Fachgebiet Psycholinguistics

Publications


In press

Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Family, N., Kholodova, A., & Allen, S.E.M. (In press). Evidence for a constituent order boost in structural priming. Glossa Psycholinguistics.

Fernandez, L. B., Scheepers, C., & Allen. S. E. M. (In press). Cross-language semantic and orthographic parafoveal processing by bilingual L1 German/L2 English readers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

 

2024

Kapia, E., Allen, S. E. M., & Zogaj, D. (2024). Early vocabulary and grammar development in Albanian-speaking children: An MB-CDI adaptation study. Language Development Research, 4(1), 175-206. http://doi.org/10.34842/wve8-yn80

2023

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C., Jacob, G., & Allen, S. E. M. (2023). Abstract priming and the lexical boost effect across development in a structurally biased language. Languages, 8, 264. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040264 

Johnson, A., Elliot, M.E., & Allen, S.E.M. (2023). Morphological simplification in Inuktitut child-directed speech. In M. Huijsmans, D. K. E. Reisinger, & R. Underhill (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas 25 (pp. 103-115). Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL. https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2023/04/WSCLA25_Johnson_Elliot_Allen.pdf

Fernandez, L. B., Xheladini, A., & Allen, S. E. M. (2023). Proficient L2 readers do not have a risky reading strategy. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 13(6), 854-872. https://benjamins.com/catalog/lab.22064.fer

Kholodova, A. & Allen, S.E.M. (2023). The ditransitive alternation in German: Structural preferences and verb bias effects. In E. Zehentner, M. Röthlisberger, & T. Colleman (Eds.), Ditransitives in Germanic languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects (pp. 264-298). Amsterdam: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/sigl.7.08kho

Lee, H., & Allen, S. E. M. (2023). An acquisition sketch of Inuktitut. Language Documentation and Conservation, 28, 135-213. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/74723

Defina, R., Allen, S. E. M., Davidson, L., Hellwig, B., Kelly, B. F., & Kidd, E. (2023). Sketch acquisition manual (SAM). Part 2: The acquisition sketch. Language Documentation and Conservation, 28, 39-86. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/74720

Defina, R., Allen, S. E. M., Davidson, L., Hellwig, B., Kelly, B. F., & Kidd, E. (2023). Sketch acquisition manual (SAM). Part 1: The sketch corpus. Language Documentation and Conservation, 28, 5-38. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/74719

Hellwig, B., Allen, S. E. M. Davidson, L., Defina, R., Kelly, B. F., & Kidd, E. (2023). Introduction: The acquisition sketch project. Language Documentation and Conservation, 28, 1-3. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/74718

Lee, H., Johnson, O. A., & Allen, S. E. M. (2023). The use of verbal inflections in Inuktitut child-directed speech. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 5(1), 29-58. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.23491

2022

Labrenz, A., Wiese, H., Pashkova, T., & Allen, S. E. M. (2022). The three-dot sign in language contact. Pragmatics and Cognition, 29(2), 246-271. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21021.lab

Katsika, K., Lialiou, M., Allen, S.E.M. (2022). The Influence of case and word order in child and adult processing of relative clauses in Greek. Languages , 7(3), 206, https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7030206

Johnson, O. A. & Allen, S. E. M. (2022). The use of complex structures with a word class change in Inuktitut child-directed speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 971395. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.971395

Shakuf, V., Ben-David, B., Wegner, T. G. G., Wesseling, P. B. C., Mentzel, M., Defren, S., Allen, S. E. M. & Lachmann, T. (2022). Processing emotional prosody in a foreign language: The case of German and Hebrew. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 6, 251-268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-022-00107-x

Blything, L.P., Iraola Azpiroz, M., Allen, S. E. M., Hert, R., & Järvikivi, J. (2022). The influence of prominence cues in 7- to 10-year-olds’ pronoun resolution: Disentangling order of mention, grammatical role, and semantic role. Journal of Child Language, 49, 930-958.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000349

Pashkova, T.,  Tsehaye, W., Allen, S.E.M, & Tracy, R. (2022). Syntactic optionality in heritage language use: Clause type preferences of German heritage speakers in a majority English context. Heritage Language Journal, 19, 1-41.https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-12340022

