Shanley E.M. Allen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Shanley E.M. Allen plays a role.

Book series

Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children

Edited by Leigh B. Fernandez, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen

[Benjamins Current Topics, 117] 2021. vi, 272 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children

Edited by Maialen Iraola Azpiroz, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 (2019) vi, 263 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

The Acquisition of Reference

Edited by Ludovica Serratrice and Shanley E.M. Allen

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 15] 2015. vi, 339 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Language acquisition | Languages of North America | Syntax
Katsika, Kalliopi, Maria Lialiou and Shanley E.M. Allen 2024 Bilingual children’s online processing of relative clauses: Evidence from heritage GreekProcessing in Bilingual Children, Dijk, Chantal van, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth (eds.), pp. 446–475 | Article
Long-distance dependencies such as relative clauses (RCs) are known to be vulnerable in heritage grammars (e.g., Montrul, 2008). Previous studies in RC comprehension have shown that heritage language (HL) children show similar comprehension to monolingual children (Jia & Paradis, 2020), while… read more
Fernandez, Leigh B., Agnesa Xheladini and Shanley E.M. Allen 2023 Proficient L2 readers do not have a risky reading strategyLinguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:6, pp. 854–872 | Article
Proficient first-language (L1) readers of alphabetic languages that are read left-to-right typically have a perceptual span of 3–4 characters to the left and 14–15 characters to the right of the foveal fixation. Given that second-language (L2) processing requires more cognitive resources, we… read more
Kholodova, Alina and Shanley E.M. Allen 2023 The dative alternation in German: Structural preferences and verb bias effectsDitransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects, Zehentner, Eva, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman (eds.), pp. 264–298 | Chapter
Many ditransitive events can be expressed in German using either the indirect object construction (IOC) or the prepositional object construction (POC). While most previous research on ditransitives in German has focused on the IOC, very little attention has been paid to the much rarer POC or to… read more
Labrenz, Annika, Heike Wiese, Tatiana Pashkova and Shanley E.M. Allen 2022 The three-dot sign in language contactDiscourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives, Beeching, Kate, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen and Anna Piasecki (eds.), pp. 246–271 | Article
In this study, we investigate the three-dot sign as a discourse marker (DM) with textual, subjective and intersubjective discourse functions. As a graphical marker that is used across languages, the three-dot sign is especially suitable for comparative studies and dynamics in language contact.… read more
Azpiroz, Maialen Iraola, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez 2021 Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and childrenPsycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children, Fernandez, Leigh B., Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter
Jacob, Gunnar, Moritz J. Schaeffer, Katharina Oster, Silvia Hansen-Schirra and Shanley E.M. Allen 2021 Towards a methodological toolset for the psycholinguistics of translation: The case of priming paradigmsDevelopments in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies, Xiao, Kairong and Sandra L. Halverson (eds.), pp. 440–461 | Article
The manuscript provides readers with a basic methodological toolset for experimental psycholinguistic studies on translation. Following a description of key methodological concepts and the rationale behind experimental designs in psycholinguistics, we discuss experimental paradigms adopted from… read more
Azpiroz, Maialen Iraola, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez 2019 Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and childrenPsycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children, Azpiroz, Maialen Iraola, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez (eds.), pp. 505–513 | Introduction
Allen, Shanley E.M., Mary Hughes and Barbora Skarabela 2015 The role of cognitive accessibility in children’s referential choiceThe Acquisition of Reference, Serratrice, Ludovica and Shanley E.M. Allen (eds.), pp. 123–153 | Article
This chapter reviews the literature on preschool children’s sensitivity to cognitive accessibility in selecting linguistic forms to realize referents in speech. Both spontaneous speech and experimental production studies are reviewed, encompassing thirteen languages for monolingual children and… read more
Serratrice, Ludovica and Shanley E.M. Allen 2015 Introduction: An overview of the acquisition of referenceThe Acquisition of Reference, Serratrice, Ludovica and Shanley E.M. Allen (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Introduction
This chapter serves as an introduction to The Acquisition of Reference. The volume brings together influential recent research on the study of children’s comprehension and production of reference, with a focus on discourse-pragmatic approaches and cross-linguistic comparison. In this chapter, we… read more
Allen, Shanley E.M. 2013 The acquisition of ergativity in InuktitutThe Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. and Sabine Stoll (eds.), pp. 71–106 | Article
One potential challenge for children learning Inuktitut comes from the ergative case marking system, because of the contrast between the ergative system in morphology and the accusative system governing syntax. However, no studies have yet been published focusing on how Inuktitut-speaking children… read more
Allen, Shanley E.M., Fred Genesee, Sarah Fish and Martha Crago 2009 Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut–English bilingual adultsVariations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages, Mahieu, Marc-Antoine and Nicole Tersis (eds.), pp. 273–306 | Chapter
Patterns of code mixing vary according to relative typology of the languages and sociolinguistics of the contact situation (e.g., Muysken 2000). We extend understanding of the factors involved by analyzing for the first time mixing between an isolating Germanic language (English) and a… read more
Allen, Shanley E.M., Barbora Skarabela and Mary Hughes 2008 Using corpora to examine discourse effects in syntaxCorpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives, Behrens, Heike (ed.), pp. 99–137 | Article
Özyürek, Aslı, Sotaro Kita, Shanley E.M. Allen, Reyhan Furman and Amanda Brown 2007 How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures? Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similaritiesGestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 199–218 | Article
What are the relations between linguistic encoding and gestural representations of events during online speaking? The few studies that have been conducted on this topic have yielded somewhat incompatible results with regard to whether and how gestural representations of events change with… read more
Özyürek, Aslı, Sotaro Kita, Shanley E.M. Allen, Reyhan Furman and Amanda Brown 2005 How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures? Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similaritiesGestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 219–240 | Article
What are the relations between linguistic encoding and gestural representations of events during online speaking? The few studies that have been conducted on this topic have yielded somewhat incompatible results with regard to whether and how gestural representations of events change with… read more
Allen, Shanley E.M. and Heike Schröder 2003 Preferred Argument Structure in early Inuktitut spontaneous speech dataPreferred Argument Structure: Grammar as architecture for function, Du Bois, John W., Lorraine E. Kumpf and William J. Ashby (eds.), pp. 301–338 | Article