Recent Presentations

2020

Johnson, O.A., Elliot, M.E., & Allen, S.E.M. (2020, July). Morphological simplification in Inuktitut child-directed speech. 15th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Philadelphia, USA.

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C. & Allen, S.E.M. (2020, July). Abstract representations in bilingual children over development in a structurally biased language. Poster at 15th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Philadelphia, USA.

Allen, S.E.M. & Jung, D. (2020, July). Comparing sketch acquisition studies in Dene and Inuktitut. 15th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Philadelphia, USA.

Fernandez, L. & Allen, S.E.M. (2020, June). Word skipping by late L2 speakers of English: The effects of word length, predictability, spelling skills, and proficiency. Poster at Conference on Multilingualism, University of Reading, Reading, UK.

Jacob, G., Schaeffer, M., Oster, K., Hansen-Schirra, S. & Allen, S.E.M. (2020, June). ‘Do what you are told’ or ‘Do what you are primed for’? - A cross-linguistic structural priming study with trained translators. Conference on Multilingualism, University of Reading, Reading, UK.

Wiese, H., Allen, S.E.M., Pashkova, T., Bunk, O. & Labrenz, A. (2020, June). The three-dot sign in language contact: A comparative approach. Discourse Markers, Fillers, and Filled Pauses: Psycho- and Sociolinguistic Perspectives, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Jahan, T. & Allen, S.E.M. (2020, June). Morphological complexity and lexical diversity in Bengali-speaking children with Down syndrome. Fifth Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

Pashkova, T., Tsehaye, W., Tracy, R., & Allen, S.E.M. (2020, May). Narrative complexity of heritage speakers' majority and heritage language productions. Heritage Languages Around the World, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.

Tsehaye, W., Pashkova, T., Tracy, R., & Allen, S.E.M. (2020, March). Structural optionality in heritage speakers’ narratives. Conference on Heritage Language Syntax, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Pashkova, T., Hodge, A. & Allen, S.E.M. (2020, March). Explicitness in heritage speakers’ majority English productions. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Fernandez, L., Engelhardt, P., Patarroyo, A.G., & Allen, S.E.M. (2020, March). The impact of speech rate on anticipatory eye movements in L1 aging and in L2 speakers. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

2019

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C. & Allen, S.E.M. (2019, November). Abstract representations in bilingual L2-speaking children over development in a structurally biased language. Poster at 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, Boston, USA.

Allen, S.E.M. & Elliot, M. (2019, October). Morphological simplification in Inuktitut child-directed speech. 21st Inuit Studies Conference, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Canada.

Fernandez, L.B., Engelhardt, P., Patarroyo, A. & Allen, S.E.M. (2019, September). The impact of auditory presentation speed on anticipatory eye movements in L2 speakers of English and older and younger L1 speakers of English. Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Approaches (DETEC 2019), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany.

Borges Gamboa, J.C., Fernandez, L.B., & Allen, S.E.M. (2019, September). On the difficulties of processing nominal compounds: Evidence from an eye tracking study. 25th Conference on Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Moscow, Russia.

Fernandez, L.B., Scheepers, C., & Allen, S.E.M. (2019, September). Crosslinguistic influence in parafoveal semantic processing: A study investigating L1 English monolinguals and late L2-English/L1-German bilinguals. 25th Conference on Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Moscow, Russia.

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C.F. & Allen, S.E.M. (2019, September). Structural priming in a structurally biased language: Investigating abstract representations in bilingual children compared to monolingual children over development. 25th Conference on Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Moscow, Russia.

Fernandez, L.B., Scheepers, C., & Allen, S.E.M. (2019, August). The impact of uninformative parafoveal masks on L1 and late L2 speakers. 20th European Conference on Eye Movements, Alicante, Spain.

Borges Gamboa, J.C., Fernandez, L.B., & Allen, S.E.M. (2019, August). Guessing the line currently being read: Approaches for offline recalibration of eye-tracking reading data. Poster at 20th European Conference on Eye Movements, Alicante, Spain.

Allen, S.E.M. & Elliot, M. (2019, July). Strategies for simplifying morphology in Inuktitut child-directed speech. Summer Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, University of California at Davis, Davis, USA.

Allen, S.E.M. & Wiese H. (2019, June). The dynamics of heritage speakers: A comparative view. Theme session at 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Pashkova, T., Zuban, Y., Rizou, V., Alexiadou, A., Zerbian, S. & Allen, S.E.M., (2019, June). Emerging grammars for referent introduction in heritage speakers’ two languages. 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Fernandez, L.B., Engelhardt, P., Patarroyo, A. & Allen, S.E.M. (2019, June). The role of speed on anticipatory eye movements in L2 speakers of English and older and younger L1 speakers. Psycholinguistics in Iceland – Parsing and Prediction, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Bothe, E.R., Fernandez, L.B., & Allen, S.E.M.  (2019, May). The impact of L1 reading direction on L2 perceptual span size: Investigating speakers of Hindi and Urdu. Psycholinguistics in Flanders 2019, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.

