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Faculty Publications
(2004 calendar year)
Books and edited volumes
Davis, Steven and Brendan Gillon, eds. 2004. Semantics: A reader . New York: Oxford University Press.
Ellis, C. Douglas. 2004. Spoken Cree: ê-ililîmonâniwahk : Level II. University of Alberta Press.
Paradis, Michel. 2004. A neurolinguistic theory of bilingualism . Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Journal articles
Ben-Schachar, Michal, Dafna Palti & Yosef Grodzinsky . 2004. Neural correlates of syntactic movement: Converging evidence from two fMRI experiments. NeuroImage 21: 1320-1336.
Boberg, Charles. 2004. Ethnic patterns in the phonetics of Montreal English. Journal of Sociolinguistics 8: 538-568.
Boberg, Charles. 2004. The dialect topography of Montreal. English World-Wide 25: 171-198.
Boberg, Charles. 2004. Real and apparent time in language change: Late adoption of changes in Montreal English. American Speech 79: 250-269.
Fox, Danny and Jon Nissenbaum. 2004. Condition A and scope reconstruction. Linguistic Inquiry 35: 475-485.
Paradis, Michel. 2004. Le componenti della comunicazione verbale. Acta Phoniatrica Latina 26: 85-104.
White, Lydia, Elena Valenzuela, Martyna Kozlowska-Macgregor & Yan-kit Ingrid Leung. 2004. Gender agreement in nonnative Spanish: Evidence against failed features. Applied Psycholinguistics 25: 105-133.
Book chapters
Gillon, Brendan. 2004. Subject predicate order in classical Sanskrit. In Philip Scott, Claudia Casadio & Robert Seely, eds., Language and grammar: Studies in mathematical linguistics and natural language , 211-225. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
Gillon, Brendan. 2004. Ambiguity, indeterminacy, deixis and vagueness: Evidence and theory. In Steven Davis and Brendan Gillon, eds., Semantics: A reader , 157-187. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gillon, Brendan and Steven Davis. 2004. Introduction. In Steven Davis and Brendan Gillon, eds., Semantics: A reader , 1-132. New York: Oxford University Press.
Goad, Heather and Yvan Rose. 2004. Input elaboration, head faithfulness and evidence for representation in the acquisition of left-edge clusters in West Germanic. In René Kager, Joe Pater and Wim Zonneveld, eds., Constraints in phonological acquisition , 109-157. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2004. Trace deletion hypothesis. In R. Kent, ed., MIT Encyclopaedia of Communication Disorders , 407-411. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2004. Variation in Broca's region: Preliminary cross-methodological comparisons. In Lyle Jenkins, ed., Variation and universals in biolinguistics . Oxford: Elsevier.
Conference proceedings
Goad, Heather and Lydia White. 2004. Ultimate attainment of L2 inflection: Effects of L1 prosodic structure. In Susan Foster-Cohen, Michael Sharwood Smith, Antonella Sorace and Mits Ota, eds., EUROSLA Yearbook 4, 119-145. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Goad, Heather and Lydia White. 2004. (Non)native-like ultimate attainment: The influence of L1 prosodic structure on L2 morphology. In Alejna Brugos, Linnea Micciulla and Christine E. Smith, eds., Proceedings of the 28 th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development , 177-188. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
White, Lydia. 2004. Plato's problem in reverse: Apparent lack of acquisition despite presence of evidence. In Y. Otsu, ed., Proceedings of the Fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics , 33-61. Tokyo: Hituso Syobo Publishing Co.
Other
Goad, Heather and Lydia White. 2004. Ultimate attainment of L2 inflection: Effects of L1 prosodic structure. In Heather Newell and Yukio Furukawa, eds., McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 19: 43-65.
White, Lydia. 2004. 'Internal' versus 'external' universals: Commentary on Eckman. In A. Rosenbach, ed., Studies in Language 28: 704-706.
Faculty presentations
Boberg, Charles. 2004. Region and gender in the phonetics of Canadian English: A first look. NWAVE 33 , Ann Arbor, MI, October 2004.
Boberg, Charles. 2004. Ethnic variation in Montreal English. Invited talk, École de Langues, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, November 2004.