Wiese, H., Alexiadou, A., Allen, S. E. M., Bunk, O., Gagarina, N., Iefremenko, K., Martynova, M., Pashkova, T., Rizou, V., Schroeder, C., Shadrova, A., Szucsich, L, Tracy, R., Tsehaye, W., Zerbian, S., & Zuban, Y. (2022). Heritage speakers as part of the native language continuum. Frontiers in Psychology, 717973.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717973

Lester, N. A., Moran, S., Küntay, A., Allen, S. E. M., Pfeiler, B., & Stoll, S. (2022). Detecting structured repetition in child-surrounding speech: Evidence from maximally diverse languages. Cognition, 221, 104986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104986

2021

Fernandez, L.B., Bothe, R. & Allen. S.E.M. (2021). The role of L1 reading direction on L2 perceptual span: An eye-tracking study investigating Hindi and Urdu speakers. Second Language Research.https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583211049742.

Fernandez, L.B., Scheepers, C. & Allen. S.E.M. (2021). Cross-linguistic influence in parafoveal semantic and orthographic processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02329-7.

Hellwig, B., Defina, R., Kidd, E., Allen, S. E. M., Davidson, L., & Kelly, B. F. (2021). Child language documentation: The sketch acquisition project. In G. Haig, S. Schnell, & F. Seifart (Eds.), Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language data: State of the art (Language Documentation and Conservation, Special Publication 25, 1-31)http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74657

Jacob, G., Schaeffer, M., Oster, K., Hansen-Schirra, S., & Allen, S. E. M. (2021). Towards a methodological toolset for the psycholinguistics of translation: The case of priming paradigms. Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 8(2), 440-461. https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00085.jac

Tsehaye, W., Pashkova, T., Tracy, R., & Allen, S. E. M. (2021). Deconstructing the native speaker: Further evidence from heritage speakers for why this horse should be dead! Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 717352.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717352

2020

Fernandez, L. B., Scheepers, C., & Allen, S. E. (2020). The impact of uninformative parafoveal masks on L1 and late L2 speakers. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 13(6). https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.13.6.3

Fernandez, L. B., Engelhardt, P., Patarroyo, A. G., & Allen, S. E. M. (2020). Effects of speech rate on anticipatory eye movements in the Visual World Paradigm: Evidence from aging, native, and non-native language processing.[pdf] Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(12), 2348-2361. doi.org/10.1177/1747021820948019

2019

Moran, S., Lester, N.A., Gordon, H., Küntay, A., Pfeiler, B., Allen, S.E.M., & Stoll, S. (2019). Variation sets in maximally diverse languages.In M.M. Brown & B. Dailey (Eds.),Proceedings of the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language development (pp. 427-440). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/43/BUCLD43-34.pdf

Czernochowski, D., Borges Gamboa, J.C., & Allen, S.E.M. (2019). What can the eyes and the brain tell us about learning? The role of information density in the comprehension and retrieval of complex concepts. In O. Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia (Ed .), Frontiers and advances in positive learning in the age of information (PLATO) (pp. 143-152). Basel: Springer Nature. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/43/BUCLD43-34.pdf ; PDF

Iraola  Azpiroz,  M.,  Allen,  S.E.M.,  Katsika,  K.  &  Fernandez,  L.  (Eds.)  (2019).  Special  Issue  of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 9(4/5).https://benjamins.com/catalog/lab.9.4-5 ; https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.9.4-5

Wiese, H., Alexiadou, A., Allen, S., Bunk, O., Gagarina, N., Iefremenko, K., Jahns, E., Klotz, M., Krause, T., Labrenz, A., Lüdeling, A., Martynova, M., Neuhaus, K., Pashkova, T., Rizou, V., Schroeder, C., Szucsich, L., Tracy, R., Tsehaye, W., Zerbian, S., & Zuban, Y. (2019). RUEG Corpus (Version 0.2.0) [Data set]. Zenodo.http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3236069

Iraola  Azpiroz,  M.,  Allen,  S.E.M.,  Katsika,  K.  & Fernandez, L. (2019). Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 9(4/5), 505-513. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lab.19025.azp ; PDF

Allen, S.E.M. & Behrens, H. (2019). Insights into understanding human language from children’s acquisition of morphology and syntax: A historical and current perspective on central questions in the field. In P. Hagoort (Ed.), Human language: From genes and brains to behavior (pp. 127-145). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. PDF
 
