Chip Gerfen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chip Gerfen plays a role.
2017 Experience with code-switching modulates the use of grammatical gender during sentence processing Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:2, pp. 163–198 | Article
Using code-switching as a tool to illustrate how language experience modulates comprehension, the visual world paradigm was employed to examine the extent to which gender-marked Spanish determiners facilitate upcoming target nouns in a group of Spanish-English bilingual code-switchers. The first… read more
2015 Tracking multiple inputs: The challenge of bilingual statistical learning Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages, Rebuschat, Patrick (ed.), pp. 167–190 | Article
For many learners, language acquisition may entail acquiring more than a single language. Yet to date, much of the research on the fundamental mechanisms of language acquisition has been predicated, at least implicitly, on modeling monolingual acquisition. In this chapter, we explore statistical… read more
2011 Spanish diphthongizing stems: Productivity, processing, and the shaping of the lexicon The Mental Lexicon 6:3, pp. 351–373 | Article
We examine a classic problem in Spanish morphophonology as a way of shedding new light on the relationship between grammar and processing. Spanish derivations with diphthongizing stems may contain either the diphthong or the monophthong stem allomorph, but the likelihood of the (phonotactically… read more
2010 How Spanish phonotactics informs psycholinuistic models of speech production Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance, Arregi, Karlos, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay (eds.), pp. 249–264 | Article
This study emphasizes the importance of close examination of language-specific phonotactic patterns when testing models of language processing. The results of a delayed naming task testing native speakers’ reactions to nonwords containing licit vs. proscribed patterns of stress and syllable… read more
2009 Proscriptions…Gaps…and Something in Between: An Experimental Examination of Spanish Phonotactics Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007, Masullo, Pascual José, Erin O'Rourke and Chia-Hui Huang (eds.), pp. 261–275 | Article
This study tests, via the collection of online, behavioral data, native speaker reactions to two types of words that are absent from the Spanish lexicon. The experiment compares proscriptions, phonotactic sequences that are phonologically prohibited, historical gaps, forms that are synchronically… read more
2006 Mapping the Patterns of Maintenance versus Merger in Bilingual Phonology: The Preservation of [a] vs. [ɑ] in Frenchville French New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology, Montreuil, Jean-Pierre Y. (ed.), pp. 15–29 | Article
This acoustic investigation focuses on the preservation of the two low French vowels /a/ vs. /ɑ/ within a vowel system that otherwise manifests striking convergent properties with English. Our acoustic data demonstrate that this inherited contrast is preserved, with a distribution largely… read more
2006 Phonological Variability in the Laboratory: Word-naming in Bidialectal Spanish Speakers New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology, Montreuil, Jean-Pierre Y. (ed.), pp. 83–96 | Article
This study employs a controlled experimental word-naming paradigm to probe variable bidialectal speech production. We focus on bidialectal Andalusian/Standard Peninsular Spanish speakers and focus on the variable production of three distinctive Andalusian processes not found in the standard… read more