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Publications
Maryellen C. MacDonald34 entries found.
Gennari, S. P., & MacDonald, M. C. (2008). Semantic indeterminacy in object relative clauses. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 161-187.
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Acheson, D. J., Wells, J. B., & MacDonald, M. C. (2008). New and updated tests of print exposure and reading abilities in college students. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 278-289.
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Gennari, S. P., MacDonald, M. C., Postle, B. R., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2007). Context-dependent interpretation of words: Evidence for interactive
neural processes. NeuroImage, 35, 1278-1286.
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Seidenberg, M. S., MacDonald, M. C., & Haskell, T. R. (2007). Semantics and phonology constrain compound formation. The Mental Lexicon, 2, 287-312.
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Sussman, R. S., & MacDonald, M. C. (2007). When is a spatula just a spatula?: Investigating the link between observed events and the online interpretation of verb-instrument biases. Poster presented at the 4th Hopkins Workshop on Language: Grammar in Cognition, Baltimore, MD.
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Acheson, D. J., & MacDonald, M. C. (2007). Phonological Similarity Effects in Verbal Working Memory and Language Production Tasks Poster presented at , Long Beach, CA.
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Dagerman, K. S., MacDonald, M. C., & Harm, M. W. (2006). Aging and the Use of Context in Ambiguity Resolution: Complex Chnages From Simple Slowing. Cognitive Science, 30, 311-345.
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MacDonald, M. C., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2006). Constraint satisfaction accounts of lexical and sentence comprehension. In M. J. Traxler., & M. A. Gernsbacher. (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics, 2nd Edition (pp. 581-611). London: Elsevier Inc.
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Gennari, S. P., & MacDonald, M. C. (2006). Acquisition of negation and quantification: Insights from adult production and comprehension. Language Acquisition, 13, 125-168.
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Patterson, K., & MacDonald, M. C. (2006). Sweet nothings: Narrative speech in semantic dementia. In S. Andrews. (Ed.), From inkmark to ideas: Current issues in lexical processing (pp. 299-317). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
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Mirković, J., MacDonald, M. C., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2005). Where does gender come from? Evidence from a complex inflectional system. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20, 139-168.
| FULL TEXT (pdf) | Bibtex |Much of the debate about the proper treatment of inflectional morphology has focused on English, which has a dreadfully impoverished inflectional system. More complex system, such as the one for Serbian, which encodes number, gender, and case, are difficult to even describe in rules. We present a connectionist model in which acquiring this system is treated as a statistical learning problem. Gender, in this system, is a graded property of words, which is acquired through exposure to a large vocabulary. This contrasts with other theories which employ explicit gender nodes. |
Acheson, D. J., & MacDonald, M. C. (2005). A Role for Phonological Information in Relative Clause Processing. Poster presented at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Tucson, AZ.
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Haskell, T. R., & MacDonald, M. C. (2005). Constituent structure and linear order in language production: Evidence from subject verb agreement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 35, 891-904.
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Acheson, D. J., & MacDonald, M. C. (2005). A Phonological Similarity Advantage in Serial Recall. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON.
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Acheson, D. J., & MacDonald, M. C. (2004). Phonological Interference in Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MS.
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Haskell, T. R., MacDonald, M. C., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2003). Language learning and innateness: Some implications of compounds research. Cognitive Psychology, 47, 119-163.
| FULL TEXT (pdf) | Bibtex |The fact that an eater of rats is a rat-eater, not a *rats-eater has been repeatedly cited as evidence for the level-ordering theory of the lexicon and the Pinker theory of the past tense. We show that the facts about rat-eating are not as commonly portrayed and that constraints on plurals as modifiers in compounds are graded in nature, arising from phonological and semantic factors. |
Seidenberg, M. S., MacDonald, M. C., & Saffran, J. R. (2003). Are there limits to statistical learning? Science, 300, 53-54.
| FULL TEXT (pdf) | Bibtex |The Seidenberg, MacDonald, and Saffran (2002) article elicited a response from Marcus and Berendt, included here along with our response. |
Thornton, R., & MacDonald, M. C. (2003). Plausibility and grammatical agreement. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 740-759.
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Haskell, T. R., & MacDonald, M. C. (2003). Conflicting cues and competition in subject-verb agreement. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 760-778.
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Race, D. S., & MacDonald, M. C. (2003). The use of "that" in the production and comprehension of object relative clauses. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
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Mirković, J., & MacDonald, M. C. (2003). The role of morphophonological factors in agreement production: When singular and plural are both grammatical. Poster presented at the 16th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, MA.
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Seidenberg, M. S., MacDonald, M. C., & Saffran, J. R. (2002). Does grammar start where statistics stop? Science, 298, 553-554.
| FULL TEXT (pdf) | Bibtex |A "perspective" on an article by Pena et al. claiming to have demonstrated distinct statistical and grammatical mechanisms in learning language. Summary: not so fast. |
MacDonald, M. C., & Christiansen, M. H. (2002). Reassessing working memory: A comment on Just & Carpenter (1992) and Waters & Caplan (1996). Psychological Review, 109, 35-54.
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MacDonald, M. C., Almor, A., Henderson, V. W., Kempler, D., & Andersen, E. S. (2001). Assessing working memory and language comprehension in Alzheimer's Disease. Brain and Language, 78, 17-42.
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Almor, A., MacDonald, M. C., Kempler, D., Andersen, E. S., & Tyler, L. K. (2001). Comprehension of long distance number agreement in probable Alzheimer's Disease. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16, 35-63.
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Thornton, R., MacDonald, M. C., & Arnold, J. E. (2000). The concomitant effects of phrase length and informational content in sentence comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 195-203.
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Seidenberg, M. S., & MacDonald, M. C. (1999). A probabilistic constraints approach to language acquisition and processing. Cognitive Science, 23, 569-588.
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Thornton, R., MacDonald, M. C., & Gil, M. (1999). Pragmatic constraint on the interpretation of complex noun phrases in Spanish and English. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 25, 1347-1365.
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MacDonald, M. C. (1999). Distributional information in language comprehension, production, and acquisition: Three puzzles and a moral. In B. MacWhinney. (Ed.), The Emergence of Language (pp. 177-196). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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Stallings, L. M., MacDonald, M. C., & O'Seaghdha, P. G. (1998). Phrasal ordering constraints in sentence production: Phrase length and verb disposition in heavy-NP shift. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 392-417.
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Thornton, R., Gil, M., & MacDonald, M. C. (1998). Accounting for Cross-Linguistic Variation: A Constraint-Based Perspective In D. Hillert. (Ed.), Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 31: A crosslinguistic perspective (pp. 211-225). San Deigo, CA: Academic Press.
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Seidenberg, M. S., Petersen, A., MacDonald, M. C., & Plaut, D. C. (1996). Pseudohomophone effects and models of word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 48-62.
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MacDonald, M. C., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1994). The lexical nature of syntactic ambiguity resolution. Psychological Review, 101, 676-703.
| FULL TEXT (pdf) | Bibtex |A short overview of the bigger picture. |
Daugherty, K. G., MacDonald, M. C., Petersen, A. S., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1993). Why no mere mortal has ever flown out to center field but people often say they do. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 383-388.
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