Publications

 

Articles in refereed journals, books, refereed book chapters, editorials

 

In Preparation          Published Abstracts           Invited Lectures       Other Presentations

 

Articles in refereed journals, books, refereed book chapters, editorials

 

Hellings, C., Van Hooijdonk,, C. & Lamers, M.J.A.  (in press). Liever een krachtige dan een luie tijger in uw tank? De rol van afbeelidngen bij metaforische slogans in advertenties. Tekstblad.

Lamers, M.J.A. & Van Hooijdonk, C. (in press). Zeggen plaatjes meer dan woorden alleen? Effecten van multimodale informatiepresentaties in instructieve teksten.

Lamers, M.J.A. & De Hoop, H. (forthcoming). Object fronting in Dutch. In: Edith A. Moravcsik & Andrej Malchukov (eds.) Competing Motivations.

Lamers, M.J.A. & Spooren, W. (2012). Tracking referents in discourse. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics.Vol. 1,1. 59-79. 

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & De Swart, P. (eds) (2012). Case, Word Order, and Prominence: Psycholinguistic and Theoretical Approaches to Argument Structure. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Springer.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & De Swart, P. (2012). Case, Word Order, and Prominence language production and comprehension in a cross-linguistic perspective. In: M.J.A.Lamers & P. de Swart (eds.) Case, Word Order, and Prominence: Psycholinguistic and Theoretical Approaches to Argument Structure. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Springer, 1-16.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2012). Argument linearization in Dutch: a multi-factorial approach. In: M.J.A.Lamers & P. De Swart (eds.) Case, Word Order, and Prominence: Psycholinguistic and Theoretical Approaches to Argument Structure. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Springer, 121-144.

 

Bader, M. & Lamers, M.J.A. (2009). Case and language comprehension. In: A. Malchukov & A. Spencer (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 402-418.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & Ruigendijk E. (2009). Case and aphasia. In: A. Malchukov & A. Spencer (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 419-435.

 

Vogels, J. & Lamers, M.J.A. (2008). The placement of bare plural subjects in Dutch. Linguistics in the Netherlands, Vol. 25, 2008, 169-180.

 

Hammer, A., Jansma, B. Lamers, M.J.A., and Münte, T F. (2008). Interplay of meaning, syntax and working memory during pronoun resolution investigated by ERPs. Brain Research, 1230, 177-191.

 

Lamers, M.J.A., Jansma B.M., Hammer A. & Münte, T.F. (2008). Differences in the processing of anaphoric reference between closely related languages: neurophysiological evidence. BMC Neuroscience, 9:55.

 

Lamers, M.J.A., Lestrade, S. & de Swart, P (eds). (2008). Animacy, Argument Structure, and Argument Encoding. Lingua (Special Issue), 118.

 

Swart, de, P., Lamers, M.J.A. & Lestrade, S. (2008).  Animacy, Argument Structure, and Argument Encoding. In: M.J.A. Lamers, S. Lestrade & P. de Swart (eds.) Animacy, Argument Structure, and Argument Encoding, Lingua, 118, 131-140. 

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2007). Verb type, animacy and definiteness in grammatical function disambiguation. Linguistics in the Netherlands, Vol. 24, 2007, 125-137.

 

Van Tiel, B. & Lamers, M.J.A. (2007). Animacy in verschillende teksttypes. Tabu: Bulletin voor Taawetenschap, 36, 1/2, 19-38.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2006). Cracking the nutshell differently, discussion of L2 in a nutshell- The investigation of second language processing in the miniature language model by Jutta Mueller. Language Learning, Vol.46, Issue s1, 271-277.

 

Lamers, M.J.A., Jansma B.M., Hammer A. & Münte T.F. (2006). Neural correlates of semantic and syntactic processes in the comprehension of case marked pronouns: evidence from German and Dutch. BMC Neuroscience, 7:23.

 

Hendriks, P., de Hoop, H. & Lamers, M.J.A. (2006). Asymmetries in language use reveal asymmetries in the grammar. 15th Amsterdam Colloquium (ILLC, Amsterdam).

