Papers
Atkinson, E., Wagers, M., Lidz, J., Phillips, C., & Omaki A. (2018). Developing incrementality in filler-gap dependency processing. Cognition, 179, 132-149. [journal: link][materials]
Atkinson, E., Apple, A., Rawlins, K., & Omaki, A. (2016). Similarity of wh-phrases and acceptability variation in wh-islands. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences 6:2048 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02048. [open access: link]
Atkinson, E. (2015). Gender features on n and the root: An account of gender in French. In J. Smith & T. Ihsane (Eds.), Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012. John Benjamins. [pre-publication version: pdf]
Barr, R., Shuck, L., Salerno, K., Atkinson, E., & Linebarger, D. (2010). Music interferes with learning from television during infancy. Infant and Child Development, 19, 313-331.
Atkinson, E., Apple, A., Rawlins, K., & Omaki, A. (2016). Similarity of wh-phrases and acceptability variation in wh-islands. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences 6:2048 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02048. [open access: link]
Atkinson, E. (2015). Gender features on n and the root: An account of gender in French. In J. Smith & T. Ihsane (Eds.), Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012. John Benjamins. [pre-publication version: pdf]
Barr, R., Shuck, L., Salerno, K., Atkinson, E., & Linebarger, D. (2010). Music interferes with learning from television during infancy. Infant and Child Development, 19, 313-331.
Book Chapters
Atkinson, E. (2022). Sticking to what we know: Methodological limitations to generalizability. In K. Messenger (Ed.), Syntactic priming in language development: Representations, mechanisms and applications (Trends in Language Acquisition, Vol 31). John Benjamins. [pre-print]
Presentations & Posters
Atkinson, E. & Mermelstein, I. (November 4, 2022). Can 5-year-olds overcome verb biases in ambiguity resolution? A priming study. Poster presented at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston University; Boston, MA. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. & Mermelstein, I. (September 7, 2022). Can children's verb biases be overcome? A priming study. Poster presented at the 28th AMLaP conference. York, UK. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. & Boland, J. (March 6, 2021). Regional constructions still need learned after adaptation. Poster presented at the 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA.
McInnerney, A. & Atkinson, E. (March 21, 2020). Syntactically unintegrated parentheticals: Evidence from agreement attraction. To be presented at the 33rd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Massachusetts Amherst: Amherst, MA.
Atkinson, E. & Clothier, K. (January 3, 2020). Making wh-questions unbounded: Artificial language learning of a novel grammatical marker. Poster at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New Orleans, LA. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. & Clothier, K. (June 20, 2019). The learnability of a novel cue to prediction: An artificial language learning study of filler-gap dependencies. Paper presented at Psycholinguistics in Iceland - Parsing & Prediction (PIPP). University of Iceland: Reykjavik, Iceland. [slides]
Atkinson, E., Bloss, N., Johnson, S., & Jones, C. (March 31, 2019). Priming children’s interpretation of globally ambiguous sentences. Poster at the 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado: Boulder, CO. [pdf][osf]
Atkinson, E. & Johnson, S. (March 23, 2019). Interpretative priming of globally ambiguous sentences. Poster at the biennial meeting of SRCD. Baltimore, MD. [pdf]
Atkinson, E., Rigby, I., Shapiro, N., Woo, B., & Omaki, A. (March 15, 2018). Syntactic adaptation effects do not transfer across tasks. Paper presented at the 31st CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of California, Davis; Davis, CA. [slides][video][osf]
Atkinson, E., Clothier, K., & Vargas, C. (September 8, 2017). Artificial language learning of an optional grammatical marker. Poster presented at the 23rd AMLaP conference. Lancaster University; Lancaster, UK. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. & Omaki, A. (November 5, 2016). Prepositional object gap production primes active gap filling in 5-year-olds. Paper presented at the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston University; Boston, MA. [slides]
Atkinson, E. & Omaki, A. (March 3, 2016). Adaptation of gap predictions in filler-gap dependency processing. Poster presented at the 29th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Florida; Gainesville, FL. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. & Omaki, A. (January 9, 2016). Immature filler-gap dependency processing in 5- to 7-year-olds. Paper presented at 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington, DC. [slides]
Atkinson, E., Reisinger, D., & Omaki, A. (November 14, 2014). Do small clause predicates ameliorate island violations? Poster presented at Gradient Symbolic Computation Workshop. Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore, MD.
