CRL Newsletter

Language Skills and Speed of Auditory Processing in Young Children

J.A. Avenzino¹, M. Gonzalez Robledo ², and G.O. Deák ²

¹ Veterans Medical Research Foundation, San Diego
² Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Flexible use of perceptuomotor knowledge in lexical and semantic decision tasks

Amsel, B. D.

Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Investigating Spatial Axis Recruitment in Temporal Reckoning Through Acoustic Stimuli and Non-Spatial Responses

Walker, E.J.¹, Bergen, B.K.¹, & Nuñez, R.¹

¹Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

Action and Object Processing across Three Tasks: an fMRI Study of Picture-Naming, Word Reading and Repetition in Italian

Arévalo, A.L.¹, Dick, F.², Della Rosa, P.^3,4, Dronkers, N.F.^5,6,8, Bates, E.A.^6,7, Cappa, S.F.^3,4, & Perani, D.^3,4

¹ Hospital Santa Cruz, Curitiba, Brazil
² School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, London, UK
³ Psychology/Neuroscience, Università Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
⁴ IBFM, CNR, Segrate Milan, Italy
⁵ University of California, Davis, CA, USA
⁶ Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
⁷ Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
⁸ Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA, USA

Cultural evolution of combinatorial structure in ongoing artificial speech learning experiments

Tessa Verhoef¹, Bart de Boer¹, Alex del Giudice², Carol Padden² and Simon Kirby³

¹ University of Amsterdam
² University of California San Diego
³ University of Edinburgh

Re-mapping topographic terms indoors: A study of everyday spatial construals in the mountains of Papua New Guinea

Kensy Cooperrider and Rafael Núñez

Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD

Dynamic construals, static formalisms: Evidence from co-speech gesture during mathematical proving

Tyler Marghetis and Rafael Núñez

Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD

Phonological Deficits in Children with Perinatal Stroke: Evidence from Spelling

Darin Woolpert^1,2 and Judy S. Reilly^1,3

¹ San Diego State University
² University of California San Diego
³ University of Poiters

Voxel-based Lesion Analysis of Category-Specific Naming on the Boston Naming Test

Juliana V. Baldo¹, Analía Arévalo¹, David P. Wilkins¹, and Nina F. Dronkers^1,2,3

¹ Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, VA Northern California Health Care System
² Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis
³ Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego

The quick brown fox run over one lazy geese: Phonological and morphological processing of plurals in English

Katie J. Alcock

Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, UK

Negation Processing in Context Is Not (Always) Delayed

Jenny Staab ^ab, Thomas P. Urbach ^c, and Marta Kutas ^bc

^a Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders, San Diego State University & University of California, San Diego
^b Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego
^c Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

The Role of Orthographic Gender in Cognition

Tim Beyer¹, Carla L. Hudson Kam²

¹Center for Research on Language, University of California, San Diego
²Psychology, University of Califonia, Berkeley

Auditory perception in atypical development: From basic building blocks to higher-level perceptual organization

Mayada Elsabbagh¹, Henri Cohen², and Annette Karmiloff-Smith¹

¹Center for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
²Cognitive Neuroscience Center, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada

Doing Time: Speech, gesture, and the conceptualization of time

Kensy Cooperrider and Rafael Núñez

Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

The Coordinated Interplay Account of Utterance Comprehension, Attention, and the Use of Scene Information

Pia Knoeferle

Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Arab Sign Languages: A Lexical Comparison

Kinda Al-Fityani

Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Avoid Ambiguity! (If You Can)

Victor S. Ferreira

Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Effects of Broca's Aphasia and LIPC Damage on the Use of Contextual Information in Sentence Comprehension

Eileen R. Cardillo¹, Kim Plunkett², & Jennifer Aydelott³

¹Institute for Neural Computation and the Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; ²Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK;³Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK

What Age of Acquisition Effects Reveal about the Nature of Phonological Processing

Rachel I. Mayberry¹ & Pamela Witcher²

¹Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego; ²School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, McGill University

Meaning in gestures: What event-related potentials reveal about processes underlying the comprehension of iconic gestures

Ying Choon Wu

Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

In search of Noun-Verb dissociations in aphasia across three processing tasks

Analía Arévalo^1,2, Suzanne Moineau^1,2, Ayşe Saygin^1,3, Carl Ludy⁴ & Elizabeth Bates^1,3

¹Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego; ²SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language & Communicative Disorders; ³Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego; ⁴VA Medical Center, Martinez

The relationship between language and coverbal gesture in aphasia

Eva Schleicher

Department of Psychology, University of Vienna; Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Introducing the Gesture Norming Study: A tool for understanding on-line word and picture processing

Analía Arévalo^1,2, Andrew C. Butler³, Daniela Perani⁴, Stefano Cappa⁴ & Elizabeth Bates⁵

¹Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego; ²SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language & Communicative Disorders; ³Washington University in St, Louis; ⁴Università Vita-Salute, Milan, Italy ; ⁵Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

New corpora, new tests, and new data for frequency-based corpus comparisons

Robert A. Liebscher

Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

A phonetic study of voiced, voiceless and alternating stops in Turkish

Stephen M. Wilson

Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles

On the Role of the Anterior Superior Temporal Lobe in Language Processing: Hints from Functional Neuroimaging Studies

Jenny Staab

Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders, SDSU & UCSD

The effects of linguistic mediation on the identification of environmental sounds

Frederic Dick^{*^}, Joseph Bussiere^{^} and Ayse Pinar Saygin^{*^}

^*Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD and ^{^}Center for Research in Language, UCSD

Teasing Apart Actions and Objects: A Picture Naming Study

Analia L. Arévalo

Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders, SDSU & UCSD

Syntactic processing in high- and low-skill comprehenders working under normal and stressful conditions

Frederic Dick¹, Morton Ann Gernsbacher², & Rachel R. Robertson³

¹Center for Research in Language and Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD
²Department of Psychology and the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
³Department of Psychology, Emory University

A Study of Age-of-acquisition (AoA) Ratings in Adults

Gowri K. Iyer^1,2, Cristina M. Saccuman^1,2, Elizabeth A. Bates^1,2 & Beverly B. Wulfeck^1,2,3

¹Language & Communicative Disorders, San Diego State Univ. & UC-San Diego
²Center for Research in Language, Dept. of Cognitive Science, UC-San Diego
³Dept. of Communicative Disorders, San Diego State Univ.