 

Hoop, de, H. & Lamers M.J.A. (2006). Incremental distinguishability of subject and object. In L. Kulikov, A. Malchukov & P. de Swart (eds.). Case, Valency, and Transitivity. Studies in Language Companion Series., 269-290.

 

Hammer, A., Schmitt B.M., Lamers M.J.A. & Münte T.F. (2005). Pronominal reference in sentences about persons or things: An electrophysiological approach. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17:227-239.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2005). Resolving subject-object ambiguities with and without case: evidence from ERPs. To appear in M. Amberber & H. de Hoop (eds). Case-marking: competition and variation. Perspectives on Cognitive Science Series, 251-293.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & de Hoop, H.  (2005). Animacy information in human sentence processing: an incremental optimization of interpretation approach. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 3438, 158-171.
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Lamers, M.J.A. & de Hoop, H. (2004). The role of animacy information in human sentence processing captured in four conflicting constraints. Preliminary Proceedings of the International workshop on constraint solving and language processing (CSLP 2004). Kopenhagen/Roskilde.

 

Schmitt, B.M., Lamers, M.J.A. & Münte T. (2002). Electrophysiological estimates of biological and syntactic information access during pronoun processing. Cognitive Brain Research. 14, 333-346.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2001). Sentence processing: using syntactic, semantic, and thematic information. PhD Thesis. Groningen

 

Hendriks, P, Jong de R., Lamers M.J.A., Stowe L. & Taatgen, N. (1997). Kennis en kennisopslag. In: P.Hendriks, N.Taatgen and T.Andringa (eds.). Breinmakers & Breinbrekers. 147-210. Inleiding cognitiewetenschap. Amsterdam.

 

Mulder G., Wijers B. & Lamers, M.J.A. (1997). De Hersenen.  In: P.Hendriks, N.Taatgen  and

T.Andringa (eds.). Breinmakers & Breinbrekers. Inleiding cognitiewetenschap. 27-64. Amsterdam.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (1996). Parsing Dutch sentences: Ambiguity Resolution. In: R. Jonkers, E. Kaan, and J.A. Wiegel (eds.). Language and Cognition 5. Yearbook 1995 of the Research Group for Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics of the University of Groningen. 121-135. Groningen.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & Maassen B. (1992). De consonantoppositie d/t bij kinderen met verbale

ontwikkelingsdyspraxie. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie. Vol. 3/4, 216-231.

 

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In Preparation

 

Vogels, J., Verberne, S. & Lamers, M.J.A. (resubmitted) On the placement of bare plural subjects in Dutch: How not being specific may result in word order variation. Lingua.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (in preparation). Sentence comprehension in Dutch: electrophysiological estimates of animacy, word order, and three different types of verbs

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & Van Tiel, B. (in preparation). What we talk about: A comparative corpus study on the animacy of discourse topics and sentence subjects.

 

Van Leeuwen, T., Lamers, M.,  Petersson, K., Gussenhoven, C., Rietveld, A., Poser, B. & Hagoort, P. (reversible rejection Human Brain Mapping) Prosody and information structure: An fMRI study.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (submitted). Argument Linearization in Dutch: a multi-factorial approach. In: M.J.A. Lamers, & Swart, de , P. (eds) (submitted). Case, Word Order, and Prominence: Psycholinguistic and theoretical approaches to argument structure. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Springer.

 

 

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Published Abstracts

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & Van Tiel, B. (2012). Who or what we talk about: A comparative corpus study on the animacy structure of transitive sentences and sentence subjects. Linguistic Evidence 2012. Tuebingen, February, 10.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & Van Hooijdonk, C. (2011). Zeggen plaatjes meer dan woorden alleen? Effect van verschillende multimodale informatiepresentaties in instructieve teksten. VIOT. Leiden, December, 23.

 

Van Leeuwen, T., Lamers, M.J.A.,  Petersson, K., Gussenhoven, C., Rietveld, A., Poser, B. & Hagoort, P. (2007). Prosody and information structure: An fMRI study. Poster. 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (E83, p.175), New York, May, 8.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2006). Leve het onderwerp!, Bessensap 2006. p. 96. Nemo, Amsterdam, May 23.

