| Charles Clifton,
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Publications (including selected publications by other lab members)
Links to appendices and lists of materials.
1993-1995
Birch, S., & Clifton, C., Jr. (1995) Focus, accent, and argument
structure: Effects on language comprehension. Language and Speech,
33, 365-391.
Carreiras, M., & Clifton, C., Jr. (1993). Relative clause interpretation
preferences in Spanish and English. Language and Speech, 36,
353-372.
Clifton, C., Jr. (1993). Thematic roles in sentence
parsing. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 47, 222-246.
Frazier, L. (1993). Processing Dutch sentence structures.
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 22, 85-108
Frazier, L. (1995). The uncertainty principle: A reply
to Kempen. Cognition, 55, 219-221.
Frazier, L. (1995). Constraint satisfaction as a theory
of sentence processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 24,
437-468.
Frazier, L. (1995). Representational issues
in psycholinguistics. In J. L. Miller and P. D. Eimas (Eds.), Handbook of
perception and cognition, Vol 11: Speech, language, and communication.
New York: Academic Press.
Frazier, L., d'Arcais, G. B., & Coolen,
R. (1993). Processing discontinuous words: On the interface between lexical
and syntactic processing. Cognition, 47, 219-249.
Frazier, L., & McNamara, P. (1995). Favor referential representations.
Brain and Language, 49, 224-240.
Gilboy, E., Sopena, J., Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier, L. (1995). Argument
structure and association preferences in Spanish and English complex noun phrases.
Cognition, 54, 131-167.
Kennison, S. M., & Clifton, C., Jr. (1995).
Determinants of parafoveal preview benefit in high and low working memory capacity
readers: Implications for eye movement control. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 68-81.
1996
Frazier, L, & Clifton, C., Jr. (1996). Construal.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Frazier, L., Plunkett, B., & Clifton, C., Jr. (1996). Reconstruction and
scope. In M. Dickey and S. Tunstall (Eds). University of Massachusetts Occasional
Papers in Linguistics 19. Amherst, MA: Department of Linguistics. Pp 239-260.
Schafer, A., Carter, J., Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier,
L. (1996) Focus in relative clause construal. Language and Cognitive Processes,
11, 135-163.
1997
Clifton, C., Jr., Kennison, S., &
Albrecht, J. (1997). Reading the words her, his, him: Implications for parsing
principles based on frequency and structure. Journal of Memory and Language,
36, 276-292.
Frazier, L., & Clifton Jr, C. (1997). Construal:
Overview, motivation, and some new evidence. Journal of Psycholinguistic
Research, 26(3), 277-297.
Koh, S. (1997). The resolution of
the dative NP ambiguity in Korean. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,
26, 265-273.
1998
Albrecht, J. E., & Clifton, C., Jr. (1998). Accessing singular antecedents
in conjoined phrases. Memory & Cognition, 26, 599-610.
Adams, B. A., Clifton, C., Jr., & Mitchell, D. C. (1998) Lexical guidance
in sentence processing? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 5, 265-270.
Frazier, L. (1998). Getting there (slowly). Journal
of Psycholinguistic Research, 28, 123-146.
Frazier, L., & Clifton, C., Jr. (1998) Comprehension of sluiced sentences.
Language and Cognitive Processes, 13, 499-520.
Frazier, L., & Clifton, C., Jr. (1998) Sentence reanalysis, and visibility.
In J. D. Fodor & F. Ferreira (eds.), Reanalysis in sentence processing
(pp 143-176). Amsterdam: Kluwer.
Speer, S. R., & Clifton, C., Jr. (1998). Plausibility and argument structure
in sentence comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 26, 965-978.
Traxler, M., Pickering, M., & Clifton, C.,
Jr. (1998). Adjunct attachment is not a form of lexical ambiguity resolution.
Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 558-592.
1999
Frazier, L. (1999). On sentence
interpretation. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Carreiras, M., & Clifton, C., Jr. (1999) Another word on parsing
relative clauses: Eyetracking evidence from Spanish and English. Memory
& Cognition, 27, 826-833.
