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Colin Phillips
Curriculum Vitae
[March 28, 2015]
Department of Linguistics
phone: 301-405-3082
University of Maryland
fax: 301-405-7104
1401 Marie Mount Hall
dept. phone: 301-405-7002
College Park, MD 20742
email: colin@umd.edu
USA
ling.umd.edu/colin
UK citizen; US permanent resident (green card holder); married, one daughter (born 2002)
Academic Positions
2013-
20082002-8
Director
Distinguished
Scholar-Teacher
Professor
Associate Professor
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Co-Director
2011-
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Maryland Language Science Center
Department of Linguistics, Neuroscience & Cognitive Science
Program, University of Maryland
Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, University of
Maryland
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program,
University of Delaware
Education
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Postdoctoral
Associate
PhD
Graduate Fellow
BA (Hons., Class I)
Mind Articulation Project, Dept of Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT
Department of Linguistics & Philosphy, MIT, PhD. Thesis title:
Order and Structure
Supervisor: A. Marantz; Committee: N. Chomsky, D. Pesetsky,
E. Gibson
Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester (exchange
student)
Worcester College, Oxford University. Area: Modern
Languages, specialization in Medieval German
Academic Awards
2004-
Jerrold J. Katz Award for Young Scholars (best student or new faculty presentation at
2014
2011
2011
2005
20002005
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CUNY Sentence Processing Conference; awarded to students who I co-authored with
(2004: Andrew Nevins; 2005: Sachiko Aoshima; 2011: Sol Lago & Wing Yee Chow;
2014: Dan Parker).
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland
Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year, University of Maryland
Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto), declined
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
University of Rochester Graduate Fellowship
Oxford University: Worcester Collge Society Prize for Arts & Humanities
Oxford University: Worcester College Exhibition award
Invited Talks at Conferences, Public Forums, etc.
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12th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Nijmegen,
Netherlands (workshop)
17th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Los Angeles, CA (workshop)
Schultink Lecture; Netherlands Graduate School in Linguistics (LOT), Utrecht,
Netherlands
National Science Foundation Distinguished Lecture, Arlington, VA
Brussels Conference in Syntax and Semantics
33rd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA
(neuroscience symposium)
GLOW-in-Asia, Hyderabad, India (language acquisition workshop)
GLOW, Nantes, France (language acquisition workshop)
English Linguisics Society of Japan, Osaka, Japan
23rd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York
Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, MD
ANPOLL Psycholinguistics Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington DC
("topical lecture")
Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago, IL
Linguistic Society of Portugal
Linguistics Association of Great Britain
University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Series
25th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, North America (GALANA 6),
Lawrence, KS
NYU Abu Dhabi Institute Public Lectures, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Japan Society for Language Science, Nagoya, Japan
University of Washington Walker-Ames Endowment Public Lectures, Seattle, WA
Association for Psychological Science, Wahington DC (invited debate)
2013
2013
2014
44th North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS), Storrs, CT
38th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA (language
processing and learning symposium)
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series in Linguistics
Grants and Contracts
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Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, University of
Delaware. For development of resources for use of instructional technology
in undergraduate linguistics courses.
General University Research Award, University of Delaware. Dynamic
$6,000
Sentence Structure: A Crosslinguistic Perspective.
College of Arts & Sciences Research Award, University of Delaware.
$2,000
Research on biomagnetism and speech perception.
University of Delaware Research Foundation Award. Biomagnetic Studies
$29,850
of Speech Processing.
Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award.
$5,000
Role of Auditory Cortex in Phonological Processing.
NSF Major Research Instrumentation Award. (Co-PI, together with James
Hoffman, Barbara Landau, John Whalen, all UDel. Psychology
$104,475
department.) High Density EEG Recording for Research in Cognitive
Science.
McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Neuroscience Program Award. The Neural
$135,434
Computation of Phonological Categories.
NSF CAREER Award: CAREER: Integration of Linguistic Knowledge and
$267,858
Language Processing.
Human Frontiers Science Program Young Investigator Award (with David
$750,000 Poeppel, UMd. & Kuniyoshi Sakai, U. Tokyo). Brain Mechanisms of
Syntactic Processing.
Semester Research Award, General Research Board, University of
$9,000
Maryland , Brain Mechanisms of Sentence Processing
The Relation between Parsing and Production, NSF support for special
$18,175
session at the 2004 CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,
College Park, MD, March 2004.
Language Specific Constraints on Scope Interpretation in First Language
$11,506
Acquisition. (CP, PI: co-PIs Takuya Goro, Jeff Lidz). NSF support for
Goro's PhD research.
IGERT: Biological and Computational Foundations of Language Diversity.
NSF DGE-0801465. Role: PI. [Interdisciplinary graduate training program
$2,998,294
involving 50 students and 40 faculty from 10 departments.
languagescience web site]
Structure Generation in Language Comprehension. NSF BCS-0848554.
$517,026
Role: PI.
MRI: Acquisition of a 3-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner for
$1,936,855 Human Brain Imaging. NSF Major Research Instrumentation Award. Role:
co-PI [PI: Nathan Fox]
Flexibility and Commitment in the Developing Parser. (CP, PI: Co-PIs Akira
$11,996
Omaki, Jeff Lidz). NSF support for Omaki's PhD research.
DDRIG: Interactions between language experience and cognitive abilities
$18,240
in word learning and word recognition. (PI: Rochelle Newman, co-PIs
Giovanna Morini, Colin Phillips.). NSF support for Morini's PhD research.
Maryland Language Science Center (PI). Tier III Major Campus Research
$900,000
Initiative, University of Maryland.
$200,000 Langscape: Global Language Mapping Resource (PI). CASL/University of
$1,500
2015
Maryland/USG.
Maryland-Tel Aviv Partnership in Language Science, Tel Aviv U & U of
2014
$15,000
Maryland [with Roni Katzir, Tel Aviv U]
Linguistics for Everyone; NSF BCS-1452266, to support symposia and
2014
$29,850
hands-on demos at national conferences to promote broad engagement in
outreach related to linguistics and language science. (role: PI)
NRT: Flexibility in Language Processes and Technology: Human and Global
2015-2020 $2,969,817 Scale. NSF DGE-1449815. Role: PI. [Interdisciplinary graduate training
program involving faculty and students from at least 10 departments.]
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Teaching
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Invited Graduate Courses/Seminars
o Linguistics in Cognitive Science, Georgetown University, Spring 2002 (12 hours)
o Linguistics in Psycholinguistics & Neurolinguistics, University of the Basque
Country, June 2002 (20 hours + labs)
o Neurolinguistics, LSA Summer Institute, MIT, July 2005 (1 week of 6 week
course)
o Neurolinguistics Crash Course, University of Tomsø, Norway, April 2006 (8
hours).
o Psycholinguistics of Grammar, Netherlands Summer School (LOT), July 2008
(10 hours)
o Encoding and Navigating Linguistic Structures in Real Time, EALING Fall
School, Paris, September 2010 (6 hours)
o Grammatical Illusions: Encoding and Navigating Linguistic Structures in Real
Time, LSA Summer Institute, Boulder, CO, July 2011 (12 hours)
o Psycholinguistics of Grammar, 'Masterclass' at Netherlands Linguistics Summer
School (LOT), July 2012 (10 hours).
University of Maryland
o Language & Mind (LING 240): Spring 2001, 2002, 2004; Honors Fall 2004,
Spring 2007
o Psycholinguistics I (LING 640/689): Fall 2000-2001, Fall 2003-2014
o Psycholinguistics II (LING 689B): Spring 2002, 2004-2006, 2008-15
(sometimes co-taught w/ Jeff Lidz)
o Cognitive Neuroscience of Language (LING 646, w/ David Poeppel): Fall
2000, Spring 2005, Spring 2007
o Electrophysiology of Language (LING 889, w/ David Poeppel): Fall 2001
o Seminar in Neurolinguistics (LING 889A): Fall 2003
o Seminar in Psycholinguistics & Language Acquisition (LING 849; w/ Jeff
Lidz): Spring 2006
University of Delaware
o Introduction to Linguistics (LING 101, 90-120 students): Fall 1997-1999
o Psycholinguistics (CGSC 496/696, graduate course): Spring 1997, Fall 19971999
o Language and Cognitive Neuroscience (LING/CGSC 890, graduate seminar):
Spring 1999
o Syntax II (LING 610, second semester graduate course): Spring 1998, 2000
o Organization of Language (LING/CGSC 890, graduate seminar, Spring 1998)
o Mind, Brain & Language (Undergraduate Honors seminar, Spring 1997)
Earlier
Teaching Assistant, MIT, Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Spring 1994.
Noam Chomsky.
o Teaching Assistant, MIT, Theory of Grammar (first semester graduate syntax).
Fall 1993. Kenneth Hale and David Pesetsky.
o English Language Teaching: 1988-1992, teaching Engligh at a variety of ages
and levels in the UK and Germany.
Postdocs
o Silke Urban/Plesch (2002-3), neurolinguistics.
o Sachiko Aoshima (2003-4), psycholinguistics. Assistant Professor, American
University (2004-8). Language specialist, US Government (2008-).
o Ryuichiro Hashimoto (2003-4), neurolinguistics. Associate Professor, Tokyo
Metropolitan University.
o Ming Xiang (2005-7), psycholinguistics. Assistant Professor of Linguistics, U of
Chicago, 2010-.
Student Supervision
o Completed PhDs
o Dan Parker (PhD, 2014, U of Maryland). The cognitive basis for encoding and
navigating linguistic structure. Assistant Professor of Linguistics, College of
William and Mary.
o María Sol Lago (PhD, 2014, U of Maryland). Memory and prediction in crosslinguistic sentence comprehension. Postdoc, University of Potsdam, Germany.
o Dave Kush (PhD 2013, U of Maryland). Respecting relations: memory access
and antecedent retrieval in incremental sentence processing. Postdoc, Haskins
Laboratories/Yale University.
o Wing Yee Chow (PhD 2013, U of Maryland). The temporal dimension of linguistic
prediction. Postdoc, Basque Center for Cognition, Brain, and Language, San
Sebastian, Spain.
o Shevaun Lewis (PhD 2013, U of Maryland). Pragmatic enrichment in language
processing and development. Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University.
o Brian Dillon (PhD 2011, U of Maryland). Structured access in sentence
comprehension. Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.
o Akira Omaki (PhD, 2010, U of Maryland). Commitment and flexibility in the
developing parser. Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins
University
o Ellen Lau (PhD, 2009, U. of Maryland). The predictive nature of language
comprehension. Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland.
o Clare Stroud (PhD, 2008, U. of Maryland). Structural and semantic selectivity in
the electrophysiology of sentence comprehension. Program Officer:
Neuroscience Division, National Academy of Sciences.
o Matt Wagers (PhD, 2008, U. of Maryland). The structure of memory meets
memory for structure in linguistic cognition. Assistant Professor of Linguistics, U
of California, Santa Cruz.
o Takuya Goro (PhD, 2007, U. of Maryland). Language specific constraints on
scope interpretation in first language acquisition. Assistant Professor, Linguistics,
Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan.
o Masaya Yoshida (PhD, 2006, U. of Maryland). Constraints and mechanisms in
long-distance dependency formation. Assistant Professor, Linguistics,
Northwestern University.
o Leticia Pablos (PhD, 2006, U. of Maryland). Pre-verbal structure building in
Romance languages and Basque. Research scientist, University of Leiden,
Netherlands.
o Chun-chieh Natalie Hsu (PhD, 2006, U. of Delaware, co-advisor, w/ B. Bruening).
Issues in head-final relative clauses in Chinese: derivation, processing, and
acquisition. Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages & Literature, National Tsing
Hua University, Taiwan.
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Nina Kazanina (PhD, 2005, U. of Maryland). The acquisition and processing of
backwards anaphora. Current position: Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Experimental
Psychology, University of Bristol (UK).
Sachiko Aoshima (PhD, 2003, U. of Maryland): co-supervisor (with Amy
Weinberg). The grammar and parsing of wh-dependencies. Initial placement:
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Language & Foreign Studies, American University,
Washington DC. Current position: Language specialist, US Federal Government.
