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Manuscripts (submitted or in preparation)Tucker, Matthew, Idrissi, Ali, & Almeida, Diogo. (under review). Attraction Errors for Verbal Gender and Number Are Similar but Not Identical: Self-Paced Reading Evidence from Modern Standard Arabic. Peer-reviewed Journal ArticlesSprouse, Jon & Almeida, Diogo. (accepted). Setting the empirical record straight: Acceptability judgments appear to be reliable, robust, and replicable. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [pdf] Schluter, Kevin, Politzer-Ahles, Stephen, & Almeida, Diogo. (2017). Laryngeal features are phonetically abstract: Mismatch Negativity evidence from Arabic, English, and Russian. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:746. [ pdf | doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00746 (open access) ] Politzer-Ahles, Stephen, Xiang, Ming, & Almeida, Diogo. (2017). "Before" and "after": Investigating the relationship between temporal connectives and chronological ordering using event-related potentials. PLOS ONE 12(4): e0175199. [ pdf | doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0175199 (open access) ] Sprouse, Jon & Almeida, Diogo. (2017). Design sensitivity and statistical power in acceptability judgment experiments. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. 2(1), p.14. [ pdf | doi:10.5334/gjgl.236 (open access) ] Politzer-Ahles, Stephen, Schluter, Kevin, Wu, Kefei, & Almeida, Diogo. (2016). Asymmetries in the perception of Mandarin tones: Evidence from mismatch negativity.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(10), 1547-1570. [ pdf | doi:10.1037/xhp0000242 (open access) ] Schluter, Kevin, Politzer-Ahles, Stephen, & Almeida, Diogo. (2016). No place for /h/. An ERP investigation of English fricative place features. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(6), 728-740. [ pdf | doi: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1151058 (open access) ]] Almeida, Diogo, Poeppel, David, & Corina, David. (2016). The Processing of Biologically Plausible and Implausible forms in American Sign Language: Evidence for Perceptual Tuning. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(3), 361-374. [ pdf | doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1100315 (open access) ] Rogalsky, Corianne, Almeida, Diogo, Sprouse, Jon, & Hickok, Gregory. (2015). Sentence processing selectivity in Broca's area: Evident for structure but not syntactic movement Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30(10), 1326-1338. [ pdf | doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1066831 ] Tucker, Matthew, Idrissi, Ali, & Almeida, Diogo. (2015). Representing number in the real-time processing of agreement: self-paced reading evidence from Arabic. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:347. [ pdf | doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00347 (open access) ] Almeida, Diogo. (2014). Subliminal Wh-islands in Brazilian Portuguese and the consequences for syntactic theory. Revista da ABRALIN, 13(2), 55-93. [ pdf | LingBuzz | Open Access Copy ] Almeida, Diogo, & Poeppel, David. (2013). Word–specific repetition effects revealed by MEG and the implications for lexical access. Brain and Language, 127, 497-509. [ pdf | doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2013.09.013 ] Sprouse, Jon, Schütze, Carson, & Almeida, Diogo (2013). Assessing the reliability of journal data in syntax: Linguistic Inquiry 2001-2010. Lingua, 134, 219-248. [ pdf | LingBuzz | doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.07.002 ] Sprouse, Jon, & Almeida, Diogo (2013). The empirical status of data in syntax: A reply to Gibson and Fedorenko. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(3), 222-228. [ pdf | LingBuzz | doi:10.1080/01690965.2012.703782 ] Sprouse, Jon, & Almeida, Diogo. (2012). Assessing the reliability of textbook data in syntax: Adger's Core Syntax. Journal of Linguistics, 48(3), 609-652. [ pdf | doi:10.1017/S0022226712000011 ] Lau, Ellen, Almeida, Diogo, Hines, Paul, & Poppel, David. (2009). A lexical basis for N400 context effects: Evidence from MEG. Brain and Language, 111(3), 161-172. [ pdf | doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2009.08.007 ] Almeida, Diogo, & Yoshida, Masaya. (2007). A problem for the Preposition Stranding Generalization. Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 38(2), Spring. [ pdf | doi:10.1162/ling.2007.38.2.349 ] Corrêa, L. M. S., Almeida, D. A. de A., & Porto, R. S. (2004). On the representation of Portuguese gender-inflected words in the mental lexicon. Brain and Language, 90(1-3), 63-73. [ pdf | doi:10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00420-6 ] Refereed Conference ProceedingsAlmeida, Diogo, & Matthew Tucker. (accepted). The complex structure of errors and the independent visibility of φ-features: evidence from agreement attraction in Arabic. Proceedings of the 47th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society. [ pdf ] Tucker, Matthew, Ali Idrissi, Jon Sprouse & Diogo Almeida. (accepted). Resumption ameliorates different islands differentially: acceptability data from Modern Standard Arabic. Proceedings of Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 30. Politzer-Ahles, Stephen, Kevin Schluter, Kefei Wu† & Diogo Almeida. (2015). Asymmetries in the perception of Mandarin tones: Evidence from mismatch negativity. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow. Retrieved from https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/proceedings.html. [pdf] Book ChaptersSprouse, Jon, & Almeida, Diogo (2013). The role of experimental syntax in an integrated cognitive science of language. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics. Edited by Kleanthes Grohmann and Cedric Boeckx. [ pdf ] Unpublished ManuscriptsSprouse, Jon &, Almeida, Diogo. Power in acceptability judgment experiments and the reliability of data in syntax. [ LingBuzz ] Sprouse, Jon, & Almeida, Diogo. The 469 data points that form the empirical foundation of generative syntactic theory are at least 98% replicable using formal experiments. [ LingBuzz | superseded by this one ] Sprouse, Jon, & Almeida, Diogo. A quantitative defense of linguistic methodology. [ LingBuzz | mostly superseded by this one ] Almeida, Diogo. L'acquisition des catégories phonémiques. Unpublished MA thesis, EHESS, Paris. June 2003. [ pdf.1 | pdf.2 | but please refer to the more updated version of this research by Sharon Peperkamp and Emmanuel Dupoux ] Contactdiogo@nyu.edu (+971) 2628 5040 UAE: P.O. Box 129188, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates USA: P.O. Box 903, New York, NY 10276-0903 |