LINGUIST List 22.2304 Wed Jun 01 2011 Qs: Key Articles in Psycholinguistics: Help Requested Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Nigel Duffield , Key Articles in Psycholinguistics: Help Requested Message 1: Key Articles in Psycholinguistics: Help Requested Date: 01-Jun-2011 From: Nigel Duffield <nigelduffieldgmail.com> Subject: Key Articles in Psycholinguistics: Help Requested E-mail this message to a friend I have been contracted to write an upper-level undergraduate/postgraduate textbook on psycholinguistics, focussing on 'classical' Psycholinguistics (i.e. chronometric studies of language representation and processing in adult monolinguals), but also touching on more recent neuropsychological and neurophysiological studies of language, first and second language acquisition and development, multilingual processing and empirical research in Language and Cognition, including Linguistic Relativity. In order to tackle this highly ambitious undertaking, my intention is to structure the book and the constituent chapters around a canon of key articles in psycholinguistics, papers published over the last sixty years (and especially since the mid 1980s. For concreteness, one might take Fodor's "Modularity of Mind" as a useful watershed date.) To make this textbook as relevant and interesting as possible, I would like to ask for your help in sending me your "Top 10s" lists for a wide range of mid-level topics, such as "spoken word recognition", "morphological processing", "lexical organisation in bilinguals", "syntactic priming", etc. To begin, though, I'd like your help in compiling an overall "Top 30", the thirty most significant articles in psycholinguistics since 1950. The lists should consist of primary sources, journal articles published in peer-reviewed journals with an impact factor sufficient to make them accessible to undergraduates through any university library, or articles that are easily accessible though other databases e.g., JSTOR, Web of Science, etc. I am not necessarily looking for the articles that are most cited, though this is an important measure of significance, but for those that you personally consider most interesting or stimulating, perhaps because they present counter-intuitive or controversial findings. It is not necessary to send me 30 titles (though that's fine too!): you can just send in one or two suggestions, I will collate and rank-order all suggestions for all of the relevant lists. Rather than troubling the LINGUIST List readership further with follow- up requests, I have set up a blog for this project at: http://contemporary-psycholinguistics.blogspot.com/ If you are interested in helping further, or in finding out more about the lists as they emerge, please contact me via the blog, and/or sign up as a follower. Thank you very much for your help with this project. Nigel Duffield PS. The site will consist only of lists and associated commentary on lists. For contractual reasons, I am not able to publish any draft chapters from the book itself on this site. Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 01-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.