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First Language Acquisition

Miller, C.A. (2006). Developmental relationships between language and theory of mind. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 15, 142-154

Weiss, D.J. & Newport E. (2006) Mechanisms Underlying Language Acquisition: Benefits From a Comparative Approach. Infancy 9(2), 241-257.


Psycholinguistics and Second Language Acquisition

Carlson, M. T. (2006). The development of fine-grained phonological knowledge in adult second language learners of Spanish. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 25(2), 75-105.

Dussias, P. E., & Piñar, P. (in press). Effects of reading span and plausibility in the reanalysis of wh-gaps by Chinese-English. Second Language Research.

Dussias, P. E., & Cramer Scaltz, T. R. (2008). Spanish-English L2 speakers’ use of subcategorization bias information in the resolution of temporary ambiguity during second language reading. Acta Psychologica.

Dussias, P. E., & Sagarra, N. (2007). The effect of exposure on syntactic parsing in Spanish-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 10, 101-116.

Kroll, J.F., Bobb, S.C., & Wodniecka, Z. (2006). Language selectivity is the exception, not the rule: Arguments against a fixed locus of language selection in bilingual speech. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 9, 119-135.

Jackson, C.N., & Bobb, S.C. (2009). The processing and comprehension of wh-questions among second language speakers of German. Applied Psycholinguistics, 30 , 603-636.

Jackson, C.N., & Dussias, P.E. (2009). Cross-linguistic differences and their impact on L2 sentence processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12(1), 65-82.

Linck, J. A., Kroll, J. F., & Sunderman, G. (2007). Learning a second language during immersion: Evidence for increased inhibitory control.

Sagarra, N. (Forthcoming). Working memory and L2 processing of redundant grammatical forms. In Z. Han (Ed.), Second Language Processing and Instruction: Broadening the Scope of Inquiry. (Manuscript length: 27 pp.). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Schwartz, A. I., Kroll, J.F. (2006). Bilingual lexical activation in sentence context. Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 197-212.

Tokowicz, N., & Kroll, J. F. (2007). Number of meanings and concreteness: Consequences of ambiguity within and across languages. Language and Cognitive Processes.

Weiss, D.J., Gerfen, C. & Mitchel, A.D. (2009). Speech segmentation in a simulated bilingual environment: A challenge for statistical learning? Language Learning and Development 5, 30-49.

van Hell, J. G. & Dijkstra, T. (2002). Foreign language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 780-789.


Linguistics

Authier, M. (2005). The Diverse Nature of Non-interrogative WH. Linguistic Inquiry, 34, 635-647.

Baldi, P. & Page, R. (2006). Europa Vasconica-Europa Semitica Theo Vennemann, Gen. Nierfeld. Lingua, 116, 2183-2220.

Dussias, P. E. (2003). Spanish-English code-mixing at the auxiliary phrase: Evidence from eye-movements. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamerican, 2, 7-34.

Gerfen, C., & Baker, K. (2005). Production and perception of laryngealized vowels in Coatzospan Mixtec. Journal of Phonetics, 33(3). 311-334.

Gross, J. & Mark, V. (2001). Regionalist accents of global music: the Occitan rap of “Les Fabulous Trobadors.” French Cultural Studies, 12, 77-94.

Reed, L. (1999). Necessary versus probable causes. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 28, 289-326.

Schrauf, R. W., Weintraub, S., & Navarro, E. (2006). Is a validation of the Word Accentuation Test (WAT) of premorbid intelligence necessary for use among older, Spanish-speaking immigrants in the United States? Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12, 391-399.


Atypical Populations

Mainela-Arnold, E., Evans, J. & Alibali, M. (2006) Understanding conservation delays in children with SLI: Task representations revealed in speech and gesture. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 1267-1279.

Miccio, A.W., & Ingrisano, D.R. (2000). The acquisition of fricatives and affricates: Evidence from a disordered phonological system. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 9, 214-229.

Poll, G., Betz, S., & Miller, C. (in press). Identification of clinical markers of specific language impairment in adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Miller, C.A., & Poll, G.H. (2009). Response time in adults with a history of language difficulties. Journal of Communication Disorders, 42, 365-379.

Miller, C.A., Leonard, L.B., Kail, R.V., Zhang, X., Tomblin, J.B., and Francis, D. (2006). Response time in fourteen-year-olds with language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49(4), 712-728.


Methodology

Kroll, J. F., Gerfen, C., & Dussias, P. (2008). Laboratory designs and paradigms in psycholinguistics. In L. Wei & M. Moyer (Eds.), The Blackwell guide to research methods in bilingualism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Misra, M., & Holcomb, P. J. (2003). Event-related potential indices of masked repetition priming. Psychophysiology, 40, 115-130.