Boberg, Charles. 2005 Sounding Canadian from coast to coast: Regional accents in Canadian English. Canadian English in the Global Context , Toronto, ON, January 2005.
Boberg, Charles. 2005. A first approach to regional phonetic variation in Canadian English. American Dialect Society (Linguistic Society of America) Annual Meeting , San Francisco, CA, January 2005.
Boberg, Charles. 2005. The phonetics of Newfoundland and Canadian English: A research agenda. Invited talk, Linguistics Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's NL, April 2005.
Gillon, Brendan. 2005. Unexpressed relata and context. Linguistics Colloquium, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, April 2005.
Goad, Heather. 2004. The role of licensing in consonant harmony and deletion. Second Lisbon Meeting on Language Acquisition , June 2004.
Goad, Heather. 2004. Discussant for 'Phonological processes in L2 acquisition and in creole genesis.' Montreal Dialogues: Processes in L2 Acquisition and in Creole Genesis . Université du Quebéc à Montréal, Montreal, QC, August 2004.
Goad, Heather. 2004. Assimilation and reduction phenomena as licensing in early grammars. Colloquium Series of the Department of Linguistics, Linguistics Colloquium, Rutgers University, NJ, October 2004.
Goad, Heather. 2004. A role for abstractness in the acquisition of phonological systems. Department of Psychology, McGill University, November 2004.
Goad, Heather. 2005. Prosodic constraints on functional morphology in second language acquisition. Linguistics Colloquium, Universität Hamburg, Germany, April 2005.
Goad, Heather. 2005. Truncation and the minimal word. Linguistics Colloquium, Universität Hamburg, Germany, May 2005.
Goad, Heather and Lydia White. 2004. Representational 'deficits'in L2: Syntactic or phonological? Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 29 , November 2004.
Goad, Heather and Lydia White. 2004. The representation of L2 English tense: Evidence from regular and irregular verbs. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition-North America (GALANA), University of Hawaii at Manoa, December 2004.
Goad, Heather and Meaghen Buckley, 2005. Prosodic structure in child French: Evidence for the foot. Linguistics Colloquium, Universität Hamburg, Germany, April 2005.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2004. A blueprint for a brain map of syntax. Invited talk, Broca's Region Workshop , Jülich, June 2004.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2004. Syntactic capacity and neural tissue. Invited talk, Cognitive Science, Hebrew University, June 2004.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2004. Localizing syntax in the human brain. Invited talk, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, June 2004.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2004. Variation, movement and canonicity in aphasia. Invited talk, Euresco The Science of Aphasia V Conference , Postdam, September 2004.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2004. A blueprint for a brain map of syntax. Invited talk, Psychology Department, Rutgers University, October 2004.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2004. Syntax and the brain. Invited talk, Tel Aviv University School of Education, December 2004.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2004. A blueprint for a brain map of syntax. Invited talk, Linguistics Department, University College, London, December 2004.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2004. A blueprint for a brain map of syntax. Invited talk, Linguistics Department, University of Arizona, December 2004.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2005. The brain's syntactic analyzer in health and in disease. Invited talk, Penn Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS), March 2005.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2005. A blueprint for a brain map of syntax. Neurolinguistics Workshop , Aarhus University, April 2005.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2005. A blueprint for a brain map of syntax. Invited talk, Cogntive Science, Université du Quebéc à Montréal, Montreal, QC, April 2005.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2005. Language and the brain. Engelberg Forum , Lucerne, May 2005.
Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2005. Syntax and language deficits: Broca's aphasia, an example. Keynote address, Clinical Aphasiology Conference . Sanibel Island, FL, May 2005.
Johnson, Kyle. 2004. Ellipsis as phonological projections. Linguistics Colloquium, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, November 2004.
Newell, Heather & Glyne Piggott. 2005. Morphologically-controlled phonology: The spell-out of lexical categories within words. Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop , McGill University, February 2005.
Newell, Heather & Glyne Piggott. 2005. Morphologically-controlled phonology: The spell-out of lexcial categories within words. 13 th Manchester Phonology Conference , May 2005.
Nissenbaum, Jon. 2005. Fake raccoon soup: The re-appearance of the wily initial Low-tone in Japanese compounds. Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop , McGill University, February 2005.
