In preparation/submitted*
Lester, N. A., & Katsika, A. (under review). Prosodic structure and the lexicon in interaction: A corpus-based approach.
Lester N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (in revision). Syntactic distributions affect the emergence of nouns at the earliest stages of syntactic acquisition.
Lester, N. A. (in revision). Prior syntactic distributions affect isolated noun recognition: A new perspective from Dependency Syntax.
Lester, N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (in revision). Does language need syntax? Quantitative evidence from an extreme case.
Journal Articles
Lester N. A.*, Moran, S., Küntay, A. C., Allen, S. E. M., Pfeiler, B., & Stoll, S. (2022). Detecting structured repetition in child-surrounding speech: Evidence from maximally diverse languages. Cognition, 221, 104986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104986
*co-first author with SM
Olguín Martínez, J., & Lester, N. A. ((2021). A quantitative analysis of counterfactual conditionals in typological perspective. Italian Journal of Linguistics.
Moran, S., Lester, N. A., & Grossman, E. (2020). Inferring recent evolutionary changes in speech sounds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 20200198. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0198.
Lester, N. A. (2019). That's hard: Relativizer use in spontaneous L2 speech. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 5, 1-32.
Tsai, K., Lester, N. A., & Moscoso Del Prado Martín, F. (2018). Bi-dialectal homophone effects in Kansai Japanese: An auditory lexical decision experiment. Acoustical Science and Technology, 39, 158-159.
Lester, N. A., Du Bois. J. W., Gries, S. Th., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2017). Considering experimental and observational evidence of priming together, syntax doesn't look so autonomous. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17000486
Wulff, S., Lester, N., and Martinez Garcia, M. (2014). That-variation in German and Spanish L2 English. Language and Cognition 6 (2): 271-299.
Peer-reviewed Proceedings and Edited Volumes
Lester, N. A., Bickel, B., Moran, S., & Stoll, S. (2020). Speech rates differentiate nouns and verbs in child-surrounding and child-produced speech: Evidence from Chintang. In M. M. Brown & A. Kohout, Proceedings of the 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 280-293). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.
Moran, S., Lester, N. A., Gordon, H., Küntay, A., Pfeiler, B. Allen, S., & Stoll, S. (2019). Variation sets in maximally diverse languages. In M. M. Brown & B. Dailey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 427-440). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.
Lester, N. A., Auderset, S., & Rogers, P. G. (2018). Case inflection and the functional indeterminacy of nouns: A cross-linguistic analysis. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Lester, N. A., Baum, D., & Biron, T. (2018). Phonetic duration of nouns depends on de-lexicalized syntactic distributions: Evidence from naturally occurring conversation. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Wulff, S., Gries, S. Th. & Lester, N. A. (2018). Optional that in complementation by German and Spanish learners. In A.Tyler & C. Moder (Eds.). What is applied cognitive linguistics? Answers from current SLA research (pp. 99-120). New York: de Gruyter Mouton.
Lester, N. A., Feldman, L. B. & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2017). You can take a noun out of syntax…: Syntactic similarity effects in lexical priming. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2537-2542).
Lester, N. A. & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2016). Syntactic flexibility in the noun: Evidence from picture naming. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2585-2590). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Lester, N. A. & Weber, R. (2016). Construal level affects intuitive moral responses to narrative content. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1847-1852). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Chelliah, S. and Lester, N. A. (2016). Contact and convergence in the Northeast. H. H. Hock & E. Bashir, (Eds.), The languages and linguistics of South Asia: A comprehensive guide (pp. 300-309). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Lester, N. A. (2015). Linguistic input overrides conceptual biases: When goals don’t matter. In R. Dale, C. Jennings, P. Maglio, T. Matlock, D. Noelle, A. Warlaumont, & J. Yoshimi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
Lester, N. A. & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2015). Word order in a grammarless language: A ‘small-data,’ information-theoretic approach. In R. Dale, C. Jennings, P. Maglio, T. Matlock, D. Noelle, A. Warlaumont, & J. Yoshimi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
Lester, N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2015). Constructional paradigms affect visual lexical decision latencies in English. In R. Dale, C. Jennings, P. Maglio, T. Matlock, D. Noelle, A. Warlaumont, & J. Yoshimi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
Invited Reviews
Lester, N. A. (2017). Lexical Priming in Spoken English Usage. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 11, 341-361.
Lester, N. A. (2017). The Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 11, 363-371.
* E-mail me if you would like a copy of any of the in preparation/submitted manuscripts.
