Allison C. Mullaly

List of John Benjamins publications in which Allison C. Mullaly is involved.

Articles

Mullaly, Allison C., Christina L. Gagné, Thomas L. Spalding and Kristan A. Marchak 2010 Examining ambiguous adjectives in adjective-noun phrases: Evidence for representation as a shared core-meaning with sense specialization The Mental Lexicon 5:1, pp. 87–114 | Article

The meaning of a modifier is influenced by the noun it modifies (Murphy, 1988). To determine how alternative senses of ambiguous adjectives are represented, we examined the processing of noun phrases. Ambiguous adjectives were paired with nouns such that the interpretation of the phrases used the… read more

Gagné, Christina L., Thomas L. Spalding, Lauren Figueredo and Allison C. Mullaly 2009 Does s now man prime plastic snow? The effect of constituent position in using relational information during the interpretation of modifier-noun phrases The Mental Lexicon 4:1, pp. 41–76 | Article

Three experiments were conducted to determine the extent to which relational and morphosyntactic information influence the processing of modifier-noun phrases. Processing of the target was faster when the shared constituent was in the same position in both the prime and the target, regardless of… read more