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Last updated April 2012.

• Sprouse, J., Wagers, M., & Phillips, C. (in press). Working-memory capacity and island effects: A reminder of the issues and the facts. Language, 88 (June 2012 issue). pdf
• Alcocer, P. & Phillips, C. (submitted). Using relational syntactic constraints in content-addressable memory architectures for sentence processing. Topics in Cognitive Science. April 2012. pdf
• Phillips, C. (in press). Parser-grammar relations: We don't understand everything twice. In M. Sanz, I. Laka, & M. Tanenhaus (eds.), Language down the garden path: The cognitive and biological basis for linguistic structure. Oxford University Press. April 2012. pdf
• Omaki, A., Davidson White, I., Goro, T., Lidz, J., & Phillips, C. (submitted). No fear of commitment: Children's incremental interpretation in English and Japanese wh-questions. February 2012. pdf
• Chow, W.-Y. & Phillips, C. (submitted). No semantic illusion in the 'semantic P600' phenomenon: ERP evidence from Mandarin Chinese. February 2012. pdf
• Phillips, C. (in press). On the nature of island constraints. I: Language processing and reductionist accounts. In J. Sprouse & N. Hornstein (eds.), Experimental syntax and island effects. Cambridge University Press. pdf
• Phillips, C. (in press.) On the nature of island effects. II: Language learning and innateness. In J. Sprouse & N. Nornstein (eds.), Experimental syntax and island effects. Cambridge University Press. pdf
• Wagers, M. W. & Phillips, C. (submitted). Going the distance: Memory and decision making in active dependency construction. January 2012. pdf
• Dillon, B., Mishler, A., Slogett, S., & Phillips, C. (submitted). Contrasting intrusion profiles for agreement and anaphora: Experimental and modeling evidence. December 2011.pdf
• Phillips, C. (in press). Individual variation and constraints on language learning. (Commentary on target article by Ewa Dabrowska.) Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. December 2011. pdf
• Sprouse, J., Wagers, M. W., & Phillips, C. (2012). A test of the relation between working memory capacity and syntactic island effects. Language. October 2011. pdf
• Phillips, C., Wagers, M. W., & Lau, E. F. (2011). Grammatical illusions and selective fallibility in real-time language comprehension. In J. Runner (ed.), Experiments at the Interfaces, Syntax & Semantics, vol. 37, pp. 153-186. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publications. pdf.
• Dillon, B., Chow, W.-Y., Wagers, M., Guo, T., Liu, F., & Phillips, C. (submitted). The structure-sensitivity of search: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. July 2011. pdf

• Psycholinguistics of Ellipsis. Colin Phillips & Dan Parker. Slides from symposium on ellipsis at Linguistic Society of America Meeting, Pittsburgh, January 2011. pptx, pdf

• Some arguments and non-arguments for reductionist accounts of syntactic phenomena. Colin Phillips. 41pp. October, 2010. In press, Language and Cognitive Processes . pdf

• Syntactic and semantic predictors of tense in Hindi: An ERP investigation. Brian Dillon, Andrew Nevins, Alison C. Austin, & Colin Phillips. 42pp. October 2010. In press, Language & Cognitive Processes. pdf

• Examining the evidence for an independent semantic analyzer: An ERP study in Spanish. Clare Stroud & Colin Phillips, September 2010. 64pp. In press: Brain and Language. pdf

• Hyper-active gap filling: Pre-verbal object gap creation in English filler-gap dependency processing. Akira Omaki, Ellen Lau, Imogen Davidson White, & Colin Phillips. 65pp. July 2010. Submitted. pdf

• Context influences structure generation: Evidence from Chinese. Natalie Chun-chieh Hsu, Felicia Hurewitz, & Colin Phillips. 56pp. September 2009. Submitted. pdf

• Derivational order in syntax: Evidence and architectural consequences. Colin Phillips & Shevaun Lewis. 41pp. September 2009. To appear in C. Chesi (ed.), Directions in derivations. Elsevier. pdf

• Multiple Routes to Pronoun Resolution in Russian Cataphora. Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips. (2010). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 371-400. pdf.

• The Linguistic Processes Underlying the P600. Ana Gouvea, Colin Phillips, Nina Kazanina, & David Poeppel. (2010). Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 149-188. pdf, materials (.doc).
• Illusory Licensing Effects Across Dependency Types: ERP Evidence. Ming Xiang, Brian Dillon, & Colin Phillips. Brain & Language, 108, 40-55 (2009). pdf, materials - negative polarity, reflexives

• Attraction in Comprehension: Representations and Processes. Matt Wagers, Ellen Lau, & Colin Phillips. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 206-237 (2009). pdf.