Johnson, O.A., Jacob, G. & Allen, S.E.M. (2019, May). Are all complex words created equal? Morpho-orthographic decomposition of complex numerals versus derived nominalizations in German. Poster at Psycholinguistics in Flanders 2019, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.

2018

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C. & Allen, S.E.M. (2018, November). Implicit learning and surprisal effects in a structurally biased language: A developmental study. 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, Boston, USA.

Akinbodunse, A., Borges Gamboa, J.C., Fernandez, L.B., & Allen, S.E.M. (2018, October). Cross-linguistic influence on the processing of nominal compounds in English. Poster at International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Reading Experience and Analysis of Documents (READ 2018), German Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Bothe, E.R., Kolesova, K., Allen, S.E.M., & Fernandez, L.B. (2018, October). Perceptual span during the L2 reading of English and the influence of L1 reading direction: The case of Urdu and Hindi. Poster at International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Reading Experience and Analysis of Documents (READ 2018), German Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Borges Gamboa, J.C. & Allen, S.E.M. (2018, September). On-line evidence for processing difficulties with nominal compounds in native speakers of English. 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Fernandez, L., Bothe, E.R. & Allen, S.E.M. (2018, September). L1 reading direction plays a role on L2 perceptual span size: An eye tracking study investigating Urdu and Hindi speakers. Cognitive Neuroscience of Second and Artificial Language Learning (CoNSALL), Bangor University, Bangor, Wales.

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, September). Do prosodic cues need a visa to travel? The perception of emotions in speech across languages: Evidence from Hebrew, English and German. 34th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics - Fechner Day, Lüneburg, Germany.

Defren, S., Wesseling, P.B.C., Allen, S.E.M., Shakuf, V., Ben-David, B., & Lachmann, T. (2018, September). Disentangling the impact of prosody and semantics in emotional speech perception: A compilation of emotionally affective and neutral sentences in German. 34th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics - Fechner Day, Lüneburg, Germany.

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C. & Allen, S.E.M. (2018, September). Investigating implicit learning and suprisal effects in a structurally biased language over development. 24th Conference on Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

Fernandez, L., Scheepers, C. & Allen, S.E.M. (2018, September). Are all invalid parafoveal previews created equal? Poster at 24th Conference on Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

Defren, S., Wesseling, P. B. C., Allen, S. E. M., Shakuf, V., Ben-David, B. M., & Lachmann, T. (2018, September). Generierung von affektiven und emotional neutralen deutschen Sätzen zur Untersuchung der Wechselwirkung zwischen Prosodie und Semantik. Poster at 51st Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Defren, S., Wesseling, P. B. C., Allen, S. E. M., Shakuf, V., Ben-David, B. M., & Lachmann, T. (2018, June). Emotional speech perception: A set of semantically validated German neutral and emotionally affective sentences. Poster at 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.

Naumovets, M., Fernandez, L. B., & Allen, S. E. M. (2018, June). The perceptual span of L2 English speakers with different L1 alphabetic systems. Psycholinguistics in Flanders, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.

Johnson, A., Grün, A., Allen, S. E. M., & Fernandez, L. B. (2018, June). Complex noun phrases: The influence of length and type on processing time. Poster at Psycholinguistics in Flanders, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.

Naumovets, M., Fernandez, L. B., & Allen, S. E. M. (2018, June). The perceptual span of L2 English speakers with different L1 alphabetic systems. Poster at International Max Planck Research School for the Language Sciences Conference 2018, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Patarroyo, A., Fernandez, L., & Allen, S.E.M. (2018, May). Anticipatory eye movements in L2 wh-movement. Poster at International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children, University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

Fernandez, L. & Allen, S.E.M. (2018, May). L2 parafoveal processing (or lack thereof). Poster at International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children, University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

Naumovets, M., Fernandez, L. B., & Allen, S. E. M. (2018, May). The perceptual span of L2 English speakers with different L1 alphabetic systems. Poster at International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children, University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

Wiese, H., Lüdeling, A., Alexiadou, A., Pohle, M., Allen, S., Gagarina, N., Schroeder, C., Szucsich, L., Tracy, R. & Zerbian, S. (2018, April). Variation in heritage speakers: A comparative approach to linguistic repertoires. Transdisciplinary Approaches to Language Variation, UiT The Arctic University in Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C. & Allen, S.E.M. (2018, April). Syntactic priming in a structurally biased language: Investigating abstract representations in monolingual and bilingual children over development. Transdisciplinary Approaches to Language Variation, UiT The Arctic University in Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

2017

Allen, S.E.M. & Elliot, M. (2017, October). Learning morphemes in a morphologically complex language: Do Inuktitut-speaking parents simplify utterances to help children break into morphology? Poster at Many Paths to Language, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Allen, S.E.M., Fernandez, L., Elliot, M., Powers, H., Family, N., Katsika, K., Järvikivi, J. & Fortune, L. (2017, September). Cross-linguistic influence in the processing of complex noun phrases by L2 speakers of English. Poster at 23rd Conference on Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK.

