Publications

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Novick, J.M., Kan, I.P., Trueswell, J.C. & Thompson-Schill, S. (in press). A case for conflict across multiple domains: Memory and language impairments following damage to ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Cognitive Neuropsychology.

Trueswell, J.C., Papafragou, A. & Choi, Y. (in press). Syntactic and referential processes: What develops? In E. Gibson and N. Pearlmutter (eds.), The Processing and Acquisition of Reference. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

January, D., Trueswell, J.C. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2009). Co-localization of Stroop and Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in Broca’s Area: Implications for the Neural Basis of Sentence Processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(12), 2434-2444.

Gleitman, L.R. (2009). The learned component of language learning. Piattelli-Palmarini, M., P.Salaburu and J.Uriagereka (eds.), Of minds and language: Encounters with Noam Chomsky, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 239-256.

January, D., Trueswell, J.C. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2008). Co-localization of Stroop and Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in Broca's Area: Implications for the Neural Basis of Sentence Processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Kaiser, E. & Trueswell, J.C. (2008). Interpreting pronouns and demonstratives in Finnish: Evidence for a form-specific approach to reference. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23(5), 709-748.

Novick, J.M., Thompson-Schill, S. & Trueswell, J.C. (2008). Putting lexical constraints in context into the visual-world paradigm. Cognition, 107(3), 850-903.

Papafragou, A., Hulbert, J. & Trueswell, J.C. (2008). Does language guide event perception? Evidence from eye movements. Cognition, 108(1), 155-184.

Trueswell, J.C. (2008). Using eye movements as a developmental measure within psycholinguistics. In I.A. Sekerina, E.M. Fernández, and H. Clahsen (eds.) Language Processing in Children. John Benjamins.

Arnold, J.E., Brown-Schmidt, S. & Trueswell, J.C. (2007). Children's use of gender and order-of-mention during pronoun comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22(4), 527-565.

Gleitman, L., January, D., Nappa, R. & Trueswell, J.C. (2007). On the give and take between event apprehension and utterance formulation. Journal of Memory and Language, 57(4), 544-569.

Papafragou, A., Cassidy, K. & Gleitman, L.R. (2007). When we think about thinking: The acquisition of belief verbs. Cognition, 105(1), 125-165.

Trueswell, J.C & Gleitman, L.R. (2007). Learning to parse and its implications for language acquisition. In G. Gaskell (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics.

Hurewitz, F., Papafragou, A., Gleitman, L. & Gelman, R. (2006). Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Numbers and Quantifiers. Language Learning and Development, 2(2), 2006, 77-96.

Papafragou, A., Massey, C. & Gleitman, L.R. (2006). When English proposes what Greek presupposes: The cross-linguistic encoding of motion events. Cognition, 98(3), B75-B87.

Tanenhaus, M.K. & Trueswell, J.C. (2006). Eye movements and spoken language comprehension. In M.J. Traxler and M.A. Gernsbacher (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics, 2nd Edition. Elsevier Press.

Novick, J.M., Trueswell, J.C., and Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). Cognitive control and parsing: Re-examining the role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension. Journal of Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5(3), 263-281.
FUN PAGE: "Broca's area? It's a dessert topping! No it's floor wax! No it's a cognitive control mechanism!"

Gleitman, L.R., Cassidy, K., Nappa, R., Papafragou, A. & Trueswell, J.C. (2005). Hard Words. Language Learning and Development, 1(1), 23-64.

Kaiser, E. & Trueswell, J.C. (2004). The role of discourse context in the processing of a flexible word-order language. Cognition, 94(2), 113-147.

Lidz, J. & Gleitman, L. (2004). Argument structure and the child's contribution to language learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(4), 157-161.

Nappa, R.,, January, D., Gleitman, L.R. & Trueswell, J.C. (2004). Paying attention to attention: Perceptual priming effects on word order. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Snedeker, J. & Trueswell, J.C. (2004). The developing constraints on parsing decisions: The role of lexical-biases and referential scenes in child and adult sentence processing. Cognitive Psychology, 49(3), 238-299.

Trueswell, J. & Gleitman, L.R. (2004). Children's eye movements during listening: evidence for a constraint-based theory of parsing and word learning. In J. M. Henderson & F. Ferreira (eds.). Interface of Language, Vision, and Action: Eye Movements and the Visual World. NY: Psychology Press.

Lidz, J., Gleitman, H. & Gleitman, L. (2003). Understanding how input matters: Verb learning and the footprint of universal grammar. Cognition, 87(3), 151-178.

Novick, J.M., Kim, A. & Trueswell, J.C. (2003). Studying the grammatical aspects of word recognition: Lexical priming, parsing and syntactic ambiguity resolution. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32(1), 57-75.

Snedeker, J. & Trueswell, J.C. (2003). Using Prosody to Avoid Ambiguity: Effects of Speaker Awareness and Referential Context, Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 103-130.

Kim, A., Srinivas, B. & Trueswell, J.C. (2002). The convergence of lexicalist perspectives in psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. In P. Merlo and S. Stevenson (Eds.). Sentence Processing and the Lexicon: Formal, Computational and Experimental Perspectives, Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing, 109-135.

