Publications
Papers published by Language and Brain lab members and collaborators
2024:
Sytsema, J. and Lahiri, A. (in press) ‘Romance loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: retained or lost? A matter of metre.’ In Transactions of the Philological Society.
Plank, F. (2024). Intonation in Speech and Thought Reporting How Thomas Hardy Came to Notice such Things, Revising Afterwards and Finding Punctuation Unaccommodating. Published with license by Brill Fink (online). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4-0 license. Click here to download/ view the paper.
2023:
Kennard, H. & Lahiri, A. (in press). At the interfaces: non-indigenous sources of phonological change. In Adam Ledgeway (ed.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion on Diachronic Linguistics.
Fritz, I., Kotzor, S. & Lahiri, A. (2023). Shared loanwords in German-English bilinguals: The role of metrical phonology. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (35) 2028-2048. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02063
Dresher, B.E. & Lahiri, A. (2023) Some applications of the primary accent first parameter. In Jeroen van de Weijer (ed.), Representing phonological detail: Part II: Syllable, stress and sign, 191–208. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Booth, J. & Lahiri, A. (2023). Foot structure in Germanic. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: OUP. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.962
2022:
Kim, Y., Kotzor, S. & Lahiri, A. (2022). Disambiguating Effects of Syllable Position and Neighborhood Size: Contributions of Hanja During Sino-Korean Processing. J Psycholinguist Res. Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-022-09913-4
Althaus, N., Kotzor, S., Schuster, S., Lahiri, A. (2022). Distinct orthography boosts morphophonological discrimination: Vowel raising in Bengali verb inflections. Cognition, 222 (2022), 104963. Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104963
Dresher, B. E., & Lahiri, A. (2022). The foot in the history of English. English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL, 358, 41.
Lahiri, A. & Plank, F. (2022). Phonological Phrasing: Approaches to grouping at lower levels of the prosodic hierarchy. In Dresher, B. E., & van der Hulst, H. (Eds.). (2022). The Oxford History of Phonology. Oxford University Press.
Wynne, H.S.Z., Wheeldon, L., & Lahiri, A. (2022) What makes a compound a compound? The production of English spaced compounds in connected speech. Social Science & Humanities Open. preprint: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4111621
2021:
Fritz, I., & Baggio, G. (2021). Neural and behavioural effects of typicality, denotation and composition in an adjective–noun combination task. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.2004176
Fritz, I., Lahiri, A., & Kotzor, S. (2021). The role of metrical stress differences in learner word recognition. ExLing 2021: pp. 85-88.
Kim, Y., Kotzor, S., Lahiri, A. (2021). Is Hanja represented in the Korean mental lexicon?: Encoding cross-script semantic cohorts in the representation of Sino-Korean. Lingua (2021). Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103128
Kotzor, S. (2021). Antonyms in Mind and Brain. Evidence from English and German. Published by Routledge, 8th October 2021. 202 pages. ISBN: 9780367461126
Meng, Y., Kotzor, S., Xu, C., Wynne, H.S.Z., & Lahiri, A. (2021). Asymmetric influence of vocalic context on Mandarin sibilants: Evidence from ERP studies. Frontiers in Neuroscience: Speech and Language. Link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.617318
Meng, Y., Wynne, H.S.Z., & Lahiri, A. (2021): Representation of “T3 sandhi” in mandarin: significance of context. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1893769
Werkmann Horvat, A., Bolognesi, M., Lahiri, A. (2021). Processing of literal and metaphorical meanings in polysemous verbs: An experiment and its methodological implications. Journal of Pragmatics, 171, January 2021, pp. 131-146. Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.10.007
Werkmann Horvat, A., Bolognesi, M., Kohl, K. (2021). Creativity is a Toaster: Experimental Evidence on How Multilinguals Process Novel Metaphors. Applied Linguistics, 2021; amab002. Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amab002
