Reading journal: Autumn Term, Week 9

Psycholinguistics

• Forster, K. and I. Olbrei (1973). Semantic heuristics and syntactic analysis. Cognition, 2(3), pp. 319-347.
• Hagoort, P. (2003). Interplay between syntax and semantics during sentence comprehension: ERP effects of combining syntactic and semantic violations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 15(6), pp.883-899.
• Libben, G. (2005). Brain and language. In: W. O'Grady, J. Archibald, M. Aronoff & J. Rees-Miller. Contemporary Linguistics. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St Martins. Ch. 14.
• Van Gompel, R. and M. Pickering (2007). Syntactic parsing. In: G. Gaskell, ed. The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 17.
• Zurif, E. (1995). Brain regions of relevance to syntactic processing. In: L. Gleitman & M. Liberman, eds. An invitation to cognitive science. Vol. 1: Language. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. Ch. 13. 

Directed Readings in Syntax

• Heycock, C. (2006) Embedded root phenomena. In: M. Everaert & H. van Riemsdijk, eds. The Blackwell companion to syntax, Vol. 2. Malden, MA.: Blackwell. Ch. 23.
• Rizzi, L. (1990) Relativized minimality. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. Ch. 3.
• Rudin, C. (1988) On multiple questions and multiple WH fronting. Natural language and linguistic theory. 6(4), pp.445-501. 

Language Acquisition

• Gass, S.M. and L. Selinker (2008). Second language acquisition: an introductory course. 3rd ed. New York, London: Routledge. Ch. 12.

Research Training

• Tsoulas, G. (2011) The linguist's beginner's guide to LaTeX. Unpublished manuscript.

Away from the studies...

• David Nicholls (2003). Starter for ten. London: Flame.