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This page lists talks and poster presentations of studies that have not yet been published as journal papers. Posters and presentations which have since been superseded by journal papers are listed with their corresponding papers here.

Selected posters

• Dyan Morgan, Kaila Colyott, Carmen Orth-Alfie, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Laura Kirk, & Drew Vartia (2025). Transformation from faculty learning community to change agents: a grassroots approach to institutional change. Transforming Institutions Conference, St. Louis, United States.
• Ka Keung Lee & Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2025). Top-down biases for lexicality and frequency in both monosyllable and disyllable stimuli: evidence from Cantonese. Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, United States.
• Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Münir Özturhan, Xuan Wang, & Lila Church (2025). Long-lag morphological priming depends on form overlap. 38^th Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, United States.
• Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Münir Özturhan, Xuan Wang, & Lila Church (2024). Long-lag morphological priming depends on form overlap. Highlights in the Language Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
• Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2024). Allotonic variants are not stored in the lexicon: evidence from a Ganong experiment with allotonic gaps. The 19^th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Seoul, South Korea.
• Bernard Jap, Yu-Yin Hsu, & Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2024). Processing of wh-questions in Standard Indonesian: evidence from ERPs. 37^th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ann Arbor, United States.
• Kaila Colyott, Carmen Orth-Alfie, Dyan Morgan, Laura Kirk, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Tara Marriage, Danielle Hemingson, Trevor Rivers, Thomas Skinner, & Jason Koeep (2023). Why students do and do not attend their courses and what instructors can do about it. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Utrecht, Netherlands.
• Stephen Politzer-Ahles & Yixin Cui (2023). Allophonic variants do not prime each other: evidence from long-lag priming. 3^rd Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language, Seoul, South Korea.
• Julie Siying Chen, & Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2022). Acceptance of tonal and segmental variability correlates to inventory size in Mandarin Chinese. 8^th International Conference on Phonology and Morphology. Seoul, South Korea (online).
• Bernard Jap & Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2022). Syntactic priming in Indonesian. Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning, Zurich, Switzerland (online).
• Bernard Jap & Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2022). Thematic role assignment in Standard Indonesian. Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning, Zurich, Switzerland (online).
• Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Ka Keung Lee, & Julie Siying Chen (2021). A failure to replicate the Ganong effect for tone continua. 2^nd Words in the World Conference, Montreal, Canada (online).
• Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Katrina Connell, Lei Pan, & Yu-Yin Hsu (2019). Mandarin third tone sandhi may be incompletely neutralizing in perception as well as production. 19^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia.
• Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Katrina Connell, & Yu-Yin Hsu (2018). Third-tone sandhi is incompletely neutralizing in perception as well as production: evidence from visual world eye-tracking. 1^st Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language, Seoul, South Korea.
• Candice Chi-Hang Cheung, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Gordon King Man Cheung, Harmony Hiu Marn Choi, Lydia Tsz Wai Lai, Man Tak Leung, & Tempo Po Yi Tang (2017). Knowledge of presupposition triggers in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders. 62^nd Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association. Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Seth Wiener, & Caicai Zhang (2017). Predictive tones facilitate Mandarin lexical identification: evidence from ERPs. 1^st International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics. Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• E. Matthew Husband & Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2016). Coercing events or inserting structure? Eye-tracking evidence for a distinction between semantic and syntactic enrichment. Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing. Bilbao, Spain.
• Giulia Bovolenta, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & E. Matthew Husband (2016). Differential ERPs to local vs. global prediction failures. 29^th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Gainesville, United States.
• Kelly Berkson, & Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2015). Phonation type contrasts and vowel quality in Marathi. 169^th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Pittsburgh, United States. (Further information is available in Kelly's paper extending this work.)
• Robert Fiorentino, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & Ke Liao (2015). Morpheme-based combinatorial processing of English compounds: evidence from magnetoencephalography and lexical decision. 22^nd Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. San Francisco, United States.
• Matthew Tucker, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Joseph King, & Diogo Almeida (2014). Agreement attraction in the neural language system. 20^th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and 6th Neurobiology of Language Conference (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
• Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Robert Fiorentino, Jeffrey Durbin, & Lillian Li (2014). The role of working memory in the online realization of scalar inferences. 27^th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, United States.
• Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & Robert Fiorentino (2013b). Sensitivity of online scalar inferencing to context and to processing load. 5^th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Utrecht, Netherlands.
• Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Xiaoming Jiang, Robert Fiorentino, & Xiaolin Zhou (2012b). Individual differences in logical ability predict ERP responses to underinformative sentences. 4^th Neurobiology of Language Conference. San Sebastian, Spain.
• Robert Fiorentino, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Elena-Anda Popescu, & Mihai Popescu (2011). The role of morphological juncture identification in complex word processing: an MEG investigation. 41^st Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Washington, United States.

Selected talks

• Wenting Xue, Meichun Liu, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & Ovid Tzeng (2024). Cognitive mechanisms underlying the comprehension of complement coercion. 30^th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Yonsei, Japan.
• Julie Siying Chen, & Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2022) Tones encoded similarly to segments in Mandarin speech production: a tongue twister study. 12^th International Workshop on Language Production. Pittsburgh, United States.
• Matthew Tucker, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Joseph King, & Diogo Almeida (2015). Errors in the brain: magneto- and electroencephalographic evidence from English agreement. 89th Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Portland, United States.