 

Hammer, A., Schmitt, B.M., Lamers M.J.A. & Münte T.F. (2003). Pronominal reference in sentences about persons or things: An electrophysiological approach. Poster. 10th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. March, (A165, p. 35). New York.

 

Möbes J., Lamers M.J.A. & Münte T.F. (2003). Interaction of local time-inversion, cloze probability and semantic congruency on auditory ERPs. Poster. 10th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience society. (A271, p.46). New York. March. 30.

 

Lamers, M.J.A., Schmitt, B.M. & Münte, T.F. (2001). Biological vs. syntactic gender agreement during pronoun processing: an event-related brain potential study. Paper. The neurological basis of language. Groningen.

 

Maassen, B., Lamers, M.J.A. & Thoonen, G. (1993). Voice-onset-time (VOT) in /d/ - /t/ by children with DVD. Annual Convention of the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA). Abstract book, p.192.

 

 

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Invited Lectures

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2012). Tracking referents in discourse. OC Colloquium. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, February, 17.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2009). The resolution of personal pronouns in German and Dutch: semantic and syntactic gender matchmaking.

Psycholinguistic colloquium, University of Potsdam: Potsdam, Germany, May, 26.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2008). Getting the arguments right: the interplay between verb argument structure and word order preferences in comprehension and production. Psycholinguistics Coffee, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, October, 29.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2008). In search for the referent: How eye tracking and electrophysiological measurements may reveal the role of different discourse constructional factors in anaphor resolution. Cognitive Neuroscience Talks, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, October, 22.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2008). Differences in the processing of anaphoric reference between closely related languages: neurophysiological evidence. Information Structure Lecture Series, MPI Nijmegen, Nijmegen, June, 2. 

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2008). Pronoun resolution electrified. MPI, Nijmegen, Language Acquisition Colloquium. Nijmegen, June 4.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2008). Getting the arguments right: the influences of animacy and verb type on word order in language production and comprehension. Colloquium Acquisition lab. Groningen, May 27.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2008). Animacy, word order and verb type in perception and production. CLS colloquium series. Nijmegen, April 10.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. &  Hoop, de, H. (2007). Getting the arguments right: Incremental optimization of word order preferences in Dutch, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain sciences Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, December, 6-9.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2007). Word order in argument structure: how the hearer takes into account the perspective of the speaker. University of Aarhus, Aarhus,  Denmark, November 15.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2006). The influence of animacy and verb type on word order in perception and production, Seminar Experimental Psychology, Ghent, Belgium, December 1.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2005). Using linguistic information in a non-native manner learning Mini-Nihongo: evidence from ERPs. Discussant at The First A. Guiora Annual Roundtable Conference in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Second Language.  MPI Nijmegen, September, 20-21. 

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2005). Three types of verbs, word order, and animacy: the on-line processing of transitive relations in Dutch. Graduiertenkolleg NeuroAct, Universitäten Marburg & Giessen, Marburg, May 17.

 

Lamers, M.J.A., Jansma, B.M.,  Hammer, A. & Münte, T.F. (2003). The involvement of semantic and syntactic processes in the comprehension of case marked pronouns in German and in Dutch. Invited Speaker. Workshop: Syntax and Beyond, Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, August 29-30.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2001). The use of different sorts of information in sentence processing. 23. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Workshop: Zum Einfluss lexikalischer Information auf Satzverarbeitung. Leipzig.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (1999). Resolving syntactic ambiguities during on‑line sentence processing: two event‑related potential studies. Department of Psychology, University of Champaign-Urbana. Champaign-Urbana.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (1999). Resolving syntactic ambiguities during on‑line sentence processing: two event‑related potential studies and a self-paced reading study. Department of Psychology, University of Notre-Dame. South-Bend.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (1996). Zinsverwerking van zinnen met een locale ambiguïteit. Colloquium NICI, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. Nijmegen.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (1994). Parsing preferences in Dutch. An ERP-study. Department of Psychology, University of Washington. Seattle.

