Matthew T. Carlson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Matthew T. Carlson is involved.
Journal
Title
Epistemological issue: What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation
Edited by Matthew T. Carlson and Jorge González Alonso
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1 (2026) v, 100 pp.
Articles
2025 Chapter 11. A spanning approach to bilingual representations: Initial explorations Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel, Page, B. Richard and Michael T. Putnam (eds.), pp. 238–274 | Chapter
Generative-oriented research has served as a useful tool in advancing our knowledge of aspects of bilingual acquisition, maintenance, and attrition across the lifespan. These analyses are, however, usually grounded in frameworks that focus on the (monolingual) ‘ideal speaker-hearer’. In this… read more
2024 The synchronic status of historical bound roots in the mental lexicon: A dynamic, psychocentric perspective The Representation and Processing of Morphologically Complex Words, Buchanan, Lori and Roberto G. de Almeida (eds.), pp. 224–252 | Article
Many English words contain historical roots that do not occur as free morphemes (e.g., nov in innovate, dict in verdict). These words often retain an appearance of compositionality and are associated with effects on lexical processing (Pastizzo & Feldman, 2004; Taft & Forster, 1975), but… read more
2011 Spanish diphthongizing stems: Productivity, processing, and the shaping of the lexicon The Mental Lexicon 6:3, pp. 351–373 | Article
We examine a classic problem in Spanish morphophonology as a way of shedding new light on the relationship between grammar and processing. Spanish derivations with diphthongizing stems may contain either the diphthong or the monophthong stem allomorph, but the likelihood of the (phonotactically… read more




