Curriculum Vitae of Stephen Crain

Academic Background

• B.A. 1971 University of California Los Angeles, Department of Philosophy
• Graduate Student
  • 1976-78 Claremont Graduate School
  • 1978-80 University of California, Irvine
• Ph.D. 1980 University of California, Irvine Psychology: Program in Cognitive Science with an Emphasis in Linguistics

Present Positions

• Professor of Cognitive Science, MACCS, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• Deputy Director, MACCS, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• Adjunct Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan, 2001-2004.
• Honorary Professor to the School of English, Media Studies and Art History and the Centre for Research in Language Processing and Linguistics, University of Queensland. 2003-2005

Previous Positions

• Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1995-2003.
• Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1992-1995.
• Co-director, UM/KIT MEG Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 200-2004.
• Co-director, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1999-2004.
• Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, 1991-92.
• Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1986-1992.

Honors and Awards

• Australian Research Council Federation Fellow
• Fellow, CRAASH, 2005
• Partner Investigator (with Brian Byrne). The Australian Research Council, Large Research , Grants Scheme. Linguistic and Cognitive Processes in Children at Risk for Developmental Dyslexia. 2001-2003 $70,000
• Agreement of Collaborative Research & Development Relating to MEG Technology,
  University of Maryland/Kanazawa Institute of Technology, 2001-2006.
• Investigator, NICHD Program Project Grant to Haskins Laboratories, no. HDO1994, "The Nature and Acquisition of the Speech Code and Reading," 1985-1995.
• Fellowship, University of New England, Department of Psychology, N.S.W. Australia, 1988.
• Research Grant (with D. Shankweiler), Research Foundation at the University of Connecticut, 1992, "IRIS Infrared Light Eye-Tracker System," $7,081
• Research Grant (with D. Lillo-Martin), Research Foundation at the University of Connecticut, 1987, "Experimental Studies on the Acquisition of American Sign Language, $7,000
• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Research Grant, February 1, 1985 to July 31, 1987, "Competence and performance in child language acquisition," $95,465
• Research Grant (with H. Lasnik), Research Foundation at the University of Connecticut, 1986, "A Study on the Acquisition of Anaphora," $750
• Equipment Grant, The Research Foundation at the University of Connecticut, 1986, "Experiment in Language Acquisition Using Graphics Imaging," $750
• Fellowship, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Summer 1984
• Research Grant (with J. D. Fodor), The Research Foundation at the University of Connecticut, 1984, "Experimental Studies of Sentence Processing," $500
• Major Equipment Grant (with J. D. Fodor), The Research Foundation and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut; 1981, "A Synchronized Audio-Visual Presentation and Measurement System for Psycholinguistic Experiments," $5,141
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sloan Foundation, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1981-82
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sloan Foundation, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Texas, Austin, 1980-81
• Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America, Linguistic Institute, Salzburg, Austria, 1979
• Fellowship, Regents of the University of California, 1978-79
• Fellowship, Claremont Graduate School, 1976-78
• Graduate Cum Laude, University of California, Los Angeles, 1971
• Departmental Honors in Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, 1971

Academic Appontments

• 2004- Professor of Cogntive Science, MACCS, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• 2001-2004 Adjunct Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan
• 2001-2004 Co-director, UM/KIT MEG Laboratory, University of Maryland at College Park, MD
• 1999- Co-director, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
• 1995-2003 Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
• 1992-1995 Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
• 2003 Instructor, Acquisition of Semantics Linguistic Society of America, Summer Institute, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI.
• 1997 Instructor, Summer Courses, San Sebastian, Spain
• 1996 Guest Professor, German National Research Foundation University of Potsdam, Germany
• 1993 Instructor, Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics Linguistic Society of America: Summer Institute,Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• 1992, 1998 Instructor, Australian Linguistic Society, Linguistics Institute, Sydney, Australia
• 1992-1994 Professor of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Storrs, CT
• 1991-92 Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
• 1990 Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
• 1986-1992 Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
• 1987 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, CA
• 1985-1995 Research Associate, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven
• 1985 Joint appointment, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
• 1983-85 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Storrs, CT
• 1985-86 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Brown University, Providence, RI
• 1981-83 Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
• 1979-80 Research Assistant, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
• 1979-80 Teaching Assistant "Introduction to Psychology", University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
• 1979 Instructor "Applications of Linguistic Theory", Claremont Graduate School, Summer Session
• 1978-79 Research Assistant, NIMH Small Grant "Accessing Meaning from the Mental Lexicon", Grant No. 1R03 MH 32009-01

Editorial Activities

• Advisory Board, Language Acquisition, 2003-.
• Associate Editor, Language, 2003-2004.
• Associate Editor, Linguistics and Philosophy, 1997-2004.
• Associate Editor, Language Acquisition, 1989-2003.
• Associate, Editorial Board, Linguistic Inquiry, 1992-1994.

