CURRICULUM VITAE
Name:
Holly Parima Branigan
Current Post:
Reader
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh
Work Address:
Psychology
University of Edinburgh
7 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JZ
Email: holly.branigan@ed.ac.uk
POST-SCHOOL EDUCATION
1986-1990
University of York
B.A. Language & Linguistics, First Class Honours
1987-1988
Université de Lille III
Diplôme d’Etudes Françaises, Mention Bien
1991-1992
University of Edinburgh
MSc. Cognitive Science & Natural Language, Distinction
Dissertation: Topicalisation structures in Thai, awarded 1992.
1992-1995
University of Edinburgh
Ph.D. Cognitive Science
Thesis: Language Processing and the Mental Representation of Syntactic Structure,
awarded 1996.
EMPLOYMENT
1995-1996
Research Associate
ESRC Human Communication Research Centre
University of Edinburgh
1996-1997
Research Associate
ESRC Human Communication Research Centre
Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow
1997
British Telecom Short-Term Research Fellow
British Telecom Research Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Oct-Dec 1997
1997-2003
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
ESRC Human Communication Research Centre
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Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh
[1999–2003: 50% FTE]
2003-2004
Research Fellow
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh [50% FTE]
2004-2007
Lecturer
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh [60% FTE]
2007-present
Reader
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh [75% FTE]
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Branigan, H.P. , Pickering, M.J. , Liversedge, S.P., Stewart, A.J. &.Urbach, T.P. (1995). Syntactic
priming: Investigating the mental representation of language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 24,
489—506.
Pickering, M.J. & Branigan, H.P. (1998). The representation of verbs: Evidence from syntactic
persistence in written language production. Journal of Memory & Language, 39, 633-651.
Liversedge, S.P. , Pickering, M.J. , Branigan, H.P. & van Gompel, R.J. (1998). Processing arguments
and adjuncts in isolation and context: The case of by-phrase ambiguities in passives. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 24, 461-475.
Branigan, H.P. , Pickering, M.J. & Cleland, A.A.. (1999). Syntactic priming in written production:
Evidence for rapid decay. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6, 535-540.
Pickering, M.J. & Branigan, H.P. (1999). Syntactic priming in language production. Trends in Cognitive
Science, 3, 136-141.
Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J. & Cleland, A.A. (2000). Syntactic coordination in dialogue. Cognition, 75,
B13-B25.
Branigan, H.P. , Pickering, M.J. , Stewart, A.J. & McLean, J.F. (2000). Syntactic priming in spoken
production: Linguistic and temporal interference. Memory & Cognition, 28, 1297-1302.
Prat-Sala, M. & Branigan, H.P. (2000). Discourse constraints on syntactic processing in language
production: A cross-linguistic study in English & Spanish. Journal of Memory & Language, 42, 168182.
Pickering, M.J. , Branigan, H.P. , Cleland, A.A & Stewart, A.J. (2000). Syntactic activation in language
production. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 205-216.
Pickering, M.J. , Branigan, H.P. , & McLean, J.F. (2002). Constituent structure is formulated in one
stage. Journal of Memory & Language, 46, 586-605.
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Plemmenou, E., Bard, E.G., & Branigan, H.P. (2002). Grammatical gender in the production of single
words: Some evidence from Greek. Brain and Language, 81, 236-241.
Liversedge, S.P., Pickering, M.J., Clayes, E.L., & Branigan, H.P. (2003). Thematic processing of
adjuncts: Evidence from an eye-tracking experiment. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 10, 667–675.
Branigan, H.P. (2004). Full alignment of some but not all representations in dialogue. Commentary on
Pickering and Garrod. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 191-192.
Branigan, H.P. & Pickering, M.J. (2004). Syntactic representation in the lemma stratum: Commentary
on Levelt, Roelofs and Meyer. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 296-297.
Branigan, H.P. , Pickering, M.J. , & McLean, J.F. (2005). Priming prepositional-phrase attachment
during comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 31, 468-481.
Haywood, S., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (2005). Do speakers avoid ambiguity in dialogue?
Psychological Science, 16, 362-366.
Branigan, H.P. (2006). Perspectives on multi-party dialogue. Research on Language and Computation, 4, 153177.
