Representative Publications

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personal websites. These are papers either by ourselves or our active collaborators. The list grows or contracts depending on who's in the lab!

General:

Altmann, G.T.M. (2006). History of Psycholinguistics. in K. Brown (ed). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition). Elsevier

Altmann, G.T.M. (2002). Psycholinguistics: Critical Concepts (Vol. 1-6). London-New York: Routledge.

Altmann, G.T.M. (2001). The mechanics of language: Psycholinguistics in review. The British Journal of Psychology, 92, 129-170.

Altmann, G.T.M. (1997). The Ascent of Babel: An Exploration of Language, Mind, and Understanding. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Korean, and winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award 2000]

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

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

Phonological processing:

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

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.


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

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



Spelling-sound interaction:

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

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.

Speech segmentation:

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

Lexical access:

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.

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

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

Gennari, S. and Poeppel, D. (2003). Processing correlates of lexical semantic complexity.
Cognition, 89(1), B27-41.

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.

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.

Steinhauer, K., Pancheva, R., Newman, A., Gennari, S., Ullman, M. (2001) How the mass counts: an electrophysiological approach to the processing of lexical features
, Neuroreport, Vol. 12(5), 999-1005.

Morphology:

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

Mirkovic, J., MacDonald, M. C., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2005). Where does gender come from? Evidence from a complex inflectional system.
Language and Cognitive Processes 20, 139-168

Mirkovic, J. and MacDonald, M. C. (2003). The role of morphophonological factors in agreement production: When singular and plural are both grammatical.
Poster presented at the 16th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, MA


Mirkovic, J., Seidenberg, M.S., & Joanisse, M.F. (2002). Morphology in an inflectionally rich language: Implications for the rules vs. connections debate. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City.

Lexical development:

Davis, M. H., Di Betta, A, Macdonald, M. & Gaskell M. G. (in press). Learning and consolidation of novel spoken words: behavioural and neural evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

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

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

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

Language development:

Gennari, S. P. and MacDonald, M. C. (2006). Acquisition of negation and quantification: Insights from adult production and comprehension, Language Acquisition, 13(2), 125-168.

Nation, K., Marshall, C., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2003) Investigating individual differences in children's real-time sentence comprehension using language-mediated eye movements.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 86, 314-329.

Weighall, A. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2001). Integration between language and visual context: A re-investigation of children’s interpretation of relative clauses. Paper presented at the Biennal Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MI, USA.

Weighall, A. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2001). When two cats are better than none: Children’s interpretation of relative clauses (revisited). In Abstracts of the VIIth Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing ( p. 22), Saarbrücken, Germany.

Sentence processing:

Altmann, G.T.M. (1999). Thematic role assignment in context.
Journal of Memory and Language, 41, 124-145

Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & Cleland, A.A. (2000). Syntactic coordination in dialogue. Cognition, 75, B13-B25.

Gennari, S. P. (2004). Temporal references and temporal relations in sentence comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 30(4), 877-890.

Gennari, S. P. (2003). Tense meaning and temporal interpretation. Journal of Semantics, 20(1), 35-71.

Gennari, S. P., and MacDonald, M. C. (2007) Semantic indeterminacy in object relative clauses, Journal of Memory and Language, in press.

Gennari, S. P., MacDonald, M.C., Postle, B. R., Seidenberg, M.S. (2007). Context-dependent interpretation of words: Evidence for interactive neural processes, NeuroImage, 35, 1278-1286.

Sentence processing situated in the visual world:

Altmann, G.T.M. (2004) Language-mediated eye movements in the absence of a visual world: The ‘blank screen paradigm’. Cognition. 93, 79–87.

Altmann, G.T.M. & Kamide, Y. (2009). Discourse-mediation of the mapping between language and the visual world: eye movements and mental representation. Cognition,
in press.

Altmann, G.T.M. and Kamide, Y. (2007). The real-time mediation of visual attention by language aAltmann, G.T.M. (2004) Language-mediated eye movements in the absence of a visual world: The ‘blank screen paradigm’. Cognition. 93, 79–87.

Altmann, G.T.M., & Kamide, Y. (2004) Now you see it, now you don’t: mediating the mapping between language and the visual world. In J. Henderson and F. Ferreira (Eds.)
The integration of language, vision and action. Psychology Press. pp. 347–386.

Altmann, G.T.M. & Kamide, Y. (1999). Incremental interpretation at verbs: Restricting the domain of subsequent reference. Cognition, 73, 247-264.

Altmann, G.T.M. & Mirkovic, J. (2009). Incrementality and prediction in human sentence processing. Cognitive science,
in press.

Gennari, S. P., Meroni, L., and Crain S. (2004). Rapid relief of stress in dealing with ambiguity, in Trueswell J. and M. Tanenhaus (eds.) Approaches to studing world-situated language use: Bridging the language-as-product and language-as-action traditions, Cambridge, MIT Press.

Huetting, F. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2007). Visual-shape competition and the control of eye fixation during the processing of unambiguous and ambiguous words. Visual cognition,
15(8), 985-1018.

Huettig, F., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2004). The online processing of ambiguous and unambiguous words in context: Evidence from head-mounted eye-tracking. In M. Carreiras & C. Clifton (Eds.).
The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: Eye-tracking, ERP and Beyond (pp. 187-207). New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Huettig, F., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2005). Word meaning and the control of eye fixation: Semantic competitor effects and the visual world paradigm.
Cognition, 96(1), 23–32.

Huettig, F., Quinlan, P., McDonald, S., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2005). Word co-occurrence statistics predict language-mediated eye movements in the visual world.
Acta Psychologica, 121, 65-80.

Kamide, Y., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2004) The time-course of constraint-application during sentence processing in visual contexts: Anticipatory eye-movements in English and Japanese. In M. Tanenhaus & J. Trueswell (Eds.)
World Situated Language Use: Psycholinguistic, Linguistic and Computational Perspectives on Bridging the Product and Action Traditions. MIT Press.

Kamide, Y., Altmann, G.T.M., & Haywood, S. (2003). The time-course of prediction in incremental sentence processing: Evidence from anticipatory eye-movements. Journal of Memory and Language. 49, 133-159.

Language and thought:

Gennari, S. P., Sloman, S., Malt, B., and Fitch, T. (2002). Motion events in language and cognition. Cognition, 83, 49-79.

Malt, B. C., Gennari, S. P., Imai, M., Ameel, E., Tsuda, N., and Majid, A. (in press) Talking about walking: Biomechanics and the language of locomotion, Psychological Science.

Malt, B., Sloman S., and Gennari, S. (2003). Universality and Language Specificity in Object Naming. Journal of Memory and Language, 49(1), 20-42.

Malt, B., Sloman, S., and Gennari, S. (2003). Speaking versus thinking about objects and actions, in D. Gentner and S. Goldin-Meadow (eds.)
Language in mind, 81-112, Cambridge, MIT Press.

Implicit learning, language, and modelling:

Altmann, G.T.M. (2002). Learning and development in neural networks: the importance of prior experience. Cognition, 85(2), 43-50.

Altmann, G.T.M. & Dienes, Z. (1999). Rule learning by seven-month-old infants and neural networks.
Science, 284, 875.

Tunney, R.J. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2001). Two modes of transfer in Artificial Grammar learning.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 614-639.