Nissenbaum, Jon. 2005. Kissing Pedro Martinez: (Existential) anankastic conditionals and rationale clauses. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 15) , Los Angeles, CA, March 2005.
Nissenbaum, Jon. 2005. Cyclic spellout and Wh-movement: A derivational approach to islands and language variation. Linguistics Colloquium, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, March 2005.
Paradis, Michel. 2004. Toward an integrated neurolinguistic theory of bilingualism. Plenary lecture, Second Lisbon Meeting on Second Language Acquisition , Lisbon, Portugal, June 2004.
Paradis, Michel. 2004. The importance of the implicit/explicit distinction in neuroscience research on bilingualism. Invited talk, Tutorials in Brain and Behavior Sciences, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Ezerwold, The Netherlands, July 2004.
Paradis, Michel. 2004. Why single-word experiments do not address language representation. Plenary lecture, 7 th Congress of the International Association of Applied Psycholinguistics , University of Silesia, Cieszyn, Poland, September 2004.
Paradis, Michel. 2004. Implicit competence and explicit knowledge in a second language: Neurolinguistic findings and pedagogical relevance. Symposium on Memory: Scientific and Pedagogical Considerations , McGill University, November 2004.
Paradis, Michel. 2005. Composantes neurofonctionnelles de la communication verbale. Invited talk, Séminaire sectoriel de neuropsychologie , Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, January 2005.
Paradis, Michel. 2005. La pratique comme seule voie d'accès à la compétence linguistique: le seuil d'activation. Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, February 2005.
Paradis, Michel. 2005. The neurofunctional modularity of language - and other cognitive functions. Plenary lecture at the symposium on Riflessioni sul linguaggio: dalla genetica alla riabilitazione , University of Udine Medical Faculty, Cividale del Friuli, Italy, May 2005.
Paradis, Michel. 2005. The neurofunctional components of the bilingual cognitive system. Keynote lecture, Research Center in Cognitive Systems, The Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano, Italy, May 2005.
Paradis, Michel. 2005. Metalinguistic knowledge of L2 never becomes implicit competence. Invited talk, Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Sassari, Sardinia, May 2005.
Paradis, Michel. 2005. Linguistic equivalence across Bilingual Aphasia Test versions: Why an adaptation to Limba Sarda? Invited talk, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sassari, Sardinia, May 2005.
Travis, Lisa deMena. 2004. Movement typology and language typology. Invited talk, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2004.
Travis, Lisa deMena. 2004. Features, movement, asymmetries, and a typology of movement. Plenary speaker, Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL 2) , Hsinchu, Taiwan, June 2004.
Travis, Lisa deMena. 2004. External arguments of roots. Invited talk, Workshop on Argument Structure , Tromsø, Norway, November 2004.
Travis, Lisa deMena. 2005. Passives, states, and roots in Malagasy. Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 12) , Los Angeles, CA, April 2005.
Travis, Lisa deMena. 2005. States, abilities, and accidents. Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA 2005) , London, ON, May 2005.
Travis, Lisa deMena. 2005. VP, D-movement languages. Invited talk, Tucson, AZ, May 2005.
White, Lydia. 2004. Comments on transfer and on reanalysis. Montreal Dialogues: Workshop on Processes in L2 Acquisition and in Creole Genesis , Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, August 2004.
White, Lydia. 2004. Three perspectives on morphological variability in L2. Invited talk, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, November 2004.
Publications by Graduate and Postdoctoral Students
Edited volumes
Mercado, Raphael & Yukio Furukawa, eds. 2005. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 19.2. Montreal, QC: McGill University.
Newell, Heather & Yukio Furukawa, eds. 2004. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 19.1. Montreal, QC: McGill University.
Journal articles
Grüter, Theres. 2005. Comprehension and production of French object clitics by child second language learners and children with specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics 26: 363-391.
Hallman, Peter. 2004. NP-Interpretation and the structure of predicates. Language 80: 707-747.
Uchiumi, Tohru. 2004. A peculiar restriction on the long-distance "anaphor" zibun in Japanese. Snippets 9: 17-18, http://www.ledonline.it/snippets/allegati/snippets9007.pdf.
Conference proceedings
Furukawa, Yukio. 2004. The Specificity Condition as Crossover. In Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vincent & Mark de Voc, eds., Proceedings of CONSOLE XII , 17-31. Leiden, The Netherlands: Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe.
