Books

Nickels, L.A. & Croot, K. (Eds.). (In Press). Progressive Language Impairment: Intervention and Management. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Book Chapters

Arciuli, J. & Cupples, L. (2007). Would you rather ‘embert a cudsert’ or ‘cudsert an embert’? How spelling patterns at the beginning of English disyllables can cue grammatical category. In A. C. Schalley and D. Khlentzos (Eds.), Language and cognitive structure. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamin

Cologon, K., Cupples, L., & Wyver, S. (2007). The development of phonological awareness, phonic decoding skills and reading comprehension ability [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 59.

Crain, S. 2008. Semantic universals in child and adult language. In Anna Gavarro and M. Joao Freitas (eds) Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  143-153

Crain, Stephen, Takuya Goro and Utako Minai. 2007. Hidden units in child language. In A. Schalley and D. Khlentzos (eds.) Mental States: Nature, Function and Evolution. John Benjamins. 275-294.

Sano, T. and Crain, S.  2008. Unconstrained Variable Binding: ECM Constructions in Child English.  In Tetsuya Sano, Mika Endo, Miwa Isobe, Koichi Otaki, Koji Sugisaki, and Takeru Suzuki (eds) An Enterprise in the Cognitive Science of Language: A Festschrift for Yukio Otsu. Publisher: Hituzi Syobo, Tokyo

Simpson, I. & Cupples, L. (2007). Two orthographic lexicons – twice as good as one? [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 59, 57

Thornton, R., S. Crain and G. Tesan. 2007. Principles, parameters, and probability. In I. Gülzow, and N. Gagarina (eds.) Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition: Defining the limits of frequency as an explanatory concept. Studies of Language Acquisition (SOLA) 32,  Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN: 9783110196719

Encyclopedia Articles & Handbook Chapters

Crain, S. 2008. Sentence scope. In Edith Bavin (ed) The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language. Cambridge University Press.

Crain, S.  (to appear) Meaning in first language acquisition. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger and P. Portner (eds.) Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Morton de Gruyter, HSK Series.

Pietroski, P. and S. Crain (to appear) The language faculty. In Eric Margolis, Richard Samuels, and Stephen Stich (eds) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Cognitive Science. OUP.

Journal Articles

Biedermann, B. & Nickels, L. (2008). Homographic and heterographic homophones in speech production: Does orthography matter? Cortex, 44, 683-697.

Biedermann, B. & Nickels, L. (2008). The Representation of Homophones: More Evidence from the Remediation of Anomia, Cortex, 44, 276-293.

Biedermann, B., Ruh, N., Nickels, L., & Coltheart, M. (2008). Information retrieval in tip of the tongue states: New data and methodological advances. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 37, 171-198.

Crain, S. 2008. The interpretation of disjunction in Universal Grammar. Language and Speech. 51, 151-169.

Crain, S., and D. Khlentzos. (to appear) The logic instinct. Mind and Language.

Crain, S., and D. Khlentzos. 2008. Is logic Innate? Biolinguistics 2.1. 24-56.

Crain, S., R. Thornton and D. Khlentzos. 2008. The case of the missing generalizations. Cognitive Linguistics.

Croot, K., & Nickels, L. (in press). Impairment and Activity/Participation directed Interventions in progressive language impairment: Clinical and Theoretical issues. Aphasiology, accepted for publication August 20th, 2007.

de Beuzeville, L., & Johnston, T. 2007. The role of visual representation in a signed language: evidence from native signing deaf children acquiring Auslan (Australian Sign Language). In S. Buescher & K. Holley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth High Desert Linguistics Conference, November 4-6, 2004, University of New Mexico (Vol. 6, pp. 109-120). Albuquerque, NM: High Desert Linguistics Society.

de Beuzeville, L., Johnston, T., & Schembri, A. (submitted). The Use of Space with Indicating Verbs in Auslan: A corpus based investigation. Sign Language & Linguistics.

Fernandez, T, Florez de la Colina, MA and Peters P.  Terminology and Terminography for architecture and building construction.  (accepted September 2008)  Terminology

Hanley, R. & Nickels, L. (in press).  Are the same phoneme and lexical layers used in speech production and comprehension? A case-series test of Foygel and Dell’s (2000) semantic phonological model of speech production. Cortex, accepted for publication 4^th October, 2008.

Jensen, B. and R. Thornton. (to appear) Children’s answers to Wh-questions. In Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society, Adelaide, Australia.

