Publications and presentations

Journal articles and conference proceedings papers

  • [To appear]. Tollan, R. and B. Palaz. What does that mean? Complementizers and epistemic authority. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science.
  • [2023]. Yoo, M. and R. Tollan. Transitivity and non-uniform subjecthood in agreement attraction. Memory and Cognition. 1-18.
  • [2023]. Cho, J. and R. Tollan. Dependency formation interacts with case: Evidence from Korean double nominative constructions. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America.
  • [2022]. Ishii, K. and R. Tollan. Syntactic matching effects in the online processing of intransitive subject relative clauses.  Proceedings of the 52nd Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.
  • [2022]. Tollan, R. and D. Heller. Pronoun resolution and ergativity: Effects of subjecthood and case in Niuean. Language, 98 (1),157-183.
  • [2021]. Yoo, M., S. Tomioka, and R. Tollan. NP types of distractors modulate the processing of English cleft sentences. Proceedings ExLing 2021: 12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics.
  • [2021]. Tollan, R. and B. Palaz. Subject gaps revisited: complement clauses and complementizer-trace effects. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences.
  • [2020]. Tollan, R. Subjecthood and unmarkedness in Niuean. In Paul, Ileana (ed.). Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA). University of Western Ontario.
  • [2019]. Tollan, R., D. Massam, and D. Heller. Effects of case and transitivity on processing dependencies: Evidence from Niuean. Cognitive Science, 43 (6), 1-14. DOI: 10.111/cogs.12736
  • [2016]. Tollan, R. and Heller, D. Elvis Presley on an island: wh dependency formation inside  complex NPs. Proceedings of the 46th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. GSLA: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Recent conference and workshop presentations

  • [2024]  Bruening, B. and R. Tollan. A New Technique to Detect Lexical Content in Gaps and Its Application to  the Question of Reconstruction in Wh-Movement. Talk to be presented at Linguistic Evidence 2024.
  • [2024]. Clemens, L., J. Rodriguez, and R. Tollan. Where word order and object marking intersect: Differential object marking in Copala Triqui. Talk presented at the Linguistic Society of America. 
  • [2024]. Tang, X., P. Nelson and R. Tollan. Effects of classifier (mis-)match on filler-gap dependencies in Mandarin. Talk presented at the Linguistic Society of America.
  • [2024]. Cho, J. and R. Tollan. Alignment of grammatical function and morphological case in the usage of nominative object constructions. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America. 
  • [2023]. Clemens, L., J. Rodriguez, and R. Tollan. Optionality in Differential Object Marking in Copala Triqui. Talk presented at Workshop on Variation and Syntactic Theory.
  • [2023]. Tollan, R., B. Doroudiani and D. Heller. Effects of uniqueness on extraction from NP objects. Talk  presented at the Penn Syntax Lab workshop on Locality in Theory, Processing, and Acquisition.
  • [2023]. Cho, J. and R. Tollan. Phasal locality in case assignment: Evidence from Korean nominative object constructions. Poster presented at the Penn Syntax Lab workshop on Locality in Theory, Processing, and Acquisition.
  • [2023]. Tang, X., P. Nelson and R. Tollan. Local Ambiguity in Mandarin Relative Clauses: Effects of (Mis-)Matching Classifiers. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence   Processing. 
  • [2023]. Cho, J. and R. Tollan. Dependency formation interacts with case: Evidence from Korean double nominative constructions. Talk presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
  • [2022]. Tollan, R. and B. Palaz. Non-uniform transitivity: The effect of affect in argument encoding. Talk presented at Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL). \
  • [2022]. Palaz, B., B. Bruening and R. Tollan. Differential Subject Island Effects in Sluicing and the Role of Contextual Support. Talk presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europa (SLE).
  • [2022]. Tollan, R. and B. Palaz. What that means: Complementizers and epistemic authority. Talk presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (formerly CUNY).
  • [2022]. Cho, J. and R. Tollan. The function of nominative case in relative clause processing (and vice versa). Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (formerly CUNY).
  • [2022]. Palaz, B., B. Bruening and R. Tollan. Differential Subject Island Effects in Sluicing and the Role of Contextual Support. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (formerly CUNY).
  • [2022]. Yoo, M. and R. Tollan. Selective interference effects: The role of filler status in agreement formation. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (formerly CUNY).
  • [2022]. Palaz, B., B. Bruening and R. Tollan. Differential Island Effects in Sluicing and the Role of Discourse. Poster presented at Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC46).
  • [2022]. Seo, Y. and R. Tollan. D-linking and the effects of contextual set restriction. Poster presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
  • [2022]. Yoo, M., S. Tomioka and R. Tollan. The difficulty of definiteness: Interference effects of NP type in the processing of cleft sentences. Poster presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
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