Allen, S.E.M., Dench, K., & Isakson, K. (2019). InuLARSP: An adaptation of the Language Assessment Remediation and Screening Procedure for Inuktitut. In Ball, M.J., Fletcher, P. & Crystal, D. (Eds.), Grammatical profiles: Further languages of LARSP (pp. 267-293). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. PDF

2018

Shakuf, V., Zack, C., Tidhar, L., Golani, S., Ben-David, B., Lachmann, T., Wesseling, P.B.C., Defren, S., Wegner, T., Allen, S.E.M. (2018). Do prosodic cues need a visa to travel? The perception of emotions in speech across languages: Evidence from Hebrew, English and German. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. (115-122) https://www.ispsychophysics.org/proceedings-fechner-day-2018/

Defren, S., Wesseling, P. B. C., Allen, S. E. M., Shakuf, V., Ben-David, B. M., & Lachmann, T. (2018). Emotional speech perception: A set of semantically validated German neutral and emotionally affective sentences. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosodyhttps://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-145
 
Moran, S., Blasi, D., Schikowski, R., Küntay, A., Pfeiler, B., Allen, S., & Stoll, S. (2018). A universal cue for grammatical categories in the input to children: Frequent frames. Cognition, 175, 131-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.02.005

2017

Allen, S.E.M. (2017). Comparison as a fruitful way forward: Bilinguals, co-activation, and interfaces. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 7(6), 668-672.[pdf]

Fernandez, L.B., Höhle, B., Brock, J., & Nickels, L. (2017) Investigating auditory processing of syntactic gaps with L2 speakers  using pupillometry.  Second Language Research.  Advanced online publication: doi:10.1177/0267658317722386 [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (2017). Polysynthesis in the acquisition of Inuit languages. In Fortescue, M., Mithun, M., & Evans, N. (Eds.), Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Family, N. & Allen, S.E.M. (2017). The role of constituent order and level of embedding in cross-linguistic structural priming. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20(2), 269-282. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000717

2016

Family, N., Vinson, D., Vigliocco, G., Kaelen, M., Bolstridge, M., Nutt, D.J., & Carhart-Harris, R.L. (2016). Semantic activation in LSD: Evidence from picture naming. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. [pdf]

Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Family, N., & Allen, S.E.M. (2016). The role of constituent order and level of embedding in cross-linguistic structural priming. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. [pdf]

Mozaffari Chanijani, S.S., Al-Naser, M., Bukhari, S.S., Borth, D., Allen, S.E.M., & Dengel, A. (2016). An eye movement study on scientific papers using wearable eye tracking technology. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking. [pdf]

2015

Kaelen, M., Barrett, F.S., Roseman, L., Lorenz, R., Family, N., Bolstridge, M., Curran, H.V., Feilding, A., Nutt, D.J., & Carhart-Harris, R.L. (2015). LSD enhances the emotional response to music. Psychopharmacology, 232, 3607-3614 [pdf]

Serratrice, L.. & Allen, S.E.M. (Eds.) (2015). The acquisition of reference. Amsterdam: Benjamins [link]

Serratrice, L. & Allen, S.E.M. (2015). Introduction: An overview of the acquisition of reference. In L.Serratrice & S.E.M. Allen (Eds.), The acquisition of reference (pp. 1-24). Amsterdam: Benjamins [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M., Hughes, M.E., & Skarabela, B. (2015). The role of cognitive accessibility in children’s referential choice. In L. Serratrice & S.E.M. Allen (Eds.), The acquisition of reference (pp. 123-153). Amsterdam: Benjamins. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. & Dench, K. (2015). Calculating mean length of utterance for Eastern Canadian Inuktitut. First Language, 35, 377-406. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (2015). Verb argument structure. In E. Bavin & L. Naigles (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (2nd edition, pp. 271-297). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

Family, N. & Allen, S.E.M. (2015). The development of the causative construction in Persian child language. Journal of Child Language. [pdf]

Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2015). The incremental effect of discourse-pragmatic sensitivity on referential choice in the acquisition of a first language. Lingua. [pdf]

2014

Family, N. (2014). Semantic Spaces of Persian Light Verbs: A Constructionist Account. In Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages. Leiden, NL: Brill. [ link]