Clifton, C., Jr., Cutler, A., McQueen, J. M., & van Ooijen, B. (1999). The
processing of inflected forms (commentary on Clahsen et al.). Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, 22, 1018-1019.
Clifton, C., Jr., Frazier, L., & Deevy, P. (1999). Feature manipulation
in sentence comprehension. Rivista di Linguistica, 11, 11-39.
Kennnison, S. M. (1999). American English usage frequencies for noun phrase
and tensed sentence complement-taking verbs.Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,
28, 165-178.
2000
Cutler, A., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2000). Blueprint of the listener. In P.
Hagoort & C. Brown (Editors), Neurocognition of language processing, pp
123-166. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Deevy, P. (2000). Agreement checking in comprehension: Evidence from relative
clauses. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 69-80.
Crocker, M. W., Pickering, M., & Clifton, C., Jr. (Editors) (2000). Architectures
and mechanisms for language comprehension. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University
Press.
Clifton, C., Jr. (2000). Evaluating models of human sentence processing. In
M. Crocker, M. Pickering, & C. Clifton (eds.), Architectures and mechanisms
for language comprehension (pp 31-55). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University
Press.
Pickering, M., Clifton, C., Jr., & Crocker, M. (2000). Architectures and
mechanisms in language comprehension. In Crocker, M., Pickering, M., & Clifton,
C., Jr. (in press). Architectures and mechanisms for language comprehension
(pp 1-28). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Traxler, M. J., Pickering, M. J., Clifton, C., Jr & van Gompel, R. (2000).
Architectures and mechanisms for sentence processing: Is syntactic parsing a
form of lexical ambiguity resolution? In M. D. Vincenzi & V. Lombardo (Eds.),
Cross-Linguistic perspectives on language processing (pp. 149-174). Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Frazier, L., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2000). On bound variable interpretations:
The LF-Only hypothesis. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 125-139.
Frazier, L. (2000). Minimal lowering. In Architecture and mechanisms of language
processing, ed. M. Crocker, M. Pickering, J. C. Clifton, pp. 303-323.Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
Clifton, C., Jr., Bock, J., & Radó, J (2000). Effects of the focus
particle "only" and intrinsic contrast on comprehension of reduced
relative clauses. In A. Kennedy, R. Radach, D. Heller, & J. Pynte (Eds),
Reading as a perceptual process, pp 591-620. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Schafer, A., Carlson, K., Clifton Jr., C., & Frazier, L. (2000). Focus and
the interpretation of pitch accent: Disambiguating embedded questions. Language
and Speech, 43, 75-105.
Bock, J. S., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2000). The role of salience in conceptual
combination Memory & Cognition, 28, 1378-1386.
Frazier, L., Munn, A., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2000). Processing coordinate
structures. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 343-371.
Clifton, C., Jr. (2000). Psycholinguistics: Syntax and grammar. Encyclopedia
of Psychology Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp 364-367
2001
Clifton, C., Jr., & Duffy, S. (2001). Sentence
comprehension: Roles of linguistic structure. Annual Review of Psychology,
52, 167-196.
Frazier, L., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2001). Parsing coordinates and ellipsis:
Copy . Syntax, 4, 1-22.
Carlson, K., Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier, L. (2001). Prosodic
boundaries in adjunct attachment. Journal of Memory and Language, 45, 58-81.
Kennison, S. M. (2001). Limitations on the use of verb information during sentence
comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 132-137.
Clifton, C., Jr. (2001). Sentence comprehension, psychology of. International
Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol 20 (pp 13911-13917),
N. J. Smelser & P. B. Bates, Editor. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
2002
Frazier, L., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2002). Processing
'd-linked' phrases. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research., 31, 633-660.
Clifton, C., Jr., Carlson, K., & Frazier, L. (2002). Informative
prosodic boundaries. Language and Speech, 45, 87-114.
Alonso-Ovalle, L, Fernández-Solera, S., Frazier, L., & Clifton, C.
