Monica L. Do

Manuscripts

Do, M. L., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J. (2022). Encoding Motion Events During Language Production: Effects of Audience Design and Conceptual Salience. Cognitive Science, e13077. ​

Do, M. L., & Kaiser, E. (2021). Sentence Formulation is Easier when Thematic and Syntactic Prominence Align: Evidence from Psych Verbs. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience.

Do, M. L, Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J. (2020). Cognitive and Pragmatic Factors in Language Production: Evidence from Source-Goal Motion Events. Cognition, 104447.

Do, M. L., & Kaiser, E. (2019). Subjecthood and linear order in linguistic encoding: Evidence from the real-time production of wh-questions in English and Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Memory and Language, 105, 60-75.

Do, M. L., & Kaiser, E. (2017). The relationship between syntactic satiation and syntactic priming: A first look. Frontiers in Psychology: Approaches to Language: Data, Theory, and Explanation 8:1851. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01851

Proceedings

Do, M. L., Kirby, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2022b). Regularization of Word Order in the Verb Phrase differs from the Noun Phrase: Evidence from an online silent gesture perception paradigm. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1211-1217). Toronto, ON: Cognitive Science Society.

Do, M. L., Kirby, S., Goldin-Meadow, S., Flaherty, M., Abner, N., & Senghas, A. (2022a). Amplifying the bias to order Nouns before Adjectives in language: Evidence from emerging sign language and silent gesture studies. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution. Kanazawa, Japan. September, 2022.

Do, M. L., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J. (2019). The Goal Bias in Memory and Language: Explaining the Asymmetry. In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 268-274). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society.

Do, M. L., Kaiser, E., & Zhao, P. (2018). What can wh-questions tell us about real-time language production? Evidence from English and Mandarin. Proceedings of The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), 3, 46: 1-12.

Do, M. L., & Kaiser, E. (2017). A Closer Look: Investigating the Mechanisms of Syntactic Satiation. In Kaplan, Aaron, Kaplan, Abby, McCarvel, Miranda. K., and Rubin, Edward J. (eds.), Proceedings of The 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), pp. 187-194. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Do, M. L., Kaiser, E. & Zubizarreta, M. L. (2016) Spanish Speaker’s Acquisition of English Subject-Verb Inversion: Evidence from Satiation. In Stringer, David, Garrett, Jordan Garrett, Halloran, Becky and Mossman, Sabrina (eds.), Proceedings of The 13th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA), pp. 45-59. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Kaiser, E., & Do, M. L. (2012) Semantic Effects on Pronouns and Reflexives in Picture-NPs: Similarities and Differences, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 18: Iss. 1, Article 14.

Kaiser, E. & Do, M. L. (2011). Taking a look beneath the surface: Effects of processing depth on pronoun interpretation. In Hendrickx, Iris, Branco, Antonio, Devi, Sobha Lalitha and Mitkov, Ruslan (eds.), Proceedings of The 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, pp.66-79. Edicoes Colibri: Lisbon, Portugal.

Conference Presentations

Talks

Do, M. L., Kirby, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2022). Regularization of Word Order in the Verb Phrase differs from the Noun Phrase: Evidence from an online silent gesture perception paradigm. Talk presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada. July 2022.

Do, M. L., Kirby, S., Goldin-Meadow, S., Flaherty, M., Abner, N., & Senghas, A. (2022a). Amplifying the bias to order Nouns before Adjectives in language: Evidence from emerging sign language and silent gesture studies. Talk presented at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution, Kanazawa, Japan. September, 2022.

Do, M. L., Kirby, S., Goldin-Meadow, S., Flaherty, M., Abner, N., & Senghas, A. (2022b). Amplifying the bias to order Nouns before Adjectives in language: Evidence from emerging sign language and silent gesture studies. Talk presented at the Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Language Emergence Workshop, Virtual, May 2022.

Do, M. L., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J. (2019). The goal bias in language and memory: Explaining the Asymmetry. Talk to be presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada. July 2019.