• Should we impeach armchair linguists? Colin Phillips. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 17, S. Iwasaki et al., ed. CSLI Publications. (2009) pdf

• Equal Treatment for All Antecedents: How Children Succeed with Principle B. Stacey Conroy, Eri Takahashi, Jeff Lidz, Colin Phillips. Linguistic Inquiry, 45, 446-486. (2009). pdf. Videos of sample experimental stories: exp1, exp2 [10Mb each]. Videos of all stories available on request.

• Multiple Dependencies and the Role of the Grammar in Real-time Comprehension. Matt Wagers & Colin Phillips. Journal of Linguistics, 45, 395-433. (2009) pdf.

• Incremental Processing of Coreference and Binding in Japanese. Sachiko Aoshima, Masaya Yoshida, & Colin Phillips. Syntax, 12, 93-134. (2009) pdf, materials.

• A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400. Ellen Lau, Colin Phillips, & David Poeppel. (2008). Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9, 920-933. pdf.

• The Role of Feature-Number and Feature-Type in Processing Hindi Verb Agreement Violations. Andrew Nevins, Brian Dillon, Shiti Malhotra, Colin Phillips. (2007). Brain Research, 1164, 81-94. pdf

• Syntactic Prediction and Lexical Surface Frequency Effects in Sentence Processing. Ellen Lau, Katya Rozanova, & Colin Phillips. April 2007. University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics. 38pp. pdf.

• Relating Structure and Time in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. Colin Phillips & Matthew Wagers. (2007). In G. Gaskell (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, pp. 739-756. Oxford University Press. pdf

• The Effect of Syntactic Constraints on the Processing of Backwards Anaphora. Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Masaya Yoshida, & Colin Phillips. (2007). Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 384-409. pdf .

• A Developmental Perspective on the Imperfective Paradox. Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips (2007). Cognition, 105, 65-102. pdf .

• Real-time Computation of Japanese Exclamatives and the Strength of Locality Biases in Sentence Comprehension. Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima, & Colin Phillips. (2006). Cognitive Studies, 13, 261-287. pdf (740k).

• The Influence of Meaning on the Perception of Speech Sound Contrasts. Nina Kazanina, Colin Phillips, & William Idsardi. (2006). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 11381-11386. pdf (1.3Mb)

• The Role of Structural Prediction in Rapid Syntactic Analysis. Ellen Lau, Clare Stroud, Silke Plesch, & Colin Phillips. Brain & Language, 98, 74-88 (2006). pdf (1Mb). Experimental materials: target items (625k), filler items (52k).

• The Real-time Status of Island Phenomena. Colin Phillips. Language, 82, 795-823 (2006). pdf (332k).

• Native-like Biases in Generation of Wh-Questions by Non-native Speakers of Japanese. Moti Lieberman, Sachiko Aoshima, & Colin Phillips. Revised version published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28, 423-448 (2006). 22pp. pdf (84k).

• Constituent Structure and the Binding Problem. Colin Phillips & Matthew Wagers. (2006) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 45-46. [commentary on target article by van der Velde & de Kamps]. 3pp. pdf (108k).

• ERP Effects of the Processing of Syntactic Long-distance Dependencies. Colin Phillips, Nina Kazanina, & Shani Abada. (2005) Cognitive Brain Research, 22, 407-428. pdf (844k). materials (52k)

• Language and the Brain. Colin Phillips & Kuniyoshi L. Sakai. (2005). McGraw-Hill Handbook of Science and Technology 2005, pp. 166-169. pdf (1Mb).

• Foundational Issues (Review Article on Jackendoff's Foundations of Language, 2002). Colin Phillips & Ellen Lau. Journal of Linguistics, 40, 571-591 (2004). pdf (128k).

• Electrophysiology in the Study of Developmental Language Impairments: Prospects and Challenges for a Top-Down Approach. Colin Phillips. Applied Psycholinguistics 26, 79-96 (2005). pdf (192k).

• Three Benchmarks for Distributional Approaches to Natural Language Syntax. November 2004. In press, R. Zanuttini, H. Campos, E. Herburger, & P. Portner (eds.), Negation, Tense, and Clausal Architecture: Cross-linguistic Investigations. Georgetown University Press. [Paper based on a talk presented at Neural Information Processing Systems 2003, Whistler, BC.] 24pp. pdf (250k).

• Processing Filler-Gap Dependencies in a Head-Final Language. Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips, & Amy Weinberg. Journal of Memory & Language, 51, 23-54 (2004). pdf (684k).

• Theoretical Implications of the Parsing of Japanese Wh-Scrambling Constructions. Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips, & Amy Weinberg. (2003) In: G. Garding & M. Tsujimura (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Medford, MA: Cascadilla Press. pdf (355k). 14pp.

• Temporal reference frames and the Imperfective Paradox. Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips. (2003) In: G. Garding & M. Tsujimura (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Medford, MA: Cascadilla Press. pdf (303k). 14pp.