 

 

 

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Other Presentations

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & Spooren, W. (2011). The fluffy rabbit phenomenon and how to get rid of it: investigating the influence of discourse constructional factors on information structure. LPTS 2011, Louvain-la-Neuve, November, 17.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & Spooren, W. (2011). In search of the referent: tracking referents in discourse. Annual Meeting Society of Text and Discourse, Poitiers, July, 12.

 

De Schepper, K. & Lamers, M.J.A. (2010). Argument linearization in the production of German and Dutch verbs. Poster & Pitch talk. Interdisciplinary workshop on verbs: the identification and representation of verb features. Scuola Normale Superiore & Université di Pisa Dipartimento di Linguistic, Pisa, November, 4-5.

 

Lamers M.J.A. & De Schepper, K. (2010). Argument linearization in Dutch and German: a multifactorial analysis, Conference on Competing Motivations, Leipzig, November, 24.

 

Vogels, J. Verberne, S. & Lamers, M.J.A. (2010). On the placement of bare plural subjects in Dutch: How not being specific may result in word order variation. Poster presented at the 6th International Workshop on Language Production, University of Edinburgh, September, 2-4.

 

Lamers, M.J.A., Schepper, de K. & Sweep, J. (2010). Case Matters: Diffrences in Inrgumens Linearization Between Dutch and German. Taalkunde in Nederland-dag 2010, Utrecht, February, 6.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2009). Catching eye movements while reading. Demo of the eyelink 1000. LCC Meeting, VU University Amsterdam. Amsterdam, November, 5.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & Bergen, van, G. (2009). Argument linearization in Dutch: a multifactorial phenomenon. Poster Twenty-second CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, California, March, 25-28.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2008). Getting the arguments right: the interplay between verb argument structure and word order preferences in comprehension and production. Verb Concepts: Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing, Montréal, October, 3-4.

 

Vogels, J. & Lamers, M.J.A. (2008). The placement of bare plural subjects in Dutch. Taalkunde in Nederland-dag 2008, Utrecht, February, 2.

 

Hoop, de, H. & Lamers, M.J.A. (2007). Animacy and object fronting. 40th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Joensuu, Finland, August 29.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2007). Case, Word Order and Prominence in Argument Structure. NWO-DFG Workshop Case, Word Order and Prominence in Argument Structure, Nijmegen, November, 5-6.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & Bergen, van, G. (2007). Animacy and definiteness: two different forces in grammatical function assignment. AMLaP 2006 Conference “Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing”. Turku, Finland, August, 26.

 

Horst, van der, L., Lamers, M.J.A. & Neijt, A. (2007). De markering van kwantoren in het Nederlands: taalnorm vs. taalgebruik. Tabudag 2007, Groningen, June 8.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & Tiel, van, B. (2007). On the preference for animate subjects in a transitive relation: a comparative corpus study. Tabudag 2007, Groningen, June 8.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2007). The role of animacy and definiteness in grammatical function disambiguation. Taalkunde in Nederland-dag 2007, Utrecht, February 3.

 

Hofmans, K., de Hoop, H. & Lamers, M.J.A. (2006). Animate-first or subject first: the use of conceptual and/or syntactic information in normal and agrammatic sentence production. Poster. AMLaP 2006 Conference “Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing”. Nijmegen, September, 1.

 

Lamers, M.J.A., Hofmans, K., Hagoort, P.  & de Hoop, H. (2006). The influence of animacy and verb type on word order in perception and production. Poster. AMLaP 2006 Conference Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing”. Nijmegen, August, 30.

 

Leeuwen, van, T., Lamers, M.,  Petersson, K., Gussenhoven, C., Rietveld, A., Poser, B. & Hagoort, P. (2006) Prosody and information structure: An fMRI study. Paper. AMLaP 2006 Conference “Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing”. Nijmegen, August, 30.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2006). Leve het onderwerp! Bessensap 2006. Nemo, Amsterdam, May 23.