Katsika, K. & Allen, S.E.M. (2014). Processing subject and object relative clauses in a flexible word order language: Evidence from Greek. In G. Kotzoglou, K. Nikolou, E. Karantzola, K. Frantzi, I. Galantomos, M. Georgalidou, V. Kourti-Kazoullis, C. Papadopoulou & E. Vlachou (Eds.), Selected Papers of the 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (pp. 715-726). Rhodos, Greece: University of the Aegean. [pdf]

Cavicchio, F., Brown, A., Furman, R., Allen, S., Özyürek, A. & Kita, S. (2014). Annotation of space and manner/path configuration in bilinguals’speech and manual gestures. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Multimodal Corpora, Tools and Resources (pp. 25-28).[pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (2014). Argument structure. In P. Brooks & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language development (pp. 18-19). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [pdf]

Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2014).Competing motivations in children's omission of subjects? The interaction between verb finiteness and referent accessibility. In B. MacWhinney, A. Malchukov, and E. Moravcsik (eds.), Competing motivations in grammar and usage (pp. 144-162). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf]

2013

Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2013). The effect of individual discourse-pragmatic features on referential choice in child English. Journal of Pragmatics 56 (pp. 15-31) [pdf]

Skarabela, B., Allen, S.E.M. & Scott-Phillips, T.C. (2013). Joint attention helps explain why children omit new arguments. Journal of Pragmatics 56 (pp. 5-14) [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (2013) The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut. In E.L. Bavin & S. Stoll (Eds.), The acquisition of ergative structures (pp. 71-105). Amsterdam: Benjamins [pdf]

2011

Katsika, K. (2011). Attachment preferences and corpus frequencies in PP ambiguities: evidence from Greek. Selected Papers from the 19th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

2010

Kita, S., Özyürek, A., Allen, S.E.M., & Ishizuka, T. (2010). Early links between iconic gestures and sound symbolic words: Evidence for multimodal protolanguage. In A. D. M. Smith, M. Schouwstra, B. de Boer & K. Smith (Eds.), The evolution of language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8) (pp. 429-430). Singapore: World  Scientific. [pdf]

Mastropavlou, M., Katsika, K., Papadopoulou, D., Tsimpli, I.M. (2010). Δείκτες υπόταξης στην ΕΓΔ: Σύνδεσμοι και Συμπληρωματικοί Δείκτες [Markers of subordination in SLI: Connectives and complementisers]. In I. Vogindroukas, A. Okalidou, S. Stavrakaki (Eds.), Developmental language disorders: From basic research to clinical practice (pp. 119-174). Thessaloniki: Epikentro.

Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2010). How newness and joint attention work together in child Inuktitut: Assessing discourse-pragmatic models of early argument realization. In K. Franich, K. Iserman, & L. Keil, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 385-396). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

2009

Family, N. (2009). 
“Lighten up: The acquisition of light verb constructions in Persian.” Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 139-150). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M, Genesee, F.H, Fish, S.A & Crago, M.B. (2009). Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut-English bilingual adults. In N. Tersis & M.-A. Mahieu (Eds.), Variations on polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages (pp. 273-306). Amsterdam: Benjamins. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (2009). Verb Argument structure. In E. Bavin (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp. 217-236). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[pdf]

2008

Özyürek, A., Kita, S., Allen, S.E.M., Furman, R., Brown, A. & Ishizuka, T. (2008). Development of cross-linguistic variation in speech and gesture: Motion events in English and Turkish. Developmental Psychology 44(4), 1040-1054.  [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M., Skarabela, B. & Hughes, M. (2008). Using corpora to examine discourse effects in syntax. In H. Behrens (Ed.), Corpora in language acquisition research: Finding structure in data (pp. 99-137). Amsterdam: Benjamins.[pdf]

2007

Kita, S., Özyürek, A., Allen, S.E.M., Brown, A., Furman, R., & Ishizuka, T. (2007). Relations between syntactic encoding and co-speech gestures: Implications for a model of speech and gesture production. Language and Cognitive Processes 22(8), 1212-1236.  [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (2007). Interacting pragmatic influences on children’s argument realization. In M. Bowerman & P. Brown (Eds.), Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure: Implications for learnability (pp. 191-210). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (2007). The future of Inuktitut in the face of majority languages: Bilingualism or language shift? Applied Psycholinguistics 28(3): 515-536. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M., Özyürek, A., Kita, S., Brown, A., Furman, R., Ishizuka, T. & Fujii, M. (2007). How language-specific is early syntactic packaging of Manner and Path? A comparison of English, Turkish, and Japanese. Cognition 102(1), 16-48.  [pdf]

