Kathryn Bock's Publications (updated 19 July 2006)

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Papers in refereed journals:

Onishi, K.H., Murphy, G. L., & Bock, J. K. (2008). Prototypicality in sentence production.. Cognitive Psychology, 56, 103-141.

Bock, J. K., Dell, G.S., Chang, F., & Onishi, K.H. (2007). Persistent structural priming from language comprehension to language production. Cognition, 104, 437-458.

Bock, J. K., Butterfield, S., Cutler, A., Cutting, J. C., Eberhard, K. M., & Humphreys, K. R. (2006). Number agreement in British and American English: Disagreeing to agree collectively. Language, 82, 64-113

Kubose, T. T., Bock, J. K., Dell, G. S., Garnsey, S. M., Kramer, A. F., & Mayhugh, J. (2006). The effects of speech production and speech comprehension on simulated driving performance. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 43-63.

Chang, F., Dell, G. S., & Bock, J. K. (2006). Becoming syntactic. Psychological Review, 113, 234-272.

Humphreys, K. R., & Bock, J. K. (2005). Notional number agreement in English. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 689-695.

Eberhard, K. M., Cutting, J. C., Bock, J. K. (2005) Making syntax of sense: Number agreement in sentence production. Psychological Review, 112, 531-559.

Bock, J. K., Eberhard, K. M., & Cutting, J. C. (2004). Producing number agreement: How pronouns equal verbs. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 251-278. .

Hartsuiker, R. J., Schriefers, H. J., Bock, J. K., & Kikstra, G. M. (2003). Morphophonological influences on the construction of subject-verb agreement. Memory & Cognition, 31, 1316-1326.

Bock, J. K., Irwin, D. E., Davidson, D. J., & Levelt, W. J. M. (2003). Minding the clock. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 653-685.

Chang, F., Bock, J. K., & Goldberg, A. E. (2003). Can thematic roles leave traces of their places? Cognition, 90, 29-49.

Loebell, H., & Bock, J. K. (2003). Structural priming across languages. Linguistics, 41, 791-824.

Bock, J. K., Eberhard, K. M., Cutting, J. C., Meyer, A. S., & Schriefers, H. (2001). Some attractions of verb agreement. Cognitive Psychology, 43, 83-128.

Bock, J. K., & Griffin, Z. M. (2000). The persistence of structural priming: Transient activation or implicit learning? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 177-192.

Chang, F., Dell, G. S., Bock, J. K., & Griffin, Z. M. (2000). Structural priming as implicit learning: A comparison of models of sentence production. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research [Special Issue], 29, 217-229.

Griffin, Z. M., & Bock, J. K. (2000). What the eyes say about speaking. Psychological Science, 11, 274-279

Bock, J. K., Nicol, J., & Cutting, J. C. (1999). The ties that bind: Creating number agreement in speech. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 330-346.

Meyer, A. S., & Bock, J. K. (1999). Representations and processes in the production of pronouns: Some perspectives from Dutch. Journal of Memory and Language, 41, 281-301.

Pearlmutter, N. J., Garnsey, S. M., & Bock, J. K. (1999). Agreement processes in sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 41, 427-456.

Griffin, Z. M., & Bock, J. K. (1998). Constraint, word frequency, and the relationship between lexical processing levels in spoken word production. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 313-338.

Cutting, J. C., & Bock, J. K. (1997). That's the way the cookie bounces: Syntactic and semantic components of experimentally elicited idiom blends. Memory & Cognition, 25, 57-71.

Bock, J. K. (1996). Language production: Methods and methodologies. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 395-421.

Bock, J. K. (1995). Producing agreement. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 56-61.

McDonald, J. L., Bock, J. K., & Kelly, M. H. (1993). Word and world order: Semantic, phonological, and metrical determinants of serial position. Cognitive Psychology, 25, 188-230.

Bock, J. K., & Eberhard, K. M. (1993). Meaning, sound, and syntax in English number agreement. Language and Cognitive Processes, 8, 57-99.

Meyer, A. S., & Bock, J. K. (1992). The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon: Blocking or partial activation? Memory & Cognition, 20, 715-726.

Bock, J. K., Loebell, H. , & Morey, R. (1992). From conceptual roles to structural relations: Bridging the syntactic cleft. Psychological Review, 99, 150-171.

Bock, J. K., & Cutting, J. C. (1992). Regulating mental energy: Performance units in language production. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 99-127.

Bock, J. K. (1991). A sketchbook of production problems. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research [Special Issue on Sentence Processing], 20, 141-160.

Bock, J. K., & Miller, C. A. (1991). Broken agreement. Cognitive Psychology, 23, 45-93.

Bock, J. K. (1990). Structure in language: Creating form in talk.American Psychologist, 45, 1221-1236.

Bock, J. K., & Loebell, H. (1990). Framing sentences.Cognition, 35, 1-39.

Bock, J. K. (1989). Closed-class immanence in sentence production.Cognition, 31, 163-186.

Kelly, M. H., & Bock, J. K. (1988) Stress in time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 389-403.

Bock, J. K. (1987). An effect of the accessibility of word forms on sentence structures. Journal of Memory and Language, 26, 119-137.

Bock, J. K. (1986). Meaning, sound, and syntax: Lexical priming in sentence production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 12, 575-586.

Bock, J. K. (1986). Syntactic persistence in language production. Cognitive Psychology, 18, 355-387.