Jensen, B. and Thornton, R. (2008) Fragments of child grammar. In M. João Freitas and A. Gavarró Algueró (eds). Language Acquisition and Development: Papers from GALA 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Johnston, T., & Schembri, A. 2007. Auslan (Australian Sign Language): An Introduction to Sign Language Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Johnston, T., Vermeerbergen, M., Schembri, A., Leeson, L. 2007. ³Real data are messy²: Considering cross-linguistic analysis of constituent ordering in Australian Sign Language (Auslan), Vlaamse Gebarentaal (VGT), and Irish Sign Language (ISL). In P. Perniss, R. Pfau & M. Steinbach (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Sign Languages: A Cross-linguistic Perspective, Mainz, Germany, March 25-27, 2004 (pp. 163-205). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Kohnen, S. Nickels, L.,. Brunsdon, R. & Coltheart, M (2008). Patterns of generalisation after treating sublexical spelling deficits in a child with mixed dysgraphia. Journal of Research in Reading, 31(1), 157-177.

Kohnen, S. Nickels, L.,. Brunsdon, R. & Coltheart, M (in press). Predicting generalisation in the training of irregular word spelling: Treating lexical spelling deficits in a child. Cognitive Neuropsychology, accepted 20^th February, 2008.

Lorenz, A. & Nickels, L. (2007) Orthographic cueing in anomic aphasia: How does it work? Aphasiology, 21, 670-686.

McMahon, C.M., Patuzzi, R.B., Gibson, WPR., Sanli, H. (2008) Frequency-Specific Electrocochleography Indicates that Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Mechanisms of Auditory Neuropathy Exist. Ear & Hearing. 29(3):314-325.

McMahon, CM., Kifley, A., Rochtchina, E., Newall, P., Mitchell, P. (2008). The Contribution of Family History to Hearing Loss in an Older Population. Ear & Hearing. 29(4):578-584

Mortensen, L., Smith-Lock, K.M., & Nickels, L. (In press). Text structure and patterns of cohesion in narrative texts written by adults with a history of language impairment. Reading and Writing, accepted for publication, 25^th September, 2008.

Moses, M., Nickels, L., Sheard, S.  (2007) Chips, cheeks and carols: A review of recurrent perseveration in speech production. Aphasiology, 21, 960-974.

Moses, M., Nickels, L., Sheard, S.  (2007) Insights into recurrent perseverative errors in aphasia: A case series approach. Aphasiology, 21, 975-1001.

Nickels, L. (2008). The hypothesis testing approach to the assessment of language. In B. Stemmer and H. A. Whitaker (Eds.) Handbook of the Neuroscience of Language. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Ltd.

Nickels, L. , Biedermann, B., Coltheart, M., Saunders, S. and Tree, J. (2008). Computational modelling of phonological dyslexia: How does the DRC model fare? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25(2), 165-193.

Nickels, L.A.  (2008) Cognitive neuropsychology and word retrieval disorders in aphasia: Theory and therapy. Advances in psychological science, 16, 14-17.

Nickels, L.A. (2008) Assessment of Cognitive Impairments. Advances in psychological science, 16, 10-13.

Peters P  2007  Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage   Cambridge University Press

Peters, Collins, Smith (forthcoming 2009) Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English: grammar and beyond.   Amsterdam, John Benjamins

Peters, P  2008a  Australian and New Zealand English,  In H. Momma and M. Matto eds.  Companion to the History of the English Language. Oxford, Blackwell

Peters, P  2008b  Patterns of negation: the relationship between NO and NOT in regional varieties of English.  In T. Nevalainen, I. Taavitsainen, P. Pahta and M. Korhonen eds. The Dynamics of  Linguistic Variation  Amsterdam, John Benjamins

Peters, P  2008c  Australian English as a regional epicenter.  In L Siebers and T Hoffmann eds.,  World Englishes: Problems -- Properties -- Prospects.  Amsterdam, John Benjamins

Peters, P., Jones, A. , Smith A., Winchester-Seeto, T, Middledorp, J., and Petocz P. (forthcoming Nov. 2008)  TermFinder, creating online termbanks of technical terms for early university study.  Journal of Applied Linguistics 3/2

Schembri, A., Cormier, K. A., Johnston, T., McKee, D., McKee, R. L., & Woll, B. (in press). British, Australian and New Zealand sign languages: Origins, transmission, variation and change. In D. Brentari (Ed.), Sign languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schembri, A., McKee, D., McKee, R., Johnston, T., Goswell, D. & Alexander, S. P. (accepted 19/06/08). Phonological variation and change in Australian and New Zealand Sign Languages: The location variable. Language Variation and Change.