Other Professional Activities

• Executive Board, Society for Language Development, 2002-
• Advisory Board, 1992-95, Child Development Laboratories, University of Connecticut
• Editor (with K. Wexler), Special Issue of Language Acquisition: "On the Development of Binding," 1993
• Program Committee, Linguistic Society of America, 1992-94
• Chair, Program Committee, Linguistic Society of America, 1994
• Session Chair, First Language Acquisition, Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, 1992, 1993
• Panelist, NSF Graduate Fellowship Meeting, 1995, 1996
• Referee, National Science Foundation Grant Proposals, Linguistics Program, 1995, 1996
• Referee, Linguistics and Philosophy, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Inquiry, Language, Language and Speech, The Linguistic Review, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory , Language and Cognitive Processes, Trends in Cognitive Science
• Referee, National Institutes of Health, Study Section on Hearing Research, 1986
• Referee, National Institutes of Health, 1990, 2002, 2003
• Referee, Generative Linguistics and Language Acquisition, 1999- 2003
• Referee, North Eastern Linguistic Society, 1985, 1988, 1995, 1999-2002
• Referee, Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1985, 1988, 1992-2002
• Referee, Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, 1993, 1995
• Conference Co-organizer (with G. Cossu) International Symposium: Language Acquisition and Language Impairment in Children, Parma, Italy, 1987.
• Symposium Co-organizer (with Y. Grodzinsky) Aphasic syndromes and theories of grammatical representation, The 27th Annual Academy of Aphasia, Nashville, TN, 1986

Publications

Books

• Crain, S. and D. Lillo-Martin 1999. An Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford.
• Crain, S. and R. Thornton 1998. Investigations in Universal Grammar: A Guide to Experiments in the Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics, The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

Encyclopedia Articles

• Crain, S. and P. Pietrsoki 2002. Innateness and Universal Grammar. The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Macmillan: London.
• Crain, S. and R. Thornton 2002. Acquisition of syntax. The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Macmillan: London.
• Crain, S. 1998. Acquisition of semantics. In R.A. Wilson and F.C. Keil (eds) The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
• Crain, S. 1997. Language and mind. G. Nunberg and T. Wasow (eds). The Linguistics Society of America Project, The Field of Linguistics.

Journal Articles

• Crain, S. and P. Pietroski (forthcoming) Is Generative Grammar Deceptively Simple or Simply Deceptive? Lingua (Invited submittion).
• Crain, S. and P. Pietroski (forthcoming) It's not Wise to Fool with Mother Nature. Langugage Acquisition (Submitted)
• Crain, S. and P. Pietroski, 2002. Why language acquisition is a snap. The Linguistic Review 19, 163-183.
• Crain, S., W. Ni, and D. Shankweiler 2001. Grammatism. Brain and Language. 294-304
• Crain, S. and P. Pietroski, 2001. Nature, nurture and Universal Grammar. Linguistics and Philosophy, 24, 139-185.
• Crain, S., Gualmini, A., and L. Meroni 2000. The acquisition of Logical words. LOGOS and Language, 1, 49-59.
• Musolino, J., S. Crain, and R.J. Thornton 2000. Navigating negative semantic space. Linguistics, 38, 1-32.
• Thornton, R. and Crain, S. 1999. Levels of representation in child language. The Linguistic Review, 16. Special Issue: Processes and Representations in Grammatical Theory.
• Fodor, J.D., Ni, W., Crain, S. and Shankweiler, D. 1996. Tasks and timing in the perception of linguistic anomaly. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
• Crain, S., Thornton, R., Boster, C., Conway, L., Lillo-Martin, D., and Woodams, E. 1996. Quantification without qualification. Language Acquisition., 3(2), 83-153.
• Ni, W., Crain, S. and Shankweiler, D. 1996. Sidestepping garden paths. Language and Cognitive Processes.
• Milekic, S., Boskovic, Z. Crain, S. and Shankweiler, D. 1995. Comprehension of non-lexical categories in agrammatism. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
• Lukatela, K., Shankweiler, D., and Crain, S. 1995. Syntactic processing in agrammatic aphasia by speakers of a Slavic language. Brain and Language, 49, 50-76.
