Date: 16-Aug-2008
From: Elisabeth Norcliffe <enorcliffe stanford.edu>
Subject: References on Cross-Linguistic Sentence Production
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Hi,
Florian Jaeger and I are currently working on a short summary paper on
cross-linguistic psycholinguistic work on sentence production. We're in the
process of collecting relevant papers (see below) and would appreciate
feedback on further work that we should be aware of. In particular we are
interested in quantitative studies involving behavioral experiments/corpus
work with a sufficiently large sample, focusing on topics in sentence
production.
The selection of references for English mostly serves to exemplify the type
of reference we are looking for and is very incomplete. We are interested
in references to work on languages other than English and German, and we
are especially interested in work on understudied languages.
Thanks!
Elisabeth Norcliffe
Sentence production (mostly accessibility & complexity & agreement &
syntactic persistence work)
English: (Arnold, Wasow, Losongco, & Ginstrom, 2000; Birner, 1994; Bock,
1982, 1987; Bock et al., 2006; Bock, Eberhard, Cutting, Meyer, &
Schriefers, 2001; Bock & Irwin, 1980; Bock & Warren, 1985; Bresnan, Cueni,
Nikitina, & Baayen, 2007; Bresnan, Dingare, & Manning, 2001; Bresnan & Hay,
2007; Brown-Schmidt & Konopka, in press; Chang, Lieven, & Tomasello, 2008;
F. Ferreira, 1994; F. Ferreira & Henderson, 1998; V. S. Ferreira, 2003;
Gennari, Mirkovic, & MacDonald, 2005; Gleitman, January, Nappa, &
Trueswell, 2007; Hartsuiker & ETAL, 2005; Hawkins, 1999; Jaeger, 2005;
Jaeger & Wasow, 2007; Levelt & Maassen, 1981; Loebell & Bock, 2003; Lohse,
Hawkins, & Wasow, 2004; MacWhinney & Bates, 1978; McDonald, Bock, & Kelly,
1993; Meijer & Fox Tree, 2003; Myachyko, 2007; Osgood & Bock, 1977;
Prat-Sala & Branigan, 2000; Race & MacDonald, 2003; Rosenbach, 2003, 2008;
Salamoura & Williams, 2006; Salamoura & Williams, 2007; Sridhar, 1988;
Stallings, MacDonald, & O'Seaghdha, 1998; Wasow, 1997)
British vs. American English: (Bock et al., 2006)
Welsh: (Chang et al., 2008)
German: (Bader & Häussler, in press; Behaghel, 1909/10, 1930; Chang et
al., 2008; Hartsuiker, Schriefers, Bock, & Kikstra, 2003; Kempen &
Harbusch, 2004; Loebell & Bock, 2003; van Nice & Dietrich, 2003)
Dutch: (Bock et al., 2001; Hartsuiker, Kolk, & Huiskamp, 1999; Hartsuiker
et al., 2003; Levelt, 1981, 1982; Meyer & Bock, 1999; Salamoura & Williams,
2006; van der Beek, 2005)
Norwegian: (Ovrelid, 2004)
Italian: (MacWhinney & Bates, 1978)
French: (Chang et al., 2008)
Spanish: (Brown-Schmidt & Konopka, in press; Gennari et al., 2005;
Hartsuiker & ETAL, 2005; Meijer & Fox Tree, 2003; Prat-Sala & Branigan,
2000; Sridhar, 1988)
Hungarian: (Chang et al., 2008; MacWhinney & Bates, 1978; Sridhar, 1988)
Finish: (Myachyko, 2007; Sridhar, 1988)
Russian: (Lorimor, Bock, Zalkind, Sheyman, & Beard, in press; Myachyko, 2007)
Estonian: (Chang et al., 2008)
Slovenian: (Sridhar, 1988)
Serbo-Croation: (Chang et al., 2008; Gennari et al., 2005)
Greek: (Branigan & Feleki, 1999; Branigan, Pickering, & Tanaka, 2008;
Salamoura & Williams, 2007)
Turkish: (Kita & Özüyrek, 2003; Kita et al., 2007; Sridhar, 1988)
Hebrew: (Chang et al., 2008; Sridhar, 1988)
Kanada: (Sridhar, 1988)
Tamil: (Chang et al., 2008)
Japanese: (Branigan et al., 2008; Chang, Kondo, & Yamashita, 2000; Chang et
al., 2008; V. S. Ferreira & Yoshita, 2003; Fry, 2003; Kita & Özüyrek, 2003;
Kita et al., 2007; Sridhar, 1988; Tanaka, Branigan, & Pickering, 2005;
Yamashita & Chang, 2001, 2006)
Korean: (Lee, 2006)
Chinese (Cantonese): (Chang et al., 2008; Matthews & Yeung, 2001; Peck,
2008; Sridhar, 1988)
Sesotho : (Chang et al., 2008)
Lummi: (Bresnan et al., 2001)
Odawa: (Christianson & Ferreira, 2005)
Mayan : (Norcliffe, 2008, In prep.)
Direct cross-linguistic comparison: (Chang et al., 2008; Clark & Fox Tree,
2002; Gennari et al., 2005; MacWhinney & Bates, 1978; Prat-Sala & Branigan,
2000; Sridhar, 1988)
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