TX.

Bürki, A., Ernestus, M., Fougeron, C., Gendrot, C. & Frauenfelder, U. (2008). Factors influencing schwa deletion and duration: a corpus-based phonetic study. Acoustics'08, Paris, France.

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