Meesook Kim (PhD, 1999, U. of Delaware): co-supervisor (with Barbara Landau):
A Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Acquisition of Locative Verbs. Current
position: Associate Professor, Sangji University, Korea.
David Schneider (PhD, 1999, U. of Delaware) supervisor: Incremental Syntactic
Parsing: Computational and Experimental Investigations. Current position:
Computational Linguist, Cycorp Inc., Austin, TX.
Current Graduate Students
Dustin Chacón, PhD student: psycholinguistics, syntax (2010-) [co-supervisor,
with Howard Lasnik]
Shota Momma, PhD student: cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, syntax
(2011-)
Lara Ehrenhofer, PhD student: psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience (2013-)
[co-supervisor, with Bill Idsardi]
Anton Malko, PhD student: psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience (2013-)
Allyson Ettinger, PhD student: semantics, psycholinguistics (2013-) [cosupervisor, with Valentine Hacquard, Alexander Williams]
Nick Huang, PhD student: syntax, psycholinguistics (2014-) [co-supervisor, with
Howard Lasnik]
Full-time Research Assistants
Julia Buffinton (2014-2015), BA (Cornell)
Ilia Kurenkov (2013-2014), BA (UMass/Amherst)
Glynis MacMillan (2012-2013), BA (UMass/Amherst).
Cybelle Smith (2011-2012), BA (Stanford), PhD student, Psychology, University
of Illinois
Shayne Sloggett (2010-2011), BA (UC Santa Cruz). PhD student, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
Myles Dakan (2010-2011), BA (Swarthmore College)
Alan Mishler (2009-10), BA (Michigan), Researcher, Center for Advanced Study
of Language
Mike Shvartsman (2008-9), BA (Yale), PhD student, Psychology, U. of Michigan
Brian Dillon (2005-7), BA (Buffalo), PhD, Linguistics, U. of Maryland, then
Assistant Professor, U of Massachusetts.
Annie Gagliardi (2006-7), BA (Cornell) [UMd Linguistics Baggett Fellow], PhD,
Linguistics, U. of Maryland; postdoc, Harvard University
Henny Yeung (2003-4), BA (Duke), PhD, Psychology, U. of British Columbia;
Research Associate, CNRS, Paris.
Alison Austin (2003-4), BA (Yale), PhD, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, U. of
Rochester; Postdoc, Haskins Labs/Yale.
Ellen Lau (2003-4), BA (Mich. St.), PhD student, then Assistant Professor,
Linguistics, University of Maryland.
Daniel Garcia-Pedrosa (2002-3), BA (Harvard).
Shani Abada (2001-2), BA (Maryland), PhD, Hearing & Speech, McGill University
PhD Committee member: Ana Gouvea (PhD, 2003), Elixabete Muguia (PhD,
2003), Carol Whitney (PhD, 2004), Utako Minai (PhD, 2006), Robert Fiorentino
(PhD, 2006), Maria Chait (PhD, 2006), Hajime Ono (PhD, 2006), Jon Sprouse
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(PhD, 2007), Diogo Almeida (PhD, 2009), Philip Monahan (PhD, 2009), Joshua
Riley (PhD, 2011), Annie Gagliardi (PhD, 2012), Svetlana Cook (PhD, Second
Language Acquisition, 2012), Erika Hussey (PhD, Neuroscience & Cognitive
Science, 2013), Anna Lukyanchenko (PhD, Second Language Acquisition,
2014), Giovanna Morini (PhD, Hearing & Speech Sciences, PhD, 2014), Megan
Sutton (PhD, 2014), Susan Teubner-Rhodes (PhD, Neuroscience & Cognitive
Science, 2014), Angela He (PhD, 2015), Suzanne Freynik (PhD, Second
Language Acquisition, 2015), Kaitlyn Harrigan (PhD, 2015).
External PhD Committees: Kayono Shiobara (PhD, 2004, U. of British Columbia,
syntax), Suzanne Dikker (PhD, 2010, NYU)
Undergraduate Researchers: Angela Stanley, Imogen Davidson White, Hana
Quon, Katya Rozanova, Beth Rabbin, Moti Lieberman, Ellen Graubard, Dana
Lee, Tom McGhan, Amanda Gardner, Shefali Shah, Tim Dawson, Jason
Vadhan, Kevin Na, Shefali Shah, Tim Dawson, Rebecca Kraut, John Mathena.
Undergraduate Interns from other institutions: Esther Chung (Wellesley, 2006),
Christina Kelly (Harvard, 2007), Adina Rubinoff (Rochester, 2008), Chris O'Brien
(Michigan State, 2009); Miriam Farkas (Harvard, 2011-2012), Erin Mahoney
(Yale, 2012), Maggie Kandel (Yale, 2014).
High School Interns: Shweta Roy (Eleanor Roosevelt HS, Fall 2014).
University of Delaware
Thomas Pellathy, BA, MA (2000), Rhodes Scholar, research supervisor:
neurolinguistics
Kaia Wong, MA (2000), supervisor: psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics
Evniki Edgar, MA (2000), supervisor: psycholinguistics
PhD Committee member: Norhaida Aman (PhD, 1999), Eynat Gutman (PhD,
1999), Jing Liu (PhD, 2000), Preston Becker (PhD, 2000), Eric Drewry (PhD,
2002)
Service
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Service to the Profession
o Steering committee (elected), American Association for the Advancement of
Science, Section on Linguistics and Language Science (Section Z), 2012-2016
o Executive commitee (elected), Linguistic Society of America. 2013-2016.
University of Maryland, 2000o Director. Maryland Language Science Center. 2013-present; broad reesarch
center spanning 17 departments and centers, with the goal of advancing basic
science of language, and applications in education, technology, and health.
o Director: Interdisciplinary graduate training program "Biological and
Computational Foundations of Language Diversity" (supported by NSF IGERT
award), 2008-2015
o Director: Interdisciplinary graduate training program "Flexibility in Language
Processes and Technology: Human and Global Scale" (supported by NSF NRT
award), 2015-2020.
o Co-Director: Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, 2000-present
o Principal Investigator: Langscape (online portal for language diversity)
o Co-Director: Maryland Neuroimaging Center, 2009-2012 (3-person team that
established new center for multi-modal neuroimaging: fundraising, design,
implementation)
Associate Director: Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program, 2010present
o Co-Director: Maryland MEG Center, 2008-2013
o Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Selection Committee, Office of the Provost
(2014)
o Promotion & Tenure Committee, College of Arts & Humanities, Member (20089), Chair (2009-2010)
o Graduate Admissions Committee, Linguistics (2000-2003), Admissions
Director (2003-2009)
o Chair, Internal Review: Department of Linguistics (2006)
o Executive Committee: Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Program, 2001,
2006-8
o Chair, Curriculum Committee: Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Program,
2006-9
o Organizer: CNL Lunch Talk Series (2000-2005)
o Organizer, 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,
March 2004 (with Amy Weinberg and many others)
o Organizer: Kiplin Hall Workshop on Psycholinguistics, Yorkshire, UK, September
2014. (Intensive 3-day workshop with 13 participants, all UMD graduates or their
students/postdocs).
o Co-Organizer: Maryland-Tel Aviv Workshop on Linguistics, Tel Aviv, Israel,
December 2014.
o Data Management Committee: University of Maryland Division of Research
(2010-2011)
o Humanities Center Committee: College of Arts & Humanities (2011-2012)
o University of Maryland Research Council: Member (2004-6)
o Co-Organizer: Neuroscience & Cognitive Science (NACS) Colloquium Series,
2001-2002
o Faculty and Staff Search Committees (2001, 2002, 2004 (chair), 2009, 2012
(chair), 2012 (Dept of Hearing & Speech Sciences), 2012 (Center for Advanced
Study of Language), 2014 (Hearing & Speech Sciences)).
o Department Chair Search Committee, Dept of Human Development and
Quantitative Methodology (2014-2015).
o Faculty Advisory Committee to Chair (Linguistics): 2000-2003, 2010-2013.
o Web coordinator (2000-2001)
University of Delaware 1997-2000
o Director of Graduate Studies,1999-2000
o Search Committee Chair (two searches): Department of Linguistics, 1997-1998
o Faculty advisor to NELS 29 organizing committee, 1998
o Undergraduate Studies Committee: Department of Linguistics, 1997-2000
o Senator-at-large: College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Senate, 1997-8
o Linguistics Colloquium Series: Co-organizer, 1997-2000 (with Dave
Schneider, Baris Kabak)
o Cognitive Science lab committee: Program in Cognitive Science, 1997-2000
[implementing resources for instructional technology]
Editor
o Language Acquisition, Brief Articles section (with Jeff Lidz), 2007-2011
o Frontiers in Psychology, Special Topic on Encoding and Navigating Linguistic
Representations in Memory (with Claudia Felser, Potsdam, and Matt Wagers,
UC Santa Cruz), 2013-2015
Editorial Board Member
o Language Acquisition (2005-)
o Syntax (2005-)
o Journal of Linguistics (2007-2014)
o Journal of Semantics (2009-)
o Linguistic Inquiry (2009-)
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o English Linguistics (2010-)
o Journal of Neurolinguistics (2014-)
o Glot International (1998-2000)
Scientific Advisory Boards:
o De Vincenzi Foundation (2007-)
o Gallaudet University VL2 Science of Learning Center (2012-2016)
o University of Connecticut NSF-IGERT Program in Language and Brain Plasticity
(2012-2017)
o Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany (2013-16)
Review Panel Membership
o National Institutes of Health, Study Section LCOM, Winter 2003, Winter 2004,
Winter 2005, Summer 2006, Fall 2009, Fall 2012
o National Science Foundation, 2004-2007, 2008; 2009, 2011, 2012; panels for
Linguistics, Human and Social Dynamics, IGERT training programs
o Open Research Area (international partnership between France, Germany, UK,
Netherlands, and USA), 2013
External Committee Membership
o Johns Hopkins University, Department of Cognitive Science, 'Futures Workshop'
(strategic planning) (December 2010)
o University of Michigan, Department of Linguistics, External Review Committee
(March 2011)
o University of Cyprus, Department of English, faculty search in experimental
linguistics (May 2011)
o Leiden University (Netherlands), Leiden University Centre for Linguistics,
External Review Committee (November 2012)
o University of Toronto, Department of Linguistics, External Review Committee
(November 2013)
Ad Hoc Reviewer
o National Science Foundation
o National Institutes of Health
o Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
o Human Frontiers Science Program
o Research Grants Council of Taiwan
o Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
o Israel Science Foundation
o NWO (Dutch Research Council)
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Linguistic Inquiry
Language
Lingua
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
Journal of Linguistics
Journal of East Asian Linguistics
Journal of Semantics
Linguistics
Language Science
Morphology
Syntax
The Linguistic Review
Canadian Journal of Linguistics
Nordic Journal of Linguistics
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American Psychologist
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Cognition
Cognitive Science
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Developmental Psychology
Experimental Psychology
Language Acquisition
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Journal of Cognitive Science
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Journal of Memory and Language
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Language and Cognitive Processes
Language and Speech
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Mind and Language
Perceptual and Motor Skills
Psychological Science
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Second Language Research
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews in Cognitive Science
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Brain & Language
Cerebral Cortex
(Cognitive) Brain Research
Ear and Hearing
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
NeuroImage
PLoS Biology
PLoS ONE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Psychiatry Research
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MIT Press/Bradford Books
Kluwer Academic Publishers
John Benjamins Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Blackwell Publishers
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Northeastern Linguistic Society (NELS)
Boston University Conference on Language Development
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Eastern States Conference on Linguistics
CUNY Sentence Processing Conference
Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
Japanese/Korean Linguistics
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA)
Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS)
Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB)
Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL)
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)
Manager & General Editor, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992-1995,
volumes #18-#27. Substantial expansion of operations, creation of student
research fund.