Branigan, H.P. (2006). Syntactic priming. Language and Linguistics Compass, 1.
Branigan, H.P. , Pickering, M.J , & McLean, J.F., & Stewart, A. (2006). The role of local and global
syntactic structure in language production: Evidence from syntactic priming. Language and Cognitive
Processes, 12, 974-1010.
Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J, McLean, J.F., & Cleland, A.A. (2007). Participant role and syntactic
alignment in dialogue. Cognition, 104, 163-197.
Raffray, C.N., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (2007). Priming the interpretation of noun-noun
combinations. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 380-395.
Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J, & Tanaka, M. (2008). Contributions of animacy to grammatical function
assignment and word order during production. Lingua, 118, 172-189.
Jones, M.W., Branigan, H.P., & Kelly, M.L. (2008). Visual deficits in developmental dyslexia:
Relationships between non-linguistic visual tasks and their contribution to literacy. Dyslexia, 14, 95115.
Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., Pearson, J. & McLean, J.F. (in press). Linguistic alignment between
humans and computers. Journal of Pragmatics
Raffray, C.N., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (in press). Relation priming, the lexical boost, and
alignment in dialogue. Commentary on Leech. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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Jones, M.W., Obregon, N., Kelly, M.L., & Branigan, H.P. (in press). Phonological and extraphonological influences on a measure of reading fluency: Evidence from dyslexic and unimpaired
readers. Cognition.
Jones, M.W., Branigan, H.P., & Kelly, M.L. (in press). Dyslexic and non-dyslexic reading fluency: Rapid
Automatized Naming and the importance of continuous lists. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Refereed Book Chapters
Branigan, H.P. & M. Prat-Sala (2000). A cross-linguistic perspective on discourse context and
syntactic processing in language production. In V. Lombardo & M. de Vincenzi (Eds) Crosslinguistic Perspectives for Language Processing. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
McLean, J. F. , Pickering, M.J. , & Branigan, H.P. (2004). Lexical repetition and syntactic priming in
dialogue. In J. C. Trueswell & M. K. Tanenhaus (Eds). Processing world-situated language: Bridging
the language as product and language as action traditions. Cambridge, Ma: MIT Press.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Vogel, C., Hahn, U. & Branigan, H.P. (1996). Cross-serial dependencies are not hard to process.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Copenhagen, August 5-9
1996.
Branigan, H.P. , Stewart, A.J . & Pickering, M.J. (1998). Is syntactic priming a two-way effect?
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Branigan, H.P. , Lickley, R. & McKelvie, D. (1999). Non-linguistic influences on rates of disfluency in
spontaneous speech. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Congress of Phonetic Sciences , San Francisco, August
1-7, 1999.
Branigan, H.P. & Feleki, E. (1999). Conceptual accessibility and serial order in Greek speech
production. Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver,
July 1999.
Sturt, P. , Branigan, H.P. & Matsumoto-Sturt, Y. (1999). Thematic domain constraints on reanalysis in
Japanese. Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver,
July 1999.
Branigan, H.P. & McLean, J.F. (2003). Something old, something new: addressee knowledge and the
given-new contract. Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
Boston, July 2003.
Branigan, H.P. , Pickering, M.J , Pearson, J., McLean, J.F., & Nass, C.I. (2003). Syntactic alignment
between computers and people: the role of belief about mental states. Proceedings of the Twentyfifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, July 2003.
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Haywood, S., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (2003). Co-operation and co-ordination in the
production of noun phrases. Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society, Boston, July 2003.
Watson, M. E., Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. (2004). Alignment of reference frames in dialogue.
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago, August 2004.
Branigan, H.P. , McLean, J.F. , & Jones, M.W. (2005). A blue cat or a cat that is blue? Evidence for
abstract syntax in young children’s noun phrases. In A. Brugos, M. R. Clark-Cotton, & S. Ha
(Eds.), The proceedings of the 29th annual Boston University conference on language development, (pp. 109 –
121). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Pearson, J., Hu, J., Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & Nass, C. (2006). Adaptive language behavior in
HCI: how expectations and beliefs about a system affect users' word choice. Proceedings of the
SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, pp.1177-1180. Montréal, April 2006.
