I joined the psychology department in September 2006. My research interest is in psycholinguistics, particularly sentence production and the relationship between attention and word recognition. For more information on my research, please go to the Psycholinguistics Research Group pages.
I am in room S04 on the second floor of the William Guild Building. Contact details are available here.
Publications
Publications are under my full name, Alexandra A. Cleland. Contact me if you would like pdfs or offprints of these.
Gaskell, M.G., Quinlan, P.T., Tamminen, J.T., & Cleland, A.A. (2008). The nature of phoneme representation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 282-302.
Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., McLean, J.F., & Cleland, A.A. (2007). Syntactic alignment and participant role in dialogue. Cognition, 104, 163-197.
Cleland, A.A., & Pickering, M.J. (2006). Do writing and speaking employ the same syntactic representations? Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 185-198.
Cleland, A.A., Gaskell, M.G., Quinlan, P.T., & Tamminen, J. (2006). Frequency effects in spoken and visual word recognition: Evidence from dual-task methodologies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 104-119.
Cleland, A.A., & Pickering, M.J. (2003). The use of lexical and syntactic information in language production: Evidence from the priming of noun-phrase structure. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 214-230.
Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & Cleland, A.A. (2000). Syntactic coordination in dialogue. Cognition, 75, B13-B25.
Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., Cleland, A.A., & Stewart, A.J. (2000). Activation of syntactic information during language production. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 205-216.
Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & Cleland, A.A. (1999). Syntactic priming in written production: Evidence for rapid decay. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6, 635-640.
Teaching & Admin
Level 2 Language & Cognition (lectures 7-12)
This course provides an introduction to the psychology of language, with an emphasis on speech perception. The lectures will examine the different processes involved when we understand spoken language: how we identify the individual sounds that we hear, how we recognise the words these sounds create, and how we then access word meaning. The course will also consider whether the nature of the language we speak can shape the way we think.
See the Level 2 handbook for further details. All slides will be available on WebCT.
Level 3 Memory & Language (lectures 7-12)
These lectures will begin with an introduction to the key issues in psycholinguistics (for example, the extent to which language is a modular system), and will place these debates within their historical context, focusing on the influence of figures such as Chomsky and Fodor. The lectures will go on to examine how people piece together the meaning of a sentence from its syntactic structure, and how we deal with ambiguity in language. The course will also cover the higher levels of language processing; in other words, how do we combine sentences into a wider representation of a text or conversation? In addition, the cognitive processes underlying language production will be discussed. Finally, the course will focus on factors that influence how people behave in conversation.
See the Level 3 handbook for further details. All slides are available on WebCT.
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