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Overview

Lyn Frazier is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research spans both Arts and Humanities as well as Psychology, with a total of seven publications in each field. Their work situates primarily within the subfields of Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main topics covered in their research include Syntax, Semantics, and Linguistic Variation; Language, Metaphor, and Cognition; Language, Discourse, and Communication Strategies; Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism; Categorization, Perception, and Language; Multisensory Perception and Integration; and Language Development and Disorders.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Charles Clifton
  • Barbara Kaup
  • Oksana Tsaregorodtseva
  • Britta Stolterfoht
  • Alexander Göbel

They have published in several academic venues, notably:

  • Discourse Processes
  • Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Language and Speech
  • Syntax

Recent publications by Lyn Frazier include:

  • "Negative clauses imply affirmative topics and affirmative antecedents," 2021, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
  • "Do linguistic stimuli activate experiential colour traces related to the entities they refer to and, if so, under what circumstances?" 2023, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • "Tense and Discourse Structure: The Timeline Hypothesis," 2021, Discourse Processes
  • "Domain Restriction in Generic Statements," 2020, Discourse Processes
  • "Interpreting Adjuncts: Processing English As-Clauses," 2021, Language and Speech

Best Publications

  • Making and Correcting Errors during Sentence Comprehension: Eye Movements in the Analysis of Structurally Ambiguous Sentences

    Lyn Frazier;Keith Rayner

  • The Sausage Machine: A New Two-Stage Parsing Model.

    Lyn Frazier;Janet Dean Fodor

  • ON COMPREHENDING SENTENCES: SYNTACTIC PARSING STRATEGIES.

    Lyn Frazier

  • The interaction of syntax and semantics during sentence processing: eye movements in the analysis of semantically biased sentences

    Keith Rayner;Marcia Carlson;Lyn Frazier

  • Sentence processing: A tutorial review.

    Lyn Frazier

  • Syntactic processing: Evidence from dutch

    Lyn Frazier

  • Prosodic phrasing is central to language comprehension

    Lyn Frazier;Katy Carlson;Charles Clifton

  • Filler driven parsing: A study of gap filling in dutch

    Lyn Frazier;Lyn Frazier;Giovanni B Flores d'Arcais;Giovanni B Flores d'Arcais

  • Comprehending Sentences with Long-Distance Dependencies

    Charles Clifton;Lyn Frazier

  • Taking on semantic commitments: Processing multiple meanings vs. multiple senses ☆

    Lyn Frazier;Keith Rayner

  • Successive cyclicity in the grammar and the parser

    Lyn Frazier;Charles Clifton

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

    Lyn Frazier;Charles Clifton;Janet Randall

  • Perspectives on sentence processing

    Charles Clifton;Lyn Frazier;Keith Rayner

  • Null vs. overt pronouns and the Topic-Focus articulation in Spanish: 2704

    Lyn Frazier;Luis Alonso-Ovalle;Susana Fernández-Solera

  • Selection mechanisms in reading lexically ambiguous words

    Keith Rayner;Lyn Frazier

  • Prosodic Boundaries in Adjunct Attachment

    Katy Carlson;Charles Clifton;Lyn Frazier

  • Lexical Expectations in Sentence Comprehension.

    Charles Clifton;Lyn Frazier;Cynthia Connine

  • Argument structure and association preferences in Spanish and English complex NPs

    Elizabeth Gilboy;Josep-MMaria Sopena;Charles Cliftrn;Lyn Frazier

  • Punctuation and intonation effects on clause and sentence wrap-up: Evidence from eye movements

    Masako Hirotani;Lyn Frazier;Keith Rayner

  • Parallel structure: a source of facilitation in sentence comprehension.

    Lyn Frazier;Lori Taft;Tom Roeper;Charles Clifton

  • Language Processing and Language Acquisition

    Lyn Frazier;Jill G. De Villiers

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Clifton
Charles Clifton University of Massachusetts Amherst
Keith Rayner
Keith Rayner University of California, San Diego
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Matthew J. Traxler
Matthew J. Traxler University of California, Davis
Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Fernanda Ferreira
Fernanda Ferreira University of California, Davis
Renée Baillargeon
Renée Baillargeon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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