Li, P. & Gleitman, L. (2002). Turning the tables: Language and spatial reasoning. Cognition, 83(3), 265-294.

Mintz, T.H. & Gleitman, L.R. (2002). The incremental and restricted nature of early adjectives acquisition. Cognition, 84(3), 267-293.

Papafragou, A., Massey, C., Gleitman, L., (2002). Shake, rattle, 'n' roll: The representation of motion in language and cognition. Cognition, 84(2), 189-219.

Arnold, J.E., Novick, J.M., Brown-Schmidt, S., Eisenband, J.G. & Trueswell, J. (2001). Knowing the difference between girls and boys: The use of gender during online pronoun comprehension in young children. Proceedings of the BU Child Language Conference. Boston, MA, pp 59-69.

Hurewitz, F., Brown-Schmidt, S., Thorpe, K., Gleitman, L.R. & Trueswell, J.C. (2001). One frog, two frog, red frog, blue frog: Factors affecting children's syntactic choices in production and comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29(6), 597-626.

Saffran, J.R., Senghas, A. & Trueswell, J.C. (2001). The acquisition of language by children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98 (23), 12874-12875.

Arnold, J.E., Eisenband, J., Brown-Schmidt, S. & Trueswell, J.C. (2000). The rapid use of gender information: Evidence of the time course of pronoun resolution from eyetracking. Cognition, 76, B13-B26.

Kako, E. & Trueswell, J.C. (2000). Verb Meanings, Object Affordances, and the Incremental Restriction of Reference. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.: Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 256-261.

Snedeker, J., Thorpe, K. & Trueswell, J. (2001). On choosing the parse with the scene: The role of visual context and verb bias in ambiguity resolution. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 964-969.

Snedeker, J., Gleitman, L.R., Felberbaum, M., Placa, N. & Trueswell, J.C. (2000). Prosodic Choice: Effects of Speaker Awareness and Referential Context. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.: Hillsdale, NJ, 481 - 486.

Trueswell, J.C. (2000). The organization and use of the lexicon for language comprehension. In B. Landau, J. Sabini et al. (Eds.), Perception, cognition, and language: Essays in Honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, pp. 327-345.

Gillette, J., Gleitman, L.R., Gleitman, H. and Lederer, A. (1999). Human simulations of vocabulary learning. Cognition, 73, 135-176.

Trueswell, J.C., Sekerina, I., Hill, N.M. & Logrip, M.L. (1999). The kindergartenpath effect: studying on-line sentence processing in young children. Cognition, 73, 89-134.

Trueswell, J.C., Sekerina, I., Hill, N.M. & Logrip, M.L. (1999). The development of on-line language comprehension abilities in children. Language, Minds, & Brains: Studies in Languages, 34, pp. 209-215.

Trueswell, J.C. & Kim, A.E. (1998). How to prune a garden-path by nipping it in the bud: Fast-priming of verb argument structures. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 102-123.

Gleitman, L., Gleitman, H., Miller, C. & Ostrin, R. (1996). Similar, and similar concepts. Cognition, 58(3), 321-376.

Trueswell, J.C. (1996). The role of lexical frequency in syntactic ambiguity resolution. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 566-585.

Tanenhaus, M.K. & Trueswell, J.C. (1995). Sentence Comprehension. In Eimas & Miller (Eds.) Handbook in Perception and Cognition, Volume 11: Speech Language and Communication. Academic Press, pp. 217-262.

Trueswell, J. C., Tanenhaus, M. K. & Garnsey, S. (1994). Semantic influences on parsing: Use of thematic role information in syntactic ambiguity resolution. Journal of Memory and Language, 33, 285 -318.

Trueswell, J. C. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (1994). Toward a lexicalist framework for constraint-based syntactic ambiguity resolution. In Clifton, C., Frazier, L. and Rayner, K. (Eds.) Perspectives in Sentence Processing. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.: Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 155-179.

Trueswell, J. C. & Hayhoe, M. M. (1993). Surface segmentation mechanisms and motion perception. Vision Research, 33(3), 313-328.

Trueswell, J. C., Tanenhaus, M. K. & Kello, C. (1993). Verb-specific constraints in sentence processing: Separating effects of lexical preference from garden-paths. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 19(3), 528-553.

Spivey-Knowlton, M. J., Trueswell, J. C. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (1993). Context effects in syntactic ambiguity resolution: Parsing reduced relative clauses. Canadian Journal of Psychology: Special Issue: Reading and Language Processing, 47(2), 276-309.

Trueswell, J. C. & Tanenhaus, M.K. (1992). Consulting temporal context during sentence comprehension: Evidence from the monitoring of eye movements in reading. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.: Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 492-497.

Trueswell, J. C. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (1991). Tense, temporal context and syntactic ambiguity resolution. Language and Cognitive Processes, 6(4), 303 - 338.

Tanenhaus, M. K., Carlson, G. & Trueswell, J. C. (1990). The role of thematic structures in interpretation and parsing. Language and Cognitive Processes. 4(3-4), 211-234.