Philip J. Monahan

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL)
Paseo Mikeletegi Nº 69, 2ª Planta
20009 Donostia-San Sebastián
Spain

e-mail: p (dot) monahan (at) bcbl (dot) eu
phone: +34 943 309 300 x 320

Currently, I am a Marie Curie fellow and post-doctoral researcher at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastián, Spain. Perceiving language recruits complex processes at multiple levels without conscious effort. Using insights from linguistics, my work focuses on how the brain encodes phonetic information, how it uses phonological structure to interpret the speech signal, and the time-course of access to the morphological structure of words. As an integrated approach is necessary for any comprehensive theory, I address these issues by combining linguistics, experimental psychology and neuroscience in an interdisciplinary way. I completed my Ph.D. in 2009 under the supervision of David Poeppel and William J. Idsardi in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland with a concentration in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science.


Ongoing Projects:

  1. Marie Curie FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, Prediction in Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition (2011-2013), 178,380€

Publications:

  1. Scharinger, M., Monahan, P.J., & Idsardi, W.J. (2012). Asymmetries in the Processing of Vowel Height. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. PDF DOI
  2. Lehtonen, M., Monahan, P.J., & Poeppel, D. (2011). Evidence for Early Morphological Decomposition: Combining Masked Priming with Magnetoencephalography. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(11): 3366-3379. PDF DOI
  3. Poeppel, D., & Monahan, P.J. (2011). Feedforward and Feedback in Speech Perception: Revisiting Analysis by Synthesis. Language and Cognitive Processes 26(7): 935-951. PDF DOI
  4. Scharinger, M., Monahan, P.J., & Idsardi, W.J. (2011). You Had Me at Hello: Rapid Extraction of Dialect Information from Spoken Words. NeuroImage 56(4): 2329-2338. PDF DOI
  5. Monahan, P.J., & Idsardi, W.J. (2010). Auditory Sensitivity to Formant Ratios: Toward an Account of Vowel Normalization. Language and Cognitive Processes 25(6): 808-839. PDF DOI
  6. Hwang, S.-O.K., Monahan, P.J., & Idsardi, W.J. (2010). Underspecification and Asymmetries in Voicing Perception. Phonology 27(2): 205-224. PDF DOI
  7. Monahan, P.J., de Souza, K., & Idsardi, W.J. (2008). Neuromagnetic Evidence for Early Auditory Restoration of Fundamental Pitch. PLoS One 3(8): e2900. PDF DOI
  8. Monahan, P.J., Fiorentino, R., & Poeppel, D. (2008). Masked Repetition Priming using Magnetoencephalography. Brain and Language 106(1): 65-71. PDF DOI
  9. Poeppel, D., & Monahan, P.J. (2008). Speech Perception: Cognitive Foundations and Cortical Implementation. Current Directions in Psychological Science 17(2): 80-85. PDF DOI
  10. Polinsky, M., Monahan, P.J., & Kwon, N. (2007). Object Control in Korean: How Many Constructions? Language Research 43(1): 1-33. PDF
    Book Chapters (Selected)
    1. Monahan, P.J., Lau, E.F., & Idsardi, W.J. (in press). Computational Primitives in Phonology and Their Neural Correlates. In Handbook of Biolinguistics, eds., Boeckx, C., & Grohmann, K.K. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge, UK.
    2. Monahan, P.J., Takahashi, E., Nakao, C. & Idsardi, W.J. (2009) Not All Epenthetic Contexts are Equal: Differential Effects in Japanese Illusory Vowel Perception. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 17, eds., Iwasaki, S., Hoji, H., Clancy, P.M., & Sohn, S.-O., pp. 391-405. Stanford, CA: CSLI. PDF
    3. Monahan, P.J. (2003). Backward Object Control in Korean. In Proceedings of the 22nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, eds., Garding, G., & Tsujimura, M., pp. 356-369. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. PDF
    *Please see my CV for (other) book chapters, conference proceedings and presentations.

    [Last Updated: 01 March 2012]