Do, M. L., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J. (2019). Discourse Effects on the Source-Goal Asymmetry. Talk presented at the 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO. March 2019.

Do, M. L. & Kaiser, E. (2019). The syntax-to-semantics mapping in real-time language production: A view from psych verbs. Talk presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, NY. January 2019.

Do, M. L., Kaiser, E., & Zhao, P. (2017). Message Formulation is multi-factorial and competitive: Evidence from real-time production of wh-questions in two languages. Talk presented at the California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, Los Angeles, CA. December 2017.

Do, M. L., Kaiser, E. & Zubizarreta, M. L. (2015) Spanish Speaker’s Acquisition of English Subject-Verb Inversion: Evidence from Satiation. Talk presented at the 13th Annual Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, Bloomington, Indiana. March 2015.

Posters

Kesan, J. and Do, M. L. (2023). Conceptual and pragmatic factors influencing the representations of core event components. Poster to be presented at the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, San Sebastian, Spain. August 2023.

Do, M. L., Kirby, S., and Goldin-Meadow, S. (2023). Input frequency affects regularization of word order in the Verb Phrase vs Noun Phrase differently: Evidence from comprehension and production of silent gesture. Poster to be presented at the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, San Sebastian, Spain. August 2023.

Do, M. L. (2021). Attribute Salience & Adjective Order Preferences. Poster presented at the 34th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Philadelphia, PA. March 2021.

Do, M. L., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J. (2020). Pragmatics and event structure: A closer look at their interaction in language production. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Amherst, MA. March 2020.

Do, M. L., & Kaiser, E. (2018). Effects of Syntactic and Semantic Structure on Production Planning. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Berlin, Germany. September 2018.

Do, M. L., & Kaiser, E. (2018). The Role of Syntax and Semantics on Production Planning. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. July 2018.

Do, M. L., & Kaiser, E. (2018). Now You See it, Now You Don’t: Visual Cues Modulate Short vs Long Passive Production. Poster presented at the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Davis, California. March 2018.

Do, M. L., Kaiser, E., & Zhao, P. (2018). Subjecthood is Privileged in Message Formulation: Real-time Production of wh-Questions in English and Mandarin. Poster presented at the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Davis, California. March 2018.

Do, M. L., Kaiser, E., & Zhao, P. (2018). What can wh-questions tell us about real-time language production? Evidence from English and Mandarin. Poster presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah. January 2018.

Do, M. L. & Kaiser, E. (2017). How are questions made? A Production Study of Object wh-Questions. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Lancaster, United Kingdom. September 2017.

Do, M. L. & Kaiser, E. (2016). A Closer Look: Investigating the mechanisms of syntactic satiation. Poster presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 34, Salt Lake City, Utah. April 2016.

Do, M. L. & Kaiser, E. (2016). How Much Structure is Required for Structural Priming? Investigating Priming in Underspecified Structures. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Bilbao, Spain. September 2016.

Do, M. L., Kaiser, E. & Zubizarreta, M. L. (2015) Getting better over time: Syntactic satiation effects as a window into syntactic representations in a second language. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Valletta, Malta. September 2015.

Do, M. L., & Kaiser, E. (2015). Incorporating syntactic information in a second language: Evidence from lingering garden paths. Poster presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, California. March 2015.

Kaiser, E. & Do, M. L.. (2011). Semantic effects on reference resolution in picture-NPs. Poster presented at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, California. March 2011.

Kaiser, E. & Do, M. L.. (2011). Not always so different: Non-structural effects on the interpretation of pronouns and reflexives. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Paris, France. September 2011.

Kaiser, E. & Do, M. L.. (2011) Effects of processing depth on pronoun interpretation: Use of inferencing and gender cues. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Paris, France.  September 2011.

Kaiser, E. & Do, M. L.. (2011). Semantic effects on pronouns and reflexives in picture-NPs: Similarities and differences. Talk presented at the 35th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 2011.

Do, M. L. (2011). Deep or Shallow: Effects of Processing Depth on Pronoun Interpretation. Poster presented at Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, Los Angeles, California. April 2011.

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