Research & Data Links
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- ▧ ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3139-2380
- ▨ Open Science Foundation https://osf.io/gn3e8/
- ▩ Chamorro Psycholinguistics na Project
- ▦ Animacy & Resumption at the Border (Zapotec & Hebrew Psycholinguistics)
year | title | authors | citation | ⿻ | ⿳ |
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2022 | Processing reflexive pronouns when they don’t announce themselves. | Wagers, M., Borja, M., Chung, S. |
Glossa Psycholinguistics, 1(1) doi:10.5070/G601174 |
Open Access | materials, data, scripts, analysis |
2022 | Extraction from English RCs and Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Environments That Facilitate Extraction | Vincent, J. W., Sichel, I., Wagers, M. |
Languages, 7(2), 117 doi:10.3390/languages7020117 |
Open Access | |
2022 | Memory for linguistic features and the focus of attention: evidence from the dynamics of agreement inside DP | Wagers, M., McElree, B. |
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39(9), 1191-1206. doi:10.1080/23273798.2022.2057559 |
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2020 | On the universality of intrusive Resumption: Evidence from Chamorro and Palauan | Chung, S., Wagers, M. | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 39, 759-801 | Postprint (authors' copy) | Materials & data |
2020 | Hierarchical structure and memory mechanisms in agreement attraction | Franck, J., Wagers, M. | PLoS ONE, 15, e0232163 | Open Access | materials, data, scripts |
2020 | The predictive value of Tagalog voice morphology in filler-gap dependency formation | Pizarro-Guevara, J.S., Wagers, M. |
Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 517 doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00517 |
Open Access | <at journal> |
2019 | A new argument for distinct, co-active parses during language comprehension | Dillon, B., Andrews, C., Rotello, C., Wagers, M. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 1271-1286 | preprint | materials, data, scripts |
2018 | Grammatical licensing and relative clause parsing in a flexible word-order language | Wagers, M.W., Borja, M.F., Chung, S. | Cognition, 178, 207-221 | postprint | materials, data, scripts |
2018 | English resumptive pronouns are more common where gaps are less acceptable | Morgan, A., Wagers, M. | Linguistic Inquiry, 49, 861-876 | postprint | |
2018 | Developing incrementality in filler-gap dependency processing | Atkinson, E., Wagers, M.W., Lidz, J., Phillips, C., Omaki, A. | Cognition, 179, 132-149 | postprint | |
2017 | Subject encodings and retrieval interference | Arnett, N., Wagers, M.W. | Journal of Memory and Language, 93, 22-54 | postprint | |
2017 | The role of voice morphology in processing Tagalog A-bar dependencies | Pizarro-Guevara, J.S., Wagers, M. | AFLA 23: The Proceedings of the 23rd Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, pp. 228-242 Nomoto, A., Miyauchi, T., & Shiohara, A., Eds. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics |
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2017 | Persons, pronouns, and processing asymmetries | Clothier-Goldschmidt, S., Wagers, M. |
Asking the Right Question: Essays in Honor of Sandra Chung, pp. 115-125 J. Ostrove, R. Kramer, & J. Sabbagh (Eds.). UC Santa Cruz. |
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2016 | Structuring expectation: licensing animacy in relative clause comprehension | Wagers, M.W., Pendleton E. | Proceedings of the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 33 | postprint | materials, corpus queries |
2015 | The real-time comprehension of wh-dependencies in a Wh-Agreement language | Wagers, M., Borja, M.F., Chung, S. |
Language, 91 doi:10.1353/lan.2015.0001 |
postprint | |
2015 | Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: a view from Mayan | Clemens, L.E., Coon, J., Mateo Pedro, P., Morgan, A.M., Polinsky, M., Tandet, G., Wagers, M. |
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 33, 417-467 doi:10.1007/s11049-014-9260-x |
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2015 | Constituent order and parser control processes in Chamorro | Borja, M.F., Chung, S., Wagers, M. | AFLA 21: The Proceedings of the 21st Meeting of Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association | Open Access | |
2014 | Going the distance: memory and control processes in active dependency construction | Wagers, M.W., Phillips, C. |
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 1274-1304 doi:10.1080/17470218.2013.858363 |
postprint | materials |
2014 | The structure-sensitivity of memory access: evidence from Mandarin Chinese | Dillon, B., Chow, W.Y., Wagers, M., Guo, T., Liu, F., Phillips, C. |
Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1025. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01025 |
Open Access | |
2013 | Processing covert dependencies: an SAT study on Mandarin Wh-in-situ questions | Xiang, M., Dillon, B., Wagers, M., Liu, F., Guo, T. |
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 23, 207-232 doi:10.1007/s10831-013-9115-1 |
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2012 | A test of the relation between working memory constraints and syntactic island effects | Sprouse, J., Wagers, M., Phillips, C. | Language, 88, 82-123 | ||
2012 | Working-memory capacity and island effects: a reminder of the issues and the facts. | Sprouse, J., Wagers, M., Phillips, C. | Language, 88, 401-407. | ||