Watson, M. E., Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. (2006). An empirical investigation into spatial
reference frame taxonomy using dialogue. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society, Vancouver, July 2006.
Messenger, K., Branigan, H., McLean, J. & Sorace, A. (2008). English-speaking children’s early passives:
Evidence from syntactic priming. In H. Chan, H. Jacob, & E. Kapia, (Eds.) BUCLD 32: Proceedings
of the 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press:
275-286.
Thatcher, K., Branigan, H., McLean, J. & Sorace, A. (2008). Children’s early acquisition of the passive:
Evidence from syntactic priming. In CLS 2007: Conference Proceedings of the Child Language
Seminar – 30th Anniversary.
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GRANTS HELD
ESRC
The mental representation of nouns & verbs: Syntactic priming in production. October 1997September 2000. £99,640. (Co-applicant) [Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Pickering.] Graded
Outstanding.
Determinants of syntactic coordination in dialogue. July 2001-June 2004. £132,000. (Principal
Investigator). Graded Outstanding.
Integrating perceptual, semantic, and syntactic information during sentence production. ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. £93,000. (Mentor) [Principal Investigator: Andriy Myachykov]
[Also: 4 other 3-year proposals alpha-rated but unfunded]
British Academy
Incremental syntactic production. Postdoctoral Fellowship. October 1997-September 2003. c. £90,000.
(Principal Investigator)
Syntactic priming effects in spoken dialogue. August 1998-April 1999. £4,300. (Principal Investigator)
Time-aligned annotation of the unlabelled Map Task Corpus. (Co-applicant) [Principal Investigator: Dr
R. Lickley]. April 1999-April 2000. £3,800.
Syntactic processing in spoken and written production. March 2002-February 2003. £4,828. (Principal
Investigator)
Lexical and semantic effects on reference frame priming. January 2008-December 2010. £1,140. (Coapplicant) [Principal Investigator: Dr M. Watson]
Nuffield Foundation
Syntactic cooperation and communicative success in dialogue. October 2000-January 2001. £8996.
(Principal Investigator)
Scottish Enterprise
Alignment between humans and computers, and its implications. October 2002-September 2005.
c.£195,000. (Co-applicant) [Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Pickering.]
Understanding and Leveraging Alignment in Human-Technology Interaction. October 2005-August
2007. c.£100,000. (Co-applicant) [Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Pickering.]
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Leverhulme Trust
Dialogue matters. August 2005-July 2008. c. £150,000. (Co-applicant) [Principal Investigator: Prof. R.
Kempson.]
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
Invited talks
Pickering, M.J. , Branigan, H.P. & Stewart, A.J. Syntactic priming in language comprehension.
Presented at The Third European Conference on Language Comprehension. Hyères, France,
May 1994.
Branigan, H.P. , Pickering, M.J. & Stewart, A.J. Syntactic priming and language processing. Presented
at The 25th Anniversary Conference of the Centre for Cognitive Science. Edinburgh, July 1994.
Pickering, M.J. & Branigan, H.P. Syntactic priming and lexical representation. Presented at The
Experimental Psychology Society Workshop on Lexical Aspects of Language Production.
Exeter, September 1998.
Branigan, H.P. Syntactic processing in dialogue: Evidence from alignment. Presented at the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft conference on Language Production. Berlin, September 2001.
Branigan, H.P. Participant status and syntax in dialogue. Presented at the Leverhulme Workshop on
Dialogue, London, June 2004.
Branigan, H.P. Alignment in Human-Human and Human-Computer interactions. Presented at the
Workshop on How People Talk to Computers, Robots, and other Artificial Communication
Partners. Centre for Advanced Studies, Delmenhorst, April 2006.
Branigan, H.P. Linguistic experience and syntactic representations in young children and adults:
Evidence from structural priming. International Conference on Cognitive Science, Moscow,
June 2008.
Branigan, H.P. Applying alignment to language acquisition and human-computer interaction.
Conference on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language, Sendai, Japan,
August 2008.
Branigan, H.P. Aligning word and syntax. Workshop on Alignment, Tilburg, September 2008.