Organizer
§ (and founder) LingLunch departmental seminar series, MIT, 1993-1994
§ MIT Linguistics Colloquium series, 1994-1995 (with Orin Percus)
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Conference Coordinator
§ The Morphology-Syntax Connection, MIT, January 1994 (with Heidi
Harley)
§ Advances in Second Language Acquisition, MIT, January 1993
Conference Committee:
§ Linguistic Society of America Meeting, Boston, January 1994
§ Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics I, MIT, May 1994
§ NELS 26, MIT/Harvard, October 1995
§ CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Rochester, May 1991
Research Interests
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The Unification Problem in Language: The overall objective of my research program is
to be able to seamlessly integrate theories of linguistic knowledge from the level of
linguistic theory to real time models of language processing to neuroscientific models. For
this reason, my work necessarily spans a number of subfields of linguistics and
psycholinguistics. The research is also characterized by extensive use of cross-language
comparisons. We have conducted experimental studies on English, Spanish, Russian,
Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Basque, Chinese, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, and German.
o Syntactic Theory: constituent structure, dynamic models of structure-building;
islands, anaphora, cross-language variation
o Psycholinguistics: real-time structure-building processes, accessing grammatical
and lexical knowledge, constraints on long-distance dependencies, grammatical
illusions, memory access mechanisms
o Computational Modeling: computational models of structure-building processes
o Neurolinguistics: electrophysiology (EEG, MEG) of sentence processing
Language Acquisition & Cross-Linguistic Variation: relation between comparative
syntax and comparative studies of language development; language processing in
children; relation between language processing and language learning
o Morphosyntax
o Argument Structure
o Constraints on Coreference
o Grammatical Aspect
Neuroscience of Phonetics & Phonology: phonetic and phonological categories,
phonological features
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Colin Phillips. (1993). Conditions on agreement in Yimas. In: J.D. Bobaljik & C. Phillips
(eds), Papers on Case and Agreement I. MITWPL #18, 273-312.
Colin Phillips. (1993).Papers on Case & Agreement II (editor). MITWPL #19.
Jonathan Bobaljik & Colin Phillips. (1993). Papers on Case & Agreement I (editor, with
Jonathan Bobaljik). MITWPL #18.
Colin Phillips. (1994). On the nature of polysynthetic Inflection. In: Proceedings of
CONSOLE 2. Leiden: SOLE.
Colin Phillips. (1994). Are feature hierarchies autosegmental hierarchies? In: A. Carnie,
H. Harley & T. Bures (eds), Papers on Phonology and Morphology. MITWPL #21, 173226.
Colin Phillips & Heidi Harley. (1994). The Morphology-Syntax Connection (editor, with
Heidi Harley). MITWPL #22.
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Colin Phillips. (1995). Right Association in parsing and grammar. In: C. Schütze, J.
Ganger & K. Broihier (eds), Papers on Language Processing and Acquisition. MITWPL
#26, 37-93.
Colin Phillips. (1995). Syntax at age two: Cross-linguistic differences. In: C. Schütze, J.
Ganger & K. Broihier (eds), Papers on Language Processing and Acquisition. MITWPL
#26, 225-282. (Reprinted in Language Acquisition, 2010)
Colin Phillips, Alec Marantz, Martha McGinnis et al. (1995). Brain mechanisms of speech
perception: A preliminary report. 1995. In: C. Schütze, J. Ganger & K. Broihier (eds),
Papers on Language Processing and Acquisition. MITWPL #26, 125-163.
Colin Phillips. (1996). Order and Structure.1996. PhD dissertation, MIT. Distributed by
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
David Poeppel, Elron Yellin, Colin Phillips, Timothy Roberts, Howard Rowley, Kenneth
Wexler & Alec Marantz. (1996). Task-induced asymmetry of the auditory evoked M100
neuromagnetic field elicited by speech sounds. Cognitive Brain Research 4, 231-242.
Colin Phillips. (1996). Root infinitives are finite. In: A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E.
Hughes & A. Zukowski (eds), Proceedings of BUCLD 20. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla
Press.
Colin Phillips. (1996). Ergative subjects. In: D. Gerdts, C. Burgess & K. Dziwirek (eds),
Grammatical Relations: Empirical Arguments and Theoretical Issues. Stanford, CA: CSLI
Publications.
Colin Phillips & Edward Gibson. (1997). On the strength of the local attachment
preference. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 23, 323-346.
Colin Phillips. (1997). Merge Right: An approach to constituency conflicts. In B. Agbayani
& S.-W. Tang (eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL XV. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications,
pp.381-395.
David Poeppel, Colin Phillips, Elron Yellin, Howard Rowley, Timothy Roberts, Alec
Marantz. (1997). Processing of vowels in supratemporal auditory cortex. Neuroscience
Letters 221, 145-148.
Meesook Kim & Colin Phillips. (1998). Complex-verb constructions in child Korean: Overt
markers of covert functional structure. In: Proceedings of BUCLD 22. Somerville, MA:
Cascadilla Press.
Kensuke Sekihara, David Poeppel, Alec Marantz, Colin Phillips, Hideaki Koizumi,
Yasushi Miyashita. (1998). MEG covariance difference analysis: A method to extract
target source activities by using task and control measurements. IEEE Transactions on
Biomedical Engineering 45, 87-97.
Colin Phillips. (1998). Disagreement between adults and children. In A. Mendikoetxea &
M. Uribe-Etxebarria (eds), Theoretical Issues on the Morphology-Syntax Interface. San
Sebastian: ASJU, pp.359-394.
Colin Phillips. (1998). Teaching syntax with Trees. Glot 3.7.
Meesook Kim, Barbara Landau & Colin Phillips. (1999). Cross-linguistic differences in
children's syntax for locative verbs. In: Proceedings of BUCLD 23. Somerville, MA:
Cascadilla Press. pp. 337-348.
Colin Phillips, Tom Pellathy, Alec Marantz, Elron Yellin, Ken Wexler, Martha McGinnis,
David Poeppel & Tim Roberts. (2000). Auditory cortex accesses phonological categories:
an MEG mismatch study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 1038-1055.
Roberta Golinkoff & Colin Phillips. (2000). Surveying the field of language acquisition Review of Ritchie & Bhatia 1999 "Handbook of Child Language Acquisition".
Contemporary Psychology, 45, 607-609.
Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips. (2001). Coreference in child Russian: Distinguishing
syntactic and discourse constraints. In Proceedings of BUCLD 25. Somerville, MA:
Cascadilla Press. pp.413-424.
Colin Phillips. (2001). Levels of representation in the electrophysiology of speech
perception. Cognitive Science, 25, 711-731.
David Schneider & Colin Phillips. (2001). Grammatical search and reanalysis. Journal of
Memory and Language, 44, 308-336.
27. Colin Phillips. (2001). Mechanisms for rapid use of focus information: Review of Sedivy
(1997). GLOT International, 5 (3), 25-32.
28. Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips & Amy Weinberg. (2002). Active filler effects and
reanalysis: Wh-scrambling constructions in Japanese. University of Maryland Working
Papers in Linguistics, 12
29. Colin Phillips. (2003). Linear order and constituency. Linguistic Inquiry 34, 37-90.
30. Colin Phillips. (2003). Syntax. In L. Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, vol.
4, pp.319-329. London: Macmillan Reference Ltd.
31. Colin Phillips. (2003). Parsing: Psycholinguistic aspects. In International Encyclopedia of
Linguistics, 2nd. edn. Oxford University Press.
32. Colin Phillips & Howard Lasnik. (2003). Linguistics and empirical evidence: A reply to
Edelman & Christiansen. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 7, 61-62.
33. Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips. (2003). Russian children's knowledge of aspectual
distinctions. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 390-401.
34. Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips, & Amy Weinberg. (2003). Processing of Japanese whscrambling constructions. Japanese/ Korean Linguistics 12. Stanford, CA: CSLI
Publications. pp. 179-191.
35. Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips & Amy Weinberg. (2003). Theoretical implications of the
parsing of Japanese wh-scrambling constructions. In G. Garding & M. Tsujimura (eds.),
Proceedings of WCCFL 22. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 14pp. pp. 29-42.
36. Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips. (2003). Temporal reference frames and the Imperfective
Paradox. In G. Garding & M. Tsujimura (eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL 22. Somerville,
MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 287-300.
37. Colin Phillips. (2004). Linguistics and linking problems. In M. Rice & S. Warren (eds.),
Developmental Language Disorders: From Phenotypes to Etiologies, pp. 241-287,.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates..
38. Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips & Amy Weinberg. (2004). Processing filler-gap
dependencies in a head-final language. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 23-54.
39. Colin Phillips & Ellen Lau. (2004). Foundational issues [Review article: Jackendoff
(2002), Foundations of Language.] Journal of Linguistics, 40, 571-591.
40. Colin Phillips (2005). Electrophysiology in the study of developmental language
impairments: Prospects and challenges for a top-down approach. Applied
Psycholinguistics, 26, 79-96.
41. Colin Phillips, Nina Kazanina, & Shani Abada. (2005). ERP effects of the processing of
syntactic long-distance dependencies. Cognitive Brain Research, 22, 407-428.
42. Colin Phillips & Kuniyoshi L. Sakai. (2005). Language and the brain. In Yearbook of
Science and Technology 2005. McGraw-Hill Publishers, pp. 166-169.
43. Colin Phillips. (2006). Three benchmarks for distributional models of syntax. In R.
Zanuttini, H. Campos, E. Herburger, & P. Portner (eds.), Negation, Tense, and Clausal
Architecture: Cross-linguistic Investigations. Georgetown University Press.
44. Colin Phillips & Matthew Wagers. (2006). Constituent structure and the binding problem.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 45-46. (Commentary on target article by van der
Velde & de Kamps.)
45. Moti Lieberman, Sachiko Aoshima, & Colin Phillips. (2006). Native-like biases in
generation of wh-questions by non-native speakers of Japanese. Studies in Second
Language Acquisition, 28, 423-448.
46. Ellen Lau, Clare Stroud, Silke Plesch, & Colin Phillips. (2006). The role of structural
prediction in rapid syntactic analysis. Brain & Language, 98, 74-88.
47. Nina Kazanina, Colin Phillips, & William Idsardi. (2006). The influence of meaning on the
perception of speech sound contrasts. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, 103, 11381-11386.
48. Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima, & Colin Phillips. (2006). Real-time
processing of Japanese exclamatives and the strength of locality biases in sentence
comprehension. Cognitive Studies, 13, 261-287. .
49. Colin Phillips. (2006). The real-time status of island phenomena. Language, 82, 795-823.
50. Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Masaya Yoshida, & Colin Phillips. (2007). The
effect of syntactic constraints on the processing of backwards anaphora. Journal of
Memory and Language, 56, 384-409.
51. Colin Phillips & Matthew Wagers. (2007). Relating structure and time in linguistics and
psycholinguistics. To appear in M. Gareth Gaskell (ed.), Oxford Handbook of
Psycholinguistics. Oxford University Press, pp. 739-756.
52. Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips (2007). A developmental perspective on the Imperfective
Paradox. Cognition, 105, 65-102.
53. Andrew Nevins, Brian Dillon, Shiti Malhotra, & Colin Phillips. (2007). The role of featurenumber and feature-type in processing Hindi verb agreement violations. Brain Research,
1164, 81-94.
54. Ellen Lau, Katya Rozanova, & Colin Phillips. (2008). Syntactic prediction and lexical
surface frequency effects in sentence processing. University of Maryland Working Papers
in Linguistics, Volume 16.
55. Ellen Lau, Colin Phillips, & David Poeppel. (2008). A cortical network for semantics:
(de)constructing the N400. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9, 920-933.
56. Ming Xiang, Brian Dillon, & Colin Phillips. (2009) Illusory licensing effects across
dependency types: ERP evidence. Brain & Language, 108, 40-55.
57. Sachiko Aoshima, Masaya Yoshida, & Colin Phillips. (2009). Incremental processing of
coreference and binding in Japanese. Syntax, 12, 93-134.
58. Matt Wagers & Colin Phillips. (2009) Multiple dependencies and the role of the grammar
in real-time comprehension. Journal of Linguistics, 45, 395-433.
59. Matt Wagers, Ellen Lau, & Colin Phillips. (2009) Agreement attraction in comprehension:
representations and processes. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 206-237.
60. Stacey Conroy, Eri Takahashi, Jeff Lidz, & Colin Phillips. (2009). Equal treatment for all
antecedents: How children succeed with Principle B. Linguistic Inquiry, 40, 446-486.