2006

Allen, S.E.M, Crago, M.B. & Pesco, D. (2006). The effect of majority language exposure on minority language skills: The case of Inuktitut. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 9(5), 578-596. [pdf]

Hughes, M. & Allen, S. (2006). A discourse-pragmatic analysis of subject omission in child English. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia & C. Zaller, Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 293-304). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

Furman, R., Ozyurek, A., & Allen, S. (2006). Learning to express causation across languages: What do speech and gesture patterns reveal? In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia & C. Zaller, Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 190-201). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.[pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (2006). Formalism and functionalism working together? Exploring roles for complementary contributions in the domain of child null arguments. In R. Slabakova, S. Montrul, & P. Prévost (Eds.), Inquiries in linguistic development: In honor of Lydia White (pp. 233-255). Amsterdam: Benjamins. [pdf]

2005

Özyürek, A., Kita, S., Allen, S.E.M., Furman, R. & Brown, A. (2005). How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures? Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities. Gesture 5(1-2), 219-240. Reprinted in: K. Liebal, C. Mueller, S. Pika (Eds.) Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates (pp. 199-219). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [pdf]

Zwanziger, E.E., Allen, S.E.M. & Genesee, F.H. (2005). Investigating crosslinguistic influence in child bilinguals: Subject omission in speakers of Inuktitut and English. Journal of Child Language 32(4), 893-909.  [pdf]

Brown, A., Ozyurek, A., Allen, S., Kita, S., Ishizuka, T. & Furman, R. (2005). Does event cognition influence children’s motion event expressions?” Online Proceedings Supplement of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Available at: www.bu.edu/linguistics/BUCLD/supp29.html

2004

Allen, S.E.M. (2004). Is Modularity Matching correct or useful? Journal of Child Language 31(2), 463-466. [pdf]

Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2004). The context of non-affixal arguments in child Inuktitut: The role of joint attention. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla & C. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 532-542). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

2003

Allen, S.E.M. & Schröder, H. (2003). Preferred argument structure in early Inuktitut spontaneous speech data. In J.W. Du Bois, L.E. Kumpf & W.J. Ashby (Eds), Preferred argument structure: Grammar as architecture for function (pp. 301-338). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (2003). Review of Pathways to language: From fetus to adolescent by Kyra Karmiloff & Annette Karmiloff-Smith. Journal of Child Language 30(1), 245-251. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M., Ozyürek, A., Kita, S., Brown, A., Turanli, R. & Ishizuka, T. (2003). Early speech about manner and path in Turkish and English: Universal or language-specific? Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 1, pp. 63-72). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

2002

Allen, S.E.M., Genesee, F.H., Fish, S.A. & Crago, M.B. (2002). Patterns of code mixing in English-Inuktitut bilinguals. In M. Andronis, C. Ball, H. Elston & S. Neuvel (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (Vol. 2, pp. 171-188). Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society. PDF

Swift, M.D. & Allen, S.E.M. (2002). Verb base ellipsis in Inuktitut conversational discourse. International Journal of American Linguistics 68(2), 133-156. [pdf]

Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2002). The role of joint attention in argument realization in child Inuktitut. In B. Skarabela, S.A. Fish & A.H.-J. Do (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 620-630). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

Swift, M.D. & Allen, S.E.M. (2002). Contexts of verbal inflection dropping in Inuktitut child speech.” In B. Skarabela, S.A. Fish & A.H.-J. Do (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 689-700). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

2001

Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2001). Early finiteness in Inuktitut: The role of language structure and input. Language Acquisition 9(1), 59-111. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (2001). The importance of discourse-pragmatics in acquisition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 4(1), 23-25. [pdf]

2000

Allen, S.E.M. (2000). A discourse-pragmatic explanation for argument representation in child Inuktitut. Linguistics, 38(3), 483-521. [pdf]

1998

Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1998). Acquiring Inuktitut. In O. Taylor & L. Leonard (Eds.), Language acquisition across North America: Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives (pp. 245-279). San Diego, CA: Singular Publishing Group. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (1998). Categories within the verb category: Learning the causative in Inuktitut. Linguistics 36(4), 633-677. [pdf]

