Publications

Jeffries, Ella, Laurel Lawyer, Amanda Cole and Stephanie Vega Martin. (2025). Accent the positive: an investigation into children’s implicit attitudes towards different regional accents. Journal of Child Language, 1–26. doi:10.1017/S0305000925000170

Hevre, Coralie and Laurel A. Lawyer (2025). Bilinguals’ sensitivity to specificity and genericity: evidence from implicit and explicit knowledge. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. doi:10.1017/S1366728924000488

van Boxtel, Willem and Laurel Lawyer (2024). A Matter of Memory? Exploring Older Adults’ Syntax Com- prehension through Relative Clause Disambiguation and Memory Interference. Topics in Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1111/tops.12753

Lawyer, Laurel, Fate O’Gara, Jean Paul Ngoboka, Willem van Boxtel and Kyle Jerro (2024). Meaning or Morphology: Individual Differences in the Categorization of Kinyarwanda Nouns. Glossa Psycholinguistics. doi: 10.5070/G6011226

Fan, Xiaoduan and Laurel Lawyer (2024). Attitudes toward sexist/nonsexist language in Chinese. In F. Pfalzgraf (Ed.), Public Attitudes Towards Gender-Inclusive Language. A Multilingual Perspective. De Gruyter Mouton. (Language and Social Life 31). ISBN 978-3-11-120125-2. doi: 10.1515/9783111202280-011

Dutta, Indranil, Katerina Iliopoulou, Laurel Lawyer and Yu-Jung Lin (Eds.). (2023). Distanced data collection: remote data collection and online experimentation [Special issue]. Laboratory Phonology. link: https://www.journal-labphon.org/collections/959/

van Boxtel, Willem and Laurel Lawyer (2023). In the prime of life: ERP evidence for syntactic comprehension priming in older adults. Journal of Language and Aging Research 1. doi: doi: 10.15460/jlar.2023.1.1.1108

Solaimani Dahanesari, Ehsan, Florence Myles and Laurel Lawyer (2023). Testing the Interpretability Hypothesis: evidence from the L2 processing of relative clauses by Persian and French learners of L2 English. Second Language Research. doi: 10.1177/02676583231162783

van Boxtel, Willem S. and Laurel A. Lawyer (2022) Syntactic comprehension priming and lexical boost effects in older adults. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38:1, 105-120, doi: 10.1080/23273798.2022.2091151

Corina, David P., Lucinda Faranady, Todd LaMarr, Svenna Pedersen, Laurel Lawyer, Kurt Winsler, Gregory Hickok and Ursula Bellugi (2022). Effects of Age on Sign Language Comprehension. In: Newman, A.J., and Grossi, G. (Eds.). (2022). Changing Brains: Essays on Neuroplasticity in Honor of Helen J. Neville (1st ed.). Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429342356-9

Corina, David P., Sharon Coffey-Corina, Elizabeth Pierotti, Brett Bormann, Todd LaMarr, Laurel Lawyer, Kristina Backer and Lee Miller (2022). Electrophysiological examination of ambient speech processing in children with cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(9), 3502-3517. doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00004

van Boxtel, Willem and Laurel Lawyer (2021) Sentence comprehension in ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. Language and Linguistics Compass, e12430. doi: 10.1111/lnc3.12430

Corina, David P., Lucinda Faranady, Todd LaMarr, Svenna Pedersen, Laurel Lawyer, Kurt Winsler, Gregory Hickok and Ursula Bellugi (2020). Effects of Age on American Sign Language Sentence Repetition. Psychology and Aging. 35(4), 529–535. doi: 10.1037/pag0000461

Backer, Kristina, Andrew S. Kessler, Laurel A. Lawyer, David P. Corina, Lee M. Miller (2019). A novel EEG paradigm to simultaneously and rapidly assess the functioning of auditory and visual pathways. Journal of Neurophysiology, 122:4, 1312-1329. doi: 10.1152/jn.00868.2018

Corina, David P. and Laurel A. Lawyer (2019). The Neural Organization of Signed Language: Aphasia and Neuroscience Evidence. In: G. de Zubicaray and N. Schiller (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190672027.013.16

Corina, David P. and Laurel A. Lawyer (2018). Language in Deaf Populations: Signed language and orthographic processing. In: S. Rueschemeyer and M. Gareth Gaskell (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198786825.013.12

Lawyer, Laurel A. and David P. Corina (2018). Putting underspecification in context: ERP evidence for sparse representations in morphophonological alternations, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33:1, 50-64, doi: 10.1080/23273798.2017.1359635

Lawyer, Laurel A. and David P. Corina (2017). Distinguishing underlying and surface variation patterns in speech perception, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32:9, 1176-1191, doi: 10.1080/23273798.2017.1318213

Corina, David P., Shane Blau, Todd LaMarr, Laurel A. Lawyer, and Sharon Coffey-Corina (2017). Auditory and Visual Electrophysiology of Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: Implications for Cross Modal Plasticity. Front. Psychology 8:59. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00059

Lawyer, Laurel A. and David P. Corina (2014). An Investigation of Place and Voice Features Using fMRI-Adaptation. Journal of Neurolinguistics 27, pp. 18-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2013.07.001

Corina, David P., Laurel A. Lawyer, and Deborah Cates (2013). Cross-linguistic differences in the neural representation of human language: evidence from users of signed languages. Front. Psychology 3:587. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00587

Corina, David P., Laurel A. Lawyer, Peter Hauser, and Elizabeth Hirshorn (2013). Lexical processing in deaf readers: An fMRI investigation of reading proficiency. PLoS ONE 8(1): e54696. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054696