61. Colin Phillips. (2010). Should we impeach armchair linguists? In S. Iwasaki, H. Hoji, P.
Clancy, & S.-O. Sohn (eds.), Japanese-Korean Linguistics 17, pp. 49-64. Stanford, CA:
CSLI Publications.
62. Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips. (2010) Differential effects of constraints in the processing
of Russian cataphora. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 371-400.
63. Ana Gouvea, Colin Phillips, Nina Kazanina, & David Poeppel. (2010). The syntactic
processes underlying the P600. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 149-188.
64. Colin Phillips, Matt Wagers, & Ellen Lau. (2011). Grammatical illusions and selective
fallibility in real-time language comprehension. In J. Runner (ed.), Experiments at the
Interfaces. Syntax & Semantics, vol. 37, pp. 153-186. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
65. Brian Dillon, Andrew Nevins, Alison C. Austin, & Colin Phillips. (2012). Syntactic and
semantic predictors of tense in Hindi: An ERP investigation. Language and Cognitive
Processes, 27, 313-344.
66. Clare Stroud & Colin Phillips. (2012). Examining the evidence for an independent
semantic analyzer: An ERP study in Spanish. Brain and Language, 120, 107-126.
67. Jon Sprouse, Matt Wagers, & Colin Phillips. (2012). A test of the relation between
working memory capacity and syntactic island effects. Language, 88, 82-123.
68. Jon Sprouse, Matt Wagers, & Colin Phillips. (2012). Working memory capacity and island
effects: A reminder of the issues and the facts. Language, 88, 401-407.
69. Phillips, C. (2012). Individual variation and constraints on language learning.
Commentary on target article by Ewa Dabrowska. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism,
2, 281-286.
70. Alcocer, P. & Phillips, C. (2012). Using relational syntactic constraints in contentaddressable memory architectures for sentence processing. Ms. University of Maryland.
71. Phillips, C. (2013). Some arguments and non-arguments for reductionist accounts of
syntactic phenomena. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28, 156-187.
72. Chow, W.-Y. & Phillips, C. (2013). No semantic illusion in the "semantic P600"
phenomenon: ERP evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Brain Research, 1506, 76-93.
73. Phillips, C. & Lewis, S. (2013) Derivational order in syntax: Evidence and architectural
consequences. Studies in Linguistics, 6, 11-47.
74. Dillon, B., Mishler, A., Sloggett, S., & Phillips, C. (2013). Contrasting interference profiles
for agreement and anaphora: Experimental and modeling evidence. Journal of Memory
and Language, 69, 85-103.
75. Sprouse, J., Wagers, M. W., & Phillips, C. (2013). Deriving competing predictions from
grammatical approaches and reductionist approaches to island effects. In J. Sprouse &
N. Hornstein (eds.), Experimental syntax and island effects, pp. 21-41. Cambridge
University Press.
76. Phillips, C. (2013). On the nature of island constraints. I: Language processing and
reductionist accounts. In J. Sprouse & N. Hornstein (eds.), Experimental syntax and
island effects, pp. 64-108. Cambridge University Press.
77. Phillips, C. (2013). On the nature of island constraints. II: Language learning and
innateness. In J. Sprouse & N. Hornstein (eds.), Experimental syntax and island effects,
pp. 132-157. Cambridge University Press
78. Phillips, C. (2013). Parser-grammar relations: We don't understand everything twice. In
M. Sanz, I. Laka, & M. Tanenhaus (eds.), Language down the garden path: The cognitive
and biological basis for linguistic structure, pp. 294-315. Oxford University Press.
79. Wagers, M. & Phillips, C. (2014). Going the distance: Memory and control processes in
active dependency construction. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67,
1274-1304.
80. Omaki, A., Davidson White, I., Goro, T., Lidz, J., & Phillips, C. (2014). No fear of
commitment: Children's incremental interpretation in English and Japanese whquestions. Language Learning and Development, 10, 206-233.
81. Chow, W.-Y., Lewis, S., & Phillips, C. (2014). Immediate sensitivity to structural
constraints in pronoun resolution. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 630. doi:
10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00630.
82. Brian Dillon, Wing Yee Chow, Matthew Wagers, Taomei Guo, Fengqin Liu, & Colin
Phillips. (2014). The structure sensitivity of search: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese.
Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 5:1025. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01025.
83. Momma, S., Slevc, R., & Phillips, C. (2014). The timing of verb selection in English active
and passive sentences. In Proceedings of MAPLL: Mental Architecture for Processing
and Learning of Language 2014.
84. Kush, D. & Phillips, C. (2014). Local anaphor licensing in an SOV language: implications
for retrieval strategies. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 1252.
85. Phillips, C. & Parker, D. (2014). The psycholinguistics of ellipsis. Lingua, 151, 78-95.
86. Lewis, S. & Phillips, C. (2015). Aligning grammatical theories and language processing
models. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 44, 27-46.
87. Kush, D., Lidz, J., & Phillips, C. (2015). Relation-sensitive retrieval: evidence from bound
variable pronouns. Journal of Memory and Language, 82, 18-40.
88. Phillips, C. & Ehrenhofer, L. (2015). The role of language processing in language
acquisition. To appear as target article with commentaries in Linguistic Approaches to
Bilingualism.
89. Lago, S., Shalom, D., Sigman, M., Lau, E. F., & Phillips, C. (in press). Agreement
processes in Spanish comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language.
90. Chun-chieh Natalie Hsu, Felicia Hurewitz, & Colin Phillips. (submitted). Context
influences structure generation: Evidence from Chinese.
91. Omaki, A., Lau, E. F., Davidson White, I., Dakan, M. F., Apple, A., Phillips, C. (2015).
Hyper-active gap filling. Frontiers in Psychology: 6: 384. doi: 10:3389/fpsyg.2015.00384
92. Chow, W.-Y., Lau, E. F., Wang, S., & Phillips, C. (submitted). Timing is everything: The
temporal dynamics of word prediction.
93. Parker, D. & Phillips, C. (in revision). Negative polarity illusions and the format of
hierarchical encodings in memory.
94. Momma, S., Slevc, R., & Phillips, C. (in revision). The timing of verb selection in
Japanese sentence production.
95. Chow, W.-Y., Smith, C., Lau, E. F., & Phillips, C. (to appear). A 'bag of arguments'
mechanism for initial verb predictions. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
Manuscripts in Preparation
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Wellwood, A., Pancheva, R., Hacquard, V., & Phillips, C. Deconstructing a comparative
illusion.
Parker, D. & Phillips, C. Differential transparency of grammatical features during anaphor
resolution
Kush, D., Lidz, J., & Phillips, C. Crossover constraints in parsing..
Stroud, C. & Phillips, C. An investigation of the effect of thematic fit on the P600.
Sunyoung Lee-Ellis, William Idsardi, & Colin Phillips. Timing isn't everything: The role of
early experience and input dominance in speech perception.
Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima, & Colin Phillips. Relative clause prediction in
Japanese.
Presentations
1991
1. What is the minimalist approach to syntax? University of Rochester, December 1991. (4 talks)
1993
2. S-structure ergativity, LF accusativity. 6th Biennial Conference on Grammatical Relations.
Vancouver: September 1993.
3. Verbal case and polysynthetic inflection. CONSOLE. Tübingen: December 1993.
1994
4 . Spreading values. Linguistic Society of America. Boston: January 1994.
5. Agreement alternations. Maryland Minimalist Mayfest. College Park: May 1994.
1995
6. The continuous and the discrete in neural representations of stops. Linguistic Society of
America. New Orleans: January 1995. (with Alec Marantz, Ken Wexler et al.)
7. Verb movement in early wh-questions. Linguistic Society of America. New Orleans: January
1995.
8. Continuous and categorical perception of stops. McDonnell-Pew Society Conference. Tucson:
January 1995. (with Alec Marantz, Elron Yellin et al.)
9. MEG studies of speech perception. MIT Speech Group Colloquium, February 1995. (with
David Poeppel)
10. Generalizing Right Association. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Tucson: March
1995.
11. Auditory cortex accesses phonetic categories. Society for Cognitive Neuroscience. San
Francisco: March 1995. (with Alec Marantz, Martha McGinnis et al.)
12. Neural correlates of categorical perception of voice onset time. Society for Cognitive
Neuroscience. San Francisco: March 1995. (with Alec Marantz, David Poeppel et al.)
13. What can the brain teach us about language? University of Edinburgh, April 1995.
14. What's missing from the syntax of two-year olds? Linguistics Association of Great Britain.
Newcastle-upon-tyne: April 1995.
15. Brain imaging and speech perception: A progress report. Massachusetts General Hospital
Auditory Physiology Colloquium. Boston: April 1995. (with David Poeppel, Alec Marantz et al.)
16. Continuous and categorical properties of VOT perception. Human Brain Map 1 Conference.
Paris: June 1995. (with Alec Marantz, David Poeppel et al.)
17. Auditory cortex accesses phonetic categories: Evidence from MMF. Human Brain Map 1
Conference. Paris: June 1995. (with Alec Marantz, Martha McGinnis et al.)
18. Right Association: A single strategy for structural parsing. NELS 26 Sentence Processing
workshop. MIT: October 1995.
19. Some implications of cross-linguistic contrasts in two-year olds' syntax. Boston University
Conference on Language Development. November 1995.
1996
20. Phonemic contrasts in auditory cortex: cross-linguistic evidence from magnetic mismatch.
Linguistic Society of America. San Diego: January 1996. (with Alec Marantz, Martha McGinnis,
Ken Wexler et al.)
21. Disagreement between Adults and Children. Linguistic Society of America. San Diego:
January 1996
22. Speech Perception and Magnetic Source Imaging. Department of Linguistics, UC Irvine.
January 1996.
23. Parsing and Constituency. UC Irvine Linguistics/Cognitive Science Colloquium. January 1996.
24. Structural Complexity and Constituent Structure. Linguistics colloquium, University of
Delaware. January 1996.
25. The Implementation of Linguistic Knowledge. Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Science,
University of Delaware. January 1996.
26. Studying Speech Perception using Magnetic Source Imaging. Department of Linguistics,
UCLA. February 1996.
27. Parsing and Constituency. UCLA Linguistics Colloquium. February 1996.
28. Linear Order and Contradictory Constituency. 15th West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics. Irvine, CA. February 1996.
29. On the Strength of the Local Attachment Preference. (with Edward Gibson). 9th annual CUNY
sentence processing conference. New York, March 1996.
30. A Cross-linguistic Perspective on Phoneme Perception using Magnetic Mismatch Fields.
(Alec Marantz, Colin Phillips et al.). Poster presented at the third annual meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, CA. April 1996.
31. Vanishing Constituents: Grammar as Parsing. Boston University Linguistics Colloquium
series. November 1996.
1997
32. Local Attachment and Competing Constraints. (with Edward Gibson) 10th Annual CUNY
Sentence Processing Conference. Santa Monica, CA. March 1997.
33. MEG Studies of Vowel Processing in Auditory Cortex. (Colin Phillips, Krishna Govindarajan,
David Poeppel, Tim Roberts, Howard Rowley, Alec Marantz). 4th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience
Society meeting. Boston, MA. March 1997.
34. Incremental Grammar and the Nature of Performance Systems. Johns Hopkins University
Cognitive Science Colloquium. October 1997.
35. Complex-verb constructions in child Korean: Overt markers of covert functional structure.
1998 (to appear). (Meesook Kim & Colin Phillips). Boston University Conference on Language
Development. November 1997.
36. Order and Constituency. University of Maryland Linguistics Colloquium. November 1997.
1998
37. Linear Order and Constituency. LSA annual meeting, New York City. January 1998.
38. A Brain Potential that Indexes Vowel Height. (Colin Phillips, Alec Marantz, David Poeppel,
Tim Roberts, Krishna Govindarajan). LSA annual meeting, New York City. January 1998.
39. On the Absence of Competence Systems. CUNY Graduate Center Psycholinguistics Supper
Club. April 1998.
40. On the Absence of Performance Systems. CUNY Graduate Center Syntax Lunch. April 1998.
41. An Incremental Grammar for Competence and Performance Systems. University of Durham
Linguistics Colloquium. June 1998.