2011 | The exclusive interpretation of plural nominals in quantificational environments | Anand, P., Andrews, C., Farkas, D., Wagers, M. | Proceedings of the 21st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, 176-196 N. Ashton, A. Chereches, & D. Lutz (Eds.) |
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2009 | Agreement attraction in comprehension: representations and processes | Wagers, M. , Lau, E., Phillips, C. | Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 206-237. | Materials, data | |
2009 | Multiple dependencies and the role of the grammar in real-time comprehension | Wagers, M., Phillips, C. | Journal of Linguistics, 45, 395-433 |
year | title | authors | citation | ⿻ | ⿳ |
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2023 | Language processing experiments in the field | Wagers, M., Chung, S. | Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax J. Sprouse (Ed.) |
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2022 | Managing experimental data in a study of syntax | Wagers, M. | The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management A. Berez-Kroeker, B. McDonnell, E. Koller, & L. Collister (Eds.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press doi:10.7551/mitpress/12200.003.0051 |
Open Access | |
2021 | Acceptability with the tools of signal detection theory | Dillon, B., Wagers, M. | Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax G. Goodall (Ed.) |
preprint | |
2017 |
Sources of variability in linguistic memory systems (Commentary on target article by Ian Cunnings) |
Wagers, M. W. | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition doi:10.1017/S1366728916000997 |
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2016 | Psychology of Syntax | Wagers, M. | H. Miller (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. | ||
2014 | Syntax in Forward and in Reverse: Form, Memory and Language Processing | Wagers, M. | The Routledge Handbook of Syntax A. Carnie, D. Siddiqi, & Y. Sato (Eds.), New York: Taylor & Francis |
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2013 | Memory mechanisms for wh-dependency formation and their implications for islandhood | Wagers, M. | Experimental Syntax and Island Effects J. Sprouse & N. Hornstein (Eds.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press |
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2013 | Working memory and language processing: theory, data, and directions for future research | Wagers, M., McElree, B. | The Cambridge Handbook for Biolinguistics C. Boeckx & K. Grohmann (Eds.) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press |
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2011 | Grammatical illusions and selective fallibility in real-time language comprehension | Phillips, C., Wagers, M., Lau, E. | Experiments at the Interfaces, Syntax & Semantics, vol. 37, pp. 153-186. J. Runner (Ed.) Bingley: UK: Emerald Publications. |
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2007 | Relating structure and time in linguistics and psycholinguistics | Phillips, C., Wagers, M. |
Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics G. Gaskell (Ed.). Oxford: Oxford UP. |
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2006 |
Constituent structure and the binding problem (Commentary on target article by van der Velde & de Kamps) |
Phillips, C., Wagers, M. | Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(1), 81 |
Posters and talk slides (selected)
A selection of posters & slides reporting unpublished work
Talk slides from Twenty-third Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY, March 19-21, 2010.
Neuroscience
- As an undergraduate I was fortunate to work on two very interesting projects on the anatomy of the brain. The first, while I was an RA in the lab of Charles Gross, concerned the life-cycle and spatial distribution of newly-born neurons in the adult neocortex. The principal investigator of the project was Elizabeth Gould. It was an exciting time to be involved in this kind of research since the existence and extent of adult neurogenesis was still controversial and not well understood.
- Gould, E., Vail, N., Wagers, M., Gross, C.G. (2001). Adult-generated hippocampal and neocortical neurons in macaques have a transient existence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 98, 10910-7.
- The second project was about white matter scaling, while I was a part of Sam Wang's lab: how the axon size distribution and fraction of myelinated axons changes with increasing brain size. Part of this paper was developed in my A.B. thesis, Optimization of Neocortical White Matter under Constraints of Time and Space. This part of the research showed that as brain size increases, the center of the size distribution of myelinated axons does not shift, but its positive skew does: the fraction of very large axons grows. This has the consequence that the minimum cross-brain conduction time is essentially preserved across brain sizes.
- Wang, S.S., Shultz, J.R., Burish, M.J., Harrison, K.H., Hof, P.R., Towns, L.C., Wagers, M.W., Wyatt, K.D. (2008). Functional trade-offs in white matter axonal scaling. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 4047-56.
- Although my core interests shifted to linguistics and cognitive science, my inchoate life as a neuroscientist did inspire my linguistic interests - particular, in thinking about how compositional representations are biologically encoded.