dr. M.J.A. (Monique) Lamers

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Research interests

Current research:In search of the referent: anaphor resolution in linear text and hypertext

Psycholinguistics / Language and Cognition 

• The time-course and nature of processes involved in discourse comprehension and production
  • using experimental methods such as ratings and judgements, reading time and reaction time, eye-movements, sentence completion, event related brain potentials (ERPs)
  • using information from written and spoken corpora in combination with experimental research 
  • the mental representation of discourse and how it is influenced by discourse genre and text type such as hypertext 
• The use of different sorts of information in language comprehension and production
  
  • semantic-syntactic interface and argument structure
  • anaphor resolution (e.g. semantic and syntactic gender information)
  • information structure (e.g. prosodic information)
  • multimodal information processing 
• Incremental Optimization, Bidirectional OT (e.g. OT Semantics)  
• The relation between cognitive functions such as memory, prior knowledge, and attention in language processing and production  

Publications

2009-2012
Journal papers / Books / Book chapters 

• Lamers, M.J.A. & Spooren, W. (forthcoming). Tracking referents in discourse. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics. 
• Lamers, M.J.A. & Swart, de, P. (eds) (2012). Case, Word Order, and Prominence: Psycholinguistic and Theoretical Approaches to Argument Structure. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Springer. 
  • Lamers, M.J.A. & Swart, de , P. (eds). Case, Word Order, and Prominence language production and comprehension in a cross-linguistic perspective.
  • Lamers, M.J.A. Argument linearization in Dutch: a multi-factorial approach.
• Bader, M & Lamers (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 .

2008

• 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, 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. & Van Hooijdonk, C. (2011). Zeggen plaatjes meer dan woorden alleen? Effect van verschillende multimodale informatiepresentaties in instructieve teksten. VIOT, 23december.
• 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, Leuven, 17 november.
• Van Hooijdonk & Lamers, M.J.A. (2011). Picture that: the role of pictures in the comprehensibility of complex written discourse. Onderzoeksdag Camera (Prezi demo), 5 juli.
• Lamers, M.J.A. & Spooren, W. (2011). In search of the referent: tracking referents in discourse. Annual Meeting STD Poitiers, 12 juli.
• Lamers, M.J.A. (2011). The fluffy rabbit phenomenon and how to get rid of it: investigating the influence of discourse constructional factors on information structure. LCC 19 mei.

Extensive list of publications