• Shankweiler, D., Crain, S., Katz, L., Fowler, A.E., Liberman, A.M., Brady, S.A., Thornton, R., Lundquist, E., Dreyer, L., Fletcher, J.M., Stuebing, K.K., Shaywitz, S.E. and Shaywitz, B.A. 1995. Cognitive profiles of reading-disabled children: Comparison of language skills in phonology, morphology, and syntax. Psychological Science.
• Bar-Shalom, E., Crain, S. and Shankweiler, D. 1993. A comparison of comprehension and production abilities of good and poor readers. Applied Psycholinguistics, 14, 197-227.
• Macaruso, P., Shankweiler, D., Crain, S. and Byrne, B. . 1993. Poor readers are not easy to fool: Comprehension of adjectives with exceptional control properties. Applied Psycholinguistics, 14, 285-298.
• Crain, S. 1992. Review of Y. Grodzinsky's paper, Theoretical Perspectives on Language Deficits. In Language, 68, 624-633.
• Crain, S., and Hamburger, H. 1992. Semantics, knowledge and NP modification. In R. Levine (ed) Formal Grammar: Theory and Implementation. Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, Vol. 2, The University of British Columbia Press. 372-401.
• Shankweiler, D., Crain, S., Brady, S., and Macaruso, P. 1992. Identifying the causes of reading disability. In P.B. Gough, L.C. Ehri, and R. Treiman, (eds) Beginning Reading. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Hillsdale, NJ. 275-305.
• Crain, S., and Thornton, R. 1991. Recharting the course of language acquisition: Studies in elicited production. In N. Krasnegor, D. Rumbaugh, R. Schiefelbusch and M. Studdert-Kennedy (eds) Biobehavioral Foundations of Language Development. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ. 321-337.
• Crain, S. 1991. Language acquisition in the absence of experience. In The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 597-650.
• Fodor, J.D., and Crain, S. 1990. Phrase structure parameters. In Linguistics and Philosophy., 13, 619-659.
• Smith, S., Macaruso, P., Shankweiler, D., and Crain, S. 1989. Syntactic comprehension in young poor readers. Applied Psycholinguistics, 10, 429-454.
• Shankweiler, D., Crain. S., Gorrell, P. and Tuller, B. 1989. Reception of language in agrammatism. In Language and Cognitive Processes, 4, 1-33.
• Macaruso, P., Bar-Shalom, E., Crain, S., and Shankweiler, D. 1989. Comprehension of temporal terms by good and poor readers. Language and Speech, 32, 45-67.
• Gorrell, P., Crain, S. and Fodor, J.D. 1989. Contextual information and temporal terms. Journal of child Language, 16, 623-632.
• Lukatela, K., Crain, S., and Shankweiler, D. 1988. Sensitivity to inflectional morphology in agrammatism. Brain and Language, 33, 1-15.
• Crain, S. 1987. On performability: Structure and process in language understanding. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 1, 127-145.
• Crain, S. and Nakayama, M. 1987. Structure dependence in grammar formation. Language, 63, 522-543. Reprinted in Otero, C. (ed), Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments. Routledge: London, England.
• Crain, S. and Fodor, J. 1987. Sentence matching and overgeneration. Cognition, 26, 123-169.
• Hamburger, H. and Crain, S. 1987. Plans and semantics in human processing of language. Cognitive Science, 11, 101-136.
• Shankweiler, D. and Crain, S. 1986. Language mechanisms and reading disorder: A modular approach. Cognition, 24, 139-168. Reprinted in The Onset of Literacy: Cognitive Processes in Reading Acquisition. Bradford Books: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Crain, S. 1986. Language acquisition as procedure. Review of Steven Pinker's Language Learnability and Language Development. Harvard University Press. Contemporary Psychology, 31, 741-743.
• Lasnik, H. and Crain, S. 1985. On the acquisition of pronominal reference. Lingua, 65, 135-154.
• Crain, S. and Fodor, J. D. 1984. On the innateness of Subjacency. Proceedings of the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, 1, 191-204. The Ohio State University, Columbus.
• Hamburger, H. and Crain, S. 1984. Acquisition of cognitive compiling. Cognition, 17, 85-136.
• Crain, S. 1983. Computer models of natural language understanding. Contemporary Psychology, 28, Review of Strategies for Natural Language Processing. W. G. Lehnert and M. H. Ringle (eds). 694-695.
• Hamburger, H. and Crain, S. 1982. Relative acquisition. In S. A. Kuczaj (ed) Language development: Syntax and semantics. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. 245-274.
• Crain, W. M. and Crain, S. 1979. Reading and language development: Suiting the subject matter to the subject. California Journal of Teaching Education 6,3.
  