Smith-Lock, K.M., Mortensen, L., Smith-Lock, K.M., & Nickels, L. (In press). Story Writing Skills of Adults with a History Language-Impairment. Reading and Writing, accepted for publication, 13^th August, 2008.

Taylor, C., Miles, R. K., Croot, K. & Nickels, L. (in press). Speech pathology services for primary progressive aphasia: Exploring an emerging area of practice. Aphasiology, accepted for publication August 20^th, 2007.

Thornton, R and G. Tesan (2007) Categorical acquisition: Parameter setting in Universal Grammar. Biolinguistics 1(1), 49-98

Thornton, R. (2008) Review of William Snyder Child Language: The parametric approach, Oxford University Press. Journal of Linguistics 42 (2), 545-552.

Thornton, R. (2008) Why continuity. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 26(1) 107-146.

Thornton, R., S. Crain and G. Tesan (2007). Principles, parameters and probability. In I. Gülzow and N. Gagarina (eds.) Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition: Defining the Limits of Frequency as an  Explanatory Concept (Studies on Language Acquisition). (pp.359-382) SOLA Series. De Gruyter.

Wong D and Peters  P 2007 A study of backchannels in regional varieties of English, using corpus markup.  International Journal of Corpus Linguistics  12:4

Smith-Lock, K.M., Nickels, L., & Mortensen, L. (In Press). Writing skills of adults with a history of specific-language-impairment [Abstract]. Reading and Writing.

Biedermann, B., Nickels, L.A., & Beyersmann, A.E. (In Press). Plural errors in aphasic speech: how is 'number information' represented in the lexicon? [Abstract]. Brain Impairment.

Biedermann, B., Coltheart, M., & Nickels, L. (2007). Effects of homophony on reading aloud [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology Supplement, 59(Suppl. 1), 19-20.

Biedermann, B. & Nickels, L. (2007). Using a phonological cueing hierarchy in the treatment of word retrieval disorders: What generalisation can we expect? [Abstract]. Brain Impairment, 7(3), 260.

Editorial Positions

Editorial Board, Semantics and Pragmatics, 2008-current

Other Professional Activities

National Committee for Brain and Mind, Australian Academy of Science, 2007-current

Keynote and invited presentations

Crain, S. 2007. Keynote Speaker, The Portuguese Linguistic Society Annual Meeting. Evora, Portugal.

Crain, S. 2007. Keynote Speaker, Workshop on acquisition of functional categories in Asian languages. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Crain, S. 2008. Invited Speaker, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition.

Crain, S. 2008. Invited Speaker, Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse: the Theory of the         Interface: In memory of Tanya Reinhart, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Nickels, L. (2008, June) The assessment and treatment of word retrieval impairments - insights from Cognitive Neuropsychology.

Nickels, L. (2008, September ) How does our impairment-focused therapy work? Keynote Address: Aphasiology Symposium of Australia, Brisbane, Australia.

Nickels, L. (2008, September). Programmes! Problems, pitfalls and progress in the use of computers in the assessment and treatment of language disorders. Invited presentation at HCSnet Future Computer Applications for Managing Speech and Language Disorders Workshop.  19 September 2008, Brisbane, Queensland.

Nickels, L. (2008, September). Word retrieval impairments – dissecting treatment approaches. Invited Presentation University College, London.

Conference presentations

Amberber, A.M., Nickels, L., Coltheart, M. and  Crain, S. (2008, September). Language switching in bilingual aphasia: what is "pathological" code-switching? Paper presented at Aphasiology Symposium of Australia, Brisbane, Australia.

Berarducci, M., Nickels, L. and Armstrong, E. (2008, September). The Stability of Discourse Measures. Paper presented at the HCSNet Workshop on Narrative and Communication Disorders, Melbourne, Australia.

Biedermann, B. & Nickels, L. (2007, September). The representation of plural information in our mental lexicon. Poster session presented at the Science of Aphasia VIII (SoA), Monopoli, Italy.

Biedermann, B., & Nickels, L. (2008, March). What can plural errors in aphasic speakers tell us about the representation of number in our mental lexicon. Paper presented at the 35th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Fremantle, Australia.

Biedermann, B., Coltheart, M., & Nickels, L. (2007, April). Effects of Homophony on Reading Aloud. Paper presented at the 34th Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), Canberra, Australia.

Biedermann, B., Coltheart, M., & Nickels, L. (2007, September). Effects of homophony on reading aloud. Invited presentation given at the Research Seminar, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.