 

Lamers, M.J.A., Hagoort, P. & de Hoop H. (2006). Getting the arguments right: the interaction between syntactic and semantic word order preferences in sentence processing. Poster, 19th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing New York, March, 23-25.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & Hofmans, K. (2005). Animate first: animacy word order in a bidirectional perspective. Paper. Modeling Incremental Interpretation Workshop, Nijmegen, November, 28-29.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2005). The on-line comprehension of transitive and intransitive sentences: an incremental optimization approach Poster. Escop 2005. Leiden, August, 31- September, 3.

 

Lamers, M.J.A., Hagoort, P. & de Hoop, H. (2005). Animacy, structure preferences and three different types of verbs: a case for incremental optimization of interpretation. Poster. AMLaP 2005 Conference “Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing”. Gent, September, 5-7.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. & de Hoop, H. (2005). Animacy, structure preferences and three different types of verbs: a case for incremental optimization of interpretation. Paper. PIONIER Workshop on Animacy. Nijmegen, May, 19-20.

 

Hoop, de, H., Lamers, M.J.A., Malchukov,A.,  Narasimhan, B. & Swart, de, P. (2005). Modeling case and prominence: incremental and time-insensitive optimization (motivation and perspectives). Paper. Symposium on Argument Comprehension from a Cross-linguistic Perspective. MPI Leipzig, April, 25-26.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2005). The role of animacy and verb type in Dutch sentence processing: evidence from ERPs. Paper. Taalwetenschap-in-Nederland-dag. Utrecht,  January, 29.

 

Hoop, de H. & Lamers M.J.A. (2004). Incremental distinguishability of subject and object. Approaches to Empirical Syntax/WOTS-8. Berlin, August, 28.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2004). The role of animacy in sentence comprehension captured in an incremental optimization approach. Paper. Taalwetenschap-in-Nederland-dag. Utrecht,  February, 7.

 

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Lamers, M.J.A. & de Hoop, H. (2004). The role of animacy information in human sentence processing captured in four conflicting constraints. Paper. International workshop on constraint solving and language processing (CSLP 2004). Kopenhagen/Roskilde.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2004). The role of animacy in sentence comprehension captured in an incremental optimization approach. Paper. Taalwetenschap-in-Nederland-dag. Utrecht,  February, 7.

 

Hoop, de, H. & Lamers M.J.A. (2003). Incremental interpretation of case and control. Paper. PIONIER project Case cross-linguistically Workshop: Sentence Processing, Argument Structure, and Preferences. Nijmegen, October, 9.

 

Lamers, M.J.A (2003). Parsing preferences, animacy and thematic information in sentence processing in Dutch, Paper. PIONIER Workshop on Case, Valency and Transitivity, Nijmegen, June, 17-20.

 

Lamers, M.J.A., Jansma B.M., Münte T.F. & A. Hammer  (2003). The involvement of semantic and syntactic processes in the comprehension of case marked pronouns in German and Dutch. Poster. 10th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. (B244, p. 78). New York, March, 30.

 

Lamers, M.J.A., Münte T.F. Jansma, B.M. & A. Hammer  (2003). The role of the antecedent in pronoun resolution. Poster, 16th CUNY conference on human sentence. (p.150) Boston. March, 29.

 

Lamers, M.J.A (2003). The involvement of semantic and syntactic processes in the comprehension of pronouns in German and Dutch. Paper. PIONIER-Talk. University of Nijmegen. Nijmegen, February, 12.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (2000). Violations of a thematic constraint: not only a lexical integration problem. Poster. AMLaP 2000 Conference Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Leiden.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (1999). Structural local ambiguity resolution and thematic information: An ERP-study. Poster. Twelfth annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. New York.

 

Lamers, M.J.A. (1997). Psych verbs and parsing preferences. Poster. AMLaP’97 Conference Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Edinburgh.

 

Lamers, M. J. A., Stowe L.A. &  Gunter T.C. (1995). Parsing Dutch sentences: Ambiguity resolution. Poster. Cognitive neuroscience society second annual meeting. San Francisco.

 

Lamers, M. J. A., Stowe L.A. & Gunter T.C. (1995). Verwerken van ambigue zinnen in het Nederlands: wat ERPs laten zien. Paper. Tabu-dag. Groningen.

 

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