Readings

As with the schedule for the course, the list below is intended as a guide only, and is likely to change as the semester progresses.

1. Berwick, Robert & Amy Weinberg. 1984. Grammatical Competence and Parsing Performance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2. Bever, Thomas. 1988. The psychological reality of grammar: a student's-eye view of cognitive science. In W. Hirst (ed.), The making of cognitive science: essays in honor of George A. Miller. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 112­142.
3. Bever, Thomas & Brian McElree. 1988. Empty categories access their antecedents during comprehension. Linguistic Inquiry 19, 35­43.
4. Bever, Thomas & Montserrat Sanz. 1997. Empty Categories access their Antecedents during Comprehension: Unaccusatives in Spanish. Linguistic Inquiry 28, 69-91.
5. Bock, Kay & Willem Levelt. 1994. Language Production: Grammatical Encoding. In M. Gernsbacher (ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics. New York: Academic Press.
6. Brody, Michael. 1994. Phrase Structure and Dependency. ms., University College, London and Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
7. Chomsky, N. 1994. Bare Phrase Structure. In G. Webelhuth (ed), Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program. Oxford: Blackwell, pp.385-439.
8. de Vincenzi, Marica. 1992. Syntactic parsing strategies in Italian. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
9. Epstein, Sam. 1992. Derivational Constraints on A'-chain Formation. Linguistic Inquiry 23, 235-259.
10. Ferreira, V. 1997. Is it better to give than to donate? Syntactic flexibility in language production. Journal of Memory and Language 35, 724-755.
11. Fodor, Jerry, Thomas Bever & Merrill Garrett. 1974. The Psychology of Language. New York: McGraw-Hill.
12. Fox, Danny. 1997. Reconstruction, Binding Theory and the Interpretation of Chains. ms., MIT.
13. Friederici, A. 1995. The time course of syntactic activation during language processing: a model based on neuropsychological and neurophysiological data. Brain and Language 50, 259-281.
14. Gee, James & Francois Grosjean. 1983. Performance Structures: A Psycholinguistic and Linguistic Appraisal. Cognitive Psychology 15, 411-458.
15. Gorrell, Paul. 1995. Syntax and Parsing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
16. Grodzinsky, Yosef. 1990. Theoretical Perspectives on Language Deficits. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
17. Hawkins, John. 1994. A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
18. Johnson, Kyle. 1994. ms., UMass/Amherst.
19. Kempen, Gerard & Eduard Hoenkamp. 1987. An Incremental Procedural Grammar for Sentence Formulation. Cognitive Science 11, 201-258.
20. Kempson, Ruth & Dov Gabbay. 1997. ms., SOAS/Imperial College, London.
21. Koizumi, Masatoshi. 1995. Phrase Structure in Minimalist Syntax. PhD thesis, MIT.
22. Kolk, Hermann. 1995. A Time-Based Approach to Agrammatic Production. Brain and Language 50, 282-303.
23. Kutas, Marta & Cyma van Petten. 1994. Psycholinguistics Electrified! In: M. Gernsbacher (ed) Handbook of Psycholinguistics. New York: Academic Press.
24. MacDonald, Maryellen. 1989. Priming effects from gaps to antecedents. Language and Cognitive Processes 4, 1­72.
25. Pesetsky, David. 1995. Zero Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
26. Phillips, Colin. 1996. Order and Structure. PhD thesis, MIT.
27. Phillips, Colin. 1998. Linear Order and Constituency. ms. U. of Delaware.
28. Pritchett, Bradley. 1991. Subjacency in a principle-based parser. In R. Berwick, S. Abney & C. Tenny (eds.), Principle-based parsing: computation and psycholinguistics. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 301­345.
29. Schneider, David. in prep. Dissertation chapter on detecting ungrammaticality in an incremental parser. ms., U. of Delaware.
30. Steedman, Mark. 1996. The Syntactic Interface. ms., UPenn.
31. Steedman, Mark. 1997. Surface Structure and Interpretation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
32. Zurif, Edgar. 1995. Brain Regions of Relevance to Syntactic Processing. In L. Gleitman & M. Liberman (eds.) Language: An Invitation to Cognitive Science, vol. 1 (2nd edn). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp.381-397.