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Conference Presentations
Oral papers
Pickering, M.J. , Branigan, H.P. , Liversedge, S.P., Stewart, A.J., Urbach, T.P. & Myler, A. Exploring
syntactic priming. Presented at The 8th CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Tucson, USA,
March 1995.
Liversedge, S.P. , Branigan, H.P. & Pickering, M.J. An eye movement investigation of ambiguous
locative and agentive sentences. Presented at The Experimental Psychology Society Meeting.
Cambridge, April 1995.
Vogel, C., Hahn, U. & Branigan, H.P. Cross-serial dependencies are not hard to process. Presented at
The 4th International Conference on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing.
Dublin, July 1995.
Vogel, C., Hahn, U. & Branigan, H.P. Cross-serial dependencies are not hard to process. Presented at
The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Copenhagen, August 5--9
1996.
Prat-Sala, M. & Branigan, H.P. Discourse effects in sentence production: a cross-linguistic
study. Presented at The 2nd Architectures & Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference.
Turin, September 1996.
Branigan, H.P. & Pickering, M.J. The representation of verbs: Evidence from syntactic priming in
production. Presented at The 3rd Architectures & Mechanisms of Language Processing
Conference. Edinburgh, September 1997.
Branigan, H.P. & Pickering, M.J. Syntactic dimensions of verb representation. Presented at The
Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society. London, January 1998.
Branigan, H.P. , Stewart, A.J. & Pickering, M.J. Syntactic priming of matrix and subordinate clauses in
spoken production. Presented at The 4th Architectures & Mechanisms of Language Processing
Conference. Freiburg, September 1998.
Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J. & Cleland, A.A. Syntactic coordination in dialogue. Presented at The
12th CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. New York, March 1999.
Pickering, M.J. , Branigan, H.P. & Stewart, A.J. Linear versus hierarchical models of syntactic
activation in production: Evidence from syntactic priming. Presented at The 12th CUNY
Sentence Processing Conference. New York, March 1999.
Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J. & Cleland, A.A. Syntactic coordination in dialogue. Presented at The
Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society. Durham, July 1999.
Pickering, M.J. , Branigan, H.P. & Stewart, A.J. Linear versus hierarchical models of syntactic
activation in production. Presented at The Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society.
Durham, July 1999.
Pickering, M.J. & Branigan, H.P. Word order and conceptual effects in syntactic priming. The
European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP XI), Ghent, Belgium, September 1999.
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Liversedge, S.P., Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P, & Clayes, E. Investigating thematic processing in
adjuncts. The 11th European conference on eye movements (ECEM11), Türkü, Finland,
August 2001.
Pickering, M.J. , McLean, J.F. , Branigan, H.P. & Timmermans, L. The princess and the PP: lexical
influences on syntactic repetition in dialogue. Presented at The 7th Architectures &
Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference. Saarbrucken, September 2001.
McLean, J.F. , Pickering, M.J. & Branigan, H.P. Lexical overlap and syntactic priming in dialogue.
Presented at the European Society of Cognitive Psychology Conference, Edinburgh, September
2001.
Pickering, M.J. , McLean, J.F. , Branigan, H.P. & Timmermans, L. Lexical contributions to sentence
formulation: Effects of lexical repetition on syntactic priming. The 42nd Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomics Society, Orlando, FL, November 2001.
Haywood, S., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. Priming and audience design: Evidence for the effect of
different processes on language production in dialogue. Presented at the 16th Annual CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA, March 2003.
Branigan, H.P. & McLean, J.F. Something old, something new: Addressee knowledge and the givennew contract. Presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
Boston, MA, August 2003.
Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P. , & McLean, J.F. Effects of dialogue structure on the activation of
syntactic information. The 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston,
July 2003.
Branigan, H.P. , Pickering, M.J. , Pearson, J. , McLean, J.F., & Nass, C.I. Syntactic alignment between
computers and people: the role of belief about mental states. The 25th Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, July 2003.
Haywood, S., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. Co-operation and Co-ordination in the Production of
Noun Phrases. Presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
Boston, MA, August 2003.
Branigan, H.P. , Pickering, M.J. & Cleland, A.A. Syntactic alignment and participant status in dialogue.