42. Cross-linguistic Differences in Children's Syntax for Locative Verbs. (Meesook Kim, Barbara
Landau & Colin Phillips). Boston University Conference on Language Development. November
1998.
43. Incremental Grammar. Princeton University Linguistics Colloquium. November 1998.
44. Units of Linguistic Representation in the Brain. Princeton University Linguistics Colloquium.
November 1998.
1999
45. Reanalysis as a Last Resort? (David Schneider & Colin Phillips). CUNY Sentence Processing
Conference, New York, March 1999.
46. Competence & Performance: Incremental Structure Building and Syntactic Search. University
of Pennsylvania Linguistics Colloquium, March 1999.
47. Magnetic Mismatch Field Elicited by Phonological Feature Contrast. (Colin Phillips, Tom
Pellathy & Alec Marantz). Poster presented at the 6th annual meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society, Washington D.C., April 1999.
48. Linguistic Representations in the Brain. Sophia University Linguistics Colloquium, Tokyo,
Japan. July 1999.
49. Cross-linguistic Variation in Syntax-Semantics Mappings: Implications for Learnability. Tokyo
Institute for Advanced Studies of Language, Tokyo, Japan. July 1999.
50. Grammar, Parsing, and Resource Modularity. Keio University Linguistics Colloquium, Tokyo,
Japan. July 1999.
51. Categories and Constituents in the Neuroscience of Language. Invited presentation,
Neuroscience of Language workshop, International Institute of Advanced Studies, Kyoto, Japan.
July 1999.
52. Variability in semantic cue effectiveness: inducing low-span performance in high-span
readers. (Ted Eastwick & Colin Phillips.) Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
IV. University of Edinburgh, Scotland. September 1999.
53. Parser, Grammar Resources - Which is the odd one out? U. Mass. Amherst Linguistics
Colloquium, October 1999.
54. Phonological Categories and Auditory Cortex. University of Maryland Dept. of Linguistics.
December 1999.
55. Learnability and Typology: The Case of Locative Verbs. University of Maryland Dept. of
Linguistics, December 1999.
56. Grammatical Search in Parsing. University of Maryland Linguistics Colloquium. December
1999
2000
57. Incremental Grammatical Search and Analysis. University of Arizona Linguistics Colloquium.
January 2000.
58. Incremental Grammatical Search and Grammar-Processor Identity. U. of Southern California
Linguistics Colloquium. January 2000.
59. Commentary: Learnability and Cross-Language Uniformity. U. of Southern California
Language and Mind Forum. January 2000.
60. Tutorial: Linguistics and the Brain. (with Roumyana Izvorski, Georgetown U.). U. of Southern
California Language and Mind Forum. January 2000.
61. Semantic and Syntactic Resources in Ambiguity Resolution. Ted Eastwick & Colin Phillips.
CUNY Sentence Processing conference, San Diego. March 2000.
62. Lexical Access and Syntactic Search: The Case of Dative (Non-)Alternations. Colin Phillips,
Evniki Edgar & Baris Kabak. CUNY Sentence Processing conference, San Diego. March 2000.
63. How the Parser Solves a Look-Ahead Problem: Parsing Parasitic Gaps. Colin Phillips & Kaia
Wong. CUNY Sentence Processing conference, San Diego. March 2000.
64. Auditory Cortex Representations of Phonological Features. Colin Phillips, Tom Pellathy, Baris
Kabak & Alec Marantz. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco. April 2000.
65. Incremental Grammatical Search and Analysis. Georgetown University Linguistics
Colloquium. April 2000.
66. Competence and Performance: Linear Order and Resource Limitations. Utrecht University
Linguistics Colloquium. May 2000.
67. What Linguistics Has to Say about the Brain. Invited address, College of Arts & Humanities
Convocation, University of Maryland. September 2000.
68. Linear Order and Resource Limitations in Parsing and Grammar. Cornell University
Linguistics Colloquium. October 2000.
69. Phonological Features and Categories in the Brain. Cornell University Linguistics Colloquium.
October 2000.
70. Coreference in Child Russian: Distinguishing Syntactic and Discourse Constraints. Nina
Kazanina & Colin Phillips. Boston University 71. Conference on Language Development.
November 2000.
72. Two Types of Hierarchical Linguistic Structure in the Brain. University of Tokyo Mind
Articulation Symposium. November 2000.
2001
73, How the Parser Solves a Look-Ahead Problem: Parsing Parasitic Gaps. Colin Phillips & Kaia
Wong. Linguistic Society of America, Washington DC. January 2001.
74. ERP Evidence on the Time Course of Resource Demands in Processing Wh-Dependencies.
Colin Phillips, Nina Kazanina, Kaia Wong, Robert Ellis. 14th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing
Conference, Philadelphia, PA. March 2001.
75. An ERP Study of Storage and Integration in Sentence Processing. Colin Phillips, Nina
Kazanina, Kaia Wong, Robert Ellis. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY. March 2001.
76. Structure-Building and Unification. CUNY Graduate Center. March 2001.
77. Two Types of Linguistic Structure in the Brain. Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Colloquium, University of Maryland. April 2001.
78. Real-time Derivations. University of Connecticut Linguistics Colloquium. April 2001.
79. Language Structure and Brain Structure - The Missing Link. Genetics of Language workshop,
Tilburg University, The Netherlands. May 2001.
80. Principles & Parameters of Locative Verb Syntax. (Colin Phillips, Beth Rabbin & Meesook
Kim.) Mid-Atlantic Verb Workshop. College Park, MD. October 2001.
81. Unification Problems and Mysteries. Keynote Address, Michigan Linguistics Society. Ypsilanti,
MI. October 2001.
82. Language Structure and Unification. Northwestern University Cognitive Science Colloquium.
Evanston, IL. November 2001.
83. Language Acquisition and Cross-Language Variation. Northwestern University Linguistics
Colloquium. Evanston, IL. November 2001.
2002
84. Russian Children’s Understanding of Aspectual Distinctions. (Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips)
Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. January 2002.
85. Building a Window on the Mind: Cognitive Science. (David Poeppel & Colin Phillips)
University of Maryland MEG Symposium. College Park, MD. February 2002.
86. Active Filler Effects in Japanese Wh-Scrambling Constructions. (Sachiko Aoshima, Colin
Phillips & Amy Weinberg). CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. New York, NY. March 2002.
87. Relative Clause Processing and Extraposition. (Ana Gouvea, Colin Phillips & David Poeppel).
CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. New York, NY. March 2002.
88. Hierarchical Structure in Language: Two Challenges. Bryn Mawr College Science and Society
Colloquium. Bryn Mawr, PA. April 2002.
89. Magnetoencephalography as a Window on Language and Brain Function. Laboratory for
Physical Science Seminar. College Park, MD. April 2002.
90. Analysis-by-Synthesis II: Sentences. Workshop on Language and Motor Integration.
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. September 2002.
91. Psychogrammar. Workshop on "SLI, Genes, Development and Cognitive Neuroscience".
University College, London. October 2002.
92. Eventhood and Comprehension of Aspect in Russian Children. (Nina Kazanina & Colin
Phillips). Boston University Conference on Language Development. November 2002.
93. Processing of Japanese Wh-Scrambling Constructions. (Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips, &
Amy Weinberg). Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
November 2002.
94. Studies of real-time wh-movement. MIT. November 6th 2002.
95. Psychogrammar. University of Delaware Linguistics Colloquium. November 15th 2002.
96. Language, mind, and brain: The unification problem. Kyushu University, Hakata, Japan.
December 14th 2002.
97. Language comprehension and word-order variation. Kyushu University, Hakata, Japan.
December 15th 2002.
98. Speech perception in infant and adult brains. Hiroshima University, Japan. December 16th
2002.
99. Language acquisition and cross-language variation. Hiroshima University, Japan. December
17th 2002.
100. Grammatical knowledge and real-time computation. Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
December 18th 2002.
2003
101. Phonological representations from an electrophysiological perspective. Johns Hopkins
University Cognitive Science of Language Workshop. Baltimore, MD. January 2003.
102. Two Linking Problems in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. University of Maryland
Medical School, Baltimore, MD. February 2003.
103. Imperfective paradox in acquisition. Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips. WCCFL XXII. San
Diego, March 2003.
104. On-line satisfaction of lexical requirements determines the time-course of gap creation.
Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips & Amy Weinberg. WCCFL XXII. San Diego, March 2003.
105. Processing long-distance dependencies in two varieties of Spanish. Leticia Pablos & Colin
Phillips. Barcelona Conference on Psycholinguistics. March 2003. (poster)
106. On-line computation of two types of structural relations in Japanese. Sachiko Aoshima, Colin
Phillips & Amy Weinberg. 16th annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Cambridge, MA.
March 2003.(talk)
107. The real-time status of island constraints. Colin Phillips, Beth Rabbin, Leticia Pablos & Kaia
Wong. 16th annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Cambridge, MA. March 2003.(talk)
108. The effects of context on early syntactic structure building. Silke Urban, Colin Phillips &
Daniel Garcia-Pedrosa. 16th annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Cambridge, MA.
March 2003. (poster)
109. ERP measures of construction and completion of long-distance dependencies. Colin Phillips,
Nina Kazanina, Shani Abada & Daniel Garcia-Pedrosa. 16th annual CUNY Sentence Processing
Conference. Cambridge, MA. March 2003. (poster)
110. The P600 reflects different syntactic computations at different time intervals. Ana Gouvea,
Colin Phillips & David Poeppel. 16th annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference.
Cambridge, MA. March 2003. (poster)
111. ERP evidence for abstract sound categorization. Daniel Garcia-Pedrosa & Colin Phillips.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society. New York City. March 2003. (poster)
112. The effects of context on early syntactic structure building. Silke Urban, Colin Phillips &
Daniel Garcia-Pedrosa. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. New York City. March 2003. (poster)
113. Syntactic processes revealed by the P600. Ana Gouvea, Colin Phillips, David Poeppel, &
Nina Kazanina. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. New York City. March 2003. (poster).
114. Learning the names for events. Colin Phillips & Nina Kazanina. University of Maryland
Psychology, April 2003.
115. Temporal frames-of-reference in the development of aspect. Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips.
Workshop on the Acquisition of Aspect, Berlin, May 2003.
116. Analysis-by-Synthesis. University of Utrecht Department of Linguistics. May 2003.
117. How children handle the Imperfective Paradox. Colin Phillips & Nina Kazanina. University of
Stuttgart, Department of Linguistics. June 2003.
118. Grammar and time: Bridging syntax and neuroscience. University of Stuttgart, Institut fuer
Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung. June 2003.
119. Creativity of natural language: A brain's eye view. Colin Phillips, Kuniyoshi Sakai, & David
Poeppel. Human Frontier Science Program Conference, Cambridge, UK. July 2003.
120. Grammar in real time. King's College, London. July 2003.
121. Grammar and the real-time formation of wh-dependencies (Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips,
& Amy Weinberg). LSA Workshop on Japanese Language Processing, July, 2003.
122. Linking Problems for Normal Language. Workshop on Genetics and Language Disorders,
Tempe, September, 2003.
123. Real-time computation of long-distance dependencies. New York University Linguistics
Colloquium. October, 2003.
124. Preemptive structure building. MIT Linguistics Colloquium, October, 2003.
125. Preemptive structure building. CUNY Graduate Center Linguistics Colloquium. November,
2003.
126. Three benchmarks for statistical models of human language. Workshop on Syntax,
Semantics, and Statistics at Neural Information Processing Systems workshops, Whistler, BC,
Canada, December, 2003.
2004
127. Electrophysiological studies of abstraction in speech perception. Workshop on Basic
Mechanisms of Speech Perception. Konstanz, Germany, January, 2004.
128. The immediacy of grammar. Yale University Linguistics Colloquium, February, 2004.
129. Language, creativity, and the human brain. Talk for a general audience, presented in the
College Park Arts Exchange series, College Park, MD, February, 2004.
130. The immediacy of structure. University of Southern California Linguistics Colloquium, March
2004.
131. Relative clause prediction in Japanese. (Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima, & Colin
Phillips). Talk at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College
Park, MD. March 2004.
