Kiel Christianson

Activities & Honors

• 2012 COE Graduate Teaching Award, College of Education, 2012-
• Arnold O. Beckman Award, Awarded to projects of special distinction or unusual promise for designation as Arnold O. Beckman Awards., Campus Research Board, 2008-2009
• Review panel member, http://www.govtilr.org/, Interagency Language Roundtable, 2008-
• CUNY 2009 Proposal Reviewer, CUNY 2009, CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 2008-
• Was member of Faculty Adviroy Committee for SLRF, Second Language Research Forum, Second Language Research forum, 2007-
• Became a member of APS, APS, Association for Psychological Science, 2007-
• Guest commentary, The News Gazette, 2005-

Research Statement

My research is heavily influenced and informed by linguistic theory. At the same time, my goal is to make deeper, broader connections between linguistics and various sub-fields of cognitive psychology. Overarching themes in my present work are (mis)interpretation in sentence processing, morphological processing during reading, and crosslinguistic research. In particular, at present I am or will soon be conducting experiments in sentence comprehension and production, visual word recognition, reading, and second language acquisition.

Grants

• Principal Investigator, Faculty Summer Support: Reading, Comprehending, and Solving Algebraic Word Problems, Bureau of Educational Research, 2008-2008
• Principal Investigator, GRA Support: Lexical, Syntactic, and World Knowledge in Foreign Language Comprehension and Translation, Bureau of Educational Research, 2007-2008
• Principal Investigator, The Interaction of Two Languages in the Minds of Korean-English Bilinguals, Campus Research Board, 2006-2006
• Principal Investigator, Visual Word Processing in Korean, Campus Research Board, 2005-2006
• Principal Investigator, Exploring Multiple Representations Derived from a Single Linguistic Input, Campus Research Board, 2005-2006

Publications

• Shin, J-A. & Christianson, K. (2012). Structural priming and second language learning. Language Learning, 62, 931-964.
• Lim, J-H. & Christianson, K. (in press). Integrating meaning and structure in L1-L2 and L2-L1 translations. Second Language Research.
• Stites, M. C., Luke, S. G., & Christianson, K. (in press). The Psychologist Said Quickly, “Dialogue Descriptions Modulate Reading Speed!” Memory & Cognition.
• Luke, S. G. & Christianson, K. (2012). Semantic predictability eliminates the transposed-letter effect: Insights from a combined self-paced reading and masked-priming paradigm. Memory & Cognition, 40, 628-641.
• Christianson, K., Mestre, J., & Luke, S. G. (2012). Practice makes (nearly) perfect: Solving "students & professors"-type algebra word problems. Applied Cognitive Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/acp.2863.
• Kim, J-H. & Christianson, K. (2012). Sentence complexity and working memory effects in ambiguity resolution. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. DOI 10.1007/s10936-012-9224-4.
• Luke, S. G. & Christianson, K. (2012). SPaM: A combined self-paced reading and masked-priming paradigm. Behavior Research Methods. DOI 10.3758/s13428-012-0239-4.
• Lim, J-H. & Christianson, K. (2012). Second language sentence processing in reading for comprehension and translation. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000351.
• Christianson, K. & Luke, S.G. (2011). Context strengthens initial misinterpretations of text. Scientific Studies of Reading, 15, 136-166.
• Luke, S. G. & Christianson, K. (2011). Stem and whole-word frequency effects in the processing of inflected verbs in and out of a sentence context. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26, 1173-1192.
• Shin, J.-A., & Christianson, K. (2011). The status of dative constructions in Korean, English, and in the minds of Korean-English bilinguals. In H. Yamashita, J. Packard & Y. Hirose (Eds.), Processing and Producing Head-final Structures (pp. 153-169). New York: Springer.
• Lin, T-J., Anderson, R. C., Ku, Y-M., Christianson, K., & Packard, J. (2011). Chinese children's concept of word. Writing Systems Research, 3, 41-57.
• Christianson, K., Luke, S.G., & Ferreira, F. (2010). Effects of plausibility on structural priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 36, 538-544.
• Shin, J-A., & Christianson, K. (2009). Syntactic processing in Korean-English bilinguals: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming. Cognition, 112, 175-180.
• Christianson, K. & Cho, H.Y. (2009) Interpreting null pronouns (pro) in isolated sentences. Lingua, 119(7), 989-1008.
• Christianson, K. (2008). Sensitivity to changes in garden path sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 37, 391-403.
• Christianson, K., Williams, C. C., Zacks, R. T., & Ferreira, F. (2006). Misinterpretations of garden-path sentences by older and younger adults. Discourse Processes, 42, 205-238.
• Schmitt, L. M., Christianson, K., & Gupta, R. (2006). Linguistic computing with UNIX tools. In A. Kao & S. Poteet (Eds.), Text mining and natural language processing (pp. 221-258). New York: Springer.
• Christianson, K., Johnson, R. L., Rayner, K. (2005). Letter transpositions within and across morphemes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 31, 1327-1339.
• Beretta, A., Campbell, C., Carr, T., Huang, J., Schmitt, L.M., Christianson, K., et al. (2003). An ER-fMRI investigation of regular and irregular inflection in German. Brain and Language, 85(1), 67-92.
• Christianson, K. (2001). Optimality theory in language production: The choice between direct and inverse in Odawa. Linguistica Atlantica, 23, 93-126.
• Christianson, K., Hollingworth, A., Halliwell, J. F., & Ferreira, F. (2001). Thematic-roles assigned along the garden path linger. Cognitive Psychology, 42, 368-407.
• Ferreira, F., Christianson, K., & Hollingworth, A. (2001). Misinterpretations of garden- path sentences: Implications for models of sentence processing and reanalysis. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30(1), 3-20.

Links

• Kiel Christianson's complete CV and personal page
• Kiel Christianson at the Beckman Institute

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