Bibliography: Cross-linguistic work on sentence production

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Elisabeth Norcliffe and I are currently working on a short summary paper on cross-linguistic psycholinguistic work on sentence production (experiments and corpus studies w/ a sufficiently large sample and quantitative investigation). We would like to focus this effort on research on:

  • accessibility effects on word order, voice, and other morphosyntactic variations
  • radical vs moderate incrementality during sentence formulation
  • syntactic persistence (within and across languages)
  • agreement
  • disfluencies (but not speech errors)

If you know of work in any of these areas that we should consider, we would appreciate your feedback. Just leave a comment at the bottom of this page (it’s a moderated forum, so it will not appear immediately, but usually it does not take us longer than a day to accept your posts). You can also send an email to Florian. Other topics within sentence production would also be of interest. The selection of references for English (below) mostly serves to exemplify the type of reference we are looking for and is, of course, absolutely incomplete ;). We are interested in references to work on languages other than English and we are especially interested in work on understudied languages.

The list of references we have so far is the result of feedback from many folks on the CUNY list (thanks to all of you). I will update this list periodically.

The references below are available in form of an EndNote library at http://www.hlp.rochester.edu/resources/bibs/, starting 08/26/08. [last updated 08/23/08]

  • English: (Arnold, Wasow, Losongco, & Ginstrom, 2000; Bates & Devescovi, 1989; Birner, 1994; Bock, 1982, 1986, 1987; Bock et al., 2006; Bock, Eberhard, Cutting, Meyer, & Schriefers, 2001; Bock & Irwin, 1980; Bock & Warren, 1985; Bresnan, Cueni, Nikitina, & Baayen, 2007; Bresnan, Dingare, & Manning, 2001; Bresnan & Hay, 2007; Brown-Schmidt & Konopka, in press; Byrne & Davidson, 1985; Chang, Lieven, & Tomasello, 2008; Clark & Wasow, 1998; F. Ferreira, 1994; F. Ferreira & Henderson, 1998; V. S. Ferreira, 1996, 2003; Gennari, Mirkovic, & MacDonald, 2005; Gleitman, January, Nappa, & Trueswell, 2007; Gomez Gallo, Jaeger, & Smyth, 2008; Griffin & Spieler, 2006; Harbusch & Kempen, 2002; Hartsuiker, Pickering, & Veltkamp, 2004; Hawkins, 1999; Hernandez, Bates, & Avila, 1996; Jaeger, 2005, 2006; Jaeger & Wasow, 2007; Levelt & Maassen, 1981; Loebell & Bock, 2003; Lohse, Hawkins, & Wasow, 2004; MacWhinney & Bates, 1978; McDonald, Bock, & Kelly, 1993; Meijer & Fox Tree, 2003; Myachyko, 2007; Osgood & Bock, 1977; Prat-Sala & Branigan, 2000; Race & MacDonald, 2003; Rosenbach, 2003, 2008; Salamoura & Williams, 2006; Salamoura & Williams, 2007; Sridhar, 1988; Stallings, MacDonald, & O’Seaghdha, 1998; Wasow, 1997)