132. Grammatical constraints in the processing of backwards anaphora. (Nina Kazanina, Ellen
Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin Phillips, Masaya Yoshida). Talk at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference
on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD. March 2004.
133. Syntactic and semantic predictors of tense: An ERP investigation of Hindi. (Andrew Nevins,
Colin Phillips, & David Poeppel). Talk at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing, College Park, MD. March 2004.
134. The real-time application of structural constraints on binding in Japanese. (Sachiko
Aoshima, Masaya Yoshida, Colin Phillips). Poster at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on
Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD. March 2004.
135. Japanese exclamatives and the strength of locality conditions in sentence generation.
(Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips). Poster at the 17th Annual
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD. March 2004.
136. Processing long-distance dependencies involving clitic pronouns in Spanish. (Leticia Pablos,
Colin Phillips). Poster at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,
College Park, MD. March 2004.
137. The source of syntactic illusions. (Scott Fults, Colin Phillips). Poster at the 17th Annual
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD. March 2004.
138. Rapid syntactic diagnosis: Separating effects of grammaticality and expectancy. (Alison
Austin, Colin Phillips). Poster at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing, College Park, MD. March 2004.
139. Processing relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese and English. (Ana Gouvea, Colin
Phillips, David Poeppel). Poster at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing, College Park, MD. March 2004.
140. The logical problem of language processing. Invited talk, Georgetown University Round
Table on Linguistics (GURT 2004). March, 2004.
141. A cross-language MEG study of phonological contrasts. (Nina Kazanina, Colin Phillips).
Poster at the 11th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, San Francisco, CA. April
2004.
142. Phonological features distinct from phonemes in auditory cortex: An MEG mismatch study.
(Henny Yeung, Colin Phillips). Poster at the 11th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society
meeting, San Francisco, CA. April 2004.
143. The role of structural expectations in detecting structural violations. (Alison Austin, Colin
Phillips). Poster at the 11th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, San Francisco, CA.
April 2004.
144. Local linguistic predictions: An ERP study of Hindi morphosyntax. (Andrew Nevins, Colin
Phillips, David Poeppel). Poster at the 11th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, San
Francisco, CA. April 2004.
145. Brain mechanisms of sentence processing. (Kuniyoshi Sakai & Colin Phillips). Human
Frontiers Science Program 4th Annual Awardees Meeting, Hakone, Japan. May 2004.
146. Processing long-distance syntactic relations in English and Japanese. University of Tokyo,
Japan. May 2004.
147. A cross-language MEG study of phonological contrast. (Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips.)
Poster at BIOMAG 2004, Boston, MA.
148. N400-like MEG response elicited by verbs in English relative clauses. (Henny Yeung,
Ryuichiro Hashimoto, Colin Phillips, & Kuniyoshi L. Sakai). Poster at BIOMAG 2004, Boston, MA.
149. On-line processing of universal vs. language-specific constraints. (Nina Kazanina & Colin
Phillips.) Talk at AMLaP 2004 Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France.
150. Processing of wh-in-situ by advanced learners of Japanese. (Moti Lieberman, Sachiko
Aoshima, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at Second Language Research Forum 2004, Penn State
University, State College, PA.
151. Linguistic structure and brain structure: Problems and mysteries. University of Southern
California, November 2004.
2005
152. Constraints on coreference in on-line processing of Russian. (Nina Kazanina & Colin
Phillips). Linguistic Society of America, Oakland, CA, January 2005.
153. Grammatical knowledge and real-time computation. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
January, 2005.
154. The source of the bias for longer filler-gap dependencies in Japanese. (Sachiko Aoshima,
Masaya Yoshida, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing
Conference, Tucson, AZ, April 2005.
155. Constraints on coreference in the on-line processing of backwards anaphora. (Nina
Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin Phillips, & Masaya Yoshida.) Poster at the 18th
Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, AZ, April 2005.
156. Rich agreement cues argument structure in on-line processing of Basque. (Leticia Pablos &
Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, AZ,
April 2005.
157. Fillers after the gap. (Matthew Wagers & Colin Phillips). Poster at the 18th Annual CUNY
Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, AZ, April 2005.
158. Cues for head-final relative clauses in Chinese. (Chun-chieh Hsu, Colin Phillips, & Masaya
Yoshida.) Poster at the 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, AZ, April
2005.
159. A real-time perspective on locality of wh-movement. Presented at the WH-fest, University of
Maryland, May 2005.
160. Detecting and avoiding relative clauses in real-time comprehension. Workshop on the
Typology, Acquisition and Processing of Relative Clauses, Max Planck Institut for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, June 2005.
161. Electrophysiological studies of abstraction in speech perception. RIKEN Brain Science
Forum, Wako-shi, Japan, August 2005.
162. How is grammar so fast? Sophia University, Tokyo, August 2005.
163. What can Japanese tell us about sentence comprehension? Sophia University workshop on
Japanese psycholinguistics, August 2005.
164. Tools for neurolinguistics. CUNY Graduate Center, October 2005.
165. What do you expect! CUNY Graduate Center, October 2005.
166. How to speak and understand like a native. Symposium on Chinese language learning.
College Park, MD, October 2005.
167. Locality and prediction in language processing. IRCS Colloquium, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. October 2005.
168. Processing clitic pronouns in Galician topicalization constructions. (Leticia Pablos, Colin
Phillips, & Juan Uriagereka.) Penn State University workshop on Spanish Psycholinguistics.
November 2005.
2006
169. How is grammar so fast. Linguistics Colloquium, UMass, Amherst. March 2006.
170. Testing the strength of the spurious licensing effect for negative polarity items. (Ming Xiang,
Brian Dillon, & Colin Phillips). Talk at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing. New York City. March 2006.
171. Contextual and syntactic cues for head-final relative clauses in Chinese. (Chun-chieh Natalie
Hsu, Felicia Hurewitz, & Colin Phillips). Talk at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human
Sentence Processing. New York City. March 2006.
172. Re-active filling. (Matt Wagers & Colin Phillips). Talk at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference
on Human Sentence Processing. New York City. March 2006.
173. Dimensions of agreement in Hindi: an ERP study. (Andrew Nevins, Brian Dillon, & Colin
Phillips). Poster at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New
York City. March 2006.
174. Conditionals and long-distance dependency formation in Japanese. (Masaya Yoshida,
Sachiko Aoshima, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human
Sentence Processing. New York City. March 2006.
175. Real-time processing of Japanese exclamatives and the strength of locality conditions.
(Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima, & Colin Phillips). Poster at the 19th Annual
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York City. March 2006.
176. Effects of lexical surface frequency on reading times in sentence processing. (Ellen Lau,
Katya Rozanova, & Colin Phillips). Poster at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human
Sentence Processing. New York City. March 2006.
177. Electrophysiological studies of abstraction in speech and language. University of Minnesota
Cognitive Science Colloquium, Minneapolis, MN. April 2006.
178. Two types of locality in parsing and grammar. University of Minnesota Linguistics
Colloquium, Minneapolis, MN. April 2006.
179. The fine temporal structure of syntactic computation. Invited talk, Neurolinguistics workshop.
University of Tromsø, Norway. April 2006.
180. Early mastery of constraints on binding and coreference. (Eri Takahashi, Anastasia Conroy,
Jeffrey Lidz, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2, McGill
University, Montreal, August 2006.
181. Unification in/of Grammar. Invited talk at the workshop on Unification in the Neurocognition
of Language, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland. September 2006.
182. Time-course and localization of syntactic anomaly responses in sentence processing: a
within-subjects fMRI/MEG design. (Ellen Lau, Henny Yeung, Ryuichiro Hashimoto, Allen Braun, &
Colin Phillips.) Poster at the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, October 2006.
183. Time and constraints. Linguistics colloquium, University of S. Carolina, Columbia, SC.
November 2006.
184. Time and constraints. Linguistics colloquium, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI.
November 2006.
2007
185. The time-course of anaphoric processing and syntactic reconstruction. (Akira Omaki, Chris
Dyer, Shiti Malhotra, Jon Sprouse, Jeff Lidz, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the CUNY 2007 conference,
La Jolla, CA, March 2007.
186. Intrusive licensing effects: comparing negative polarity and reflexives. (Ming Xiang, Brian
Dillon, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the CUNY 2007 conference, La Jolla, CA, March 2007.
187. Content-dependent and content-independent processes in filler-gap resolution. (Matt
Wagers & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the CUNY 2007 conference, La Jolla, CA, March 2007.
188. Electrophysiology as a brain measure of perceptual sensitivity and abstraction. [Invited
speaker.] Workshop on New Approaches to the Study of Sound Patterns, Stanford, CA, July
2007.
189. The generation of relative clauses. [Invited speaker.] Conference on Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Relative Clauses, Cambridge, UK, September 2007.
190. How (not) to get confused in comprehension: the case of agreement attraction. (Ellen Lau,
Matt Wagers, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the AMLaP 2007 Conference, Turku, Finland, August
2007.
191. How grammars leak. Linguistics colloquium talk, U of Connecticut, September 2007.
192. Effects of prior syntactic information on thematic role processing: an event-related potentials
study in Spanish. (Clare Stroud & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the mid-America Linguistics Conference,
Lawrence, KS, October 2007.
193. Agreement attraction in comprehension: representations and processes. (Ellen Lau, Matt
Wagers, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the mid-America Linguistics Conference, Lawrence, KS,
October 2007.
194. Freedom of scope and conservatism in the development of Japanese. (Takuya Goro, Annie
Gagliardi, Akira Omaki, N. Katsura, S-I Tamura, N. Yusa, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the 32nd
Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA, November 2007.
195. Just do it! [Invited speaker] Workshop on Progress in Generative Grammar,
Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, UCLA, November 2007.
196. Generating head-final structures. [Invited speaker] Workshop on Processing Verb-final
Languages, Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, December
2007.
2008
197. Agreement attraction in comprehension: representations and processes. (Matt Wagers,
Ellen Lau, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 2008.
198. How grammars leak. Linguistics colloquium talk, UCLA, January 2008.
199. Are all languages understood in the same way? National Science Foundation Distinguished
Speaker Series, Arlington, VA, 2008.
200. Agreement and the subject of confusion. (Ellen Lau, Matt Wagers, Clare Stroud, & Colin
Phillips.) Talk at the CUNY 2008 Conference, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 2008.
201. Effects of prior syntactic information on thematic role processing: An event-related potentials
study in Spanish. (Clare Stroud & Colin Phillips) Poster at the CUNY 2008 Conference, U. of N.
Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 2008.
202. Early and late effects of agreement attraction in comprehension. (Matt Wagers, Ellen Lau, &
Colin Phillips) Poster at the CUNY 2008 Conference, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 2008.
203. Effects of prior syntactic information on thematic role processing: An event-related potentials
study in Spanish. (Clare Stroud & Colin Phillips) Poster at Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Conference, San Francisco, April 2008.
204. The scope of syntactic computation. Invited talk at the 3rd Brussels Conference on
Generative Linguistics. Brussels, Belgium, May 2008.
205. How grammars leak. 3rd annual 'Schultink Lecture' at the Netherlands Summer School in
Linguistics (LOT), Utrecht, Holland. July 2008.
206. We understand everything (roughly) once. University of Arizona. October 2008.
207. How grammars leak. University of Arizona, October 2008.
208. Language at Maryland. Annual Research Leaders meeting, University of Maryland, October
2008.
209. The dynamics and anatomy of active sentence understanding. Invited symposium talk at the
Boston University Conference on Language Development. November 2008.
210. The structural and semantic selectivity of the "thematic" P600 in sentence comprehension.
(Clare Stroud & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC,
November 2008.
2009
211. How grammars leak: illusions and non-illusions in language processing. Linguistics
colloquium talk, Rutgers University, January 2009.
212. Real-time structure building and retreat from over-generation. Invited talk at GLOW-in-Asia
workshop on language acquisition. EFL University, Hyderabad, India, February 2009.
213. Encoding syntactic predictions: evidence from the dynamics of agreement. (Matt Wagers,
Ellen Lau, Clare Stroud, Brian McElree, & Colin Phillips). Talk at the CUNY 2009 Conference, UC
Davis, March 2009.
