Thomas A. Farmer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas A. Farmer is involved.
2016 Coordinating action and language Visually Situated Language Comprehension, Knoeferle, Pia, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matthew W. Crocker (eds.), pp. 323–356 | Article
The overarching aim of this chapter is to highlight the strong interfacing between linguistic and motor systems, focusing especially on the degree to which manipulations of a visual context interact with linguistic manipulations in order to modulate the properties of manual movements elicited in… read more
2012 Measures of phonological typicality: Robust coherence and psychological validity Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research, Libben, Gary †, Gonia Jarema and Chris Westbury (eds.), pp. 13–31 | Article
Phonological Typicality (PT) is a measure of the extent to which a word’s phonology is typical of other words in the lexical category to which it belongs. There is a general coherence among words from the same category in terms of speech sounds, and we have found that words that are phonologically… read more
2011 Individual differences in measures of linguistic experience account for variability in the sentence processing skill of five-year-olds Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal and Eve V. Clark (eds.), pp. 203–222 | Article
The mechanisms underlying developmental transitions in sentence processing are not well understood. Eyetracking research demonstrates that five-year-olds do not use visual scene cues to constrain their interpretation of sentences as adults do (e.g. Snedeker & Trueswell 2004). This research also… read more
2010 Measures of phonological typicality: Robust coherence and psychological validity Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part I), Jarema, Gonia, Gary Libben † and Chris Westbury (eds.), pp. 281–299 | Article
Phonological Typicality (PT) is a measure of the extent to which a word’s phonology is typical of other words in the lexical category to which it belongs. There is a general coherence among words from the same category in terms of speech sounds, and we have found that words that are phonologically… read more
2007 They actually said that? An introduction to working with usage data through discourse and corpus analysis Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, Gonzalez-Marquez, Monica, Irene Mittelberg †, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey (eds.), pp. 19–52 | Article