  • British vs. American English: (Bock et al., 2006)
  • American vs. New Zealand English: (Bresnan & Hay, 2007)
  • Welsh: (Chang et al., 2008)
  • German: (Bader & Häussler, in press; Behaghel, 1909/10, 1930; Bresnan & Hay, 2007; Chang et al., 2008; Harbusch & Kempen, 2002; Hartsuiker, Schriefers, Bock, & Kikstra, 2003; Kempen & Harbusch, 2003, 2004a, 2004b, 2005, 2008; Loebell & Bock, 2003; Scheepers, 2003; van Nice & Dietrich, 2003)
  • Platt Deutsch: (Strunk, 2005)
  • Dutch: (Bock et al., 2001; Brysbaert, Fias, & Noel, 1998; Harbusch & Kempen, 2002; Hartsuiker, Kolk, & Huinck, 1999; Hartsuiker & Kolk, 1998; Hartsuiker, Kolk, & Huiskamp, 1999; Hartsuiker et al., 2003; Hartsuiker & Westenberg, 2000; Levelt, 1981, 1982; Meyer & Bock, 1999; Salamoura & Williams, 2006; van der Beek, 2005)
  • Norwegian: (Ovrelid, 2004)
  • Italian: (Bates & Devescovi, 1989; MacWhinney & Bates, 1978; Vigliocco, Butterworth, & Semenza, 1995; Vigliocco & Franck, 1999)
  • French: (Brysbaert et al., 1998; Chang et al., 2008; Vigliocco & Franck, 1999, 2002)
  • Spanish: (Anton-Mendez, Nicol, & Garrett, 2002; Brown-Schmidt & Konopka, in press; Gennari et al., 2005; Hartsuiker et al., 2004; Hernandez et al., 1996; Igoa, 1996; Meijer & Fox Tree, 2003; Prat-Sala & Branigan, 2000; Sridhar, 1988; Vigliocco, Butterworth, & Garrett, 1996)
  • Hungarian: (Chang et al., 2008; MacWhinney & Bates, 1978; Sridhar, 1988)
  • Finish: (Myachyko, 2007; Sridhar, 1988)
  • Russian: (Lorimor, Bock, Zalkind, Sheyman, & Beard, 2008; Myachykov, 2007)
  • Estonian: (Chang et al., 2008)
  • Slovenian: (Sridhar, 1988)
  • Slovak : (Badecker & Kuminiak, 2007)
  • Serbo-Croation: (Chang et al., 2008; Gennari et al., 2005)
  • Greek: (Branigan & Feleki, 1999; Branigan, Pickering, & Tanaka, 2008; Salamoura & Williams, 2007)
  • Turkish: (Kita & Özüyrek, 2003; Kita et al., 2007; Sridhar, 1988)
  • Hebrew: (Chang et al., 2008; Sridhar, 1988)
  • Kanada: (Sridhar, 1988)
  • Tamil: (Chang et al., 2008)
  • Japanese: (Branigan et al., 2008; Chang, Kondo, & Yamashita, 2000; Chang et al., 2008; V. S. Ferreira & Yoshita, 2003; Fry, 2003; Kita & Özüyrek, 2003; Kita et al., 2007; Sridhar, 1988; Tanaka, Branigan, & Pickering, 2005; Yamashita & Chang, 2001, 2006)
  • Korean: (Choi, 2007; Dennison, 2008; Lee, 2006)
  • Chinese (Cantonese): (Chang et al., 2008; Matthews & Yeung, 2001; Peck, 2008; Sridhar, 1988)
  • Sesotho : (Chang et al., 2008)
  • Fiji: (Byrne & Davidson, 1985)
  • Lummi: (Bresnan et al., 2001)
  • Odawa: (Christianson & Ferreira, 2005)
  • Mayan : (Norcliffe, 2008, In prep.)
  • Direct cross-linguistic comparison of more than two languages: (Chang et al., 2008; Clark & Fox Tree, 2002; Gennari et al., 2005; MacWhinney & Bates, 1978; Prat-Sala & Branigan, 2000; Sridhar, 1988)
  • Discussion of value of cross-linguistic investigation: (Bates & Devescovi, 1989; Hawkins, 2007; Vigliocco & Kita)