Biedermann, B., Coltheart, M., & Nickels, L. (2007, September). The representation of homophones in spoken word production: Evidence from reading aloud. Poster session presented at the 4th International Workshop on Language Production (IWOLP), Muenster, Germany.

Biedermann, B., Nickels, L.A., & Beyersmann, A.E. (2008, October). Plural errors in aphasic speech: how is 'number information' represented in the lexicon? Paper presented at the Aphasiology Symposium of Australia (ASA), University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia.

Cologon, K., Cupples, L., & Wyver, S. (2007, July). The development of phonological awareness, phonic decoding skills and reading comprehension ability in children who have Down syndrome: Results from an intervention study. Paper presented at the 15th Biennial Australasian Human Development Association Conference, Sydney.

Crain, S. and R. Thornton.  Logic and universal grammar. Paper presented at the annual Australian Linguistic Society conference. Adelaide, September, 2007.

Croot, K. & Nickels, L. (2008, September). Interventions in semantic dementia and progressive aphasia: Clinical and theoretical issues. Paper presented at Aphasiology Symposium of Australia, Brisbane, Australia.

Cupples, L. (2008, May). To r-ea-d or not to r-ea-d: Should children with Down syndrome be taught to read using a phonic approach? Paper presented at Reflecting Connections: A joint conference between New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists Association and Speech Pathology Australia, Sky City Convention Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. 

Ding, J   Bottom-up editing and more: the E-forum of the Chinese-English dictionary  Euralex conference  15-19 July 2008 (Barcelona, Spain)

Johnston, T. (2007, 20-24 November). ³No body, no case² An Australian case study in signed language endangerment and the need for corpus-based research. Paper presented at the Language Education and Diversity Conference, Waikato University, New Zealand.

Johnston, T. (2008, June 26-28). Integrating lexical information into signed language databases and corpora. Paper presented at the 1st SignType Conference (The Phonetics & Phonology of Sign Languages), University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA.

Johnston, T. (2008, May 26-June 1). Corpus linguistics and signed languages: no lemmata, no corpus. Paper presented at the Language Representation and Evaluation Conference (3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages), Marrakech, Morocco.

Johnston, T., & Schembri, A. (2007, 7-8 December). Testing language description through language documentation, archiving, and corpus creation: the case of indicating verbs in the Auslan. Paper presented at the Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory, SOAS, University of London.

Johnston, T., de Beuzeville, L., Schembri, A., & Goswell, D. (2007, 15-20 July). On not missing the point: Indicating verbs in Auslan. Paper presented at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kraków, Poland.

Law, C., & Cupples, L. (2008, May). Sensitivity to phonological cues in relation to grammatical ability and reading comprehension skill in children and adults. Paper presented at Reflecting Connections: A joint conference between New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists Association and Speech Pathology Australia, Sky City Convention Centre, Auckland, New Zealand.

Lising, L    Language training and settlement success: are they related? Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) Inaugural International Conference 10-12 July 2008  Alice Springs NT

Lising, L  Imported Labour, Imported English: Philippine English in the Australian context    Plenary Speaker Linguistic Society of the Philippines International Conference   28-30 April 2008    Manila

Lising, L  Philippine English: It’s Challenges in the Australian Workplace    Australian Linguistics Society Conference   3-5 July 2008 Sydney

Mason, C., Nickels, L., McDonald, B., Melanie Moses, M., Makin. K. and Taylor, C. (2008, September). Can Naming Therapy Impact on Performance in Conversation? Paper presented at Aphasiology Symposium of Australia, Brisbane, Australia.

McMahon, CM (2008). The use of auditory evoked potentials in predicting functional outcomes in auditory neuropathy. British Society of Audiology, Nottingham, 9-11th September

Mortensen, L., Smith-Lock, K.M., & Nickels, L.A. (2007, December). Organisation and coherence in narrative texts written by adults with a history of specific language impairment. Paper presented at the HCSNet Workshop on Cognitive Science and Text, Leura, Australia.

Nickels, L., Howard, D., Dodd, H. & Coltheart, M. (2008, July) Further investigations into cumulative semantic inhibition in picture naming: effects of long lag & repeated members of a category.

Peters and Fernandez   Transdisciplinary approaches to ESP for graduate students of architecture   Accepted for AsiaPacific LSP Conference  December 2008 (Hong Kong)

Peters, P   Australian English as a regional epicentre   World Englishes Conference October 2007 (Regensburg Germany)

Peters, P   Terminography in Education   Invited plenary presentation for  Asialex conference.  20-23 August 2009  (Bangkok)

Peters, P  Variable verbs forms and their contexts of use   ICAME conference 14-18 May 2008 (Ascona, Switzerland)

Rieschild, Verna &  Tent, Jan  Bilinguality, gender, & religion: Influences on Arabic-heritage Australian youths’ attitudes to their ambient languages and cultures.  Sociolinguistics Symposium 17  (May 2008)  Free University of Amsterdam.

