JOURNAL AND BOOK PUBLICATIONS
to appear Ke, Alan Hezao. The domain of transfer. The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism. eds. Kleanthes K. Grohmann & Evelina Leivada. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2025 Ke, Alan Hezao. Mandarin null objects: topic-binding over argument ellipsis. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-025-09670-8
2025 Ke, Alan Hezao, Jingying Xu & Lijun Ding. Modeling the learning of parametric variation: Implementing an input-driven hierarchical approach. Glossa 10(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.18053.
2025 Ke, Alan Hezao, Andrew McInnerney & Yushi Sugimoto. Lack of c-command in coordinate structures: Evidence from binding. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 43, 2139–2178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-025-09662-8
2025 Ke, Alan Hezao. Two Fundamental Questions Concerning the Syntactic Categories of English and Chinese Content Words (in Chinese). Dangdai Yuyanxue [Contemporary Linguistics] 27(2), 187-204.
2024 Ke, Alan Hezao, Jingying Xu, & Lijun Ding. The Clustering Approach: An Input-Driven Approach to Parameter Setting. In the proceedings of BUCLD 48.
2024 Thornber, Molly & Alan Hezao Ke. Modeling the learning of syntactic parameters from parsed data. In the proceedings of BUCLD 48.
2023 Ke, A. H., (2023) “Search downward: Minimal Search-based Agree”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.6526.
2023 Ke, A.H. Syntax and semantics of NPs in Chinese possessive topic constructions. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 32, 133–167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-023-09254-w.
2023 Lo, Chia-Wen, Tzu-Yun Tung, Alan Hezao Ke, Jonathan R. Brennan. Hierarchy, not lexical regularity, modulates low-frequency neural synchrony during language comprehension. Neurobiology of Language. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00077.
2022 Ke, Alan Hezao. Can Agree and Labeling be reduced to Minimal Search. Linguistic Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00481
2022 Hettiarachchi, Sujeewa and Acrisio Pires. 2022. Second Language Acquisition of Constraints on Wh-movement by L2 English Speakers: Evidence for Full-access to Syntactic Features. Languages 7: 134 (19p). https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020134
2022 Ke, Alan Hezao & Acrisio Pires. Local versus long-distance bound implicit arguments of inalienable relational nouns in Chinese. Journal of Linguistics. 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226721000190.
2021 Ding, Lijun, Liwei Jiang, Yudong Chen, Qing Qu, & Zhihui Zhu. Rank Overspecified Robust Matrix Recovery: Subgradient Method and Exact Recovery. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 34.
2021 Ding, Lijun, Alp Yurtsever, Volkan Cevher, Joel A. Tropp & Madeleine Udell. Storage Optimal and Efficient Methods for Solving SDP via Complementary Slackness. SIAM Journal on Optimization. 31, no. 4: 2695-2725.
2021 Xu, Jingying, Yang, Xiaolu, & Shi, Rushen. Complement control in early child grammar: A study of Mandarin-speaking two-year-olds’ comprehension. In Daniell Dionne & Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 45). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2020 Chou, C.-T. T. & T.-Y. Chen & A. Pires. Acquisition of null objects in Mandarin Chinese by heritage speakers: Syntax-pragmatics interface knowledge without inflectional morphology. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7-2: 223-269.
2020 Ding, Lijun, Yingjie Fei, Qiantong Xu, & Chengrun Yang. Spectral Frank-Wolfe Algorithm: Strict Complementarity and Linear Convergence. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
2020 Gaspar, Jiménez, Amelia, Acrisio Pires and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes. Bilingualism and language change: The case of pronominal clitics in Catalan and Spanish. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 23 (2) 113–131. (published online 06/21/2017) https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2017.1333487.
2020 Ke, Alan Hezao & Liqun Gao. Domain restriction in child Mandarin: implications for quantifier spreading. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences. 58(6): 1839–1875. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0246.
2019 Ke, Alan H., Ya Zhao, Liqun Gao, Shuying Liu & Acrisio Pires. On the implicit anaphoric argument of relational nouns in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Psycholinguist Research 48, 819–842. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-019-09633-2
2019 Nediger, Will, Acrisio Pires and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes. Integrating linguistic theory and experimentation in L2 Acquisition: Learning of Spanish Differential Object Marking by Portuguese and English speakers. Applied Linguistic Review 10.2: 219–39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2017-0094.
2018 Ke, Alan Hezao, Samuel Epstein, Richard Lewis & Acrisio Pires. The quantificational domain of dou: An experimental study. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 47(3): 537–556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-017-9532-9.
2017 Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro, Acrisio Pires and Will Nediger. Delay in the acquisition of differential object marking by Spanish monolingual and bilingual teenagers. International Journal of Bilingualism 21.2: 159-77.
2017 Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro and Acrisio Pires. 2017. When the burden of age does not wait: Early and Late L2 acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish. In Language Processing and Disorders, ed. L. Escobar, V. Torrens and T. Parodi. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. p. 166-92.
2017 Borges, Humberto and Acrisio Pires. The emergence of Brazilian Portuguese: Earlier evidence for the development of a partial null subject grammar. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 2, 31: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4096.
2014. Campos-Dintrans, Gonzalo, Acrisio Pires and Jason Rothman. Subject-to-subject raising and the syntax of tense in L2 Spanish: a full access approach. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 17.1: 38-55.
2013 Cuza, Alejandro, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Acrisio Pires and Jason Rothman. The syntax-semantics of bare and definite plural subjects in the L2 Spanish of English natives. International Journal of Bilingualism. 17.5: 634-52.
2009 Pires, Acrisio, and Jason Rothman, eds. Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition: Case Studies across Portuguese. In Series Studies on Language Acquisition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 354p+viii.
2006 Pires, Acrisio. The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains: