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- Journal articles -
Royle, P., Steinhauer, K., Dessureault, E., Herbay, A., & Brambati, S. (2019). Aging and language: Maintenance of morphological representations in older adults.听Frontiers in Communication,听4, 16.听
Kasparian, K., & Steinhauer, K. (2017). On missed opportunities and convenient 鈥渢ruths鈥�.听Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism,听7(6), 709-714.听
Steinhauer, K., Royle, P., Drury, J. E., &听Fromont, L. A.听(2017). The priming of priming: Evidence that the N400 reflects context-dependent post-retrieval word integration in working memory.听Neuroscience Letters,听651, 192-197.听
Kasparian, K., & Steinhauer, K. (2017). When the second language takes the lead: Neurocognitive processing changes in the first language of adult attriters.听Frontiers in Psychology,听8, 389.听PDF.听
Kasparian, K., Vespignani, F., & Steinhauer, K. (2016). First Language Attrition Induces Changes in Online Morphosyntactic Processing and Re鈥怉nalysis: An ERP Study of Number Agreement in Complex Italian Sentences. Cognitive Science.听
Kasparian, K., & Steinhauer, K. (2016). Confusing similar words: ERP correlates of lexical-semantic processing in first language attrition and late second language acquisition.听Neuropsychologia, 93, 200-217.听
Mah, J., Goad, H., & Steinhauer, K. (2016). Using event-related brain potentials to assess perceptibility: The case of French speakers and English [h].听Frontiers in Psychology,听7, 1469.听
Drury, J. E., Baum, S. R., Valeriote, H.,听&听Steinhauer, K. (2016). Punctuation and implicit prosody in silent reading: An ERP study investigating English garden-path sentences.听Frontiers in Psychology,听7, 1375.听
Glushko, A., Steinhauer, K., DePriest, J., & Koelsch, S. (2016). Neurophysiological correlates of musical and prosodic phrasing: shared processing mechanisms and effects of musical expertise.听PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0155300.
White, E. J., Titone, D., Genesee, F., & Steinhauer, K. (2015).听Phonological processing in late second language learners: The effects of proficiency and task. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-22.
Molnar, M., Polka, L., Baum, S., & Steinhauer, K. (2014). Learning two languages from birth shapes pre-attentive processing of vowel categories: Electrophysiological correlates of vowel discrimination in monolinguals and simultaneous bilinguals.听Bilingualism: Language and Cognition,听17(03), 526-541.
Steinhauer, K. (2014). Event-related potentials (ERPs) in second language research: a brief introduction to the technique, a selected review, and an invitation to reconsider critical periods in L2. Applied Linguistics, 35(4), 393-417. [.html]
Nickels, S., Opitz, B., & Steinhauer, K. (2013). ERPs show that classroom-instructed late second language learners rely on the same prosodic cues in syntactic parsing as native speakers. Neuroscience letters, 557, 107-111.
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Bowden, H. W., Steinhauer, K., Sanz, C., & Ullman, M. T. (2013). Native-like brain processing of syntax can be attained by university foreign language learners. Neuropsychologia, 51(13), 2492-2511.
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Royle, P., Drury, J. E., & Steinhauer, K. (2013). ERPs and task effects in the auditory processing of gender agreement and semantics in French. The Mental Lexicon, 8(2), 216-244. [.pdf]
Royle, P., Drury, J.E., Bourguignon, N., & Steinhauer, K. (2012). The temporal dynamics of inflected word recognition: A masked ERP priming study of French verbs. Neuropsychologia, 50, 3542鈥�3553.
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Bourguignon, N., Drury, J.E., Valois, D., & Steinhauer, K. (2012). Decomposing animacy reversals between Agents and Experiencers: An ERP study. Brain and Language, 122, 179- 189.
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Klepousniotou E, Pike GB, Steinhauer K, Gracco VL (2012). Not all ambiguous words are created equal: An EEG investigation of homonymy and polysemy. Brain &Language, 123(1): 1-7.
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White EJ, Genesee F, Steinhauer K. (2012). Brain Responses before and after Intensive Second Language Learning: Proficiency Based Changes and First Language Background Effects in Adult Learners. PLoS ONE 7(12): e52318.