Furukawa, Yukio. 2004. The Specificity Condition is an instance of Crossover. In Yukio Otsu, ed., Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics , 111-135. Tokyo, Japan: Hituzi.
Hallman, Peter. 2004. Constituency and agency in VP. In Benjamin Schmeiser, Vineeta Chand, Ann Kelleher & Angelo Rodriquez, eds., Proceedings of the 23 rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 23) , 304-317. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Kayama, Yuhko. 2005. Acquisition of wh-in-situ: The case of L2 Japanese. In Alejna Brugos, Manuella R. Clark-Cotton & Seungwan Ha, eds., The 29 th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 29) Proceedings Online Supplement, http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/supp29.html .
McCarthy, Corrine. 2005. Underspecification and default morphology in second language Spanish. In Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 29) Online Proceedings Supplement .
Uchiumi, Tohru. 2005. Two subtypes of so-called possessed picture-NPs. Marie-Odile Junker, Martha McGinnis & Yves Roberge, eds., Proceedings of the 2004 Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA 2004) , http://www.carleton.ca/~mojunker/ACL-CLA/pdf/Uchiumi-CLA-2004.pdf.
Working papers
Conradie, Simone. 2005. Investigating "Full Transfer:" Preliminary data from the adult L2 acquisition of Afrikaans. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics 36: 1-33.
Furukawa, Yukio. 2004. The Specificity Condition as Crossover. In Heather Newell & Yukio Furukawa, eds., McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 19: 29-42.
Mercado, Raphael. 2004. Focus constructions and WH-questions in Tagalog: A unified analysis. In Magdalena Goledzinowska & Marina Sherkina-Lieber, eds., Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 23: 95-118.
Nossalik, Larissa. 2005. The A/A'-status of Russian scrambling. In Raphael Mercado & Yukio Furukawa, eds., McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 19: 65-102.
Skinner, Tobin R. 2005. Cyclic derivation in partial wh-movement. In Raphael Mercado & Yukio Furukawa, eds., McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 19: 103-135.
Presentations by graduate and postdoctoral students
Bejar, Susana, 2004. Conditions on ø-Agree. Phi-Theory Workshop , McGill University, August 2004.
Bejar, Susana. 2004 Conditions on ø-Agree. Seminar on Move and Agreement , MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2004.
Bejar, Susana. 2004. Syntactic projections as vocabulary insertion sites. North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS 35) , University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 2004.
Bejar, Susana. 2005. Features of verbal agreement. Invited talk, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, February 2005.
Bejar, Susana. 2005. How do we agree? Invited talk, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, February 2005.
Bejar, Susana. 2005. A course in morphological theory. Invited talk, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, February 2005.
Bejar, Susana. 2005. Derived heads. Invited talk, McGill University, April 2005.
Bejar, Susana. 2005. Features of agreement. Invited talk, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, May 2005.
Bejar, Susana & Milan Rezac. 2004. Agree in a cyclic syntax. Workshop on Minimalist Theorizing , Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, June 2004.
Furukawa, Yukio. 2004. Invisible variables within definite/specific determiners: Evidence from the Specificity Condition. Milan Meeting 2004 at Università degli Studi di Milano, Gargnano, Italy, June 2004.
Furukawa, Yukio. 2004. Negative quantifiers in Japanese are neither NPIs nor NCIs. Strategies of Quantification at University of York, York, UK, July 2004.
Furukawa, Yukio. 2004. Negative quantifiers in Japanese are neither NPIs nor NCIs. 2 nd Workshop on Alteic Formal Linguistics (WAFL2) , Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2004.
Furukawa, Yukio. 2004. It's time to depart from syntactic analyses of the SIKA-NAI construction. 14 th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference , University of Arizona, Tucson, November 2004.
Furukawa, Yukio. 2004. Why can bare NPs in Japanese have universal readings in certain environments? 13 th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE XIII) , University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, December 2004.
Furukawa, Yukio. 2005. Do fragmental answers tell us anything about negative concord? Poster presented, Polarity from Different Perspectives , New York University, New York, March 2005.
Furukawa, Yukio. 2005. Syntactic presence of the domain of the quantification: Evidence from the Specificity Condition. Northwestern Linguistics Conference 21 , University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, April 2005.
Furukawa, Yukio. 2005. Do fragmental answers tell us anything about negative concord? 7 th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar , Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, August 2005.
Furukawa, Yukio. 2005. The clausal negation in Japanese is a total adjective. Workshop on the Formal Analysis of Adjectives (JET adjectifs) , Université Paris 8, Paris, France, September 2005.
Grüter, Theres & Simone Conradie. 2004. Full Transfer at the L2 initial state: Evidence from Afrikaans learners of German. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA) , Honolulu, HI, December 2004.
Hallman, Peter. 2004. Scope, case and linking in double object constructions. Linguistics Colloquium, McGill University, March 2005.
Kayama, Yuhko. 2004. Adjunct/argument relativization in L2 Japanese. Poster presented, Fourth Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association , Gunma, Japan, June 2004.
Kayama, Yuhko. 2004. Acquisition of no movement: The case of Japanese Wh. Poster presented, 29 th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development , Boston, MA, November 2004.
Kayama, Yuhko. 2004. L2 acquisition of Japanese complex relative clauses. Poster presented, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA) , Hawaii, December 2004.
Khordoc, Émile. 2005. Unsolved mysteries of French causatives: Lingering problems with the incorporation analysis. Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) , London, ON, May 2005.
Mah, Jennifer. 2005. A missing feature is a missing feature: Evidence from ERPs. Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MOT) , McGill University, February 2005.
Mazzotta, Mizuki. 2005. L2 acquisition of Japanese case drop. The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA 2005) , Osaka, Japan, May 2005.
McCarthy, Corrine. 2004. Language change in Pittsburgh: The decline of /aw/-monophthongization and the Canadian shift. Poster presented, New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 33) , Ann Arbor, MI, October 2004.
McCarthy, Corrine. 2004. Default morphology in second language: The morphological Underspecification Hypothesis. Poster presented, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 29) , Boston, MA, November 2004.
McCarthy, Corrine. 2004. The Canadian shift in Pittsburgh. Poster presented, Investigations in Language, Mind and Brain , Montreal, QC, November 2004.
McCarthy, Corrine. 2005. Default morphology in second language Spanish: Missing inflection or underspecified inflection? Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 35) , Austin, TX, February 2005.
McCarthy, Corrine. 2005. Underspecification in L2 Spanish morphology. Ontario Dialogues on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese , London, ON, March 2005.
Mercado, Raphael. 2005. An OT account for Tagalog morphological scrambling. Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MOT) , McGill University, February 2005.
Mercado, Raphael. 2005. Tagalog phrase structure revisited: An XP-fronting analysis. Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 12) , Los Angeles, CA, April 2005.
Mercado, Raphael. 2005. Tagalog VI as XP-predicate fronting. Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2005) , London, ON, May 2005.
Newell, Heather & Glyne Piggott. 2005. Morphologically-controlled phonology: The spell-out of lexical categories within words. Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop , McGill University, February 2005.
Newell, Heather & Glyne Piggott. 2005. Morphologically-controlled phonology: The spell-out of lexcial categories within words. 13 th Manchester Phonology Conference , May 2005.
Nossalik, Larissa. 2005. Problems with A/A'-dichotomy: Evidence from Russian scrambling. Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2005) , London, ON, May 2005.
Skinner, Tobin R. 2005. Copula omission in L1 English wh-questions. Canadian Linguistic Association Conference (CLA 2005) , London, ON, May 2005.
Uchiumi, Tohru. 2004. The reduction of Condition A to the chain condition and possessed picture -nPs. The International Theoretical East Asian Linguistic Workshop (TEAL 2) , Hsinchu, Taiwan, June 2004.
Uchiumi, Tohru. 2004. Possessorless picture -noun anaphors are indeed sensitive to discourse prominence. The Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB 2004) , London, UK, September 2004.
Uchiumi, Tohru. 2004. The discourse sensitivity of possessorless picture -noun anaphors and the implications thereof. The Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics (UTASCIL 12) , Arlington, TX, November 2004.
Uchiumi, Tohru. 2005. Raising and arbitrary control. The Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2005) , London, ON, May 2005.