The Frequency of Major Sentence Types over Discourse Levels: A Corpus Analysis

Frederic Dick & Jeffrey Elman

University of California, San Diego

The Brain's Language

Kara Federmeier & Marta Kutas

University of California, San Diego

Objective Visual Complexity as a Variable in Studies of Picture Naming

Anna Szekely¹ & Elizabeth Bates²

¹Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
²University of California, San Diego

Introducing the CRL International Picture-Naming Project (CRL-IPNP)

English: Elizabeth Bates, Kara Federmeier, Dan Herron, Gowri Iyer

University of California, San Diego

German: Thomas Jacobsen, Thomas Pechmann

University of Leipzig

Italian: Simona D'Amico, Antonella Devescovi

University of Rome 'La Sapienza'

Spanish: Nicole Wicha, Araceli Orozco-Figueroa

University of California, San Diego &
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Spanish-English Bilinguals: Kathryn Kohnert, Gabriel Gutierrez

San Diego State University & University of California, San Diego

Chinese: ChingChing Lu, Daisy Hung, Jean Hsu, Ovid Tzeng

Yang Ming University, Taipei

Bulgarian: Elena Andonova, Irina Gerdjikova, Teodora Mehotcheva

New Bulgarian University, Sofia

Hungarian: Anna Székely, Csaba Pléh

Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest & University of Szeged

Could Sarah Read the Wall Street Journal?

Ezra Van Everbroeck

Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego

Blending and Your Bank Account: Conceptual Blending in ATM Design?

Barbara E. Holder

Department of Conitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Analyzing Semantic Processing Using Event Related Potentials

Jenny Shao¹ & Helen Neville²

¹ Department of Speech Pathology, Northwestern University
² Department of Psychology, University of Oregon

On The Compatibility of Connectionism and Cognitive Linguistics

Mark Collier

Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

Lexicons in Contact: A Neural Network Model of Contact-Induced Change

Lucy Hadden

Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Contexts That Pack a Punch: Lexical Class Priming of Picture Naming

Kara Federmeier & Elizabeth Bates*

Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology*, University of California, San Diego

Learning and the Emergence of Coordinated Communication

Michael Oliphant & John Batali

Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Rapid Word Learning by 15-Month-Olds under Tightly Controlled Conditions

Graham Schafer and Kim Plunkett

Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University

Development in a Connectionist Framework: Rethinking the Nature-Nurture Debate

Kim Plunkett

Oxford University

Bilingual Memory: A Re-Revised Version of the Hierarchical Model of Bilingual Memory

Roberto R. Heredia

Center for Research in Language, La Jolla, CA

A Brain Potential Whose Latency Indexes the Length and Frequency of Words

Jonathan W. King* and Marta Kutas*#

*Cognitive Science, UCSD; #Neurosciences, UCSD

Connectionist Modeling of the Fast Mapping Phenomenon

Jeanne Milostan

*Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD

In Search of the Statistical Brain

Javier R. Movellan

*Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD

Analogic and Metaphoric Mapping in Blended Spaces: Menendez Brothers Virus

Seana Coulson

*Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD

Language and the Primate Brain

Martin Sereno

Cognitive Science,University of California, San Diego

The Rule Controversy: A Cognitive Grammar Perspective

Ronald Langacker

University of California, San Diego

Toward a Connectionist Representation of Grammatical Knowledge

Catherine L. Harris

Cognitive Science, UCSD

Anticipatory Coarticulation and Aphasia: Implications for Connectionist Models of Speech Production

William F. Katz

Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego

Guarani Possessive Constructions

Maura Velazquez

Department of Linguistics,University of California, San Diego

Foreign Policy By Metaphor

Paul Chilton¹, George Lakoff²

1 University of Warwick, U.K.
2 University of California Berkeley

Competent Scientist Meets the Empiricist Mind

Valerie Walker

Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

A Connectionist Perspective on Prosodic Structure

Mary Hare¹, David Corina², and Garrison W. Cottrell³, Computer Science

1 Linguistics
2 Psychology
3 Computer Science

Harris and the Reality of Language

S.-Y. Kuroda

Department of Linguistics,University of California, San Diego

A Geometric Conception of Grammar

S.-Y. Kuroda

Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego

Finding Structure in Time

Jeff Elman

Department of Linguistics,University of California, San Diego

Rules and Regularities in the Acquisition of the English Past Tense

Virginia Marchman

Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego

Formal Semantics, Pragmatics, and Situated Meaning

Aaron Cicourel

Department of Sociology,University of California, San Diego

Transitivity and the Lexicon

Sally Rice

Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego

R. W. Langacker

University of California, San Diego

...in response to S. -Y. Kuroda's paper, Where is Chomsky's Bottleneck? (Vol.1, No. 7)

Where is Chomsky's Bottleneck?

S.-Y. Kuroda

Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego

Dimensions of Ambiguity

Peter Norvig

Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Where is Chomsky’s Bottleneck?

S.-Y. Kuroda

Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego

Toward Connectionist Semantics

Garrison W. Cottrell

Institute for Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego

The cognitive perspective

Ronald W. Langacker

University of California, San Diego