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Drury, J.E. & Steinhauer, K. (2012). On the early left-anterior negativity (ELAN) in syntax studies. Brain and Language, 120 (2), 135-162.
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Morgan-Short, K., Steinhauer, K., Sanz, C., & Ullman, M.T. (2012). Explicit and Implicit Second Language Training Differentially Affect the Achievement of Native-like Brain Activation Patterns. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24 (4), 933-947.
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Hwang, H. & Steinhauer, K. (2011). Phrase length matters: The interplay between implicit prosody and syntax in Korean 鈥榞arden path鈥� sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (11), 3555-3575.
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Pauker, E., Itzhak, I., Baum, S.R., & Steinhauer, K. (2011). Effects of cooperating and conflicting prosody in spoken English garden path sentences: ERP evidence for the boundary deletion hypothesis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (10), 2731-2751.
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Dwivedi, V.D., Drury, J.E., Molnar, M., Phillips, N.A., Baum, S.R., Steinhauer, K. (2010). ERPs reveal sensitivity to hypothetical contexts in spoken discourse. Neuroreport 21, 791-795.听
Steinhauer, K., Drury, J.E., Portner, P., Walenski, M., & Ullman, M.T. (2010). Syntax, concepts, and logic in the temporal dynamics of language comprehension: Evidence from event-related potentials. Neuropsychologia, 48 (6), 1525-1542.
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Steinhauer, K., Abada, S.H., Pauker, E., Itzhak, I., & Baum, S.R. (2010). Prosody-syntax interactions in aging: Event-related potentials reveal dissociations between on-line and off-line measures. Neuroscience Letters, 472 (2), 133-138.
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Morgan-Short, K., Sanz, C., Steinhauer, K., & Ullman, M.T. (2010). Second language acquisition of gender agreement in explicit and implicit training conditions: An event-related potential study. Language Learning, 60, 154-193.
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Itzhak, I., Pauker, E., Drury, J.E., Baum, S.R., & Steinhauer, K. (2010). Event-related potentials show online influence of lexical biases on prosodic processing. NeuroReport, 21, 8-13.
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Palmer, C., Jewett, L., Steinhauer, K. (2009). Contextual effects on electrophysiological response to musical accents. The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169, 470-480.
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Steinhauer, K., White, E. & Drury, J.E. (2009). Temporal dynamics of late second language acquisition: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Second Language Research, 25 (1), 13-41.
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Meyer, M., Steinhauer, K., Alter, K., Friederici, A.D., von Cramon, D.Y. (2004). Brain activity varies with modulation of dynamic pitch variance in sentence melody. Brain and Language, 89(2), 277-289. (Special issue on Language and Motor Integration).
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Steinhauer, K. (2003). Electrophysiological correlates of prosody and punctuation. Brain and Language, 86 (1), 142-164. (Special issue on the Neuronal Basis of Language).
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Friederici, A.D., Steinhauer, K. & Pfeifer, E. (2002). Brain signatures of artificial language processing: Evidence challenging the critical period hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 99, 529-534.
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Steinhauer, K. & Friederici, A.D. (2001). Prosodic boundaries, comma rules, and brain responses: The Closure Positive Shift in ERPs as a universal marker for prosodic phrasing in listeners and readers. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30 (3) 267-295.
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Steinhauer, K., Pancheva, R., Newman, A.J., Gennari, S. & Ullman, M.T. (2001). How the mass counts: An electrophysiological approach to the processing of lexical features. Neuroreport,12 (5), 999-1005.
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Friederici, A.D., Mecklinger, A., Spencer, K., M., Steinhauer, K., & Donchin, E. (2001). Syntactic parsing preferences and their on-line revisions: A spatio-temporal analysis of event-related brain potentials. Cognitive Brain Research, 11, 305-323.
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Friederici, A.D., Steinhauer, K., & Frisch, S. (1999). Lexical integration: Sequential effects of syntactic and semantic information. Memory and Cognition, 27, (3), 438-453.
