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Psychology of Language 1 (Martin Pickering): Reading list

Here are some references that will be useful. Some particularly important ones are
asterisked. If you can’t get anything, please ask me.

* Bock, K. (1986). Syntactic persistence in language production. Cognitive


Psychology, 18, 355-387.
* Bock, K. (1996). Language production: methods and methodologies. Psychonomic
Bulletin & Review, 3, 395-421.
Bock, K., & Cutting, J.C. (1992). Regulating mental energy: Performance units in
language production. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 99-127.
Bock, J.K., Dell, G.S., Chang, F., & Onishi, K.H. (2007). Persistent structural priming
from language comprehension to language production. Cognition, 104,
* Bock, K. & Eberhard, K.M. (1993). Meaning, sound and syntax in English number
agreement. Language and Cognitive Processes, 8, 57-99.
* Bock, K., & Huitema, J. (1999). Language production. In S. Garrod & M.
Pickering (Eds.), Language Processing (pp. 365-388). Hove: Psychology Press.
Bock, K. & Levelt, W.J.M. (1994). Language production: grammatical encoding. In
M.Gernsbacher (Ed). Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Academic Press, New
York.
Bock, K. & Loebell, H. (1990). Framing sentences. Cognition, 35, 1-39.
Bock, K., Loebell, H. & Morey, R. (1992). From conceptual roles to structural
relations: bridging the syntactic cleft. Psychological Review, 99, 150-171.
Bock, K. & Warren, R. (1985). Conceptual accessibility and syntactic structure in
sentence formulation. Cognition, 21, 47-67.
Branigan, H. P., & Pickering, M. J. (2017). An experimental approach to linguistic
representation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e282.
Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J. & Cleland, A.A. (2000). Syntactic coordination in
dialogue. Cognition, 75, B13-B25.
Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J, & Tanaka, M. (2008). Contributions of animacy to
grammatical function assignment and word order during production. Lingua, 118,
172-189.
Brown, P.M., & Dell, G.S. (1987). Adapting production to comprehension - the
explicit mention of instruments. Cognitive Psychology, 19, 441-472.
Cai, Z. G., Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. (2012). Mapping concepts to syntax:
Evidence from structural priming in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Memory and
Language, 66(4), 833-849.
Caramazza, A. & Miozzo, M. (1997). The relation between syntactic and
phonological knowledge in lexical access: Evidence from the "tip-of-the-tongue"
phenomenon. Cognition, 64, 309-343.
Cleland, A.A., & Pickering, M.J. (2003). The use of lexical and syntactic information
in language production: Evidence from the priming of noun phrase structure.
Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 214-230.
Cutting, J. C., & Ferreira, V. S. (1999). Semantic and phonological information flow
in the production lexicon. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, & Cognition, 25, 318-344.
Damian, M.F. & Martin, R.C. (1999). Semantic and phonological codes interact in
single word production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: LMC, 25, 345-361.
* Dell, G. (1986). A spreading-activation theory of retrieval in sentence production.
Psychological Review, 93, 283-321.
Dell, G. (1988). The retrieval of phonological forms in production: Tests of
predictions from a connectionist model. Journal of Memory and Language, 27,
124-142.
De Smedt, K. (1994). Parallelism in incremental sentence generation. In G. Adriaens
& U. Hahn (Eds). Parallel natural language processing, 421-447. Ablex,
Norwood NJ.
Do, M. L., & Kaiser, E. (2019). Subjecthood and linear order in linguistic encoding:
Evidence from the real-time production of wh-questions in English and Mandarin
Chinese. Journal of Memory and Language, 105, 60-75.
Ferreira, V. S. (1996). Is it better to give than to donate? Syntactic flexibility in
language production. Journal of Memory and Language, 35(5), 724-755.
Finkbeiner, M., & Caramazza, A. (2006). Now you see it, now you don't: on turning
semantic interference into facilitation in a Stroop-like task. Cortex, 42, 790-796.
Garrett, M. (1975). The analysis of sentence production. In G.H. Bower (Ed.), The
psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 9), pp. 133-177. New York:
Academic Press.
Garrett, M. (1980). Levels of processing in sentence production. In B. Butterworth
(Ed), Language Production Vol I, Academic Press. (pp. 177-220).
*Gleitman, L., January, D., Nappa, R., & Trueswell, J. (2007). On the give and take
between event apprehension and utterance fomulation. Journal of Memory and
Language, 57, 544–569.
Griffin, Z.M. (2004). The eyes are right when the mouth is wrong. Psychological
Science, 15, 814-821.
Hartsuiker, R. & Westenberg, C. (2000). Word order priming in written and spoken
sentence production. Cognition, 75, B27-B39.
Indefrey, P., & Levelt, W.J.M. (2004). The spatial and temporal signatures of word
production components. Cognition, 92, 101-144.
Jaeger, T.F., & Norcliffe, E.J. (2009). The Cross-linguistic Study of Sentence
Production. Language and Linguistics Compass, 3, 866–887.
Konopka, A.E. & Bock, K. (2009). Lexical or syntactic control of sentence
formulation? Structural generalizations from idiom production. Cognitive
Psychology 58 (1), 68-101
Konopka, A.E. & Meyer, A. (2014). Priming sentence planning. Cognitive
Psychology, 73, 1-40.
Indefrey, P. (2011). The spatial and temporal signatures of word production
components: a critical update. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 255.
Indefrey P., & Levelt WJ. (2004). The spatial and temporal signatures of word
production components. Cognition, 92, 101-4.
Kerr, E., Ivanova, B., & Strijkers, K. (in press). Lexical access in speech production.
To appear in Hartsuiker, R. & Strijkers, K. (Eds), Cognitive processes of
language production. Routledge.
