{"id":47,"date":"2018-10-25T20:44:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:39:41","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Publications (including external collaborations)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fang, Shaohua and Elaine J. Francis. Truth-value judgment tasks in second language research. Language and Linguistics Compass <\/em>19(5), e70019. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/lnc3.70019<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hu, Jingying and Yan Cong. 2025. Modeling Chinese L2 Writing Development: The LLM-Surprisal Perspective<\/a>. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics<\/em>, pages 172\u2013183, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Li, Yue, Yan Cong, and Elaine J. Francis. 2025. Beyond Binary Animacy: A Multi-Method Investigation of LMs\u2019 Sensitivity in English Object Relative Clauses<\/a>. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics<\/i>, pages 184\u2013196, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaves, Rui and Elaine J. Francis. 2024. Long-term effects of repeated exposure to Subject Island constructions<\/a>: Evidence for syntactic adaptation. Glossa Psycholinguistics<\/em>, 3(1), 1-45. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5070\/G601120321<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>, Cascadilla Press. (14 pp.) https:\/\/www.cascadilla.com\/bucld48toc.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/em>, 17<\/em>(2), 136-1600. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1558\/jalpp.20213<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/em>, 14<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2023.1133003<\/a><\/p>\n

Sheu, Vanessa, Joshua D. Weirick, and Alexis Zhou, eds. 2023. Variation in Linguistics: Second Language Acquisition, Discourse Studies, Sociolinguistics, Syntax<\/em><\/a>. Cambridge Scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Francis, Elaine J. 2022. Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory<\/a><\/em>. Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Francis, Elaine J. 2017. Structural priming can inform syntactic analyses of partially grammaticalized constructions<\/a>. Behavioral and Brain Sciences<\/em> 40: 22-23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis, Elaine J. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2017. When relative clause extraposition is the right choice, it\u2019s easier<\/a>. Language and Cognition<\/em>. 9(2): 332-370.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Hitz, John and Elaine J. Francis. 2016. On the usefulness of formal judgment tasks in syntax and in second-language research<\/a>: The case of resumptive pronouns in English, Turkish, and Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics <\/em>54: 1241-1280.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>: evidence from Cantonese. Lingua <\/em>162: 56-81.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Francis, Elaine J. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2014. Why move? How weight and discourse factors combine to predict relative clause extraposition in English<\/a>. Competing Motivations in Grammar, Acquisition, and Usage<\/em>, ed. by Edith Moravcsik, Andrej Malchukov, and Brian MacWhinney. Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Francis, Elaine J. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2012. Effects of weight and definiteness on speakers\u2019 choice of clausal ordering in English. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts<\/em> 2012<\/em> 3(5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Francis, Elaine J. 2011. Constraining mismatch in grammar and in sentence comprehension: The role of default correspondences. Etsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi, and Katharine Beals, eds. Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock<\/em>, pp. 279-298. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> 40: 1-28. Link<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Francis, Elaine J. 2010. Grammatical weight and relative clause extraposition in English. Cognitive Linguistics<\/em> 21(1): 35-74.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Francis, Elaine J. and Etsuyo Yuasa. 2008. A multi-modular approach to gradual change in grammaticalization. Journal of Linguistics<\/em> 44(1): 45-86.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Francis, Elaine J. 2007. The role of default constructions in the processing of mismatch: The case of possessive free relatives. Stefan M\u00fcller, ed. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Workshop on Constructions and Grammatical Theory<\/em>, 345-363. Stanford: CSLI Publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Francis, Elaine J. and Stephen Matthews. 2006. Categoriality and object extraction in Cantonese serial verb constructions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory<\/em> 24: 751-801.\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a complete list of Elaine Francis’s publications, including her pre-2006 publications and collaborations with other labs, please see her Publication Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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