Kelly, M. H., Bock, J. K., & Keil, F. C. (1986). Prototypicality in a linguistic context: Effects on sentence structure. Journal of Memory and Language, 25, 59-74.

Bock, J. K., & Warren, R. K. (1985). Conceptual accessibility and syntactic structure in sentence formulation. Cognition, 21, 47-67.

Bock, J. K., & Mazzella, J. R. (1983). Intonational marking of given and new information: Some consequences for comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 11, 64-76.

Irwin, D. E., Bock, J. K., & Stanovich, K. E. (1982). Effects of information structure cues on visual word processing. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 21, 307-325.

Bock, J. K. (1982). Toward a cognitive psychology of syntax: Information processing contributions to sentence formulation. Psychological Review, 89, 1-47.

Bock, J. K., & Hornsby, M. E. (1981). The development of directives: How children ask and tell. Journal of Child Language, 8, 141-163.

Bock, J. K., & Irwin, D. E. (1980). Syntactic effects of information availability in sentence production. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 19, 467-484.

Bock, J. K., & Brewer, W. F. (1980). Comprehension and memory of the literal and figurative meaning of proverbs. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 9, 59-72.

Bock, J. K. (1977). The effect of a pragmatic presupposition on syntactic structure in question answering. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 16, 723-734.

Bock, J. K., & Hornsby, M. E. (1977). How children ask and tell: A speech act analysis of children's requests. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 13, 72-82.

Bock, J. K., & Brewer, W. F. (1974). Reconstructive recall in sentences with alternative surface structures. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 103, 837-843.

Chapters in edited books:

Bock, J. K., Konopka, A. E., & Middleton, E. L. (2006). Language production. In K. Brown (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. (pp. 103-112) Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Bock, J. K., Dell, G. S., Garnsey, S. M., Kramer, A. F., & Kubose, T. T. (2006). Car talk, car listen. In A. S. Meyer, L. Wheeldon & A. Krott (Eds.), Automaticity and Control in Language Processing. (pp. 21-42) Hove, England: Psychology Press

Bock, J. K., Irwin, D. E., & Davidson, D. J. (2004). Putting first things first. In J. M. Henderson & F. Ferreira (Eds.), The integration of language, vision, and action: Eye movements and the visual world (pp. 249-278). New York: Psychology Press.

Bock, J. K. (2004). Psycholinguistically speaking: Some matters of meaning, marking, and morphing. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 44, pp. 109-144). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.

Davidson, D. J., Bock, J. K., & Irwin, D. E. (2003). Tick talk. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 294-299). Boston, MA: Cognitive Science Society.

Bock, J. K. & Levelt, W. J. M. (2002). Language production: Grammatical encoding. In G. T. M. Altmann (Ed.), Psycholinguistics: Critical concepts in psychology (Vol. 5, pp. 405-452). London, Routledge. [Reprinted from the Handbook of Psycholinguistics, 1994]

Bock, J. K., & Griffin, Z. M. (2000). Producing words: How mind meets mouth. In L. R. Wheeldon (Ed.), Aspects of language production (pp. 7-47). Hove, England: Psychology Press.

Bock, J. K., & Huitema, J. (1999). Language production. In S. Garrod & M. Pickering (Eds.), Studies in cognition: Language processing (pp. 365-388). Hove, England: Psychology Press.

Bock, J. K. (1999) Language production. In R. Wilson and F. C. Keil (Eds.), MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (pp. 453-456). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Bock, J. K., & Garnsey, S. M. (1998). Language processing. In W. Bechtel & G. Graham (Eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Cognitive Science (pp. 226-234). Oxford, England: Blackwell.

Bock, J. K. (1995). Sentence production: From mind to mouth. In J. Miller & P. Eimas (Eds.) Handbook of perception and cognition (Vol. 11, pp. 181-216): Speech, language, and communication. Academic Press.

Bock, J. K., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1994). Language production: Grammatical encoding. In M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 945-984). Orlando, FL: Academic Press.

Bock, J. K., & Kroch, A. S. (1989). The isolability of syntactic processes. In G. N. Carlson & M. K. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Linguistic structure in language processing (pp. 157-196). Dordrecht: Reidel.

Bock, J. K. (1987). Coordinating words and syntax in speech plans. In A. W. Ellis (Ed.), Progress in the psychology of language (Vol. 3, pp. 3 37-390). London: Erlbaum.

Bock, J. K. (1987). Exploring levels of processing in sentence production. In G. Kempen (Ed.), Natural language generation (pp. 351-363). Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff.

Bock, J. K., & Brewer, W. F. (1985). Discourse structure and mental models. In T. H. Carr (Ed.), New directions for child development: The development of reading skills (pp. 55-75). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Osgood, C. E., & Bock, J. K. (1977). Salience and sentencing: Some production principles. In S. Rosenberg (Ed.), Sentence production: Developments in research and theory (pp. 89-140). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Published commentaries and book reviews:

Bock, J. K. (1990). Psycholinguistics, in time and on hand. [Review of Psycholinguistics: A new approach]. Contemporary Psychology, 35, 479-480.

Bock, J. K. (1987). Modules of comprehension. [Review of Psycholinguistics: Central topics]. Contemporary Psychology, 32, 335-336.

Bock, J. K. (1985). Miscellaneous studies in language processing. [Review of Psycholinguistic studies in language processing]. Contemporary Psychology, 30, 43-44.

Dell, G. S., Ferreira, V. S., & Bock, J. K. (1999). Binding, attention, and exchanges. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22. 41-42.