Articles in Books

• Goro, T., U. Minai, and S. Crain. Two disjunctions for the price of only one. Proceedings of the BU Conference, 2005
• Gennari, S., L. Meroni, and S. Crain (forthcoming) Rapid relief from stress in dealing with ambiguity. In Processing World Situated Language: Bridging the language-as-product and language-as-action traditions. MIT Press.
• Pietroski, P. and S. Crain, S. (forthcoming) Innate Ideas. In J. McGilvray (ed). The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky, Cambridge University Press.
• Meroni, L., A. Gualmini and S. Crain (forthcoming) Everybody knows. In V. van Geenhoven (ed.) Acquisition Meets Semantics. Kluwer Academic Publisher.
• Crain, S, A. Gualmini and P. Pietroski (submitted) Brass tacks in linguistic theory: Innate Grammatical principles. The Structure of the Innate Mind. Proceedings of the Sheffield Conference.
• Crain, S. 2002. The continuity assumption. In I. Lasser (ed) The Process of Language Acquisition. Peter Lang Verlag: Frankfurt/Berlin. 3-24.
• Crain, S., and K. Wexler 1999. Methodology in the study of language acquisition: A modular approach. In W. C. Ritchie and T. K. Bhatia (eds), Handbook of Language Acquisition. Academic Press.
• Crain, S., Ni, W. and Conway, L. 1994. Learning, parsing, and modularity. In C. Clifton, L. Frazier and K. Rayner (eds) Perspectives on Sentence Processing. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale: NJ.
• Thornton, R. and Crain, S. 1993. Successful cyclic movement. In T. Hoekstra and B. Schwartz (eds) Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 215-252.
• Crain, S. and Fodor, J.D. 1993. Competence and performance in child language. In E. Dromi (ed) Language and Cognition: A Developmental Perspective. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. 141-171
• Crain, S., and Shankweiler, D. 1991. Modularity and learning to read. In I.G. Mattingly and M. Studdert-Kennedy (eds). Modularity and the Motor Theory of Speech Perception. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Hillsdale, NJ. 375-392.
• Crain, S., McKee, C. and Emiliani, M. 1990. Visiting relatives in Italy. In J. deVilliers and L. Frazier (eds) Language Processing and Language Acquisition. Reidel. 335-356.
• Crain, S. and D. Shankweiler 1990. Explaining failures in spoken language comprehension by children with reading disability. In D. Balota, G.B. Flores d'Arcais & K. Rayner (eds) Comprehension Processes in Reading. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. 477-508.
• Crain, S., Shankweiler, D., Macaruso, P. and Bar-Shalom, E. 1990. Working memory and comprehension of spoken sentences: Investigations of children with reading disorder. In G. Vallar and T. Shallice (eds) Neuropsychological Disorders of Short-Term Memory. Cambridge University Press, 477-508.
• Crain, S. 1989. Why poor readers misunderstand spoken sentences. In D. Shankweiler and I. Y. Liberman (eds) Phonology and Reading Disability: Solving the Reading Puzzle. IARLD Research Monograph Series, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI. 133-165.
• Fodor, J. D. and Crain, S. 1987. Simplicity and generality of rules in language acquisition. In B. MacWhinney (ed) Mechanisms of Language Acquisition. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Carnegie-Mellon Conference on Cognition, Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. 35-63.
• Crain, S. and Shankweiler, D. 1987. Syntactic complexity and reading acquisition. In A. Davison, and G. Green (eds) Linguistic Complexity and Text Comprehension. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. 167-189.
• Crain, S. and Steedman, M. 1985. On not being led up the garden path; the use of context by the psychological parser. In D.R. Dowty, L. Karttunen, and A. Zwicky (eds) Natural Language Parsing: Psychological, Computational, and Theoretical Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. 320-358.
• Crain, S. and Fodor, J.D. 1985. How can grammars help parsers? In D.R. Dowty, L. Karttunen, and A. Zwicky (eds) Natural Language Parsing: Psychological, Computational, and Theoretical Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. 94-128.
• Hamburger, H. and Crain, S. 1982. Early superlative acquisition. In Y. Otsu, H. van Riemsdijk, K. Inoue, A. Kamio and N. Kawasaki (eds) Studies in Generative Grammar and Language Acquisition. Tokyo, The XIIIth International Congress of Linguists. 153-163.
• Crain, S. and Crain, W. M. 1980. The syntax and semantics of reading. In M. P. Douglas (ed) Claremont Reading Conference Yearbook, Claremont Reading Conference.
• Crain, W. C. and S. Crain, 1979. Noam Chomsky's theory of language acquisition. In W. C. Crain Cognitive Development: Concepts and Applications. Prentice-Hall. 299-316.Articles in Conference Proceedings:
• Guasti, M.T., G. Chierchia, S. Crain, A. Gualmini, and L. Meroni (forthcoming) Children’s semantic and pragmatic competence in interaction. To appear, Proceedings of GALA.
• Gualmini, A., S. Crain, L. Meroni, G. Chierchia, and M.T. Guasti. 2001. At the semantics/pragmatics interface in child Language. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 11,
• Meroni L., A Gualmini, and S. Crain, 2001. Three years of continuous acquisition. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics.
• Chierchia, G., S. Crain, M.T. Guasti, A Gual;mini, and L. Meroni 2001. The acquisition of disjunction: Evidence for a grammatical view of scalar implicatures. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University conference on child language development, Cascadilla Press: MA.
• Meroni, L., A. Gualmini and S. Crain 2001. A conservative approach to quantification in child language. In Proceedings of the 24th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. 171-182.
• Crain, S. 2000. Sense and sense ability in child language. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press. Sommerville, MA.
• Gualmini, A., L. Meroni, and S. Crain, 2000. The inclusion of disjunction in child grammar: Evidence from modal verbs. Proceedings of NELS 15, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
• Gualmini, A., S. Crain, and L. Meroni, 2000. Acquisition of disjunction in conditional sentences Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Cascadilla Press, Sommerville, MA.
• Armon-Lotem, S. and S. Crain 1998. Interface conditions on child language: A crosslinguistic look at genitives. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual University of Pennsylvania Linguistics Colloquium.
• Chierchia, G., S. Crain, M.T. Guasti and R. Thornton 1998. “Some” and “or”: A study on the emergence of Logical Form. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Boston University conference on child language development, Cascadilla Press: MA.
• Crain, S. Ni, W., Shankweiler, D., Conway, L. and Braze, D. 1996. Meaning, memory and modularity. In C. Schutze (ed) MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics.
• Crain, S., and Thornton, R. 1996. Why child grammar is flawful. Proceedings of GALA, 1995.
• Crain, S., Conway, L., and Thornton, R., 1995. D-quantification in child language. In J. Fuller, H. Han and D. Parkingson (eds) Proceedings of the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Published by Cornell University.
• Conway, L. and Crain, S. 1995. Donkey Anaphora in child grammar. In J.N. Beckman (ed), Proceedings of the 25th North Eastern Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, University of Pennsylvania.
• Conway, L. and Crain, S. 1995. Dynamic acquisition. Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on child language development, Boston University.
• Crain, S. 1994. Continuity and modularity. In E. V. Clark (ed) Proceedings of the 25th Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford Linguistics Association, The Center for the Study of Language and Information. 22-29
• Boster, C. and S. Crain. 1994. The interaction of every and or in child language. In Early Cognition and the Transition to Language. Working Papers, U. of Texas, Austin.
• Ni, W. and Crain, S. How to resolve structural ambiguities. 1990. Proceedings of North Eastern Linguistic Society, 20. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
• Crain, S. and McKee, C. 1986. Acquisition of structural restrictions on anaphora. Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistic Society, 16, 94-110. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
• Crain, S. and Fodor, J. D. 1985. Rules and constraints in sentence processing. Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistic Society, 15, 87-104. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
• Crain, S. 1982. Temporal terms: mastery by age five. In Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford University. 33-38.
• Hamburger, H. and Crain, S. 1981. The natural natural language understander. The Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 128-130.
  