• Linguistics and Linking Problems. Colin Phillips. (2004). In M. Rice & S. Warren (eds.), Developmental Language Disorders: From Phenotypes to Etiologies. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp 241-287. pdf (630k).

• Presentations from March 2003 Conferences [deleted where superseded by paper]

  • Processing long-distance dependencies in Spanish. Leticia Pablos & Colin Phillips. Barcelona Conference on Psycholinguistics, Barcelona, Spain, March 29th. pdf (244k).

  • ERP evidence for abstract sound categorization. Colin Phillips & Daniel Garcia-Pedrosa. 10th Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, New York City, April 1st. pdf (396k).

• Russian Children's Comprehension of Aspectual Distinctions. Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips. January 2003. In B. Beachley, A. Brown, & F. Conlin (eds.), Proceedings of BUCLD 27. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 12pp. pdf (236k).

• Processing of Japanese Wh-Scrambling Constructions. Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips, & Amy Weinberg. January 2003. In W. McClure (ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 12. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 12pp. pdf (296k).

• Linguistics and Empirical Evidence: A Response to Edelman and Christiansen. Colin Phillips & Howard Lasnik. December 2002. In Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Feb. 2003. 2pp. pdf. Response to a letter by Edelman & Christiansen. 3pp. pdf.

• Linear Order and Constituency, Colin Phillips. 2003. Linguistic Inquiry 34:1. 45pp. pdf (1.2Mb). [Extras: PowerPoint slides illustrating incremental structure building, ppt (205k). Earlier, longer version of the manuscript, containing some sections absent from the current version: pdf (205k)]

• Constituency in Deletion and Movement: Remarks on Lechner (2001). Colin Phillips. July 2002. 12pp. pdf (168k). [This short piece contains some comments on Lechner's (2001) analysis of certain phenomena discussed in Linear Order and Constituency.]

• Active Filler Effects and Reanalysis: A Study of Japanese Wh-Scrambling Constructions. Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips, Amy Weinberg. May 2002. University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, 12. pdf

• Syntax. Colin Phillips. March 2001. In press, Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Macmillan Reference Ltd. 23pp. pdf

• Parsing: Psycholinguistic Aspects. Colin Phillips. March 2001. In press, International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edn. Oxford University Press. 6pp. pdf

• Coreference in Child Russian: Distinguishing Syntactic and Discourse Constraints. Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips. January 2001. In Proceedings of BUCLD 25. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 12pp. pdf.

• Levels of Representation in the Electrophysiology of Speech Perception. Colin Phillips. Cognitive Science, 25, 711-731. pdf

• Grammatical Search and Reanalysis. David Schneider & Colin Phillips. (2001). Journal of Memory and Language, 45, 308-336. pdf

• Phonological Feature Representations in Auditory Cortex. Colin Phillips, Tom Pellathy, Alec Marantz. July 2000. Submitted. 11pp. pdf

• Mechanisms for Rapid Use of Focus Information - Review of Julie Sedivy's dissertation. Colin Phillips. November 2000. GLOT 4-9. 10pp. pdf

• 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

• 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. 2000. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 1038-1055. pdf

• 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. pdf

• Teaching Syntax with Trees. Colin Phillips. 1998. GLOT International 3.7. 5pp. word6, ps, 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. 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. pdf (156k).

• Local Attachment and Competing Constraints, [poster] Colin Phillips & Ted Gibson;10th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, Santa Monica, March 1997. pdf (57k).

• Disagreement between Adults and Children, Colin Phillips. In A. Mendikoetxea & M. Uribe-Etxebarria (eds), Theoretical Issues on the Morphology-Syntax Interface. San Sebastian: ASJU. pp. 359-394. pdf (140k).

• On the Strength of the Local Attachment Preference, Colin Phillips & Edward Gibson. 1997. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 23, 323-346. 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: pdf (1.2Mb). Summary of Order and Structure. In GLOT International (appeared with a review by Edith Kaan). 5pp. pdf (13k).

• Processing of Vowels in Supratemporal Auditory Cortex, David Poeppel, Colin Phillips, Elron Yellin, Howard Rowley, Timothy Roberts, Alec Marantz. 1997. Neuroscience Letters, 221, 145-148.

• 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, 231-242.

• Merge Right: an Approach to Constituency Conflicts, Colin Phillips. June 1996. In B. Agbayani & S.-W. Tang (eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL XV. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 15pp. pdf (50k).

• 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. 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. 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. 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, 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.pdf (48k).

• On the Nature of Polysynthetic Inflection, Colin Phillips. In Proceedings of CONSOLE II. Leiden: SOLE. Written April 1994, published Spring 1996. 17pp. pdf (54k).

• 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. pdf (700k). [note: this paper is superseded by the two shorter 1996 papers above. Certain analyses changed due to possible mis-glossings of Yimas examples.]