There are many more papers in sociolinguistics on different dialects of English and on other languages, as well as work on language change. However, most of this work does not include psycholinguistic controls. Work on language change often has to be conducted on small data sets.

References

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  2. Arnold, J. E., Wasow, T., Losongco, T., & Ginstrom, R. (2000). Heaviness vs. Newness: The effects of structural complexity and discourse status on constituent ordering. Language, 76(1), 28-55.
  3. Badecker, W., & Kuminiak, F. (2007). Morphology, agreement, and working memory retrieval in sentence production: Evidence from gender and case in Slovak. Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 65-85.
  4. Bader, M., & Häussler, J. (in press). A Corpus Study of the Determinants of Word Order in German. In. University of Konstanz.
  5. Bates, E., & Devescovi, A. (1989). Crosslinguistic studies of sentence production. In B. MacWhinney & E. A. Bates (Eds.), The crosslinguistics study of sentence processing (pp. 225-253). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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  21. Brown-Schmidt, S., & Konopka, A. E. (in press). Little houses and casas pequeñas: message formulation and syntactic form in unscripted speech with speakers of English and Spanish. Cognition.
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  24. Chang, F., Kondo, T., & Yamashita, H. (2000). Conceptual accessibilility influences scrambling in Japanese. Paper presented at the 13th CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing.
  25. Chang, F., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Automatic evaluation of syntactic learners in typologically different languages. Cognitive Systems Research, 9(3), 198-213.
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  34. Ferreira, V. S. (2003). The persistence of optional complementizer production: Why saying “that” is not saying “that” at all. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 379-398.
  35. Ferreira, V. S., & Yoshita, H. (2003). Given-New Ordering Effects on the Production of Scrambled Sentences in Japanese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32(6), 669-692.
  36. Fry, J. (2003). Ellipsis and Wa-Marking in Japanese Conversation: Routledge.
  37. Gennari, S., Mirkovic, J., & MacDonald, M. (2005). The role of animacy in relative clause production. Paper presented at the 18th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
  38. Gleitman, L. R., January, D., Nappa, R., & Trueswell, J. C. (2007). On the give and take between event apprehension and utterance formulation. Journal of Memory and Language, 57(4), 544-569.
  39. Gomez Gallo, C., Jaeger, T. F., & Smyth, R. (2008). Incremental Syntactic Planning across Clauses. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci08) (pp. 845-850).
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  42. Hartsuiker, R. J., Kolk, H. H., & Huinck, W. J. (1999). Agrammatic production of subject-verb agreement: The effect of conceptual number. Brain and Language, 69, 119-160.
  43. Hartsuiker, R. J., & Kolk, H. H. J. (1998). Syntactic Persistence in Dutch. Language and Speech, 41(2), 143-184.
  44. Hartsuiker, R. J., Kolk, H. H. J., & Huiskamp, P. (1999). Priming word order in sentence production. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 52(1), 129-147.
  45. Hartsuiker, R. J., Pickering, M. J., & Veltkamp, E. (2004). Is Syntax Separate or Shared Between Languages? Psychological Science, 15(6), 409-414.
  46. Hartsuiker, R. J., Schriefers, H. J., Bock, J. K., & Kikstra, G. M. (2003). Morphophonological influences on the construction of subject-verb agreement. Memory & Cognition, 31, 1316-1326.
  47. Hartsuiker, R. J., & Westenberg, C. (2000). Word order priming in written and spoken sentence production. Cognition, 75(2), 27-39.
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  53. Jaeger, T. F. (2006). Redundancy and Syntactic Reduction in Spontaneous Speech. Stanford University.
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  62. Lee, H. (2006). Parallel optimization in case systems: Evidence from case ellipsis in Korean. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 15, 69-96.
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  75. Norcliffe, E. (2008). Variation and categorical constraints in Yucatec Maya relative clause constructions. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago.
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3 thoughts on “Bibliography: Cross-linguistic work on sentence production

    Ellen Lau said:
    August 25, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    There is some work on agreement in Brazilian Portuguese, unfortunately I believe that the only published version is written in Portuguese, although they may have a poster version in English. The reference is below, and it is available online here:

    Click to access Correa%20&%20Rodrigues%202005%20Proc%20da%20linguagem.pdf

    CORREA, L.M.S. & RODRIGUES, E.dos S. 2005. Erros de Atração no Processamento da Concordância sujeito- Verbo e a Questão da Autonomia do Formulador Sintático In MAIA, M. & FINGER, I (Orgs.). Processamento da
    Linguagem, Editora da EDUCAT, Pelotas, p.303-335.

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    Florian said:
    October 11, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    We got some more responses and I am traveling, so that I cannot update the Endnote file:

    1) Roehm, D., Klimesch, W., Haider, H., & Doppelmayr, M. (2001).
    The role of theta and alpha oscillations for language comprehension in the human electroencephalogram.
    Neuroscience Letters, 310, 137–140.

    This paper deals with sentence production in German under the perspective of a semantic generation task (hyperonym substitution; the superordinate had to be processed and subsequently pronounced in sentence context); method of choice was the recording of EEG-signals; actually this is the very first paper
    using time-frequency analysis with a sentence production task.

    2) Roehm, D. (2003). Gehirnoszillationen und Sprache: EEG-Bandpowerveränderungen bei Sprachverarbeitungsprozessen.
    In H. Müller & G. Rickheit (Eds.), Neurokognition der Sprache. Tübingen: Narr.

    This is a more elaborate description and discussion of the results in the 2001 paper (again German)

    3) Dogil, G, Frese, I., Haider, H., Roehm, D., & Wokurek, W. (2004).
    Where and how does grammatically geared processing take place—and why is Broca’s area often involved.
    A coordinated fMRI/ERBP study of language processing. Brain and Language, 89, 337–345.

    This paper deals with the combination of two methods: fMRI and EEG; in addition to hyperonym substition,
    it investigates the manipulation of word order of a sentence (reserialization task), and contrasts this
    with the reordering of word lists. (German)

    4) Roehm, D. & Haider, H. (2007). The generation of syntactic structures:
    insights from EEG time-frequency analyses (Poster presented at the CNS 2007).
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement, 164.

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    tiflo said:
    July 7, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    Folks,

    the article that these references (and more) are summarized and discussed in is now available online: Jaeger & Norcliffe, 2009. The Cross-linguistic Study of Sentence Production. Language and Linguistics Compass.

    http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119880488/issue

    cheers for all your feedback,

    florian

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