Lester, N. A., & Katsika, A. (under review). Prosodic structure and the lexicon in interaction: A corpus-based approach.
Lester N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (in revision). Syntactic distributions affect the emergence of nouns at the earliest stages of syntactic acquisition.
Lester, N. A. (in revision). Prior syntactic distributions affect isolated noun recognition: A new perspective from Dependency Syntax.
Lester, N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (in revision). Does language need syntax? Quantitative evidence from an extreme case.
Journal Articles
Lester N. A.*, Moran, S., Küntay, A. C., Allen, S. E. M., Pfeiler, B., & Stoll, S. (2022). Detecting structured repetition in child-surrounding speech: Evidence from maximally diverse languages. Cognition, 221, 104986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104986
*co-first author with SM
Olguín Martínez, J., & Lester, N. A. ((2021). A quantitative analysis of counterfactual conditionals in typological perspective. Italian Journal of Linguistics.
Moran, S., Lester, N. A., & Grossman, E. (2020). Inferring recent evolutionary changes in speech sounds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 20200198. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0198.
Lester, N. A. (2019). That's hard: Relativizer use in spontaneous L2 speech. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 5, 1-32.
Tsai, K., Lester, N. A., & Moscoso Del Prado Martín, F. (2018). Bi-dialectal homophone effects in Kansai Japanese: An auditory lexical decision experiment. Acoustical Science and Technology, 39, 158-159.
Lester, N. A., Du Bois. J. W., Gries, S. Th., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2017). Considering experimental and observational evidence of priming together, syntax doesn't look so autonomous. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17000486
Wulff, S., Lester, N., and Martinez Garcia, M. (2014). That-variation in German and Spanish L2 English. Language and Cognition 6 (2): 271-299.
Peer-reviewed Proceedings and Edited Volumes
Lester, N. A., Bickel, B., Moran, S., & Stoll, S. (2020). Speech rates differentiate nouns and verbs in child-surrounding and child-produced speech: Evidence from Chintang. In M. M. Brown & A. Kohout, Proceedings of the 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 280-293). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.
Moran, S., Lester, N. A., Gordon, H., Küntay, A., Pfeiler, B. Allen, S., & Stoll, S. (2019). Variation sets in maximally diverse languages. In M. M. Brown & B. Dailey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 427-440). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.
Lester, N. A., Auderset, S., & Rogers, P. G. (2018). Case inflection and the functional indeterminacy of nouns: A cross-linguistic analysis. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Lester, N. A., Baum, D., & Biron, T. (2018). Phonetic duration of nouns depends on de-lexicalized syntactic distributions: Evidence from naturally occurring conversation. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Wulff, S., Gries, S. Th. & Lester, N. A. (2018). Optional that in complementation by German and Spanish learners. In A.Tyler & C. Moder (Eds.). What is applied cognitive linguistics? Answers from current SLA research (pp. 99-120). New York: de Gruyter Mouton.
Lester, N. A., Feldman, L. B. & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2017). You can take a noun out of syntax…: Syntactic similarity effects in lexical priming. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2537-2542).
Lester, N. A. & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2016). Syntactic flexibility in the noun: Evidence from picture naming. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2585-2590). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Lester, N. A. & Weber, R. (2016). Construal level affects intuitive moral responses to narrative content. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1847-1852). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Chelliah, S. and Lester, N. A. (2016). Contact and convergence in the Northeast. H. H. Hock & E. Bashir, (Eds.), The languages and linguistics of South Asia: A comprehensive guide (pp. 300-309). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Lester, N. A. (2015). Linguistic input overrides conceptual biases: When goals don’t matter. In R. Dale, C. Jennings, P. Maglio, T. Matlock, D. Noelle, A. Warlaumont, & J. Yoshimi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
Lester, N. A. & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2015). Word order in a grammarless language: A ‘small-data,’ information-theoretic approach. In R. Dale, C. Jennings, P. Maglio, T. Matlock, D. Noelle, A. Warlaumont, & J. Yoshimi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
Lester, N. A., & Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2015). Constructional paradigms affect visual lexical decision latencies in English. In R. Dale, C. Jennings, P. Maglio, T. Matlock, D. Noelle, A. Warlaumont, & J. Yoshimi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
Invited Reviews
Lester, N. A. (2017). Lexical Priming in Spoken English Usage. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 11, 341-361.
Lester, N. A. (2017). The Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 11, 363-371.
* E-mail me if you would like a copy of any of the in preparation/submitted manuscripts.