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Steinhauer, K., Alter, K., & Friederici, A.D. (1999). Brain responses indicate immediate use of prosodic cues in natural speech processing. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 191-196.
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Friederici, A.D., Steinhauer, K., Mecklinger, A., & Meyer, M. (1998). Working memory constraints on Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution as Revealed by Electrical Brain Responses. Biological Psychology, 47, 193-221.
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Steinhauer, K., Mecklinger, A., Friederici, A.D., & Meyer, M. (1997). Probability and strategy: an event-related potential study of processing syntactic anomalies. Zeitschrift fuer Experimentelle Psychologie, 44, 305-331 [German]. 听[.pdf]
Mecklinger, A., Schriefers, H., Steinhauer, K., & Friederici, A.D. (1995). Processing relative clauses varying on syntactic and semantic dimensions: An analysis with event-related potentials. Memory and Cognition, 23, 477-494. 听[.pdf]
- Books -
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Steinhauer, K. (2001). Hirnphysiologische Korrelate prosodischer Satzverarbeitung bei gesprochener und geschriebener Sprache. [Neurophysiological correlates of prosodic sentence processing in spoken and written language.] Doctoral Dissertation, Free University of Berlin. MPI Series in Cognitive Neuroscience 18. Dresden: Saechsisches Digitaldruck Zentrum.
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- Book chapters and conference proceedings -
Courteau E, Royle P, Gascon A, Marquis A, Drury JE, Steinhauer K. (2013). Gender concord and semantic processing in French children: An auditory ERP study. In S Baiz, N, Goldman & R Hawkes (脡ds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (Vol. 1, pp. 87-99). Boston: Cascadilla.
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Steinhauer, K. & Connolly, J.F. (2008). Event-related potentials in the study of language. In: Stemmer, B. & Whitaker, H. (eds.), 91-104. Handbook of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. New York: Elsevier.
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Mah, J., Goad, H., Steinhauer, K. (2006). The trouble with [h]: Evidence from ERPs. In: O鈥橞rien, M.G. (ed.), GASLA-2006 Proceedings, 80-87. Somerville, MA, USA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
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Steinhauer, K. & Ullman, M.T. (2002). Consecutive ERP effects of morpho-phonology and morpho-syntax. Brain and Language, 83, 62-65.
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Ullman, M.T., Estabrooke, I., Steinhauer, K., Brovetto, C., Pancheva, R., Ozawa, K., Mordecai, K., & Maki, P. (2002). Sex differences in the neurocognition of language. Brain and Language, 83, 141-143.
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Alter, K., Meyer, M., Steinhauer, K., Friederici, A. D., & von Cramon, Y. (2002). Brain responses related to prosodic information in natural speech: An event-related fMRI study. In: Rapp, R. (Ed.), Linguistics on the Way into the Third Millennium. Part II: Language, Computer, and Society (21-27). Bern: Peter Lang.
Hruska, C., Alter, K., Steinhauer, K. & Friederici, A.D. (2001). Misleading dialogues: Human's brain reaction to prosodic information. In Ch. Cav茅, I. Gua茂tella, & S. Santi (Eds.), ORALIT脡 ET GESTUALIT脡 - Interactions et comportements multimodaux dans la communication (425-430). L'Harmattan. Paris.
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Alter, K. & Steinhauer, K. (2000). When the brain meets prosody. In Doelling, J. & Pechmann, T (Eds.): Linguistische Jahresberichte 74: Prosodie - Struktur - Interpretation, (9-24). Leipzig: Universitaet Leipzig.
Steinhauer, K., Alter, K., & Friederici, A.D. (1999). Are commas equivalent to prosodic boundaries? - Evidence from brain potentials. In S. Bagnara: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Science (ECCS), Siena, Italy, (357-362). Roma: Instituto di Psicologia - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.
Alter, K., Matiasek, J., Steinhauer, K., Pirker, H., & Friederici, A.D. (1998). Exploiting syntactic dependencies for German prosody: Evidence from speech production and perception. In B. Schr枚der, W. Lenders, W. Hess & T. Portele (eds.) Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and Speech (141-152). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
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