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| 2002- | Associate Professor | Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland |
| 2000- | Co-director | Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, University of Maryland |
| 2000-2002 | Assistant Professor | Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland |
| 1997-2000 | Assistant Professor | Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program, University of Delaware |
| 1996-1997 | Postdoctoral Associate | Mind Articulation Project, Dept of Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT |
| 1991-1996 | PhD | Department of Linguistics & Philosphy, MIT, PhD. Thesis title: Order and Structure; Supervisor: A. Marantz; Committee: N. Chomsky, D. Pesetsky, E. Gibson |
| 1990-1991 | Graduate Fellow | Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester (exchange student) |
| 1986-1990 | BA (Hons., Class I) | Worcester College, Oxford University. Area: Modern Languages, specialization in Medieval German |
| 2000-2005 | National Science Foundation CAREER Award |
| 1990-1991 | University of Rochester Graduate Fellowship |
| 1989-1990 | Oxford University: Worcester Collge Society Prize for Arts & Humanities |
| 1989-1990 | Oxford University: Worcester College Exhibition award |
| 1997 | $1,500 | Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, University of Delaware. For development of resources for use of instructional technology in undergraduate linguistics courses. |
| 1998 | $6,000 | General University Research Award, University of Delaware. Dynamic Sentence Structure: A Crosslinguistic Perspective. |
| 1998 | $2,000 | College of Arts & Sciences Research Award, University of Delaware. Research on biomagnetism and speech perception. |
| 1998 | $29,850 | University of Delaware Research Foundation Award. Biomagnetic Studies of Speech Processing. |
| 1999 | $5,000 | Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award. Role of Auditory Cortex in Phonological Processing. |
| 1999-2001 | $104,475 | NSF Major Research Instrumentation Award. (Co-PI, together with James Hoffman, Barbara Landau, John Whalen, all UDel. Psychology department.) High Density EEG Recording for Research in Cognitive Science. |
| 1999-2003 | $135,434 | McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Neuroscience Program Award. The Neural Computation of Phonological Categories. |
| 2000-2005 | $267,858 | NSF CAREER Award: CAREER: Integration of Linguistic Knowledge and Language Processing. |
| 2001-2005 | $750,000 | Human Frontiers Science Program Young Investigator Award (with David Poeppel, UMd. & Kuniyoshi Sakai, U. Tokyo). Brain Mechanisms of Syntactic Processing. |
| 2003 | $9,000 | Semester Research Award, General Research Board, University of Maryland , Brain Mechanisms of Sentence Processing |
| 2004 | $18,175 | The Relation between Parsing and Production, NSF support for special session at the 2004 CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD, March 2004. |
| 2006-2007 | $11,506 | Doctoral Dissertation Research: Language Specific Constraints on Scope Interpretation in First Language Acquisition. (CP, PI: co-PIs Takuya Goro, Jeff Lidz). NSF support for Goro's PhD research. |
Manuscripts in Preparation
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.