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584
National Ranking
278

Overview

Charles Clifton is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of psychology and the arts and humanities, with a specific emphasis on language and linguistics alongside experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their scholarly contributions cover a range of topics within the broader domains of language, cognition, and communication. Key research topics include:

  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Charles Clifton has published papers in several academic venues, demonstrating engagement with interdisciplinary research communities. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Discourse Processes
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Language and Speech

Selected recent papers by Charles Clifton include:

  • "Negative clauses imply affirmative topics and affirmative antecedents," 2021, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
  • "The prosodic accent advantage in phoneme detection: Importance of local context," 2021, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "Domain Restriction in Generic Statements," 2020, Discourse Processes

In addition to their own research, Clifton frequently collaborates with other scholars. Common co-authors over recent works include:

  • Lyn Frazier
  • Amanda Rysling
  • Jason Bishop
  • Anthony Yacovone
  • Barbara Kaup

Best Publications

  • Psychology of reading

    Keith Rayner;Alexander Pollatsek;Jane Ashby;Charles Clifton

  • The independence of syntactic processing

    Fernanda Ferreira;Charles Clifton

  • Eye movements and on-line language comprehension processes

    Keith Rayner;Sara C. Sereno;Robin K. Morris;A. Réne Schmauder

  • Eye movements in reading words and sentences

    Charles Clifton;Adrian Staub;Keith Rayner

  • Prosodic phrasing is central to language comprehension

    Lyn Frazier;Katy Carlson;Charles Clifton

  • Comprehending Sentences with Long-Distance Dependencies

    Charles Clifton;Lyn Frazier

  • Eye movements of highly skilled and average readers: differential effects of frequency and predictability.

    Jane Ashby;Keith Rayner;Charles Clifton

  • Syntactic prediction in language comprehension: evidence from either...or.

    Adrian Staub;Charles Clifton Jr.

  • Successive cyclicity in the grammar and the parser

    Lyn Frazier;Charles Clifton

  • Adjunct attachment is not a form of lexical ambiguity resolution

    Matthew J. Traxler;Matthew J. Traxler;Martin J. Pickering;Charles Clifton

  • Filling gaps: Decision principles and structure in sentence comprehension☆

    Lyn Frazier;Charles Clifton;Janet Randall

  • Underspecification of syntactic ambiguities: evidence from self-paced reading.

    Benjamin Swets;Timothy Desmet;Charles Clifton;Fernanda Ferreira

  • Comprehending spoken language: A blueprint of the listener

    Anne Cutler;Charles Clifton

  • Perspectives on sentence processing

    Charles Clifton;Lyn Frazier;Keith Rayner

  • Eye movements in reading and information processing: Keith Rayner’s 40 year legacy

    Charles Jr Clifton;Fernanda Ferreira;John M. Henderson;Albrecht W. Inhoff

  • Determinants of parafoveal preview benefit in high and low working memory capacity readers: Implications for eye movement control.

    Shelia M. Kennison;Charles Clifton

  • The use of prosodic information in word recognition

    Anne Cutler;Charles Clifton

  • Focus, accent, and argument structure: effects on language comprehension.

    Stacy Birch;Charles Clifton

  • Parsing arguments: Phrase structure and argument structure as determinants of initial parsing decisions.

    Charles Clifton;Shari Speer;Steven P Abney

  • The use of thematic role information in parsing: Syntactic processing autonomy revisited

    Charles Clifton;Matthew J Traxler;Mohamed Taha Mohamed;Rihana S Williams

  • Subvocalization and reading for meaning

    Maria L. Slowiaczek;Charles Clifton

Frequent Co-Authors

Lyn Frazier
Lyn Frazier University of Massachusetts Amherst
Keith Rayner
Keith Rayner University of California, San Diego
Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Fernanda Ferreira
Fernanda Ferreira University of California, Davis
Manuel Carreiras
Manuel Carreiras Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Matthew J. Traxler
Matthew J. Traxler University of California, Davis
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Alexander Pollatsek
Alexander Pollatsek University of Massachusetts Amherst
Anthony J. Sanford
Anthony J. Sanford University of Glasgow

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