Wynne, H. S., Kotzor, S., Zhou, B., Schuster, S., & Lahiri, A. (2021). Asymmetries in the processing of affixed words in Bengali. Language, 97(3), pp. 599-628. Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/806349
2020:
Husband E.M., Bovolenta, G. (2020). Prediction failure blocks the use of local semantic context. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 35:3, pp. 273-291. Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1651881
Ito, A., Gambi, C., Pickering, M.J., Fuellenbach, K., Husband, E.M. (2020). Prediction of phonological and gender information: An event-related potential study in Italian. Neuropsychologia, 136, 107291. Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107291
Kotzor, S., Schuster, S., Wynne, H.S.Z., Lahiri, A. (2020) Form or structure? Morphological processing in second-language English speakers, in Language in Mind and Brain, (eds.) Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina; Günther, Franziska; Schmid, Hans-Jörg (Hrsg.) Multimedial proceedings of the workshop held at LMU Munich, December 10th–11th, 2018. Link: https://doi.org/10.5282/ubm/epub.70356
Kotzor, S., Zhou, B., Lahiri, A. (2020) (A)symmetry in vowel features in verbs and pseudoverbs: ERP evidence. Neuropsychologia, 143, 107474. Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107474
Lahiri, A., Kennard, H. (2020). The Indian Subcontinent. The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody. Edited by Carlos Gussenhoven and Aoju Chen. Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832232.013.20
Morgan Jones, M., Abrams, D., Lahiri, A. (2020). Shape the Future: how the social sciences, humanities and the arts can SHAPE a positive, post-pandemic future for peoples, economies and environments. Journal of the British Academy, 8, pp.167-266. Link: https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/008.167.
Nieuwland, M. S., Barr, D. J., Bartolozzi, F., Busch-Moreno, S., Darley, E., Donaldson, D. I., Ferguson, H. J., Fu, X., Heyselaar, E., Huettig, F., Husband, E. M., Ito, A., Kazanina, N., Kogan, V., Kohút, Z., Kulakova, E., Mézière, D., Politzer-Ahles, S., Rousselet, G., Rueschemeyer, S.-A., Segaert, K., Tuomainen, J., & Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn, S. (2020). Dissociable effects of prediction and integration during language comprehension: Evidence from a large-scale study using brain potentials. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 375(1791). Link: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0522.
Wynne, H.S.Z., Wheeldon, L., Lahiri A. (2020) Planning complex structures in a second language: Compounds and phrases in non-native speech production, in The Learnability of Complex Constructions: A Cross-linguistic Perspective, (ed.) Marcel Schlechtweg, Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs (TiLSM) 345, Aug 2020.
Wynne, H.S.Z., Kotzor, S., Zhou, B., Lahiri, A. (2020) The effect of phonological and morphological overlap on the processing of Bengali words. Journal of South Asian Linguistics, 11(2), pp. 25-51. Link: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:611760fc-7a52-4405-b9b3-33f99f4b40b0
2019:
Chen, Y.S. and Husband, E.M. (2019). Event (de)composition. In C. Cummins and N. Katsos (eds.) Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, pp. 62-82. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fuellenbach, K. and Gelman, S. A. (2019) Generic and non-generic interpretations for singular and plural subjects: Experimental studies on genericity. Proceedings of ConSOLE XXVII, pp. 38-58.
Schuster, S., Lahiri, A. Gradations of interpretability in spoken complex word recognition. Neuropsychologia (2019). Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.04.006
2018:
Arora, V.A., Lahiri, A., Reetz, H. (2018). Phonological feature-based speech recognition system for pronunciation training in non-native language learning. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(1), pp. 98-108.
Kennard, Holly J., Lahiri, A. (in press). Nonesuch phonemes in loanwords. Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences, 58(1).
Kennard, Holly J. (2018). Non-negative word order in Breton: maintaining verb second. Transactions of the Philological Society, 116(2), pp. 153-178.
Kennard, Holly J. (2018). Verbal lenition among young speakers of Breton: acquisition and maintenance in Michael Hornsby, Máiréad Moriarty, Cassie Smith-Christmas and Noel Ó Murchadha (eds.) New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) pp. 231-252.