Crago, M.B., Allen, S.E.M. & Pesco, D. (1998). Issues of complexity in Inuktitut and English child directed speech. In E.V. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum (pp. 37-46). Stanford: CSLI. [pdf]

Crago, M.B., Chen, C., Genesee, F.H. & Allen, S.E.M. (1998). Power and deference: Bilingual decision making in Inuit homes. Journal for a Just and Caring Education, 4(1), 78-95. [pdf]

Also published as: Crago, M.B., Chen, C., Genesee, F.H. & Allen, S.E.M. (2010). Poder y deferencia: la toma de decisiones sobre el bilingüismo en los hogares inuit. In De León, Lourdes (Ed.), Socialización, lenguaje y culturas infantiles (pp. 273-292). Mexico: CIESAS.

1997

Allen, S.E.M. (1997). Towards a discourse-pragmatic explanation for the subject-object asymmetry in early null arguments. In A. Baker, C. Blankenstijn, M. Roelofs & A. Scheper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Netwerk Eerste Taalverwerving Symposium (pp. 1-16). Amsterdam: Leerstoelgroep Psycholinguïstiek en Taalpathologie, University of Amsterdam.

Allen, S.E.M. (1997). A discourse pragmatic explanation for the subject object asymmetry in early null arguments: The Principle of Informativeness revisited. In A. Sorace, C. Heycock & R. Shillcock (Eds.), Proceedings of the GALA '97 Conference on Language Acquisition (pp. 10-15). Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. [pdf]

Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1997). Linguistic and cultural aspects of simplicity and complexity in Inuktitut (Eskimo) child-directed speech. In E. Hughes, M. Hughes & A. Greenhill (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 91-102). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

Crago, M.B., Allen, S.E.M., & Hough-Eyamie, W.P. (1997). Exploring innateness through cultural and linguistic variation. In M. Gopnik (Ed.), The inheritance and innateness of grammars (pp. 70-90). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. (1997). Review of La parole inuit: Langue, culture et société dans l’arctique nord-américain by Louis-Jacques Dorais. Anthropological Linguistics, 39(2), 325-328.

1996

Allen, S.E.M. (1996). Aspects of argument structure acquisition in Inuktitut. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1996). Early passive acquisition in Inuktitut. Journal of Child Language, 23(1), 129-155. [pdf]

Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1996). Building the case for impairment in linguistic representation. In M. L. Rice (Ed.), Toward a genetics of language (pp. 261-289). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [pdf]

1995

Allen, S.E.M. (1995). Acquisition of causatives in Inuktitut. In E.V. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum (pp. 51-60). Stanford: CSLI.

1994

Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1994). Morphemes gone askew: Linguistic impairment in Inuktitut. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 10 (1&2), 206-215. [pdf]

1993

Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1993). The acquisition of passives and unaccusatives in Inuktitut. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 9, 1-29. [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1993). Early acquisition of passive morphology in Inuktitut. In E.V. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum (pp. 112-123). Stanford: CSLI.

1992

Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1992). The acquisition of passive morphology in Inuktitut. In. W.O. Kupsch & J.F. Basinger (Eds.), The Musk-Ox 39: Proceedings of the Third National Student Conference on Northern Studies (pp. 306-312). [pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1992). First language acquisition of Inuktitut. In M.-J. Dufour & F. Thérien (Eds.), Inuit Studies Occasional Papers 4: Proceedings of the Seventh Inuit Studies Conference (pp. 273-281). [pdf]

1991

Crago, M.B., Annahatak, B., Doehring, D. & Allen, S.E.M. (1991). Evaluation of Inuit children's first language by native speakers. Journal of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology, 15. [43-48]

1989

Allen, S.E.M. (1989). Preschool language acquisition of Inuktitut: A case study of one Inuk boy. In W.O. Kupsch & J.F. Basinger (Eds.), The Musk Ox 37: Proceedings of the Second National Student Conference on Northern Studies (pp. 159 167).[pdf]

Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1989). Acquisition of noun incorporation in Inuktitut. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 28: Proceedings of the Stanford Child Language Research Forum (pp. 49 56).  [pdf]

1988

Allen, S.E.M. (1988). Noun incorporation in Eskimo: Postpositions and case marking. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 5(2), 1 39. [pdf]

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