Conferences and Invited Talks
Moran, S., & Lester, N. A. (2019). The ACQDIV project: Corpus database, methodological approaches and challenges. Emergent constructions: Big data in learner language analyses (Workshop). Universität Basel.
Lester, N. A., & Katsika, A. (2019). The interplay between lexico-syntactic information and prosodic structure. Poster presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York, NY
Lester, N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2018). Syntactic distributions affect the emergence of nouns in the earliest stages of syntactic acquisition. Poster presented at the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Lester, N. A.(2018). Information-theoretic approaches to syntax and lexicon: Perspectives from processing, acquisition, and typology. Talk presented at the Research Colloquium, Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zürich.
Chuprina, A., Lester, N. A., & Slioussar, N. (2018). Morphologically mediated syntactic priming in visual lexical decision: Evidence from Russian. Poster presented at the 11thInternational Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Moran, S., Lester, N. A., Sauppe, S., & Stoll, S. (2018). Worldwide frequency distribution of phoneme types predicts their order of acquisition. Talk presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europea, Tallinn, Estonia.
Lester, N. A. (2018). The syntactic bits of nouns: How prior syntactic distributions affect comprehension, production, and acquisition. Linguistics colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lester, N. A. (2017). Diversity prefers the fringe: Word order and syntactic flexibility in coordinate NPs. Invited talk at the Workshop on Dynamics of Language, Santa Barbara, C.A.
Lester, N. A. (2017). You shall know a [noun] by the [syntax] it keeps: Syntactic diversity effects in bare-noun production. Invited talk presented at the annual Lingustics Open House, Department of Linguisitcs, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lester, N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2017). Diversity can help or hinder: Syntactic distributions and (noun-)phrase production. Talk presented at the 91st annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin, TX.
Tsai, K., Lester, N. A., & Moscoso Del Prado Martín, F. (2016). Bi-dialectal homophone effects in Kansai Japanese lexical decision tasks. Poster presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan. Honolulu, Hawaii.
Lester, N. A. (2016). How much grammar do you need to use a noun? Syntactic effects in lexical production and comprehension. Invited talk at the Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
Lester, N. A. (2016). How much grammar do you need to use a noun? Syntactic effects in lexical production and comprehension. Invited talk at the Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Lester, N. A. (2016). SynDi: The Syntactic Diversity Database and its empirical applications. Invited talk at the Ling Lab Talk Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
Lester, N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2016). Pickiness and privilege come at a cost: Syntactic diversity effects in bare-noun picture naming. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production, La Jolla, CA.
Du Bois, J. W. & Lester, N. A. (2016). Cognitive containment: Motivating the ditransitive construction. Paper presented at the 90th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Washington, D. C.
Lester, N. A. (2015). Collateral signal or processing response? Relativizer omission in spontaneous L2 speech. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Atlanta, GA.
Gries, S. Th., Lester, N. A., & Wulff, S. (2015). That–complementation in learner and native speaker corpus data: modeling linguistic, psycholinguistic, and individual variation. Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster, UK.
Lester, N. A. & Weber, R. (2015). Construal-level theory and intuitive morality: How processing states shape moral judgments of media content. Paper presented at the 65th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), San Juan, Puerto Rico,
Lester, N. A. (2014). Cognitive containment and constructional neighborhoods in complex predicates. Paper presented at Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL 12), Santa Barbara, CA.
Lester, N. A. (2014). The comings and goings of come and go (and move). Paper presented at the 2014 conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL), Flagstaff, AZ.
Lester, N. A. (2013). Blazing the narrative path: Motion events and narrative structure in the English pear stories. Paper presented at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 12), Edmonton, Alberta, CA.
Lester, N. A. (2013). Delta-p as an index of constructional ambiguity: A corpus-based analysis of unidirectional association in COME to V. Paper presented at the 2013 conference of the American Association of Corpus Linguistics (AACL), San Diego, CA.
Lester, N. A. (2013). It’s, uh, complicated: Modeling uh and um as functions of difficulty and complexity. Paper presented at the Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW 2013). Santa Barbara, CA.
Wulff, S., Lester, N. A., & Martinez Garcia, M. (2012). That-variation in German and Spanish L2 writing: A corpus-based study. Paper presented at the 31st meeting of the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Pittsburgh, PA.
Lester, N. A. (2011). Syntactic deviation in partially schematic constructions: A corpus-based approach to COME/GET to V2 constructions in English. Paper presented at the 18th University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCILT 18), Arlington, TX.
Lester, N. A. (2010). No complements, please: A corpus-based approach to COME/GET to V2 constructions in English. Paper presented at the 2nd annual Metroplex Conference, Dallas, TX.
