Sheu, Vanessa and Elaine J. Francis. Syntactic or semantic sensitivity? Predictive aural processing of Mandarin garden-path sentences by L1, L2, and heritage speakers. Poster presented at the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2023.
Khodadadi, Golsa. Investigating the effects of voice match and mismatch in recovering VP ellipsis and their non-elliptical counterparts in a nonnative setting. Paper presented at the Workshop on Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis, Amherst, Massachusetts, July 2023.
Deng, Yongjia and Vanessa Sheu. Animacy effects and the production of passive or active relative clauses in Mandarin. Paper presented at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference: Literature, Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures Colloquium, April 2023.
Li, Yue and Yuan Gao. Syntactic development in Chinese adolescent English learners: a study on the subject-object asymmetry in L2 acquisition. Paper presented at the Purdue Linguistics Symposium, West Lafayette, Indiana, April 2023.
Chaves, Rui and Elaine J. Francis. Enduring effects of repeated exposure to Subject Islands: evidence for
syntactic adaptation. Virtual poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2023.
Sheu, Vanessa and Elaine J. Francis. Aural processing of Mandarin garden-path sentences by L1, L2, and heritage speakers: the role of semantic plausibility. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS15), Urbana, Illinois, March 2023.
Hu, Jingying and Yang Zhao. The acquisition of Chinese perfective marker -le by native speakers of English: Feature Reassembly approach. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS15), Urbana, Illinois, March 2023.
Francis, Elaine J. Understanding variation in acceptability judgments from different theoretical perspectives. Paper presented to the Limits of Variability in Language research group, University of Potsdam, Germany, June 2022.
Francis, Elaine J. The role of accessibility in a grammatical resumption language: Cantonese relative clauses in cross-linguistic perspective. Invited Keynote Presentation given at the 6th Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio, May 2022.
Francis, Elaine J. Interpreting gradient acceptability judgments in syntax. Paper presented for the Abralin au vivo virtual talk series, Brazilian Linguistics Association, November 2021. Available for viewing here on YouTube.
Weirick, Joshua and Elaine J. Francis. Monolingual and bilingual processing at the syntax-discourse interface: Evidence from the English dative alternation. Virtual poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2021.
Weirick, Joshua and Elaine J. Francis. Effects of verb bias and information order on the acceptability of Heavy NP Shift in English. Virtual paper presented at the UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2020.
Lam, Charles and Elaine J. Francis. Variations in Cantonese relative clauses: an experimental approach. Virtual paper presented at the 5th Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio, April 2020.
Weirick, Joshua and Elaine J. Francis. Acceptability of relative clause extraposition in English: Effects of predicate type and givenness. Virtual poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, Massachusetts, March 2020.
Zheng, Carol Chun, Joshua Weirick, and Elaine J. Francis. Effects of frequency and simplicity in L2 English causative motion production. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO, March 2019.
Weirick, Joshua and Elaine J. Francis. A verb appeared that usually doesn’t: Effects of predicate type and discourse status on relative clause extraposition in English. Paper presented at the Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies conference, West Lafayette, Indiana, March 1, 2019.
Zheng, Carol Chun and Elaine J. Francis. Effects of cross-linguistic differences in structural flexibility on production planning. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, California, March 2018.
Francis, Elaine J. Why theoretical assumptions matter for interpreting acceptability judgment data in syntax. Poster presented at Linguistic Evidence 2018 – Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory, Tübingen, Germany, February 2018.
Zheng, Carol Chun and Elaine J. Francis. Typological variation in linguistic flexibility shapes production of causative motion expressions. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2018 Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 2018.
Zheng, Carol Chun and Elaine J. Francis. Codability modulates priming of Path in Mandarin and English. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA, March 2017.
Zheng, Carol Chun and Elaine J. Francis. Language-specific biases affect priming during message planning. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production, La Jolla, CA, July 2016.
Francis, Elaine J. and Laura A. Michaelis. When relative clause extraposition is the right choice, it’s easier. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2016.
Francis, Elaine J., Charles Lam, Carol Chun Zheng, John Hitz, and Stephen Matthews. Resumptive pronouns and structural complexity in Cantonese relative clause production. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbus, OH, March 2014. Link to poster
Francis, Elaine J. and Laura A. Michaelis. Effects of weight and definiteness on speakers’ choice of clausal ordering in English. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2012 Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, January 2012. Extended Abstract
Francis, Elaine J. and Laura A. Michaelis. Combining weight and discourse factors to predict relative clause extraposition in English. Paper presented at the Conference on Competing Motivations, Leipzig, Germany, November 2010.
Francis, Elaine J. Grammatical weight and relative clause extraposition in English. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2009 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 2009.
Francis, Elaine J. Constraining mismatch in grammar and in sentence comprehension: why linear order mismatches are more limited than constituent structure mismatches. Paper presented at the Pragmatics, Grammatical Interfaces, and Jerry Sadock Conference, University of Chicago, May 2008.
Francis, Elaine J. The effects of weight on the processing of Extraposition from NP in English. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2008 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 2008.
Francis, Elaine J. The role of default constructions in the processing of mismatch: the case of possessive free relatives. Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Workshop on Constructions and Grammatical Theory, Stanford, CA, July 2007.
Francis, Elaine J. and Stephen Matthews. Verb doubling facilitates sentence production in Cantonese. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2007 Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, January 2007.
Francis, Elaine J. and Etsuyo Yuasa. A multi-modular approach to gradual change in grammaticalization. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2006 Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, January 2006.
Matthews, Stephen, Helen Hoi-Lam Ching, and Elaine J. Francis. A processing advantage for topicalization in Cantonese. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2006 Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, January 2006.