Research & Output

Papers

• Sprouse, J. and Almeida, D. (in press). Electrophysiological methods. In: Jon Sprouse (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax. Oxford University Press.

• Tucker, M., Idrissi, A., & Almeida, D. (2021). Attraction effects for verbal gender and number are similar but not identical: Self-paced reading evidence from Modern Standard Arabic. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 3774. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586464

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• Tucker, M., Idrissi, A., Sprouse, J., & Almeida, D. (2019). Resumption ameliorates different islands differentially: Acceptability data from Modern Standard Arabic. In: Amel Khalfaoui & Matthew Tucker (Eds.). Proceedings of Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 30 (159 – 194). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/sal.7.09tuc

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• Sprouse, Jon, & Almeida, D. (2017). Setting the empirical record straight: Acceptability judgments appear to be reliable, robust, and replicable. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 43 – 44. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17000590

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• Schluter, K., Politzer-Ahles, S., Al Kaabi, M., & Almeida, D. (2017). Laryngeal features are phonetically abstract: Mismatch Negativity evidence from Arabic, English, and Russian. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 746. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00746

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• Politzer-Ahles, S., Xiang, M., & Almeida, D. (2017). “Before” and “after”: investigating the relationship between temporal connectives and chronological ordering using erps. PLoS ONE 12(4), e0175199. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175199

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• Sprouse, J., & Almeida, D. (2017). Design sensitivity and statistical power in acceptability judgment experiments. Glossa, 2(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.236

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• Almeida, D., & Tucker, M. (2017). The complex structure of errors and the independent visibility of phi-features: Evidence from agreement attraction in Arabic. In: Andrew Lamont & Katerina Tetzloff (Eds.) Proceedings of the 47th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, Vol. 1 (45 – 54). Amherst, MA: GLSA.

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• Politzer-Ahles, S., Schluter, K., Wu, K., & Almeida, D. (2016). Asymmetries in the perception of Mandarin tones: Evidence from mismatch negativity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(10), 1547 – 1570. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000242

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• Schluter, K., Politzer-Ahles, S., & Almeida, D. (2016). No place for /h/. An erp investigation of English fricative place features. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(6), 728 – 740. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1151058

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• Almeida, D., Corina, D. & Poeppel, D. (2016). The Processing of biologically plausible and implausible forms in American Sign Language: Evidence for perceptual tuning. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 31(3), 361 – 374. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2015.1100315

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• Rogalsky, C., Almeida, D., Sprouse, J. & Hickok, G. (2015). Sentence processing selectivity in Broca’s area: Evident for structure but not syntactic movement. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30(10), 1326 – 1338. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2015.1066831

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• Tucker, M., Idrissi, A., & Almeida, D. (2015). Representing number in the real–time processing of agreement: Self–paced reading evidence from Arabic. Frontiers in Psychology – Language Sciences, 6:347. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00347

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• Politzer-Ahles, S., Schluter, K., Wu, K., & Almeida, D. (2015). Asymmetries in the perception of Mandarin tones: Evidence from mismatch negativity. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: University of Glasgow.

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• Almeida, D. (2014). Subliminal WH-islands in Brazilian Portuguese and the consequences for syntactic theory. Revista da ABRALIN, 13(2), 55 – 93.

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• Almeida, D., & Poeppel, D. (2013). Word–specific repetition effects revealed by meg and the implications for lexical access. Brain and Language, 127(3), 497 – 509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2013.09.013

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• Sprouse, J., Schütze, C., Almeida, D. (2013). A comparison of informal and formal acceptability judgments using a random sample from Linguistic Inquiry 2001 - 2010. Lingua, 134, 219 – 248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2013.07.002

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• Sprouse, J., & Almeida, D. (2013). The empirical status of data collection methods in syntax: a reply to Gibson and Fedorenko. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(3), 222 – 228. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2012.703782

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• Sprouse, J., & Almeida, D. (2013). The role of experimental syntax in an integrated cognitive science of language. In K. Grohmann & C. Boeckx (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics. Cambridge University Press.

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• Sprouse, J., & Almeida, D. (2012). Assessing the reliability of textbook data in syntax: Adger’s Core Syntax. Journal of Linguistics, 48(3), 609 – 652. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226712000011

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• Lau, E., Almeida, D., Hines, P. & Poeppel, D. (2009). A lexical basis for N400 context effects: Evidence from meg. Brain and Language, 111(3), 161 – 172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2009.08.007

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• Almeida, D. & Yoshida, Y. (2007). A problem for the Preposition Stranding Generalization. Linguistic Inquiry, 38(2), 349 – 362. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling.2007.38.2.349

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• Corrêa, L. M. S., Almeida, D., & Porto, R. (2004). On the representation of Portuguese gender–inflected words in the mental lexicon. Brain and Language, 90(1), 63 – 73. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0093-934X%2803%2900420-6

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