Downloadable Papers

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Last updated July 20th, 2000.

• Phonological Feature Representations in Auditory Cortex. Colin Phillips, Tom Pellathy, Alec Marantz. July 2000. Submitted. 11pp. pdf (104k).
• Levels of Representation in the Electrophysiology of Speech Perception. Colin Phillips. June 2000. Revised version to appear in Cognitive Science. 30pp. pdf (128k).
• Grammatical Search and Reanalysis. David Schneider & Colin Phillips. February 2000. Submitted. 23pp. pdf (168k).
• Mechanisms for Rapid Use of Focus Information - Review of Julie Sedivy's dissertation. Colin Phillips. October 1999. To appear in GLOT International. pdf (32k), 10pp.
• Variability in Semantic Cue Effectiveness: Inducing Low-Span Performance in High-Span Readers. [handout] Ted Eastwick & Colin Phillips. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing IV. University of Edinburgh, Scotland. September 1999. Handout: pdf (52k), ps (310k).
• Auditory Cortex Accesses Phonological Categories: An MEG Mismatch Study. Colin Phillips, Tom Pellathy, Alec Marantz,Elron Yellin, Ken Wexler, Martha McGinnis, David Poeppel, Tim Roberts. in press, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17pp. pdf (647k).
• Cross-linguistic Differences in Children's Syntax for Locative Verbs, Meesook Kim, Barbara Landau & Colin Phillips. 1999. 12pp. In Proceedings of the 23rd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. word98 (29k, stuffed), ps (131k), pdf (43k).
• Linear Order and Constituency, Colin Phillips. 1998 (revised version to appear in Linguistic Inquiry). 52pp. word5.1 (320k), ps (608k), pdf (224k).
• Teaching Syntax with Trees. Colin Phillips. 1998 (in press). GLOT International 3.7. 5pp. word6 (47k), ps (320k), html.
• Complex Verb Constructions in Child Korean: Overt Markers of Covert Functional Structure, Meesook Kim & Colin Phillips. 1998. In A. Greenhill et al. (eds), Proceedings of BUCLD22. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 12pp. word6 (74k), ps (153k), pdf (41k).
• MEG Studies of Vowel Processing in Auditory Cortex, [poster] Colin Phillips, Krishna Govindarajan, Alec Marantz, David Poeppel, Tim Roberts, Howard Rowley, Elron Yellin; Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, Boston, March 1997. word6 (515k), ps (1,720k), pdf (156k).
• Local Attachment and Competing Constraints, [poster] Colin Phillips & Ted Gibson;10th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, Santa Monica, March 21st 1997. word6 (613k), ps (440k), pdf (57k).
• Disagreement between Adults and Children, Colin Phillips. October 1996 (published early 1998). In A. Mendikoetxea & M. Uribe-Etxebarria (eds), Theoretical Issues on the Morphology-Syntax Interface. San Sebastian: ASJU. 38pp. word5.1 (205k), ps (215k), pdf (140k).
• On the Strength of the Local Attachment Preference, Colin Phillips & Edward Gibson. September 1996 (in press). Journal of Psycholinguistic Research , 22pp. word5.1 (205k), ps (215k), pdf (65k). [Note: the experiment reported on here is superseded by the work reported in our 1997 CUNY conference poster -- see above.]
• Order and Structure, Colin Phillips. September 1996. PhD dissertation, MIT. 305pp. Distributed by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. word5.1 (1.5Mb), ps (2.6Mb), pdf (1.2Mb). Summary of Order and Structure. to appear in GLOT International (together with a review). 5pp. word6 (64k), ps (33k), pdf (13k).
• Processing of Vowels in Supratemporal Auditory Cortex, David Poeppel, Colin Phillips, Elron Yellin, Howard Rowley, Timothy Roberts, Alec Marantz. October 1996. Neuroscience Letters. Send email to David Poeppel (UCSF) for reprint requests.
• Task-induced Asymmetry of the Auditory Evoked M100 Neuromagnetic Field Elicited by Speech Sounds, David Poeppel, Elron Yellin, Colin Phillips, Timothy Roberts, Howard Rowley, Ken Wexler, Alec Marantz. May 1996. Cognitive Brain Research 4, 231&endash;242. Send email to David Poeppel (UCSF) for reprint requests.
• Merge Right: an Approach to Constituency Conflicts, Colin Phillips. June 1996. To appear in B. Agbayani & S.-W. Tang (eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL XV. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 15pp. word5.1 (69k), ps (80k), pdf (50k).
• A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Phoneme Perception using Magnetic Mismatch Fields, Alec Marantz, Colin Phillips, Martha McGinnis, Elron Yellin, Sharon Manuel, Ken Wexler, David Poeppel, Tim Roberts, Howard Rowley, Morihiro Sugishita, Sotaro Sekimoto, Koichi Yoneda. April 1996. Poster presented at the third annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. word5.1 (1Mb), ps (3.8Mb), pdf (318k).
• Root Infinitives are Finite, Colin Phillips. January 1996. In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes & A. Zukowski (eds), Proceedings of BUCLD 20. Somerville, Mass: Cascadilla Press. 12pp. word5.1 (63k), ps (119k), pdf (46k).
• Right Association in Parsing and Grammar, Colin Phillips. In: C. Schütze, K. Broihier & J. Ganger (eds), Papers on Language Processing and Acquisition, MITWPL #26. October 1995. 57pp. word5.1 (248k), ps (279k), pdf (190k).
• Syntax at Age Two: Cross-Linguistic Differences, Colin Phillips. October 1995. In: C. Schütze, K. Broihier & J. Ganger (eds), Papers on Language Processing and Acquisition, MITWPL #26. 58pp. word5.1 (327k), ps (428k), pdf (195k).
• Brain Mechanisms of Speech Perception: A Preliminary Report, Colin Phillips, Alec Marantz, Martha McGinnis, David Pesetsky, Ken Wexler, Elron Yellin: MIT; David Poeppel, Tim Roberts, Howard Rowley: UCSF. October 1995. In: C. Schütze, K. Broihier & J. Ganger (eds), Papers on Language Processing and Acquisition, MITWPL #26. 39pp. word5.1 (1.2Mb), ps (3.1Mb), pdf (488k).
• Ergative Subjects, Colin Phillips. In C. Burgess, K. Dziwirek & D. Gerdts (eds.), Grammatical Relations: Theoretical Approaches to Empirical Issues. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Written April 1994, published Spring 1996. 15pp. word5.1 (72k), pdf (48k).
• On the Nature of Polysynthetic Inflection, Colin Phillips. In Proceedings of CONSOLE II. Leiden: SOLE. Written April 1994, published Spring 1996. 17pp. word5.1 (80k), ps (95k), pdf (54k).
• Agreement Alternations, Colin Phillips: MIT. Detailed handout of talk presented at the U. of Maryland Workshop Minimalist Syntax and Comparative Grammar, May 1994. 14pp. word5.1 (135k), ps (800k, very large because of font inclusion), pdf (83k).
• Are Feature Hierarchies Autosegmental Hierarchies? Colin Phillips. In: A. Carnie, H.Harley & T. Bures (eds), Papers on Phonology and Morphology, MITWPL #21. January 1994. 54pp. word5.1 (246k), ps (285k).
• Conditions on Agreement in Yimas, Colin Phillips: MIT. In: J. Bobaljik & C. Phillips (eds.) Papers on Case and Agreement I. MITWPL #18, 173-213. May 1993. 41pp. word5.1 (167k).