Jr. (2002). Null versus overt pronouns and the
Topic-Focus articulation in Spanish. Rivista Linguistica/Italian Journal
of Linguistics, 14, 151-170.
Rayner, K., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2002). Language
processing. In D. Medin (Volume Editor) Stevens Handbook of Experimental
Psychology, Third Edition: Volume 2, Memory and Cognitive Processes (pp 261-316).
New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Koh, S., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2002). Resolution
of the antecedent of a plural pronoun: Ontological categories and predicate
symmetry. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 830-844.
Meseguer, E., Carreiras, M., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2002). Overt
reanalysis strategies and eye movements during the reading of mild garden path
sentences. Memory & Cognition, 30, 551-561.
Birch, S., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2002).
Effects of varying focus and accenting of adjuncts on the comprehension of utterances.
Journal of Memory and Language, 47, 571-588.
2003
Rayner, K., Juhasz, B., Ashby, J., & Clifton, C, Jr. (2003). Inhibition
of saccade return in reading. Vision Research, 43, 1027-1034.
Clifton, C., Jr., Traxler, M. J. Mohamed, M. T., Williams, R. S., Morris, R.
K, & Rayner, K. (2003). The use of thematic
role information in parsing: Syntactic processing autonomy revisited. Journal
of Memory and Language, 49, 317-334.
Kambe, G., Duffy, S. A., Clifton, C. Jr., Rayner, K. (2003). An eye movement
contingent probe paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 661-666.
Treiman, R., Clifton, C., Jr, Meyer, A. S., & Wurm, L. H. (2003). Language
comprehension and production. Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology, Volume
4: Experimental Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Pages 527-548.
2004
Carreiras, M., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2004). On the
on-line study of language comprehension. In M. Carreiras and C. Clifton,
Jr. (Eds) (2004). The on-line study of sentence comprehension: Eyetracking,
ERP, and beyond. Brighton, UK: Psychology Press.
Frazier, L., Clifton, Cl, Jr., & Carlson, K. (2004) Don't
break or do: Prosodic boundary preferences. Lingua, 114, 3-27.
Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier, L. (2004). Should given information come before
new? Yes and No. Memory & Cognition, 32, 886-895.
2005
Frazier, L., Clifton, C. Jr., & Carlson, K. (2005) Focus and VP ellipsis.
In Shigeto Kawahara (Ed), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics,
30, pp 32-51. (Tech report series).
Frazier, L., Clifton, C., Jr., Rayner, K., Deevy, P., & Koh, S. (2005). Interface
problems: Processing sentences in context. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,
34, 201-231.
Ashby, J., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2005) The prosodic property of lexical stress
affects eye movements in silent reading: Evidence from eye movements. Cognition,
96, B89-B100.
Ashby, J., Rayner, K., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2005). Eye movements of highly
skilled and average readers: Differential effects of frequency and predictability.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 1065-1086.
Frazier, L., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2005). The syntax-discourse divide. Syntax,
8, 154-207.
2006
Clifton, C., Jr., Fanselow, G., & Frazier,
L. (2006) Amnestying Superiority Violations: Processing Multiple Questions.
Linguistic Inquiry, 37, 51-68.
Staub, A., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2006). Syntactic prediction in language
comprehension: Evidence from either....or Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 425-436.
Staub, A., Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier, L. (2006). Heavy NP shift is the
parser's last resort: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Memory and Language,
54, 389-406.
Arregui, A., Clifton, C., Jr., Frazier, L., & Moulton, K. (2006). Processing
Elided VPs with Flawed Antecedents: the recycling Hypothesis. Journal of Memory
and Language, 55, 232-246.
Frazier, L., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2006). Ellipsis and discourse coherence.
Linguistics and Philosophy, 29, 315-346.
Frazier, L., Carlson, K., & Clifton, C., Jr.. (2006). Prosody is central
to language comprehension. Trends in Cogntive Science, 10, 244-249.
Clifton, C., Jr., Frazier, L., & Carlson, K. (2006). Tracking the What and
Why of Speakers' Choices: Prosodic Boundaries and the Length of Constituents.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 854-861.