Atkinson, E., Omaki, A., & Wilson, C. (September 6, 2014). Gamma function modelling of visual world eye-tracking data. Poster presented at the 20th AMLaP conference. Edinburgh, UK. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. & Omaki, A. (September 6, 2014). Grammatical faithfulness in processing of multiple dependencies? Poster presented at the 20th AMLaP conference. Edinburgh, UK. [pdf]
Atkinson, E., Apple, A., Rawlins, K., Omaki, A. (March 23, 2013). Wh-island amerlioration at the interfaces: Syntax, processing, and semantic distinctness. Paper presented at NELS 44. University of Connecticut; Storrs, CT. [slides]
Atkinson, E., Simeon, K., & Omaki, A. (March 23, 2013). The time course of filler-gap dependency processing in the developing parser. Poster presented at the 26th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. (April 21, 2012). Gender features on n and the root: An account of gender in French. Talk given at the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL). Southern Utah University; Cedar City, UT. [slides]
Brito, N., Barr, R., McIntyre, P., Atkinson, E., Dougherty, D., & Simcock, G. (March 31, 2011). Long-term retention and reactivation of forgotten memories from books during toddlerhood. Paper presented as part of “Learning from picture books: from infancy to early school days” symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Atkinson, E., Salerno, K., Barr, R., & Linebarger, D. (March 6, 2009). Examining how music interferes with imitation: Contrasting cognitive load with selective attention. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA). Pittsburgh, PA. [pdf]
Barr, R., Shuck, L., Salerno, K., Atkinson, E., Linebarger, D., & Miller, N. (March 27, 2008). Background music interferes with televised and live demonstrations during infancy. Poster presented at the 16th Biennial ICIS. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Atkinson, E. & Mermelstein, I. (September 7, 2022). Can children's verb biases be overcome? A priming study. Poster presented at the 28th AMLaP conference. York, UK. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. & Boland, J. (March 6, 2021). Regional constructions still need learned after adaptation. Poster presented at the 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA.
McInnerney, A. & Atkinson, E. (March 21, 2020). Syntactically unintegrated parentheticals: Evidence from agreement attraction. To be presented at the 33rd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Massachusetts Amherst: Amherst, MA.
Atkinson, E. & Clothier, K. (January 3, 2020). Making wh-questions unbounded: Artificial language learning of a novel grammatical marker. Poster at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New Orleans, LA. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. & Clothier, K. (June 20, 2019). The learnability of a novel cue to prediction: An artificial language learning study of filler-gap dependencies. Paper presented at Psycholinguistics in Iceland - Parsing & Prediction (PIPP). University of Iceland: Reykjavik, Iceland. [slides]
Atkinson, E., Bloss, N., Johnson, S., & Jones, C. (March 31, 2019). Priming children’s interpretation of globally ambiguous sentences. Poster at the 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado: Boulder, CO. [pdf][osf]
Atkinson, E. & Johnson, S. (March 23, 2019). Interpretative priming of globally ambiguous sentences. Poster at the biennial meeting of SRCD. Baltimore, MD. [pdf]
Atkinson, E., Rigby, I., Shapiro, N., Woo, B., & Omaki, A. (March 15, 2018). Syntactic adaptation effects do not transfer across tasks. Paper presented at the 31st CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of California, Davis; Davis, CA. [slides][video][osf]
Atkinson, E., Clothier, K., & Vargas, C. (September 8, 2017). Artificial language learning of an optional grammatical marker. Poster presented at the 23rd AMLaP conference. Lancaster University; Lancaster, UK. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. & Omaki, A. (November 5, 2016). Prepositional object gap production primes active gap filling in 5-year-olds. Paper presented at the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston University; Boston, MA. [slides]
Atkinson, E. & Omaki, A. (March 3, 2016). Adaptation of gap predictions in filler-gap dependency processing. Poster presented at the 29th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Florida; Gainesville, FL. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. & Omaki, A. (January 9, 2016). Immature filler-gap dependency processing in 5- to 7-year-olds. Paper presented at 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington, DC. [slides]
Atkinson, E., Reisinger, D., & Omaki, A. (November 14, 2014). Do small clause predicates ameliorate island violations? Poster presented at Gradient Symbolic Computation Workshop. Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore, MD.
Atkinson, E., Omaki, A., & Wilson, C. (September 6, 2014). Gamma function modelling of visual world eye-tracking data. Poster presented at the 20th AMLaP conference. Edinburgh, UK. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. & Omaki, A. (September 6, 2014). Grammatical faithfulness in processing of multiple dependencies? Poster presented at the 20th AMLaP conference. Edinburgh, UK. [pdf]
Atkinson, E., Apple, A., Rawlins, K., Omaki, A. (March 23, 2013). Wh-island amerlioration at the interfaces: Syntax, processing, and semantic distinctness. Paper presented at NELS 44. University of Connecticut; Storrs, CT. [slides]
Atkinson, E., Simeon, K., & Omaki, A. (March 23, 2013). The time course of filler-gap dependency processing in the developing parser. Poster presented at the 26th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC. [pdf]
Atkinson, E. (April 21, 2012). Gender features on n and the root: An account of gender in French. Talk given at the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL). Southern Utah University; Cedar City, UT. [slides]
Brito, N., Barr, R., McIntyre, P., Atkinson, E., Dougherty, D., & Simcock, G. (March 31, 2011). Long-term retention and reactivation of forgotten memories from books during toddlerhood. Paper presented as part of “Learning from picture books: from infancy to early school days” symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Atkinson, E., Salerno, K., Barr, R., & Linebarger, D. (March 6, 2009). Examining how music interferes with imitation: Contrasting cognitive load with selective attention. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA). Pittsburgh, PA. [pdf]
Barr, R., Shuck, L., Salerno, K., Atkinson, E., Linebarger, D., & Miller, N. (March 27, 2008). Background music interferes with televised and live demonstrations during infancy. Poster presented at the 16th Biennial ICIS. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