Levelt, W.J.M. (1989). Speaking: From intention to articulation. Bradford Books.
(Chapter 12, pp. 458-498; but many other parts of the book may be of interest
too)
Levelt, W.J.M. (1999). Models of word production. Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
3:6, 223-232.
* Levelt, W.J.M., Roelofs, A., & Meyer, A.S. (1999). A theory of lexical access in
speech production. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 1-75. (pp. 1-19 is
essential reading)
Mahon, B.Z., Costa, A., Peterson, R., Vargas, K., and Caramazza, A. (2007). Lexical
selection is not by competition: A reinterpretation of semantic interference and
facilitation effects in the picture-word interference paradigm. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 503-535.
Mahowald, K., James, A., Futrell, R., & Gibson, E. (2016). A meta-analysis of
syntactic priming in language production. Journal of Memory and Language, 91,
5-27.
Momma, S. (2021). Filling the gap in gap-filling: Long-distance dependency
formation in sentence production. Cognitive Psychology, 129, 101411.
Momma, S., & Ferreira, V. S. (2019). Beyond linear order: The role of argument
structure in speaking. Cognitive Psychology, 114, 101228.
McDonald, J.L., Bock, J.K., Kelly, M.H. (1993). Word and world order: Semantic,
phonological and metrical determinants of serial position. Cognitive Psychology,
25, 188-230.
Navarrete, E., & Costa, A. (2005). Phonological activation of ignored pictures:
Further evidence for a cascade model of lexical access. Journal of Memory and
Language, 53, 359–377.
Peterson, R. & Savoy, P. (1998). Lexical selection and phonological encoding during
language production: Evidence for cascaded processing. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 24, 539-557.
Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (1998). The representation of verbs: Evidence
from syntactic priming in language production. Journal of Memory and
Language, 39, 633-651.
Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., & McLean, J.F. (2002). Constituent structure is
formulated in one stage. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 586-605.
Pickering, M.J., & Ferreira, V.S. (2008). Structural priming: A critical review.
Psychological Bulletin, 134, 427-459.
Prat-Sala, M., & Branigan, H. P. (2000). Discourse constraints on syntactic processing
in language production: A cross-linguistic study in English and Spanish.
Journal of Memory and Language, 42, 168-182.
Sahin, N.T., Pinker, S., Cash, S.S., Schomer, D., & Halgren, E. (2009). Sequential
processing of lexical, grammatical, and phonological information within Broca’s
Area. Science, 326, 445-449.
Santesteban, M., Pickering, M. J., & McLean, J. F. (2010). Lexical and phonological
effects on syntactic processing: Evidence from syntactic priming. Journal of
Memory and Language, 63, 347-366.
*Schriefers, H., Meyer, A. S., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1990). Exploring the time course of
lexical access in language production: Picture-word interference studies. Journal
of Memory and Language, 29(1), 86-102.
*Slevc, L. (in press). Grammatical encoding. To appear in Hartsuiker, R. & Strijkers,
K. (Eds), Cognitive processes of language production. Routledge.
Song, Y., & Lai, R. K. (2021). Syntactic representations encode grammatical
functions: evidence from the priming of mapping between grammatical functions
and thematic roles in Cantonese. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-14.
Starreveld, P. A., & La Heij, W. (1995). Semantic interference, orthographic
facilitation and their interaction in naming tasks. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 686–698.
Strijkers, K., & Costa, A. (2016). The cortical dynamics of speaking: Present
shortcomings and future avenues. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(4),
484-503.
Strijkers, K., Costa, A., & Pulvermuller, F. (2017). The cortical dynamics of
speaking: Lexical and phonological knowledge simultaneously recruit the frontal
and temporal cortex within 200 ms. NeuroImage, 163, 206-219.
Tanaka, M., Branigan, H.P., & Pickering, M.J. (2011). Conceptual influences on word
order and voice in sentence production: Evidence from Japanese. Journal of
Memory and Language, 65, 318-330.
*Vigliocco, G., Antonini, T., & Garrett, M.F. (1997). Grammatical gender is on the
tip of Italian tongues. Psychological Science, 8, 314-317.
Vigliocco, G. & Hartsuiker, R. (2002).The interplay of meaning, sound and syntax in
sentence production. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 442-472.
Vigliocco, G. & Nicol, J. (1998). Separating hierarchical relations and word order in
language production: Is proximity concord syntactic or linear? Cognition, 68,
B13-B29.
Vigliocco, G., Vinson, D.P., Martin, R.C., & Garrett, M.F. (1999). Is “count” and
“mass” information available when the noun is not? An investigation of tip of the
tongue states and anomia. Journal of Memory and Language 40, 534-558.
Wheeldon, L., & Levelt, W.J.M. (1995). Monitoring the time-course of phonological
encoding. Journal of Memory and Language, 34, 311-334.
Ziegler, J., Bencini, G., Goldberg, A., & Snedeker, J. (2019). How abstract is syntax?
Evidence from structural priming. Cognition, 193, 104045.

Relevant collections:

Goldrick, M., Ferreira, V., & Miozzo, M. (2014). The Oxford handbook of language
production. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rueschemeyer, S.-A., & Gaskell, G. (2006) The Oxford handbook of
psycholinguistics (2nd Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Part II). Note
that the first edition is also of interest.
Traxler, M.J. & Gernsbacher, M.A. (2007). Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Elsevier.
(Section 1)
Meyer, A.S., Roelofs, A., & Brehm, L. (2019) (Eds.). Thirty years of “Speaking”.
Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 34, 1073-1256.

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