Presented at the European Society of Cognitive Psychology conference, Granada, September,
2003.
McLean, J.F. , Branigan, H.P. & Pickering, M.J. How artists with keys help nuns with umbrellas: the
role of prior comprehension on disambiguation. Presented at the 17th Annual CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Washington DC, March 2004.
Hadelich, H.P., Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & Crocker, M.W. Alignment in Dialogue: Effects of
Visual versus Verbal-feedback. Presented at the 8th Workshop on the Semantics and
Pragmatics of Dialogue (Catalog'04), Barcelona, July 2004.
Tanaka, M., Branigan, H.P., & Pickering, M.J. The role of animacy in Japanese sentence production.
Presented at the Japanese language processing workshop, Tsukuba, Japan, July 2004.
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Watson, M. E., Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. Alignment of reference frames in dialogue.
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, 5 – 7
August 2004.
Haywood, S., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. Do speakers avoid ambiguity during dialogue?
Presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing conference, Aix-enProvence, September 2004.
Branigan, H.P. , McLean, J.F. , & Jones, M. The blue cat or the cat that’s blue: syntactic priming in
young children’s noun phrases. Presented at the 25th Boston University Conference on
Language Development, Boston, MA, November 2004.
Watson, M. E., Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. Reference frame alignment in dialogue: The
importance of the origin. Presented at the 18th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing, Arizona, March 2005.
Tanaka, M., Branigan, H.P., & Pickering, M.J. The role of animacy in Japanese sentence production.
Presented at the 18th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Tucson AZ,
March 2005.
Hatzidaki, A., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. The construction of subject-verb agreement in
sentence production by bilinguals. Presented at the 18th Annual CUNY Conference on
Human Sentence Processing,, Tucson, AZ, March 2005.
Hatzidaki, A., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. Subject-verb Agreement in Code-switching. Presented
at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona, March 2005.
Tanaka, M., Branigan, H.P., & Pickering, M.J. The role of animacy in Japanese sentence production.
Presented at the Pioneer workshop on Animacy, Nijimegen, May 2005.
Catchpole, C.M., Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P. Why it’s better to overhear a dialogue than a
monologue. Presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP-05),
Ghent, Belgium, 5-7th Sept 2005.
Jones, M.W., Branigan, H.P. & Kelly, L. Which Visual Processes are Aberrant in the Dyslexic Naming
Speed Deficit? Presented at the BPS developmental section conference, Edinburgh, Sept 2005.
Watson, M. E., Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. Flexible reference frames in dialogue. Presented at
Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue, Bremen, 23 – 25 October 2005.
Tanaka, M., Branigan, H.P. & Pickering, M.J. Animacy and structural priming in Japanese sentence
production. The 11th International Conference on Processing Chinese and Other East Asian
Languages. Hong Kong, December 2005.
Hatzidaki, A., Pickering, M., & Branigan, H.P. The Construction of Subject-Verb Agreement in
Sentence Production by Bilinguals. Presented at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on
Human Sentence Processing, New York, March 2006.
Watson, M. E., Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. Investigating reference frame categorization using
dialogue. Presented at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,
New York, March 2006.
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Tanaka, M., Branigan, H.P., & Pickering, M.J. The effect of information accessibility on Japanese
sentence production. Presented at the 7th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Tokyo,
April 2006.
Pearson, J., Hu, J., Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & Nass, C. Adaptive language behavior in HCI: how
expectations and beliefs about a system affect users' word choice. Presented at the SIGCHI
conference on Human Factors in computing systems, Montréal, April 2006.
Jones, M.W., Branigan, H.P. & Kelly, L. What causes the Rapid Automized Naming deficit in
developmental dyslexia? Presented at the BPS developmental section conference, London,
August 2006.
Pickering. M.J. , Branigan, H.P. , & McLean, J.F. The decay of syntactic priming during dialogue.
AMLaP-2006, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 2006.
Branigan, H.P , McLean, J. , Thatcher, K. & Jones, M.W. A blue cat or a cat that is blue? Abstract
syntax in young children's noun phrase production. Presented at the BPS developmental section
conference, London, August 2006.
