Recent Publications and Presentations

Publications

Berent, I., Lennertz, T., Smolensky, P. & Vaknin, V. To appear. Speakers knowledge of phonological universals: Evidence from nasal clusters. Phonology.

Culbertson, J. (2010). "Covergent evidence for categorial change in French: from subject clitic to agreement marker" Language 86(1), 85-132. [PDF]

Culbertson, J. and P. Smolensky. (forthcoming). Testing Greenberg's Universal 18 using an artificial language learning paradigm. In Proceedings of NELS 40.

Culbertson, J. (2009). The status of Old French clitics in the 12th century. In Masullo, P. J., et al (eds.) Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected Papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15-18 March 2007. 89-104. New York: John Benjamins. [PDF]

Culbertson, J., and S. Gross. (2009). Are Linguists Better Subjects? The British Journal of Philosophy of Science 60, 721-736. [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

Fischer-Baum, S., McCloskey, M., & Rapp, B. (2010). Representation of letter position in spelling: Evidence from acquired dysgraphia. Cognition, 115, 466-490.

Gregory, E., & McCloskey, M. (2010). Mirror-image confusions: Implications for representation and processing of object orientation. Cognition, 116, 110-129.

Landau, B. and Lakusta, L. (2009) Spatial representation across species: Geometry, language, and maps. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 19 (1): 12-19.

Legendre, G. & A. Sorace. to appear/2010. Auxiliaries and Intransitivity in French and in Romance. In D. Godard (Ed.) The Romance languages. CSLI Publications.

Legendre, G., J. Culbertson, I. Barriere, T. Nazzi, and L. Goyet. (2010). "Experimental and empirical evidence for the status and acquisition of subject clitics and agreement marking in adult and child Spoken French." In Torrens, V., Escobar, L., Gavarro, A., and Mangado, J., (Eds), Movement and Clitics. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Legendre, G. 2009. The Neutralization Approach to Ineffability in Syntax. In C. Rice & S. Blaho (eds.) Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory. Equinox. 237-266.

Legendre, G. 2010. A Formal Typology of Person-Based Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance. In R. D'Alessandro, A. Ledgeway, and I. Robert, (eds.) Syntactic Variation: The dialects of Italy. Cambridge University Press. 186-200.

Legendre, G. and P. Smolensky. 2010. French inchoatives and the unaccusativity hypothesis. In D. Gerdts, J. Moore, and M. Polinsky (Eds.). Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter. MIT Press, 229-246.

McCloskey, M. (2009). Visual reflections: A perceptual deficit and its implications. New York: Oxford.

Rissman, L. (2010). Instrumental with, locatum with and the argument/adjunct distinction. LSA Meeting Extended Abstracts 2010. pdf

Recent Talks and Poster Presentations

Beller, C. (2010). Epithets: Implicature and Information. Poster presented at the Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies In Meaning (MACSIM). Philadelphia, PA. poster

Beller, C. (2010). Accent and description: An account of anaphoric epithets. Paper presented at the Georgetown Linguistics Society meeting. Washington, DC. handout

Beller, C. (2010). Accent and description: An account of anaphoric epithets. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting. Baltimore, MD. handout

Beller, C. (2009). Feedback in the spelling system: Capturing human error regularities in a connectionist simulation. Unpublished Master's Thesis. Johns Hopkins University. download (supervised by Michael McCloskey)

Culbertson, J., L. Brunetti and G. Legendre. (2010). "Subject clitics as agreement in Spoken French". 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, MD. January 2010. [HANDOUT]

Culbertson, J. and P. Smolensky. (2009). "Testing Greenberg's universal 18 using an artificial language learning paradigm". NELS40, Cambridge, MA. [HANDOUT]

Culbertson, J., G. Legendre and L. Brunetti. (2009). "Subject doubling in European Colloquial French : Experimental & Corpus Evidence". Graduate Student Symposium, Indiana University. March 2009.

Culbertson, J., G. Legendre and L. Brunetti. (2009). "Le redoublement clitique du sujet en francais parle". Universite Denis Diderot, Paris. March 2009.

Fischer-Baum, S., Charny, J. & McCloskey, M. (2009). The representation of letter position in reading. Poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Boston, MA.

Fischer-Baum, S., McCloskey, M, Jones, A., Folk, J. & Rapp, B. (2009). Position representation in spelling and verbal working memory. Talk given at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Boston, MA.

Gregory, Trzcinski, Hoffman and Landau. The representation of action in memory: A developmental study. Poster presented at VSS, May 2009, Naples.

Gregory and McCloskey. Perceiving and representing the orientation of objects: Evidence from AH's developmental deficit. Poster presented at Psychonomics, November 2009, Boston.

McCloskey and Gregory. A.H.'s Persisting Visual Mislocalizations: Implications for Visual Updating and Visual Awareness. Psychonomics, November 2009, Boston.

Ramadoss D and Wilson C. Probabilistic Modeling of Tone Perception. Presented at APCAM 2009, Boston, November 2009. [Slides]

Rawlins, K. (2009): colloquium at University of Rochester Department of Linguistics, (Un)conditionals. [handout]

Rawlins, K. (2009): talk at LSA, Extreme ignorance questions. [handout]

Rissman, L. (2010). "Periphrastic use: the expression of goals." Paper presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (Philadelphia, PA).

Rissman, L. (2010). "Abstract morphosyntactic representation in 2-year-old children: evidence from syntactic priming." Poster presentation at the 17th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (Baltimore, MD).

Rissman, L. (2010). "Explaining the locative alternation." Paper presentation at the Georgetown Linguistics Society (Washington, DC).

Rissman, L. (2010). "Instrumental with, locatum with and the argument/adjunct distinction." Paper presentation at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Baltimore, MD).

Rissman, L. (2009). "Abstract auxiliary BE representation in 2-year-old children: evidence from syntactic priming." Poster presentation at the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Boston, MA).

Rissman, L. (2009)."Abstract linguistic representation in 2-year-olds: evidence from syntactic priming." Poster presentation at the 2009 IGERT Principal Investigators Meeting (Alexandria, VA).

Rissman, L. (2009). "Abstract auxiliary BE representation in 2-year-old children: evidence from syntactic priming." Poster presentation at the 31st annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Amsterdam, the Netherlands).

Rissman, L. (2009). "Abstract auxiliary BE representation in 2-yr-old children: evidence from syntactic priming." Poster presentation at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Research in Cognitive Development (Denver, CO).

Zaroukian, E. (2010). "What are Uncertain Numerals?". Poster presented at the 2010 IGERT Project Meeting. [poster]

Zaroukian, E. (2010). "Approximative Inversion Revisited". Paper presented at FASL. [handout]

Zaroukian, E. (2010). "Uncertain numerals". Poster presented at MACSIM. [poster]

Zaroukian, E. (2010). "Phrasal homophony: and interaction between syntax and phonology". Paper presented at GLS. [handout]

Zaroukian, E. (2010) . "Expressing numerical uncertainty". Paper presented at the LSA Annual Meeting. [paper]