Moran, S., & Lester, N. A. (2019). The ACQDIV project: Corpus database, methodological approaches and challenges. Emergent constructions: Big data in learner language analyses (Workshop). Universität Basel.
Lester, N. A., & Katsika, A. (2019). The interplay between lexico-syntactic information and prosodic structure. Poster presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York, NY
Lester, N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2018). Syntactic distributions affect the emergence of nouns in the earliest stages of syntactic acquisition. Poster presented at the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Lester, N. A.(2018). Information-theoretic approaches to syntax and lexicon: Perspectives from processing, acquisition, and typology. Talk presented at the Research Colloquium, Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zürich.
Chuprina, A., Lester, N. A., & Slioussar, N. (2018). Morphologically mediated syntactic priming in visual lexical decision: Evidence from Russian. Poster presented at the 11thInternational Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Moran, S., Lester, N. A., Sauppe, S., & Stoll, S. (2018). Worldwide frequency distribution of phoneme types predicts their order of acquisition. Talk presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europea, Tallinn, Estonia.
Lester, N. A. (2018). The syntactic bits of nouns: How prior syntactic distributions affect comprehension, production, and acquisition. Linguistics colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lester, N. A. (2017). Diversity prefers the fringe: Word order and syntactic flexibility in coordinate NPs. Invited talk at the Workshop on Dynamics of Language, Santa Barbara, C.A.
Lester, N. A. (2017). You shall know a [noun] by the [syntax] it keeps: Syntactic diversity effects in bare-noun production. Invited talk presented at the annual Lingustics Open House, Department of Linguisitcs, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lester, N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2017). Diversity can help or hinder: Syntactic distributions and (noun-)phrase production. Talk presented at the 91st annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin, TX.
Tsai, K., Lester, N. A., & Moscoso Del Prado Martín, F. (2016). Bi-dialectal homophone effects in Kansai Japanese lexical decision tasks. Poster presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan. Honolulu, Hawaii.
Lester, N. A. (2016). How much grammar do you need to use a noun? Syntactic effects in lexical production and comprehension. Invited talk at the Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
Lester, N. A. (2016). How much grammar do you need to use a noun? Syntactic effects in lexical production and comprehension. Invited talk at the Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Lester, N. A. (2016). SynDi: The Syntactic Diversity Database and its empirical applications. Invited talk at the Ling Lab Talk Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
Lester, N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2016). Pickiness and privilege come at a cost: Syntactic diversity effects in bare-noun picture naming. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production, La Jolla, CA.
Du Bois, J. W. & Lester, N. A. (2016). Cognitive containment: Motivating the ditransitive construction. Paper presented at the 90th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Washington, D. C.
Lester, N. A. (2015). Collateral signal or processing response? Relativizer omission in spontaneous L2 speech. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Atlanta, GA.
Gries, S. Th., Lester, N. A., & Wulff, S. (2015). That–complementation in learner and native speaker corpus data: modeling linguistic, psycholinguistic, and individual variation. Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster, UK.
Lester, N. A. & Weber, R. (2015). Construal-level theory and intuitive morality: How processing states shape moral judgments of media content. Paper presented at the 65th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), San Juan, Puerto Rico,
Lester, N. A. (2014). Cognitive containment and constructional neighborhoods in complex predicates. Paper presented at Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL 12), Santa Barbara, CA.
Lester, N. A. (2014). The comings and goings of come and go (and move). Paper presented at the 2014 conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL), Flagstaff, AZ.
Lester, N. A. (2013). Blazing the narrative path: Motion events and narrative structure in the English pear stories. Paper presented at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 12), Edmonton, Alberta, CA.
Lester, N. A. (2013). Delta-p as an index of constructional ambiguity: A corpus-based analysis of unidirectional association in COME to V. Paper presented at the 2013 conference of the American Association of Corpus Linguistics (AACL), San Diego, CA.
Lester, N. A. (2013). It’s, uh, complicated: Modeling uh and um as functions of difficulty and complexity. Paper presented at the Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW 2013). Santa Barbara, CA.
Wulff, S., Lester, N. A., & Martinez Garcia, M. (2012). That-variation in German and Spanish L2 writing: A corpus-based study. Paper presented at the 31st meeting of the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Pittsburgh, PA.
Lester, N. A. (2011). Syntactic deviation in partially schematic constructions: A corpus-based approach to COME/GET to V2 constructions in English. Paper presented at the 18th University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCILT 18), Arlington, TX.
Lester, N. A. (2010). No complements, please: A corpus-based approach to COME/GET to V2 constructions in English. Paper presented at the 2nd annual Metroplex Conference, Dallas, TX.