Messenger, K., Branigan, H., McLean, J. & Sorace, A. English-speaking children’s early passives:
Evidence from syntactic priming. Presented at the 32nd Boston University Conference on
Language Development, Boston, November 2007.
Jones, M. W., Obregon, M., & Branigan, H. (2007). Dyslexic and control readers' eye-voice span
differences in a fluency task. Presented at the 14th European Conference on Eye Movements,
Potsdam, Germany.
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Messenger, K., Branigan, H.P., McLean, J. & Sorace, A. Semantic factors in young children’s
comprehension and production of passives. Presented at the 33rd Annual Boston University
Conference on Language Development, November, 2008.
Jones, M. W., Obregon, M., Kelly, M. L., & Branigan, H. P. (2008). Phonological and extraphonological influences on a measure of fluency: Evidence from dyslexic and non-dyslexic
readers. Presented at the 16th Conference of the German Dyslexia and Dyscalculia Association.
Posters
I have co-authored more than 50 posters that have been presented at international conferences such as
the CUNY sentence processing conference, the Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing
conference, the European Society of Cognitive Psychology conference, and the Cognitive Science
Society conference.
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Departmental seminars
Department of Language and Linguistics, University of York, 1996
Speech Synthesis and Analysis Group, British Telecom Research Laboratories, Martlesham, 1997
Department of Psychology, University of Durham, 1998
Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 2005
Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, 2005
Language Group, University of Glasgow, 2006
Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, 2006
Department of Psychology, University of York, 2007.
Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona, 2008.
Department of Language and Information Sciences, University of Tokyo, 2008.
Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham, 2008.
Cognitive Interaction Group, University of Bielefeld, 2009.
Department of English and American Linguistics, University of Paderborn, 2009.
Research supervision
Supervisor for MSc. dissertation:
Eleonora Feleki (1996)
Ashley Brown (2003)
Gail Munro (2005)
Zoe Tsakmaki (2005)
Kate Thatcher (2005)
Akiyo Shibuya (2006)
Ryan Gramacy (2006)
Anna Vasilyeva (2007)
Jenny Bell (2008)
Yi-Feng Lu (2008)
First/Co-supervisor for Ph.D. students:
Completed:
Susannah Flett (2002-2006)
Claudine Raffray (2004-2007)
Manon Jones (2004-2007)
Alice Foucart (2004-2007)
Claire Huxley (2004-2008)
In progress:
Kate Messenger (2005-)
Second supervisor for Ph.D. students:
Completed:
Alexandra Cleland (1998-2001)
Evangelia Plemmenou (1998-2002)
Sarah Haywood (2000-2003)
Ciara Catchpole (2002-2006)
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Matthew Watson (2002-2006)
Anna Chatzidaki (2003-2006)
Mikihiro Tanaka (2003-2007)
Gaurav Malhotra (2004-2009)
In progress:
Annabel Harrison (2001-)
Appointments as examiner for the award of doctoral degrees
PhD external examiner:
Angeliki Salamoura, University of Cambridge, December 2004
Kristina Uzule, University of Birmingham, December 2008
Member of PhD Committee (=examiner):
Barbora Skarabela, Boston University, USA, September 2005
OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES
Organisation
1997
Co-organiser of Fifth Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing
conference.
1999-present
Member of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing
Executive Committee.
2004
Organiser, Leverhulme Network Workshop on Dialogue.
2006-present
Member of the Editorial Board, Language and Linguistic Compass
Academic Reviewing
Journals:
Cognition
Cognitive Psychology
Journal of Memory and Language
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
Journal of Child Language
Language Acquisition
Discourse Processes
Memory and Cognition
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
Language and Cognitive Processes
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Journal of Speech and Hearing Research
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European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Conferences:
CUNY conferences (2002-)
AMLaP conferences (1996-)
GALA language acquisition conference (1997)
ESSLI conference (1999)
Cognitive Science Society (2000, 2004)
Boston University Conference on Language Development (2007)
Funding bodies:
British Academy: Panel member, Newton International Fellowships
Economic and Social Research Council
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Nuffield Foundation
National Science Foundation (USA)
Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organisiert von
Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France)
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