Keynote/Plenary/Invited Conference Presentations

• Crain, S. Keynote speaker. Australian Linguistic Institute. University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2003.
• Crain, S. Invited speaker, Workshop: Crosslinguistic data and theories of meaning. Max Plank Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2003
• Crain, S. Invited speaker. Conference: Polarity, scalar phenomena, implicatures: At the interface between the grammar and the Cognitive System, University of Milan-Bicocca, 2003.
• Crain, S. Invited speaker. Polarity/Scalarity Workshop. University of Potsdam, Germany.
• Crain S. Plans and the structure of behavior. Invited speaker, CUNY conference on sentence processing, MIT, 2003.
• Crain, S. Language acquisition is language change. Invited Speaker, Workshop on “SLI Genes, Development and Cognitive Neuroscience,” University College, London, 2002.
• Crain, S. and P. Pietroski. Invited speaker at the workshops: "Innateness and the Structure of the Mind" Sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), United Kingdom, 2001-2004.
• Crain, S. Three years of continuous acquisition. Keynote speaker, Second Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Keio University, 2001.
• Crain, S. Lessons in 3rd year grammar. Plenary speaker, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC, 2001
• Crain, S., Invited Speaker. Conference: Linguistics in the next decade. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 2000
• Crain, S. and A. Gualmini, A conservative approach to quantification in child language. Invited talk at the conference: Semantics meets acquisition. Max Plank Institute fur Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands, 2000
• Crain, S. Plenary Speaker, 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development, 1999, Boston, MA.
• Crain, S. Plenary Speaker, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, 1999, Potsdam, Germany.
• Crain, S. Invited Speaker, International Conference on Language Acquisition and Language Breakdown, UiL OTS Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 1999
• Crain, S. Plenary Speaker, Australian Linguistics Institute, Brisbane, Australia,
  1998.
• Crain, S. Invited participant. Workshop on Language, reading and memory, Sponsored by the National Research Council of Australia, at the University of New England, N.S.W. 1998.
• Crain, S. Invited participant, Workshop on Acquisition of Semantics. International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, 1998.
• Crain, S. Invited participant at the Workshop: Parameters in Semantics: Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, at the 1997 Linguistics Society of America Linguistics Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1997.
• Crain, S. Invited discussant at the Workshop: Specific Language Impairment in Children: Cross-linguistic Perspectives, Ehrenburg, Germany, 1997.
• Crain, S. Featured speaker at the 1996 Michigan Linguistics Colloquium. Michigan State University, Lansing, MI. 1996.
• Crain, S. Featured speaker at the 1996 North Carolina Linguistics Colloquium. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1996.
• Crain, S. Invited speaker, Symposium: Controversies in Cognitive Science: The Case of Language. Presented at the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. La Jolla, CA, 1996.
• Crain, S. Principles versus preferences. Plenary lecture at the VIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Istanbul, Turkey, 1996.
• Crain, S. Quantification without qualification. Invited presentation 17th GLOW Colloquium Workshop on Language Acquisition. Vienna, Austria, 1994.
• Crain, S. Invited speaker, Workshop on Crosslinguistic Acquisition Studies. International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, 1993.
• Crain, S. Semantic Subsetutions. Invited presentation at The Center for Cognitive Science Conference: Early cognition and the transition to language, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1993.
• Crain, S. Its easy to be easy when you are easy. Invited participant on the panel: "What are the connections? Language acquisition and linguistic theory." Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford CA, 1993.
• Crain, S. Assessing children's linguistic competence, Invited Speaker, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Anaheim, CA, 1993.
• Crain, S. Juvenile D-linkuency: From weak to strong crossover. Invited speaker, the 14th GLOW Colloquium Workshop: The Development of Bound Variables and Operators. Leiden, The Netherlands, 1991.
• Crain, S. Parsermony. Invited speaker, The Center for Cognitive Science at the University of Texas, Austin. Conference: Current Issues in Natural Language Processing. 1991.
• Crain, S. Learning negative linguistic facts without negative evidence. Invited speaker, the Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting, Symposium on Language Acquisition, MIT, 1990.
• Crain, S. and Thornton, R.J. Long Distance Movement: Exactly what don't children know? Invited speaker, The University of Massachusetts Roundtable: Acquisition of Wh-movement. University of Massachusetts, 1990.
• Crain, S. Gone but not forgotten: Children's knowledge of the trace of Wh-movement. Invited speaker, Linguistic Association of Great Britain, Cambridge, England, 1990.
• Crain, S. Why production precedes comprehension. Invited paper, 14th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 1989.
• Crain, S. Knowledge and use of language in mental retardation. Invited presentation, International Symposium: Modularity and Mental Retardation, Centro Studi Regionale Sindrome di Down, Sanremo, Italy, 1989.
• Crain, S. Why poor readers misunderstand spoken sentences. Invited presentation, The New York Branch of the Orton Dyslexic Society, 16th Annual Conference. New York, NY, 1989.
• Crain, S. Constraints on the acquisition of syntax. Invited symposium presentation, presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. San Francisco, CA, 1989.
• Crain, S. Chomsky's solution to Plato's problem. Invited speaker, The 6th Annual Meeting on Language and Speech, Sydney, Australia, 1988.
• Crain, S., and Shankweiler, D. Modularity and learning to read. Invited paper, presented at Modularity and the Motor Theory of Speech Perception: A conference in honor of Alvin A. Liberman. New Haven, CT, 1988.
• Crain, S. Using modularity to explain sentence comprehension failures in dyslexia. Invited presentation at the International Conference on Comprehension Processes. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Amsterdam, 1988.
• Crain, S. and Thornton, R. Elicited production: Recharting the course of language acquisition. Invited paper, presented at the conference: Biobehavioral Foundation of Language Development. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Washington, DC, 1988.
• Crain, S. and McKee, C. Easy acquisition. Invited paper, presented at the University of Massachusetts workshop "Processing in language acquisition." Amherst, MA, 1988.
• Crain, S. and Thornton, R. Innateness and Wh-movement. Invited paper, 13th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1988.
• Crain, S. Language acquisition in the absence of experience. Invited address, presented at the annual meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society, Armidale NSW, Australia, 1988.
• Fodor, J. and Crain, S. Competence and performance in child language. Invited paper, presented at The Tel-Aviv Fifth Annual Workshop in Human Development and Education, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1987.
• Crain, S. Working memory and sentence comprehension. Invited speaker, International Symposium: Impairments of Short-term Memory, Como, Italy, 1987.
• Crain, S., Thornton, R. and Murasugi, K. Capturing the evasive passive. Invited presentation, 12th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1987.
• Crain, S. and McKee, C. Acquisition of anaphora in Italian. Invited presentation, 12th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1987.
• McKee, C. and Crain, S. Cross-linguistic analysis of syntactic development. Invited presentation, International Symposium: Language Acquisition and Language Impairment in Children, Parma, Italy, 1987.
• Crain, S. Linguistic theory and language acquisition. Invited presentation, International Symposium: Language Acquisition and Language Impairment in Children, Parma, Italy, 1987.
• Crain, S. On the developmental autonomy of syntax. Invited speaker, 11th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1986.
• Crain, S. Why children misunderstand sentences. Invited speaker, International Academy for Research in Learning Disability, Symposium: Language and Reading Ability, Evanston, Illinois, 1986.
• Crain, S. Repercussions of short-term memory limitations on sentence comprehension: A theoretical perspective. Invited speaker, The International Meeting of Neurolinguistic Studies of Reading Disorders, Parma, Italy, 1985.
• Crain, S. and Fodor, J.D. Minimizing overgeneralization in a Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. Invited presentation, 20th Annual Carnegie-Mellon Conference on Cognition: Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, Pittsburgh, PA, 1985.
• Crain, S. and McKee, C. The acquisition of structural constraints on anaphora. Invited presentation, 10th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1985.
• Crain, S. Acquisition of X-bar syntax. Invited presentation, University of Massachusetts conference "Parameter Setting and Language Acquisition", Amherst, MA, 1984.
• Crain, S. Interpreting parsing decisions. Invited presentation, Ohio State University conference "Syntactic Theory and How People Parse Sentences," 1982.
• Hamburger, H. and Crain, S. Acquisition of cognitive compiling. Invited presentation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Foundation Center for Cognitive Science, Conference on Language Acquisition, Boston, MA, 1981.