Husband, E.M. (2018). Speaking of death. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences., 373(1754). Link: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0172
Lahiri, A. (2018). Predicting universal phonological features. In L. Hyman & F. Plank (eds.), Phonological Typology, pp. 229-272. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Lahiri, A., Kennard, H. (in press). Pertinacity in loan words: Same underlying systems, different outputs. In Cennamo, M. (ed.) Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Congress of Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July.
Lahiri, A., Sytsema, J. (2018). Metrical grouping and cliticisation in Middle Dutch: Evidence from verse. Transactions of the Philological Society, 116(2). Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12124
Politzer-Ahles, S., Husband, E.M. (2018). Eye movement evidence for context-sensitive derivation of scalar inferences. Collabra: Psychology, 4(1), 3.
Schuster, S., Lahiri, A. (2018). Lexical gaps and morphological decomposition: Evidence from German, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, April 26, 2018. Link: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000560
Schuster, S., Scharinger, M., Brooks, C., Lahiri, A., Hartwigsen, G. (2018) The neural correlates of morphological complexity processing: Detecting structure in pseudowords. Human Brain Mapping, 2018; 00:1–12. Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23975
Sytsema, J., Lahiri, A., (2018). Open syllable lengthening in Middle Dutch: Evidence from verse. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 30, pp. 167-212. Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542717000095
Werkmann Horvat, A. (2018). Semantic restrictions on modal auxiliary combinations: Evidence from Croatian double modal constructions. Jezikoslovlje, 19(3), pp. 509-532.
Wheeldon, L., Schuster, S., Pliatsikas, C., Malpass, D., Lahiri, A. (2018). Beyond decomposition: processing zero-derivations in English visual word recognition. Cortex. Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.09.003
Wynne, H.S.Z., Wheeldon, L., Lahiri A. (2018). Compounds, phrases and clitics in connected speech, Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 98, February 2018, pp. 45-58, ISSN 0749-596X. Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2017.08.001 Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X17300591
Zhang, C. (2018). Chanted Call Tune in Tianjin Mandarin: Disyllabic Calls. Proc. 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, pp. 522-526. Link: https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-106. Link: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/SpeechProsody_2018/pdfs/190.pdf
2017:
Arora, V.A., Lahiri, A., Reetz, H. (2017). Phonological feature based mispronunciation detection and diagnosis using multi-task DNNs and active learning. Interspeech 2017
Ehrenhofer, L., Roberts, A.C., Kotzor, S., Wetterlin, A., Lahiri, A. (2017). Asymmetric processing of consonant duration in Swiss German. In: H. Kubozono (ed.), The Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 204-229. Link: https://www.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754930.003.0010
Kennard, H., Lahiri, A. (2017). Mutation in Breton verbs: Pertinacity across generations, Journal of Linguistics , 53(1): pp. 113-145. Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226715000420
Kotzor, S., Wetterlin, A., Lahiri, A. (2017). Symmetry or asymmetry: Evidence for underspecification in the mental lexicon. In: A. Lahiri & S. Kotzor, The Speech Processing Lexicon: Neurocognitive and Behavioural Approaches. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 85-106. Link: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422658-005
Kotzor, S., Wetterlin, A., Lahiri, A. (2017). Bengali Geminates: Processing and representation. In: H. Kubozono (ed.), The Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 187-203. Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754930.003.0009
Lahiri, A., Kotzor, S. (eds) (2017). The Speech Processing Lexicon: Neurocognitive and Behavioural Approaches. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Link: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422658
Schuster, S. (2017). Hidden Morphology: Decomposition and Processing of German complex nouns. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Chicago Linguistics Society.
2016:
Werkmann Horvat, A., Gagliardi, A. and Husband, E.M. (2016). Indexicals in Shifty Contexts: Problems for Language Acquisition. Proceedings of the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Press.
Arora,V., Lahiri, A., Reetz, H. Attribute based shared hidden layers for cross-knowledge transfer. IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT). San Diego, California, December 2016.
Arora, V., Lahiri, A., Reetz, H. Automatic Speech Recognition: what phonology can offer. Lexical Processing of Speech, De Gruyter Mouton, 2016.
Kotzor, S., Roberts, A.C., Wetterlin, A., Lahiri, A. (2016). Perception and representation of Bengali nasal vowels. Proceedings of ICPhS 2015. Link: https://www.internationalphoneticsassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPh...