214. The structural and semantic selectivity of the 'thematic' P600 in sentence comprehension.
(Clare Stroud & Colin Phillips). Poster at the CUNY 2009 Conference, UC Davis, March 2009.
215. Active gap search in the visual world with lexical competitors. (Akira Omaki, Anastasia
Trock, Matt Wagers, Jeff Lidz, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the CUNY 2009 Conference, UC Davis,
March 2009.
216. The consequences of number agreement on number interpretation. (Ellen Lau, Matt
Wagers, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the CUNY 2009 Conference, UC Davis, March 2009.
217. Bound variables reveal the structure sensitivity of search. (Dave Kush, Akira Omaki, Brian
Dillon, Pedro Alcocer, Jeff Lidz, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the CUNY 2009 Conference, UC
Davis, March 2009.
218. A cross-language reversal in illusory agreement licensing. (Pedro Alcocer & Colin Phillips).
Poster at the CUNY 2009 Conference, UC Davis, March 2009.
219. The role of event comparison in comparative illusions. (Alexis Wellwood, Roumyana
Pancheva, Valentine Hacquard, Scott Fults, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the CUNY 2009
Conference, UC Davis, March 2009.
220. Processing local and long-distance anaphors in Mandarin Chinese. (Brian Dillon, Ming
Xiang, Wing Yee Chow, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the CUNY 2009 Conference, UC Davis,
March 2009.
221. From active comprehension to effective learning of syntax and semantics. Invited talk at
GLOW workshop on language acquisition at the syntax-semantics interface. Nantes, France.
April 2009.
222. Overgeneration in parsing and grammar. Invited talk at the conference on Formal vs.
Processing Explanations of Syntactic Phenomena. University of York, UK. April 2009.
223. Grammatical illusions: when you see them, when you don't. Linguistics colloquium talk,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. May 2009.
224. Distinguishing effects of early exposure and language dominance: speech perception by
Korean heritage speakers. (Sunyoung Lee-Ellis, William Idsardi, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the
Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. November 2009.
225. Real-time syntactic computation. Invited talk, English Linguistics Society of Japan, Osaka,
Japan. November 2009.
226. Grammatical illusions and memory encoding for sentences. Hiroshima University, Japan.
November 2009.
227. Real-time linguistic computation: looking forwards and backwards. Visions for Linguistics
workshop, Schloss Freudental, Konstanz, Germany. November 2009.
2010
228. Grammatical illusions: when you see them, when you don't. Plenary talk, Linguistic Society
of America annual meeting, Baltimore, MD. January 2010.
229. Resolving filler-gap dependencies in advance of verb information. (Akira Omaki, Ellen Lau, &
Colin Phillips.) Talk at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Baltimore, MD. January
2010.
230. The islands debate: processing costs vs. grammatical constraints. (Jon Sprouse, Matt
Wagers, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of
Southern California. February 2010.
231. Electrophysiology of language: A tutorial. (Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Colin Phillips, &
Matthias Schlesewsky.) Workshop on neurolinguistic methods, New York University. March 2010.
232. Six blind men and an elephant: making sense of cross-technique mismatches. Invited talk at
the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York University. March
2010.
233. Structure sensitive and insensitive retrieval of subjects in Brazilian Portuguese. (Pedro
Alcocer, Marcus Maia, Aniela Improta Franca, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the 23rd Annual CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York University. March 2010.
234. The structure sensitivity of memory access: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. (Brian Dillon,
Wing Yee Chow, Matthew Wagers, Fengqin Liu, Taomei Guo, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the 23rd
Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York University. March 2010.
235. Verb primacy and kindergarten path effects in wh-processing: Evidence from English and
Japanese. (Akira Omaki, Imogen Davidson White, Takuya Goro, Jeffrey Lidz, & Colin Phillips.)
Talk at the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York
University. March 2010.
236. The limits of independent semantic composition: ERP evidence from Chinese. (Wing Yee
Chow & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing, New York University. March 2010.
237. Encoding and navigating hierarchical representations. Talk at the First International ANPOLL
Psycholinguistics Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. April 2010.
238. Grammatical illusions: Where you see them, where you don't. Cognitive Science colloquium
talk, University of Illinois. April 2010.
239. From active comprehension to effective learning of syntax and semantics. Linguistics
colloquium talk, University of Illinois. April 2010.
240. Dual status of the 'thematic P600': ERP evidence from Chinese. (Wing Yee Chow & Colin
Phillips.) Poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference, Montreal, Canada. April 2010.
241. The structure sensitivity of memory access: ERP evidence. (Brian Dillon, Wing Yee Chow,
Taomei Guo, Fengqin Liu, Peiyao Chen, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience
Society conference, Montreal, Canada. April 2010.
242. Rapid language understanding in adults and children. Graduation address, Department of
Linguistics, University of Maryland. May 2010.
243. Understanding and misunderstanding language. Graduation address, Department of
Linguistics, University of Delaware. May 2010.
244. Grammatical illusions: where you see them, where you don't. Invited lecture at LingFest 2,
Oxford University, UK. June 2010.
245. Grammatical illusions: selective fallibility in language comprehension. Linguistics colloquium
talk, Universität Tübingen, Germany. June 2010.
246. Grammatical illusions: where you see them, where you don't. Invited talk at the Garden Path
at 40 workshop. San Sebastian, Spain. July 2010.
247. ERP componentry and (non-)surface interpretations. Invited talk at the Basque Center on
Brain and Language, San Sebastian, Spain, July 2010.
248. Hyper-active gap filling: Verb-independent object gap creation in English filler-gap
dependency processing. (Akira Omaki, Ellen Lau, Imogen Davidson White, Colin Phillips.) Poster
at AMLaP 2010, University of York, UK.
249. Using verb information to escape from kindergarten paths in English and Japanese whquestions. (Akira Omaki, Imogen Davidson White, Takuya Goro, Jeff Lidz, Colin Phillips). Talk at
the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 34), Boston, MA.
November 2010.
250. Grammatical illusions. Linguistics Colloquium talk. Stony Brook University. November 2010.
251. Future challenges for language science. Johns Hopkins University Futures workshop.
Baltimore, MD, December 2010.
2011
252. The psycholinguistics of ellipsis. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh,
PA. January 2011.
253. Grammatical illusions. Cognitive Science colloquium talk. Yale University. February 2011.
254. Linguistic illusions: Where you see them, where you don't. Invited talk (1 of 10 'topical
lectures' at conference), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual
meeting, Washington DC. February 2011.
255. Word frequency affects pronouns and antecedents identically. (Sol Lago, Wing Yee Chow, &
Colin Phillips.) Talk at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,
Stanford, CA. March 2011.
256. Contrasting interference profiles for agreement and anaphora: Experimental and modeling
evience. (Brian Dillon, Alan Mishler, Shayne Sloggett, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 24th Annual
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, CA. March 2011.
257. Immediate structural constraints on antecedent retrieval in pronoun resolution. (Shevaun
Lewis, Wing Yee Chow, Sunyoung Lee-Ellis, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 24th Annual CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, CA. March 2011.
258. Illusory negative polarity item licensing is selective. (Dan Parker & Colin Phillips). Poster at
the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, CA. March 2011.
259. Agreement attraction in Spanish: Immediate vs. delayed sensitivity. (Sol Lago, Pedro
Alcocer, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing, Stanford, CA. March 2011.
260. What is a mental grammar? Invited talk, Chicago Linguistics Society Conference. Chicago,
IL. April 2011.
261. What is a mental grammar? "LAGB Lecture" and associated workshop, Linguistics
Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting, Manchester, UK. September 2011.
262. From active comprehension to effective learning of syntax and semantics. Linguistics
colloquium talk, Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. September 2011.
263. Linguistic Illusions: Where you see them, where you don't. Cognitive Science colloquium
talk, Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. September 2011.
264. Linguistic Illusions: Where you see them, where you don't. University of Maryland
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher lecture series. College Park, MD. October 2011.
265. Effects of early exposure vs. language dominance in speech perception by Korean heritage
speakers. (Sunyoung Lee-Ellis, William Idsardi, & Colin Phillips). Talk at the 21st
Japanese/Korean Linguistics conference. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. October 2011.
266. Linguistic Illusions: Where you see them, where you don't. Keynote lecture: Linguistics
Association of Portugal Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal. October 2011.
267. Don't measure height with a stopwatch: What laboratory linguistics is(n't) good for. Invited
talk at the LING-50 conference, MIT. Cambridge, MA. December 2011.
2012
268. Processing bound variable anaphora: Implications for memory encoding and retrieval. (Dave
Kush, Jeff Lidz, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the Linguistic Society of America meeting, Portland,
Oregon. January 6th, 2012.
269 . Linguistic illusions: Where you see them, where you don't. Senator William McMaster
Lecture, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. February 2012.
270. Electrophysiology and linguistic architecture. Linguistics colloquium talk, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. March 2012.
271. Turning the 'Dumb N400' into the 'Smart N400': What role-reversed sentences tell us about
the time-course of predictions. (Wing Yee Chow, Colin Phillips, Suiping Wang.) Talk at the 25th
Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
March 2012.
272. Online use of relational structural information in processing bound variable pronouns. (Dave
Kush, Jeff Lidz, Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing. CUNY Graduate Center, New York. March 2012.
273. Interference-insensitive local anaphora resolution: Evidence from Hindi reciprocals. (Dave
Kush, Jeff Lidz, Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing. CUNY Graduate Center, New York. March 2012.
274. Retrieval interference in the resolution of anaphoric PRO. (Dan Parker, Sol Lago, & Colin
Phillips.) Poster at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. CUNY
Graduate Center, New York. March 2012.
275. Fast stuff and slow stuff: Is a unified theory desirable? (Colin Phillips, Shevaun Lewis.)
Invited talk: 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. CUNY Graduate
Center, New York. March 2012.
276. Grammatical illusions. Workshop on Reality and Perceptual Illusions, Georgetown
University, Washington DC. March 2012.
277. Selective fallibility: a brief survey. Talk at the Workshop on memory mechanisms for
structural dependency formation. Universität Potsdam, Germany. March 2012.
278. On-line use of relational structural information in processing anaphora: Evidence from
English and Hindi. (Dave Kush, Jeff Lidz, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the GLOW Satellite Workshop
"Timing and Grammar", Universität Potsdam, Germany. March 2012.
279. Retrieval interference in the resolution of anaphoric PRO. (Daniel Parker, Sol Lago, & Colin
Phillips) Talk at the GLOW Satellite Workshop "Timing and Grammar", Universität Potsdam,
Germany. March 2012.
280. Structural constraints on pronoun resolution: Distinguishing early and late sensitivity to illicit
antecedents. (Shevaun Lewis, Wing Yee Chow, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the GLOW Satellite
Workshop "Timing and Grammar", Universität Potsdam, Germany. March 2012.
281. Wait a second: Eliminating the 'semantic illusion' in role-reversed sentences. (Wing Yee
Chow & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. Chicago,
IL. April 2012.
282. Linguistic Illusions. Public lecture at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Manarat al Saadiyat, Abu
Dhabi. April 2012.
283. Workforce preparation: Lessons from interdisciplinary graduate training. Invited talk, National
Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and Human Resources. May 2012.
284. Exploiting relational information in content-addressable memory. Invited talk, University of
Massachusetts workshop on memory mechanisms and sentence processing. Amherst, MA, May
2012.
285. When subjects go missing. Antecedent retrieval in adjunct control. (Dan Parer, Sol Lago, &
Colin Phillips.). University of Massachusetts workshop on memory mechanisms and sentence
processing. Amherst, MA, May 2012.
286. Processing bound variable anaphora: Retrieval's sensitivity to c-command. (Dave Kush, Jeff
Lidz, & Colin Phillips.) University of Massachusetts workshop on memory mechanisms and
sentence processing. Amherst, MA, May 2012.
287. Immediate sensitivity to Principle B: Implications for the implementation of grammatical
constraints. (Shevaun Lewis, Wing Yee Chow, & Colin Phillips.) University of Massachusetts
workshop on memory mechanisms and sentence processing. Amherst, MA, May 2012.