Conference Presentations

• Goro, T., U. Minai, and S. Crain. Two disjunctions for the price of only one. BU Conference, 2004
• Minai, U., L. Meroni and S. Crain. "Children's Knowledge of the Entailments at a Distance." 5th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, 2004, Tokyo, Japan.
• Minai, U. and S. Crain. "Entailments at a Distance in Child Language.", 2004 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Sciety of America, Boston, USA.
• Gualmini, A. and S. Crain "Universal Asymmetries in Child Language," Presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2003, Boston, MA.
• Meroni, L., U. Minai, A. Gualmini and S. Crain. 2003. If Everybody Knows, then Every Child Knows. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
• Meroni L. and S. Crain. How Children Avoid Kindergarten Paths. Fourth Annual Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University, Japan, 2003
• Gualmini, A. and S. Crain "C-command Rules in Downward Entailment" paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 2003, Atlanta, GA.
• Gualmini, A., and S. Crain. Why No Child or Adult Must Learn De Morgan's Laws. Presented at the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2002, Boston, MA.
• Crain, S and L. Meroni Children’s use of referential context. Presented at the Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development, 2002, Boston, MA.
• Crain, S., A. Gardner, A. Gualmini, and B. Rabbin,Children's Command of Negation. Presented at 3rd Tokyo Conference of Psycholinguisics, 2002, Tokyo, Japan.
• Meroni, L., M.T. Guasti, G. Chierchia, S. Crain and A. Gualmini. The logic behind child language. Generative Linguistics and Language Acquisition. Portugal, September, 2001.
• Meroni, L., S. Crain, and A. Gualmini. Felicity conditions and on-line interpretation of sentences with quantified NPs. Paper presented at the 14th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing. 2001, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
• Gennari, S., S. Crain and L. Meroni, Rapid relief from ambiguity. Paper presented at the 14th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing. 2001, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
• Gualmini, A. L. Meroni, M.T. Guasti, G. Chierchia, and S. Crain. Investigations on the semantics/pragmatics interface in child language. Presented at the conference: Formal Pragmatics. 2001, Berlin, Germany.
• Meroni, L., A. Gulamini and S. Crain. Conversational implicatures and computational complexity in child language. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC, January, 2001
• Gualmini, A. and S. Crain. Downward entailment in child language. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC, January, 2001
• Crain, S. L. Meroni, G. Chierchia, M.T. Guasti. Scalar implicatures fail to arise for any child or adult. Second Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. 2001, Keio University.
• Chierchia, G., S. Crain, M.T. Guasti, A Gual;mini, and L. Meroni. The acquisition of disjunction: Evidence for a grammatical view of scalar implicatures. Presented at the 25th Annual Boston University conference on child language development, 2000, Boston, MA.
• Olsen, M.B. and S. Crain, Conditional acquisition. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 6th-9th, 2000, Chicago, IL.
• Gualmini, A. and S. Crain, Little logicians at work: Disjunction and the indefinite article in child language. Presented at the 24th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 2000, Philadelphia, PA.
• Crain, S., L. Meroni and A. Gualmini, Universal quantification is strong in children. Presented at the 24th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 2000, Philadelphia, PA.
• Meroni, L., A. Gualmini and S. Crain, Universal quantification is strong and conservative in children. Presented at the XXX Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, 2000, Rome, Italy.
• Gualmini, A., L. Meroni and S. Crain, The acquisition of disjunction: Evidence from modal verbs. Poster presented at the 30th North East Linguistic Society Conference, 1999, New Brunswick, NJ.
• Gualmini, A., S. Crain and L. Meroni, The acquisition of disjunction: Evidence from conditional sentences." Presented at the 24th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1999, Boston, MA.
• Ni, W., D. Shankweiler, L. Conway-Palumbo, K.S. Harris, R.K. Fulbright, R.J. Thornton, and S. Crain. 1998. Elicitation of verbs and inflections in nonfluent aphasia. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Santa Fe, NM, 1998.
• Chierchia, G., S. Crain, M.T. Guasti and R. Thornton. “Some” and “Or”: A study on the emergence of Logical Form. Presented at the 22nd Annual Boston University conference on child language development. Boston, MA, 1997.
• Armon-Lotem, S. and S. Crain 1998. Interface conditions on child language: A crosslinguistic look at Genitives. Presented at the 22nd Annual University of Pennsylvania Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA, 1998.
• Ni, W., Shankweiler, D., and Crain, S., Syntactic complexity and working memory in explaining comprehension difficulties. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Diego, CA, 1995.
• Crain, S., Ni, W. and Shankweiler, D. Meaning, memory and modularity. NELS 26, MIT, Boston, MA, 1995.
• Crain, S., Thornton, R., and Conway, L. Semantic distinctions in child language. Presented at the Groningen Assembly on Language Acquisition, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 1995.
• Crain, S. The Semantic subset principle. Maryland Mayfest 1995: Formal Learnability. University of Maryland at College Park, 1995.
• Fodor, J.D., Ni, W., Crain, S. and Shankweiler, D. Tasks and timing in the perception of linguistic anomaly. Paper presented at the 8th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 1995.
• Osterhout, L., Nicol, J., McKinnon, R., Ni, W., Fodor, J.D., and Crain, S. An event-related potential investigation of the temporal course of sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the 7th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 1995.
• Conway, L. and Crain, S. Dynamic acquisition. Presented at the North Eastern Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, 1994.
• Crain, S., Conway, L., Thornton, R., and Boster, C. Quantification without qualification. Presented at the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, University of South Carolina, 1994.
• Conway, L. and Crain, S. Children's understanding of donkey sentences: Dynamic versus unselective binding. Presented at the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, University of South Carolina, 1994.
• Ni, W. and Crain, S. The rapid use of semantic information in ambiguity resolution. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA, 1994.
• O'Leary, C. and Crain, S. Negative Polarity (a positive result) and Positive Polarity (a negative result). Presented at the 18th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, 1994.