2007
Frazier, L., Clifton, C., Jr., & Carlson,
K. (2007). Focus and VP ellipsis. Language and Speech, 50, 1-21.
Clifton, C., Jr., Staub, A., & Rayner, K. (2007). Eye movements in reading
words and sentences. Invited chapter, in R. Van Gompel, M. Fisher, W. Murray,
and R. L. Hill (Eds.) Eye movement research: A window on mind and brain. Oxford:
Elsevier Ltd. Pp. 341-372.
Stolterfoht, B., Frazier, L., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2007) Adverbs and sentence
topics in processing English. In S. Featherston and W. Sternfeld (Eds), Roots:
Linguistics in search of its evidential base. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, pp
361-374.
2008
Swets, B., Desmet, T., Clifton, C. Jr., & Ferreira,
F. (2008). Underspecification of syntactic ambiguities: Evidence from self-paced
reading. Memory & Cognition , 36, 201-216.
Frazier, L., Clifton, C. J., & Stolterfoht, B. (2008). Scale structure:
Processing minimum standard and maximum standard adjectives. Cognition, 106,
299-324.
Mohamed, M., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2008). Processing Inferential Causal Statements:
Theoretical Refinements and the Role of Verb Type. Discourse Processes, 45, 24-52.
Koh, S., Sanford, A., Clifton, C., Jr., & Dawydiak, E. J. (2008). Good-enough
representation in plural and singular pronominal reference: Modulating the Conjunction
Cost In J.Gundel & N. Hedberg (Eds), Reference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp 123-142.
Clifton, C., Jr., & Staub, A. (2008). Parallelism and competition in syntactic
ambiguity resolution. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2, 234-250
2009
Carlson, K., Dickey, M. W., Frazier, L., & Clifton,
C. J. (2009). Information structure expectations in sentence comprehension.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 114-139.
Rayner, K., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2009). Language processing in reading
and speech perception is fast and incremental: Implications for event potential
related research. Biological Psychology, 80, 4-9
In press
Staub, A., & Clifton, C., Jr. (In
press). Processing effects of an indeterminate future: Evidence from self-paced
reading. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics. (Edited
tech report)
Clifton, C., Jr., & Ashby, J. (In press). Language Comprehension. In. I.
Weiner and E. Craighead (Eds), Corsini's Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York:
Wiley.
Carlson, K., Frazier, L., & Clifton, C., Jr. (In press). How prosody constrains
comprehension: A limited effect of prosodic packaging. Lingua
Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier, L. (In press). Imperfect ellipsis: Antecedents
beyond syntax? Syntax.
Chierchia, G., Frazier, L. & Clifton, C., Jr. (In press). When basic meanings
are (not) enough:Processing scalar implicatures in adult comprehension. M. Biezma,
C. Davis & J. Harris (eds.) UMOP 39: Papers in Pragmatics. Amherst, MA:
GLSA Publications.
Schwarz, F., Clifton, C. Jr., & Frazier, L. (In press). Focus, downward
entailing contexts, and scalar implicatures. In J. Anderssen, K. Moulton, F.
Schwarz and C. Ussery (eds.), Semantics and Processing (UMOP 37). Amherst,
MA: GLSA Publications.
Carlson, K., Clifton, C. Jr., & Frazier, L. (In press). Non-local effects
of prosodic boundaries. Memory & Cognition.
Panizza, D., Chierchia, G., & Clifton, C. Jr. (In press). On the role of
entailment patterns and scalar implicatures in the processing of numerals.
Journal of Memory and Language.
Carlson, K., Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier, L. (In press). Intonational phrase
boundaries: A puzzle. In T. Borowsky, S. Kawahara, T. Shinya and M. Sugahara
(eds.), Prosody Matters: Essays in Honour of Elisabeth Selkirk. London: Equinox
Publishing.
Links to materials and appendices
Carlson, Clifton, Frazier
Meseguer, Carreiras, Clifton
Carreiras and Clifton