288. What linguistic illusions tell us about language perception. University of Milan. May 2012.
289. Language processing and language acquisition. University of Milan. May 2012.
290. Electrophysiology and language architecture. University of Milan. May 2012.
291. The new science of language. National Security Advisory Board, University of Maryland,
June 2012.
292. Cognitive neuroscience and the architecture of language. Nagoya University, Japan, June
2012.
293. Language processing and language acquisition. Nagoya University, Japan, June 2012.
294. What is a mental grammar? Keynote talk, Japan Society for Language Sciences. Nagoya,
Japan. June 2012.
295. Grammatical development and parser development, Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition (GALANA 6), University of Kansas, October 2012.
296. When having more time doesn't help: Predictions are necessary for "smart" N400s. (Wing
Yee Chow, Colin Phillips, & Suiping Wang). Neurobiology of Language Conference, San
Sebastian, Spain, October 2012.
297. Generating expectations and meanings: electrophysiology and language architecture,
Harvard University Department of Psychology. December 2012.
2013
298. Online sensitivity to strong crossover (and Principle C). (Dave Kush, Colin Phillips, & Jeff
Lidz.) Poster at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Boston, MA, January 2013.
299. Unfolding predictions in semantic interpretation: insights from blindness to thematic role
reversals. (Wing Yee Chow, Colin Phillips, & Suiping Wang.) Poster at the Linguistic Society of
America annual meeting, Boston, MA, January 2013.
300. How to get published. Graduate student panel at the Linguistic Society of America annual
meeting, Boston, MA, January 2013.
301. Generating expectations and meanings in language comprehension and production.
University of Pennsylvania Dept of Linguistics, January 2013.
302. Word expectations in language comprehension and production. Oxford University Faculty of
Linguistics and Phonetics, January 2013.
303. Generating expectations and meanings in language comprehension and production.
Michigan State University Dept of Linguistics, February 2013.
304. Biases in resolving wh-dependencies in a hybrid language. (Dustin Chacón & Colin Phillips).
Talk at the 3rd Formal Approaches to South Asian Linguistics conference. Los Angeles, CA.
March 2013.
305. Argument identity impacts predictions faster than argument roles. (Wing Yee Chow, Cybelle
Smith, Glynis MacMillan, & Colin Phillips). Poster at the 25th annual CUNY Conference on
Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC. March 2013.
306. Predictive computations underlie the N400's sensitivity to thematic role reversals. (Wing Yee
Chow, Suiping Wang, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 25th annual CUNY Conference on Human
Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC. March 2013.
307. Are our eyes really faster than our brains? Aligning eye-tracking and ERP time estimates.
(Wing Yee Chow, Suiping Wang, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 25th annual CUNY Conference
on Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC. March 2013.
308. Illusory NPI licensing: now you see it, now you don't. (Dan Parker, Glynis MacMillan, & Colin
Phillips.) Poster at the 25th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Columbia, SC. March 2013.
309. Retrieval respects crossover. (Dave Kush, Colin Phillips, & Jeffrey Lidz.) Poster at the 25th
annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC. March 2013.
310. Advance planning of verbs in head-final language production. (Shota Momma, Robert Slevc,
& Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 25th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Columbia, SC. March 2013.
311. Biases in resolving wh-dependencies in a hybrid language. (Dustin Chacón & Colin Phillips.)
Poster at the 25th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC.
March 2013.
312. What types of lexical information are reaccessed during pronoun processing? (Sol Lago,
Shayne Sloggett, Wing Yee Chow, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 25th annual CUNY Conference
on Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC. March 2013.
313. Linguistic illusions. Distinguished lecture, Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and
Music. McGill University. Montreal, Canada. April 2013.
314. Unpacking look-ahead mechanisms in language comprehension and production? Invited
talk, University of Connecticut Language Fest #4. Storrs, CT. April 2013.
315. Generating expectations and meanings. Dept of Psychology, University of Washington.
Seattle, WA. May 2013.
316. Linguistic illusions: where you see them, where you don't. Walker-Ames Public Lecture
Series, University of Washington Graduate School. Seattle, WA. May 2013.
317. Grammatical development and parser development. Department of Linguistics, University of
Washington. Seattle, WA. May 2013.
318. Acceptability judgments and experimental syntax: What is all the fuss about? Department of
Linguistics, University of Washington. Seattle, WA. May 2013.
319. Encoding and navigating linguistic representations. Department of Theoretical and Applied
Linguistics, Cambridge University. May 2013.
320. The enduring relevance of Chomsky's key challenges for the study of language. Invited
symposium presentation, Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC, May 2013.
[Debate on The scope and limits of Chomsky's contributions to the study of language. Opponent:
Ted Gibson, MIT.]
321. What is a mental grammar? Department of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University,
Taiwan. May 2013.
322. Linguistic illusions. Department of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.
May 2013.
323. Generating expectations and meanings: Electrophysiology and language architecture.
National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. May 2013
324. Two types of mismatches between experimental acceptability measures and 'expert'
judgments. Invited talk, workshop on understanding acceptability judgments, University of
Potsdam, Germany. September 2013.
325. Encoding and navigating structured representations: Three recent surprises. Invited talk,
North East Linguistics Society (NELS). University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. October 2013.
326. Generating expectations and meanings. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin,
Germany. October 2013.
327. Parsing and learning: could less really be more? Symposium on language processing and
language development. Boston University Conference on Language Development. November
2013.
2014
328. Negative polarity illusions and the format of hierarchical encodings in memory. (Dan Parker
& Colin Phillips). Talk at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
January 2014.
329. Linguistic illusions: four recent surprises. University of Maryland Winter Storm workshop,
College Park, MD. January 2014.
330. Linguistic illusions: recent surprises. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
February 2014.
331. Are our eyes really faster than our brains? (Wing Yee Chow, Nan Li, Suiping Wang, & Colin
Phillips.) 2nd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium, University of Chicago. March 2014.
332. Time heals semantic illusions, but not syntactic illusions. (Dan Parker, Alan Du
[Montgomery-Blair High School], & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the 27th annual CUNY Conference on
Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, OH. March 2014.
333. Structural and non-structural locality effects in Bangla filler-gap dependencies. (Dustin
Chacon, Mashrur Imtiaz, Shirsho Dasgupta, Sikder Monoare Murshed, Mina Dan & Colin
Phillips.) Poster at the 27th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Columbus, OH. March 2014.
334. Partial use of available information in the early stages of verb prediction. (Wing Yee Chow,
Glynis MacMillan, Shefali Shah, Ilia Kurenkov, Ellen Lau and Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 27th
annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, OH. March 2014.
335. Yo pienso, tu piensas, él piensa: Crosslinguistic agreement effects in comprehension. (Sol
Lago, Diego Shalom, Mariano Sigman, Ellen Lau and Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 27th annual
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, OH. March 2014.
336. Pragmatic processing costs reflect linking to context, not enrichment. (Shevaun Lewis and
Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 27th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Columbus, OH. March 2014.
337. Selective priority for structure in memory retrieval. (Dan Parker and Colin Phillips.) Poster at
the 27th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, OH. March
2014.
338. The effect of syntactic category on advance planning in sentence production. (Shota
Momma, Robert Slevc and Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 27th annual CUNY Conference on
Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, OH. March 2014.
339. Two distinct attraction profiles in comprehending Russian gender agreement. (Natalia
Slioussar, Anton Malko and Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 27th annual CUNY Conference on
Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, OH. March 2014.
340. Word order effects on long-distance dependency resolution, within and between languages.
(Dustin Chacón, Mashrur Imtiaz, Shirsho Dasgupta, Sikder Monoare Murshed, Mina Dan & Colin
Phillips.) Talk at the 4th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages conference. Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ. March 2014.
341. Encoding and navigating structured representations: recent surprises. Department of
Linguistics, University College London. April 2014.
342. Timing is everything. Invited talk at the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program
(NACS) Research Day, University of Maryland. April 2014.
343. Encoding and navigating structured representations: recent surprises. Departments of
Linguistics and Psychology, University of Edinburgh. May 2014.
344. Generating expectations and meanings. Lund University, Sweden. May 2014.
345. Encoding and navigating structured representations. Department of Experimental
Psychology, University of Bristol, UK. May 2014.
346. Linguistic Illusions: Where you see them, where you don't. Distinguished Scholars Lecture
Series in Linguistics (Public Lecture), Chinese University of Hong Kong. June 2014.
347. Generating expectations and meanings in comprehension and production. Distinguished
Scholars Lecture Series in Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong. June 2014.
348. Acceptability judgments and experimental syntax: what is the fuss about? Department of
Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong. June 2014.
349. Encoding and navigating structured representations: Recent surprises. Distinguished
Scholars Lecture Series in Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong. June 2014.
350. Language acquisition and language processing: Could less really be more? Distinguished
Scholars Lecture Series in Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong. June 2014.
351. Timing is everything. Talk at the CASL Summer Scholars series, University of Maryland, July
2014.
352. How do we compute predictions for an upcoming verb? (Wing Yee Chow, Cybelle Smith,
Ellen Lau, & Colin Phillips.) Talk at the 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language
Processing Conference (AMLaP 20), Edinburgh, UK. September 2014.
353. Does pronoun processing vary across languages. (Sol Lago, Shayne Sloggett, Zoe
Schlueter, Wing Yee Chow, & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 20th Architectures and Mechanisms
for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP 20), Edinburgh, UK. September 2014.
354. Language Science at the University of Maryland. Talk for the Maryland Department of
Legislative Services, September 2014.
355. Expanding our reach and theirs with language science outreach. (Jeffrey Lidz, Rachel
Dudley, Katie Leech, Yakov Kronrod, Meredith Rowe, and Colin Phillips.) Poster at the 39th
Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. November, 2014.
356. Gradient symbolic computation. Two commentary talks at the Workshop on Gradient
Symbolic Computation. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. November, 2014.
357. Looking ahead to verbs in comprehension and production. (Shota Momma & Colin Phillips.)
Poster at the Workshop on Gradient Symbolic Computation. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
MD. November, 2014.
358. Cognitive mechanisms for encoding and navigating structured linguistic representations. Tel
Aviv University Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Tel Aviv, Israel, December 2014.
2015
359. Language: Science for Everyone: Symposium at the Linguistic Society of America Annual
Meeting, Portland, OR. January, 2015. Emcee and co-organizer (with Barbara Pearson, Laura
Wagner, Cecile McKee, and Jeff Lidz.)
360. Langscape: Mapping global linguistic diversity. (Tess Wood & Colin Phillips.) Poster at the
Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. January 2015.
361. Grammar and language processing: Conquering by not dividing. Invited talk at the Division
of Labour workshop, Tübingen, Germany. January, 2015.
362. Linguistic illusions: some recent surprises. Program in Linguistics, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ. February, 2015.
363. Phillips, C. (2015). Language science and language learning. Talk at the Second Language
Acquisition program, University of Maryland. February, 2015.
364. Momma, S., Sakai, H., & Phillips, C. (2015). Give me several hundred more milliseconds:
temporal dynamics of verb prediction in Japanese. Talk at the 28th annual CUNY Conference on
Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, CA. March, 2015.
365. Momma, S, Slevc, R., & Phillips, C. (2015). The timing of verb planning in active and passive
sentence production. Poster at the 28th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing. Los Angeles, CA. March, 2015.
366. Chow, W. Y., Kurenkov, I., Buffinton, J., Kraut, R., & Phillips, C. (2015). How predictions
change over time: evidence from an online cloze paradigm. Poster at the 28th annual CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, CA. March, 2015.
367. Chacón, D. A., & Phillips, C. (2015). Resumptive pronouns complete filler-gap
dependencies, but inadvertently. Poster at the 28th annual CUNY Conference on Human
Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, CA. March, 2015.
368. Phillips, C. (2015). Syntactic illusions: lessons for encoding and navigating structure. Talk at
the 3rd ANPOLL International Psycholinguistics Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. March, 2015.
369. Phillips, C. (2015). Domain general and domain specific mechanisms in real-time
grammatical computation. School of Advanced Studies, part of the 3rd ANPOLL International
Psycholinguistics Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. March, 2015.
370. Phillips, C. (2015). Relating parsing and grammar: 20 years on. Pontifical Catholic University
of Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. March, 2015.