Schembri, A., & Johnston, T. (2007, 26-28 August). Variable 'subject' presence in Auslan narratives. Paper presented at the Australian Linguistics Society, Adelaide, South Australia.

Simpson, I., Coltheart, M., & Nickels, L. (2008, June). Orthographic Processing. Presentation given to the Discipline of Speech Pathology Presentation given at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney.

Smith A and Peters P    Computer corpora and terminology: the TermFinder Project.  Keynote presentation for Australex conference  September 2007 (Adelaide)

Smith-Lock, K. M., Nickels, L. A. & Mortensen, L. (2008, December). Story Writing Skills of Adults with a History Language-Impairment. Paper presented at the HCSNet Workshop on Cognitive Science and Text, Leura, Australia.

Smith-Lock, K. M., Nickels, L. A. & Mortensen, L. (2008, September). Telling the Story of Cinderella: Oral and Written Language Skills in Adults with a History of Language Impairment. Paper presented at the HCSNet Workshop on Narrative and Communication Disorders, Melbourne, Australia.

Society for the Social Studies of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (4S/EASST), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, August 20-23 2008. Symposium: The applied politics of deafness: Acting with Deaf people in science, technology & medicine.²  Paper (Johnston & Napier) presented by Johnston: Medical Signbank‹bringing deaf people and linguists together in the process of language development

Tangpijaikul, M.  Thai learners' modality in online bulletin board writing and academic writing   ASLA  (Association suedoise de linguistique applique)  8-9 November2007  Lund, Sweden

Tent, Jan . Fiji English and the lexicographical issues in the compilation of the Macquarie Dictionary of English for the Fiji Islands.  International Symposium on Lexicography #13 (April 2007) Copenhagen, Denmark.

 Thornton, R. and B. Jensen. Children’s answers to wh-questions. Paper presented at the annual Australian Linguistic Society conference. Adelaide, September, 2007.

 Thornton, R. and B. Jensen. Fragments of child grammar. Presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference, Barcelona, September 2007.

 Thornton, R. and B. Jensen. Fragments of child grammar. Presented at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting. September, 2007.

 Thornton, R. Explaining why. Paper presented at the annual Australian Linguistic Society conference. Adelaide September, 2007.

Wong, D  A corpus-based analysis of the pragmatic dimensions of backchannels in Australian English telephone conversations   ICAME Conference 14-18 May 2008 (Ascona, Switzerland)

Wong, D  The relationship between backchannel types and prosody in Australian English telephone dialogues  Australian Linguistic Society conference July 2008 (Sydney)

Conference proceedings

Meroni, L. Gualmini, A. and S. Crain 2007. The strength of the universal quantifier in child language. In A. Belikova, L. Meroni, and M. Umeda (eds.) Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition-North America 2, 277-284. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA.ISBN 978-1-57473-419-5

Tesan, G. and S. Crain (2008) An MEG study of the Negative Polarity Item    any: lexical and postlexical processing. Biomagnetism: Transdisciplinary   Research and Exploration (Proceedings of BIOMAG 2008).

Published abstracts

Biedermann, B. & Nickels, L. (2007). Using a phonological cueing hierarchy in the treatment of word retrieval disorders: What generalisation can we expect? [Abstract]. Brain Impairment, 7(3), 260.

Biedermann, B., Coltheart, M., & Nickels, L. (2007). Effects of homophony on reading aloud [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology Supplement, 59(Suppl. 1), 19-20.

Biedermann, B., Nickels, L.A., & Beyersmann, A.E. (In Press). Plural errors in aphasic speech: how is 'number information' represented in the lexicon? [Abstract]. Brain Impairment

Smith-Lock, K.M., Nickels, L., & Mortensen, L. (In Press). Writing skills of adults with a history of specific-language-impairment [Abstract]. Reading and Writing..

Institute Courses

Trevor Johnston taught a course at the Australian Linguistics Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney July 7-11, 2008 in conjunction with meetings of ALAA, ALS, LFG, & ISCF. Course titled: Signed Languages and Grammaticalization.

Rosalind Thornton taught a course at the Australian Linguistics Institute Course. The acquisition of syntax and semantics.