Fernandez, L., Pire, N. & Allen, S.E.M. (2017, September). The use of parafoveally-viewed expectation and frequency information by L2 speakers of English. Poster at 23rd Conference on Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK.

Allen, S.E.M. & Stein, A. (2017, September). The development of the English recipient passive considered in the light of psycholinguistic research. In Themed Session on Modeling Language Acquisition in Diachrony. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C. & Allen, S.E.M. (2017, September). Ditransitive syntactic priming in a biased language: Investigating abstract representations over development. Workshop on Ditransitives in Germanic Languages, 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistics Europaea, Zurich, Switzerland.

Fernandez, L., Pire, N. & Allen, S.E.M. (2017, September). L2 perceptual span size and the role of L1 reading direction. Poster at International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, Chania, Crete, Greece.

Fernandez, L., Pire, N. & Allen, S.E.M. (2017, September). Parafoveally-viewed expectation and frequency information in native and L2 speakers. International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, Chania, Crete, Greece.

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C. & Allen, S.E.M. (2017, September). Syntactic priming in a structurally biased language:  Investigating abstract representations over development. International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, Chania, Crete, Greece.

Allen, S.E.M., Cain, M., Dench, C., Genest, C., & Trudeau, N. (2017, July). Inuktitut adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. Poster at 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France.

Brittain, J., Allen, S.E.M. & Acton, S. (2017, July). Preferred argument structure in Cree child and child-directed speech. Poster at 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France.

Allen, S.E.M. & Hughes, M.E. (2017, July). Cognitive interplay between syntax and discourse-pragmatics in language development: Preferred Argument Structure in English referential choice. In Symposium on Processes Underlying Children’s Reference Production. 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France.

Allen, S.E.M., Fernandez, L., Elliot, M., Family, N., Katsika, K., Iraola Azpiroz, M., Järvikivi, J. & Fortune, L. (2017, June). Discourse expectations and cross-linguistic influence in the processing of complex noun phrases by L2 speakers of English. Poster at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Fernandez, L., Pire, N. & Allen, S.E.M. (2017, June). The use of parafoveally-viewed expectation and frequency information in native and L2 speakers of English. Poster at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Allen, S.E.M., Fernandez, L., Elliot, M., Powers, H., Family, N., Katsika, K., Järvikivi, J. & Fortune, L. (2017, June). L2 processing of complex noun phrases: Evidence of L1 parsing strategy transfer. Poster at International Workshop on Bilingualism vs. Monolingualism: A New Perspective on Limitations to L2 Acquisition, University of Toulouse 2, Toulouse, France.

Fernandez, L., Pire, N. & Allen, S.E.M. (2017, June). The influence of L1 reading direction on L2 perceptual span size. Poster at International Workshop on Bilingualism vs. Monolingualism: A New Perspective on Limitations to L2 Acquisition, University of Toulouse 2, Toulouse, France.

Fernandez, L., Pire, N. & Allen, S.E.M. (2017, June). The role of parafoveally-viewed frequency & expectation information in native and L2 speakers of English. Poster at International Workshop on Bilingualism vs. Monolingualism: A New Perspective on Limitations to L2 Acquisition, University of Toulouse 2, Toulouse, France.

Allen, S.E.M., Cain, M., Dench, C., Genest, C., & Trudeau, N. (2017, May). A university-community partnership to design a preschool vocabulary assessment for Inuktitut: Adapting the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. Inuktitut Language and Linguistics Workshop, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Allen, S.E.M. (2017, May). Ergativity in child, adolescent, and adult speech in Northern Quebec Inuktitut:  Evidence for language change? Poster at Inuktitut Language and Linguistics Workshop, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C. & Allen, S.E.M. (2017, May). Syntactic priming in a strongly biased language: Investigating continuity of processing mechanisms across development. Linguistic Diversity Meets the Brain: Future Directions in the Language Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Wegner, T., Wesseling, P., Shakuf, V., Ben-David, B., Allen, S.E.M. & Lachmann, T. (2017, March). Hearing emotions: The processing of prosody without semantics. 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Dresden, Germany.