2024
Chaves, Rui and Elaine J. Francis. 2024. Long-term effects of repeated exposure to Subject Island constructions: Evidence for syntactic adaptation. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 3(1), 1-45. https://doi.org/10.5070/G601120321
Sheu, Vanessa and Elaine J. Francis. 2024. Plausibility and the aural processing of Mandarin garden-path sentences: an online study of L1 and heritage speakers. In: Hayat AlThagafi and Jupitara Ray, eds. BUCLD 48: Proceedings of the 48th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Cascadilla Press. (14 pp.) https://www.cascadilla.com/bucld48toc.html
2023
Khodadadi, Golsa, and Yaser Hadidi. 2023. Exploring occurrences of verb phrase ellipsis in journalistic discourse and in a sample of modern American fiction. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 17(2), 136-1600. https://doi.org/10.1558/jalpp.20213
Wang, Yamin, Jingying Hu, Zhuoma An, Chaoran Li, and Yang Zhao. 2023. The influence of metacognition monitoring on L2 Chinese audiovisual reading comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1133003
Sheu, Vanessa, Joshua D. Weirick, and Alexis Zhou, eds. 2023. Variation in Linguistics: Second Language Acquisition, Discourse Studies, Sociolinguistics, Syntax. Cambridge Scholars.
2022
Francis, Elaine J. 2022. Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory. Oxford University Press.
2017
Francis, Elaine J. 2017. Structural priming can inform syntactic analyses of partially grammaticalized constructions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40: 22-23.
Francis, Elaine J. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2017. When relative clause extraposition is the right choice, it’s easier. Language and Cognition. 9(2): 332-370.
2016
Hitz, John and Elaine J. Francis. 2016. On the usefulness of formal judgment tasks in syntax and in second-language research: The case of resumptive pronouns in English, Turkish, and Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics 54: 1241-1280.
2015
Francis, Elaine J., Charles Lam, Carol Chun Zheng, John Hitz, and Stephen Matthews. 2015. Resumptive pronouns, structural complexity, and the elusive distinction between grammar and performance: evidence from Cantonese. Lingua 162: 56-81.
2014
2012
Francis, Elaine J. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2012. Effects of weight and definiteness on speakers’ choice of clausal ordering in English. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2012 3(5).
2011
Francis, Elaine J., Stephen Matthews, Reace Wing Yan Wong, and Stella Wing Man Kwan. 2011. Effects of weight and syntactic priming on the production of Cantonese verb-doubling. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 40: 1-28. Link
2010
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2006
For a complete list of Elaine Francis’s publications, including her pre-2006 publications and collaborations with other labs, please see her Publication Page or her CV.