Publications:

Submitted

Dikker, S., Rabagliati, H., & Pylkkänen, L. (accepted with revision). Sensitivity to Syntax in Visual Cortex. Cognition. [pdf]

In press

Pylkkänen, L., Martin, A. E., McElree, B., & Smart, A. (in press). The Anterior Midline Field: Coercion or Decision Making? Brain and Language. [pdf]

2008

Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Mismatching Meanings in Brain and Behavior. Language and Linguistics Compass. doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00073.x.

Brennan, J. & Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Processing Events: Behavioral and Neuromagnetic Correlates of Aspectual Coercion. Brain and Language, doi: 10.1016/jbandl2008.04.003 [pdf]

Zweig, E. & Pylkkänen, L. (2008). A visual M170 effect of morphological complexity. Language and Cognitive Processes. DOI: 10.1080/01690960802180420. [pdf]

Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Introducing Arguments. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [BOOK]

2007

Harris, J., Pylkkänen, L., McElree, B. & Frisson, S. (2007). The cost of question concealment: Eye-tracking and MEG evidence. Brain and Language, doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2007.09.001. [pdf]

Pylkkänen, L. & McElree, B. (2007). An MEG Study of Silent Meaning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1905-1921. [pdf]

2006

Pylkkänen, L. & McElree, B. (2006). The syntax-semantic interface: On-line composition of sentence meaning. In M. Traxler & M.A. Gernsbacher (eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (2nd Ed), pp. 537-577. NY: Elsevier. [pdf]

Pylkkänen, L., Llinas, R. & Murphy, G. (2006). Representation of polysemy: MEG evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18:1, pp. 1–13. [pdf]

McElree, B., Pylkkänen, L., Pickering, M., & Traxler, M. (2006). The time course of enriched composition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13 (1), 53-59. [pdf]

2004

Pylkkänen, L., Feintuch, S., Hopkins, E., & Marantz, A. (2004). Neural correlates of the effects of morphological family frequency and family size: an MEG study. Cognition , 91, B35-B45. [pdf]

2003

Pylkkänen, L., & Marantz, A. (2003). Tracking the time course of word recognition with MEG. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 187-189. [pdf]

2002

Pylkkänen, L., (2002). Introducing Arguments. Ph.D. Thesis. MIT. Cambridge, MA. Distributed by , Cambridge, MA.

Pylkkänen, L., Stringfellow, A., & Marantz, A. (2002). Neuromagnetic evidence for the timing of lexical activation: An MEG component sensitive to phonotactic probability but not to neighborhood density. Brain and Language, 81, 666–678. [pdf]

2001

Pylkkänen, L., A. Stringfellow, E. Flagg, A. Marantz. (2001). A Neural Response Sensitive to Repetition and Phonotactic Probability: MEG Investigations of Lexical Access. Biomag Proceedings, 2000, 363-367. [pdf]

2000

Pylkkänen, L., (2000). Representing Causatives. In Jackson, B. and T. Matthews (eds.), Proceedings . CLC Publications. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Pylkkänen, L., (2000). What Applicative Heads Apply To. In Minnick, M., A. Williams and E. Kaiser (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 7.1.

Pylkkänen, L., (2000). Deriving Adversity. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 19 Proceedings, Roger Billerey et al. (eds), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

1999

Pylkkänen, L., (1999). On Stativity and Causation. In C. Tenny and J. Pustejovsky (eds.) Events as Grammatical Objects. CSLI Publications. 417-445.

Pylkkänen, L., (1999). Causation and External Arguments. In Pylkkänen, L.,, A. van Hout and H. Harley (eds.), Papers from the Second Penn/MIT Roundtable on Argument Structure and the Lexicon. 35, Cambridge, MA.

Pylkkänen, L., (1999). The Syntax of Internal and External Causation . In the Proceedings of the Texas Linguistics Society. 1999 Conference: Perspectives on Argument Structure.

Pylkkänen, L., (1999). On Base-Reduplicant Identity. In West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 18 Proceedings, ed. Bird, S., A. Cornie, J. Haugen, P. Norquest. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press

1998

Di Eugenio, B., Jordan, P. W., Pylkkänen, L. (1998). The COCONUT project: dialogue annotation manual, ISP Technical Report 98-1, University of Pittsburgh, Intelligent Systems Program.

1997

Pylkkänen, L., (1997). The Linking of Event Structure and Grammatical Functions in Finnish. In M. Butt and T. Holloway-King (eds.) University of San Diego, San Diego, CA.

Pylkkänen, L., (1997). The Semantics of Finnish Causatives. M.A. Thesis. University of Pittsburgh.