Kotzor, S., Molineaux, B.J., Banks, E., Lahiri, A. (2016). ‘Fake’ gemination in suffixed words and compounds in English and German. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 140(1), pp. 356-367. Link: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4955072
Kotzor, S., Wetterlin, A., Roberts, A.C., Lahiri, A. (2016). Processing of Phonemic Consonant Length: Semantic and Fragment Priming Evidence from Bengali. Language and Speech, 59, pp. 83-112. Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830915580189
2015:
Kennard, Holly J., Lahiri, Aditi. (2015). Mutation in Breton verbs: Pertinacity across generations. Journal of Linguistics pp.1-33. Available on CJO 2015. Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226715000420
Kennard, Holly J., Lahiri, Aditi. Maintenance of the Breton mixed mutation. Scottish Consortium of ICPhS 2015 (ed.) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Glasgow: University of Glasgow). Paper number: 607.
Lahiri, Aditi. (2015). Change in Word Prosody: Stress and Quantity. In Honeybone, P., Salmons, J., (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 219-244. Link: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232819.001.....
Kotzor, S., Roberts, A., Wetterlin, A., Lahiri, A. (2015). Processing and representation of consonant length: Evidence from semantic and fragment priming evidence from Bengali. Language and Speech pp. 1-30. Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830915580189
Plank, F., Lahiri, A. (2015). Macroscopic and microscopic typology: Basic Valance Orientation, more pertinacious than meets the naked eye. Linguistic Typology 19(1) pp. 1-54.
Werkmann Horvat, A., Gagliardi, A., Husband, E.M. (2015) Indexicals in Shifty Contexts: Problems for Language Acquisition. Proceedings of the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Wetterlin, A., Lahiri, A. (2015). The diachronic development of stød and tonal accent in North Germanic. In: Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew (Ed.), Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013, pp. 53-67.
2014:
Kennard, Holly J. (2014). The persistence of verb-second in negative utterances in Breton. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 4(1): pp. 1-39.
Roberts, A. C., Kotzor, S., Wetterlin, A., Lahiri, A. (2014). Asymmetric processing of durational differences – electrophysiological investigations in Bengali. Neuropsychologia 58, pp. 88-98. Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.03.015
Pliatsikas, C., Wheeldon, L., Lahiri, A., Hansen, P. (2014). Processing of zero-derived words in English: An fMRI investigation. Neurophyschologia 53, pp. 47-53.
Sytsema, J., Grijzenhout, J., Lahiri, A. (2014). Middle Dutch back vowels in rhymes. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 17, pp. 157-183.
2013:
Butt, M., Lahiri, A. (2013). Diachronic pertinancy of light verbs. Lingua.
Cornell, S. A., A. Lahiri, C. Eulitz (2013). Inequality across consonantal contrasts in speech perception: Evidence from Mismatch Negativity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Roberts, A., Wetterlin, A., Lahiri, A. (2013). Aligning mispronounced words to meaning. The Mental Lexicon, 8, pp. 140-163.
2012:
Lahiri, A. (2012). Asymmetric phonological representations of words in the mental lexicon. In A. Cohn et al. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology, pp. 146-161. Oxford: OUP.
Wetterlin, A. & A. Lahiri (2012). Tone alternations in Norwegian compounds. The Linguistic Review, 29, pp. 279-320.
2011:
Cornell, Sonia A., Lahiri, A., Eulitz, C. (2011). What you encode is not necessarily what you store: Evidence for sparse feature representations from mismatch negativity. Brain Research 1394, pp. 79-89. Elsevier.
Lahiri, A. (2011). Words: Discrete and discreet mental representations. In G. Gaskell and P. Zwiterlood (eds.) Lexical representation: A multidisciplinary approach, pp. 89-121. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Lahiri, Aditi, Wheeldon, Linda. (2011). Phonological Trochaic Grouping in Language Planning and Language Change in S. Frota et al. (eds.) Prosodic Categories: Production, Perception and Comprehension, Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 82, Springer Science & Business Media B.V. Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0137-3_2
