Long-serving Research Assistant and fabulous undergraduate student, Mickey Singh, has been awarded a prestigious Carnegie Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship to investigate Speech and Gesture Integration processes in neurotypical adults and Adults with Autism. The project will be co-supervised by Prof. Alissa…
Very excited to see my first joint venture with Eleanor Heggdal Lønes and Yuki Kamide out in press!! The review will appear in a 2023 volume of Psychology of Learning and Motivation with a special focus on language production, so…
The summer was lovely but also busy and I didn’t have time to post about all my activities. So here is a short catch up of the highlights. In June, I attended the 11th Annual Meeting of the International Workshop…
Eleanor Heggdal Lønes recently presented some results from her PhD project at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference in York, England. Her poster title was ‘Do abstract priming, talker beliefs about the listener, and conceptual pacts all affect…
It was my great honour to deliver a talk to the Virtual Psycholinguistics Forum, a network of psycholinguistics researchers from across Asia, Australia, and beyond. My talk was entitled ‘Choose your words wisely: the role of semantic and sociolinguistic fetures…
Congratulations to Heather Graz for passing her 1st year upgrade viva with flying colours. She can now officially call herself a PhD student! Heather presented her Phd research on investigating the prediction processes of people with SSPI using the Visual…
I’m very excited to see this paper in print. Lin, H.-P., Kuhlen, A. K., Melinger, A., Aristei, S., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Concurrent semantic priming and lexical interference for close semantic relations in Blocked-cyclic picture naming: Electrophysiological signatures. Psychophysiology.…
Alissa Melinger was recently interviewed for a story about being tongue tied on the BBC Radio 4 show Sideways. She explained the basic processes involved in speaking and some of the ways the process can be derailed. You can listen…
After having been postponed twice due to the pandemic, we are very pleased to announce that the International Workshop on Language Production will hold a short online event in November 2021 on three non-consecutive days. The aim of this event…
We are pleased to announce an exciting PhD opportunity in our Speak your Dialect project. The project, entitled ‘Dialects, registers, and accents: investigating the use of sociolinguistic variants’, can be found on the FindAPhD webpage. This aim of this project…
Very excited to see this paper published in Cognition. This paper is a follow up to my 2018 article examining the lexical selection processes involved in dialect word selection. Here, I replicate the between-dialect interference effect previously observed for Scottish…
Recently, we presented some of our results investigating the origin of codability effects and dialectal representations at ESCOP in Tenerife. These results challenge recent theoretical claims from Nozari & Hepner (2018). They also shine additional light on how dialectal alternatives…
Just bought these for the lab! Excited to think about how to use them!
In the @ISSRDundee Open Panel session, @AlissaMelinger told #ISSR2019 about Speaking in Context: Dialects of English #DialectsinDundee — UoD Psychology (@UoDPsychology) June 24, 2019 Thanks to @ISSRDundee for an interesting & exciting day of talks at #ISSR2019 – we're happy…
Out today, my paper with Rasha Abdel Rahman in Language, Cognition & Neuroscience. This paper reviews the evidence supporting the assumptions and predictions of our Swinging Lexical Network proposal. Our proposal for how we select words aims to explain semantic…
New from my ongoing collaboration with Rasha Abdel Rahman, this comment digs into the relationship between semantic and lexical processing and asks questions about the mechanism underpinning lexical selection. Download your copy here.
Out for a wee end-of-semester drink with my fabulous research assistants. They’ve done amazing work all term. Good luck on your exams and see you next year!
Had a brilliant time taking part in a panel discussion about the distinction between dialects and langauges, hosted at the University of Aberdeen by the Aberdeen University Linguistic Society. Fantastic to see so many people interested in the status of…
The on-line picture naming study that my two Nuffield Summer Research students have constructed has gone live. Click here to participate!
This summer, I have two special guests in my lab! Two fantastic S6 students are working on my lab throught the Nuffield Research Placement Scheme to develop an on-line picture norming study. Their work will contribute to my research on…
My new paper on semantic distance effects is finally out in JEP:LMC. This paper, with Sebastian Rose, Sabrina Aristei, and Rasha Abdel Rahman, reports a picture-word interference experiment in which we manipulated semantic distance systematically within taxonomic hierarchies. We provide…
I had a wonderful time at the 10th meeting of the International Workshop on Language Production, hosted by the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, NL. For anyone who didn’t get a chance to see my poster, you can download it…
My awesome sister created a new banner for the page. Pretty snazzy, no? Thanks Sara!
Welcome to the “new look” website for Alissa Melinger’s Language Production lab (previously the Speech and Gesture Production lab). This page will be undergoing development in the next weeks. Please let me know what you think of them!