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Recent journal articles and conference proceedings papers

  • [2025] Bruening, B. and R. Tollan. Reconstruction in Wh-Movement: The View from Lexical              Reactivation. Syntactic Theory and Research 1 (1).
  • [2025] Palaz, B. B. Bruening and R. Tollan. Subject island effects under sluicing: An experimental investigation. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics. 
  • [2025] Tollan, R., B. Doroudiani and D. Heller. Effects of uniqueness on extraction from definite NP objects. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 
  • [2024] Clemens, L., B. Merino Fernandez, J. Rodriguez and R. Tollan. When differential object marking is optional: The case of Copala Triqui. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 30.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 51.
  • [2024] 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.

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 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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