• Boster, C. and Crain, S. The interaction of every and or in child language. Presented at the conference: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, University of Durham, Durham, England, 1993.
• Ni, W., Fodor, J.D. Crain, S., Shankweiler, D. and Mattingly, I.G. Evidence of the autonomy of syntax and pragmatics. Poster presented at 6th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993.
• Crain, S. Ni, W. and Conway, L. On the (different) requirements of learners and parsers. Paper presented at 6th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993.
• Crain, S., and Philip, W. Global semantic dependencies in child language. Paper presented at the 16th GLOW Colloquium, Lund, Sweden, 1993.
• Crain, S., W. Philip, K. Drozd, T. Roeper & K. Matsuoka. Only in child language. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 1992.
• Crain, S. The semantic subset principle in the acquisition of quantification. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Acquisition of WH-Extraction and Related Work on Quantification. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1992.
• Avrutin, S., S. Crain, Y. Miyamoto, and K. Wexler. Who knows everything about what everyone knows? (A study of quantification in child grammar) Paper presented at the Workshop on the Acquisition of WH-Extraction and Related Work on Quantification. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1992.
• Miyamoto, Y. and Crain, S. Children's interpretation of pronouns: Collective versus Distributive. Paper presented at the 16th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 1991.
• Ni, W. and Crain, S. Avoiding garden paths. Paper presented at CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing. Rochester, N.Y., 1991.
• Ni, W. and Crain, S. With reference to context: How structural ambiguities are resolved. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1991.
• Crain, S. and Thornton, R.J. Levels of representation in child grammar. Paper presented at 13th GLOW Colloquium, Cambridge, England, 1990.
• Thornton, R.J. and Crain, S. Children's use of bound pronouns. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1989.
• Ni, W. and Crain, S. The use of context in resolving structural ambiguities. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1989.
• Ni, W. and Crain, S. How to resolve structural ambiguities. Paper presented at 20th Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1989.
• Crain, S. and Thornton, R. The acquisition of wanna contraction. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, New Orleans, 1988.
• Murasugi, K., Crain, S. and Lillo-Martin D. Structural and pragmatic factors in the acquisition of anaphora. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, New Orleans, 1988.
• Crain, S. Language processing and language breakdown. Presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Symposium: Aphasic syndromes and theories of grammatical representation, Nashville, TN, 1986.
• Gorrell, P., Crain, S. and Fodor, J. Contextual information and temporal terms. Presented at 11th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1986.
• Crain, S. and McKee, C. Children's adherence to structural restrictions on coreference. Presented at the North Eastern Linguistic Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 1985.
• Crain, S. and Shankweiler, D. Comprehension of relative clauses and reflexive pronouns by agrammatic aphasics. Presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Pittsburgh, PA, 1985.
• Lukatela, K., Crain, S. and Shankweiler, D. Sensitivity to closed-class items in Serbo-Croat agrammatics. Presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Pittsburgh, PA, 1985.
• Nakayama, M. and Crain, S. Performance factors in children's sentence comprehension. Presented at the 10th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1985.
• Crain, S. and Fodor, J.D. Rules and constraints in sentence processing. Presented at the North Eastern Linguistic Society, Brown University, R.I., 1984.
• Fodor, J.D. and Crain, S. Simplicity and generality of rules in language acquisition. Presented at 9th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1984.
• Crain, S. and Nakayama, M. Structure-dependence in grammar formation. Presented at 9th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1984.
• Crain, S., Shankweiler, D., and Tuller, B. Preservation of sensitivity to closed-class items in agrammatism. Presented at 25th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Los Angeles, CA, October 1984.
• Crain, S. and Fodor, J.D. On the innateness of Subjacency. Presented at Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1984.
• Hamburger, H. and Crain, S. Early superlative acquisition. Presented at the XIIIth International Congress of Linguisticss, Tokyo, Japan, 1982.
• Crain, S. Eliciting temporal terms. Presented at 14th Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford, CA, 1982.
• Crain, S. Before and after: Correcting an error of omission in comprehension tasks. Presented at the 6th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1981.
• Hamburger, H. and Crain, S. A procedural interpretation of misinterpretation. Presented at 14th Annual Mathematical Psychology Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA, 1981.
• Crain, S. The logic of conversation applies to reading. Presented at Western Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 1981.
• Crain, S. and Steedman, M. Research methods in the study of ambiguity resolution. Presented at Western Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 1981.
• Crain, S. and Steedman, M. The use of context by the psychological parser. Presented at University of Texas Sloan Foundation Conference "Modeling Human Parsing Strategies", Austin, TX, 1981.
• Crain, S. Comments on Lyn Frazier's "Constraints, control and strategies in sentence comprehension". Presented at University of Texas Sloan Foundation Conference "Modeling Human Parsing Strategies", Austin, TX, 1981.
• Crain, S. and Crain, W. M. The syntactic development of Down's syndrome children. Presented at the Western Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 1980.
• Crain, S. and Crain, W. M. The syntax and semantics of reading. Presented at the Claremont Reading Conference, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA, 1980.
• Crain, S. Parsing garden path sentences. Presented at the Linguistics Society of America Summer Meeting, Salzburg, Austria, 1979.
• Hamburger, H. and Crain, S. Eliciting relative clauses. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Meeting, Salzburg, Austria, 1979.
• Coker, P. L. and Crain, S. Lexical access during sentence processing. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 1978.
• Crain, S. and Coker, P. L. A semantic constraint on syntactic parsing. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 1978.
• Coker, P. L. and Crain, S. Contextual cues and accessing meaning from the mental lexicon. Presented at the Psychonomics Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 1978.

