Selected recent publications (see my CV for a more complete collection)
Clifton, C., Jr., & Staub, A. (2011). Syntactic influences on eye movements during reading. In Simon Liversedge, Iain Gilchrist, and Stefan Everling (Eds), Oxford Handbook on Eye Movements. Chapter 49 (pp 895-909). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mack, J. E., Clifton, C. Jr., Frazier, L., & Taylor, P. V. (2012). (Not) Hearing optional subjects: The effects of pragmatic usage preferences. Journal of Memory and Language, 67(1), 211-223. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.02.011 PMCID: PMC3383825
Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier, L. (2012). Discourse comprehension as guided by the 'Question under Discussion'. Cognitive Psychology, 65, 352-379. PMCID: PMC3394877. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2012.04.001
Clifton, C., Jr., Meyer, A., Wurm, L., & Treiman, R. (2012). Language comprehension and production. In Alice F. Healy & Robert W. Proctor (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychology (Second Edition). Vol. 4: Experimental Psychology). New York: Wiley. Pp 523-547.
Clifton, C., Jr. (2013). Situational context affects definiteness preferences: Accommodation of presuppositions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition,, 39, 487-501 doi: 10.1037/a0028975 PMCID: PMC3893092
Breen, M., & Clifton, C. Jr. (2013). Stress matters revisited: A boundary change experiment. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 66, 1896-1909. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2013.766899 PMCID: PMC3661722
Frazier, L, Clifton, C., Jr., Carlson, K., & Harris, J. (2014). Standing alone with prosodic help. Language and Cognitive Processes, 29, 459-469. doi 10.1080/01690965.2013.828095. PMC 3979625
Benatar, A., & Clifton, C. Jr. (2014). Newness, givenness and discourse updating: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Memory and Language, 71, 1-16. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2013.10.003 PMC 3873159
Dillon, B., Clifton, C. Jr., & Frazier, L. (2014). Pushed aside: Parentheticals, memory and processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29, 483-498. doi: 10.1080/01690965.2013.866684. PMC 4010231
Frazier, L., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2015). Without his shirt off he saved the child from almost drowning: Interpreting an uncertain input. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30(6), 635-647. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2014.995109
Clifton, C., Jr. (2015). The role of phonology in reading: A selective review. In L. Frazier & E. Gibson (Eds.), Explicit and implicit prosody in sentence processing (pp 161-176). New York: Springer.
Hemforth, B., Fernandez, S., Clifton, C. Jr., Konieczny, L, & Walter, M. (2015). Relative clause attachment in German, English, Spanish, and French: Effects of position and length. Lingua, 166, 43-64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2015.08.010
Clifton, C., Jr, Ferreira, F., Henderson, J. M., Inhoff, A. W., Liversedge, S., Reichle, E.D., & Schotter, E. R. (2016). Eye movements in reading and information processing: Keith Rayner's 40 year legacy. Journal of Memory and Language, 86, 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2015.07.004
Clifton Jr, C., & Frazier, L. (2016). Accommodation to an unlikely episodic state. Journal of Memory and Language, 86, 20-34. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2015.10.004
Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier, L. (2016). Focus in Corrective Exchanges: Effects of Pitch Accent and Syntactic Form. Language and Speech, 59,544-561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830915623578
Dillon, B., Staub, A., Levy, J., & Clifton, C. Jr. (2017). Which noun phrases is the verb supposed to agree with? Object agreement in American English. Language, 93, 65-96.
Staub, A., Dillon, B., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2017). The matrix verb as a source of comprehension difficulty in object relative sentences. Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12448
Dillon, B, Clifton, C.,Jr, , Sloggett, S., & Frazier, L. (2017). Appositives and their aftermath: Interference depends on at-issue vs. not-at-issue status. Journal of Memory and Language, 96, 93-109
Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier, L. (2017). Evaluation of the epistemic state of the speaker/author. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Published online June 5 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10/1080/17470218.2017/1338303
Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier, L. (2018). Context effects in discourse: The QUD. Discourse Processes. Published online June 26 2017 . https://doi.org/10.1080/016385X.2017.1330029
Frazier, L, Dillon, B., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2017). Together they stand: Interpreting not at issue content. Language and Speech. Published online June 27 2017 https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830917714608
Dillon, B., Frazier, L., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2018). No longer an orphan: Evidence for appositive attachment from sentence processing. Glossa, 3, 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.379
Frazier, L, Clifton, C. Jr., Rich, S. K., & Duff, J. (2018). Anticipating negation: The do's and don'ts of Neg Raising. Syntax. Published online Feb 13,2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/synt.12151
Carlson, K, Clifton, C. Jr., & Fodor, J. D. (Editors) (2019). Grammatical approaches to language processing. Dordrecht: Springer.
Frazier, L, & Clifton, C., Jr. (2018). Topic situations: Coherence by inclusion. Journal of Memory and Language, 103, 176-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2018.08.006
Frazier, L., & Clifton, C. Jr. (2018). A note on the prosody and interpretation of final phrases In Rodica Ivan (Editor), The leader of the pack: A festschrift in honor of Peggy Speas. Amherst, MA: UMOP, Volume 40.
Clifton, C., Jr., Dillon, B, & Staub, A. (2019). Lyn Frazier’s contribuions to psycholinguistics: An appreciation. In Katy Carlson, Charles Clifton, and Janet Fodor (Eds), Grammaatical approaches to language processing: Essays in honor of Lyn Frazier. Pp 1-10. Dordrecht: Springer.
Clifton, C., Jr., Xiang, M., & Frazier, L. (2019). A note on the voice mismatch asymmetry in ellipsis. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 48(4), 877-887. DOI 10.1007/s10936-019-09636-z