Colloquia

• University of Southern California, 2003
• University of Edinburgh, 2002
• University of Berlin, 2002
• MIT, 2002
• University of York, UK, 2002
• UCLA, 2001
• Michigan State University, 2002
• Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2000, 2001, 2005
• National Yang Ming University, Taiwan, 2000, 2001
• Indiana University, 2000
• University of Queensland, Australia, 2001
• University of Milan, 1999, 2001
• Keio University, 2000
• University of New England, New South Wales, Australia, 1988, 1992, 1999
• Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1999
• Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, 1999
• Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1998
• Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, 1997
• Department of Linguistics, George Mason University, 1995
• Department of Linguistics, Johns Hopkins University, 1995
• Department of Linguistics, Yale University, 1994
• Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, 1994, 1998
• Department of Psychology, New York University, 1993
• Department of Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles, 1993
• Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 1993
• Department of Cognitive Sciences, Rutgers University, 1993
• Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand, 1992
• Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T., 1992, 1997
• Cognitive Sciences Colloquium, M.I.T., Commentator on Presentation by Professor Edgar Zurif, 1992
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Boston, 1991 Department of Linguistics,Graduate Center, CUNY, NY, 1991,1994
• Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, 1990
• Department of Psychology, Yale University, 1990
• Department of Linguistics, Brown University, 1990
• Department of Linguistics, Boston University, 1989
• Department of Linguistics, Brandeis University, 1984, 1985
• Department of Linguistics, McGill University, 1989
• Department of Linguistics, M.I.T., 1985
• Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, 1987
• Department of Linguistics, University of North Carolina, 1990, 1996
• Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1996
• Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1985, 1989
• Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, Spain, 1989
• The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, 1987
• Oxford University, England, 1986
• University College, London, England, 1986
• Universita Degli di Parma, Italy, 1986
• Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1985
• Department of Cognitive Science, Princeton University, 1985, 1989
• Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, 1985
• Washington Linguistics Club, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. With M. Steedman, 1981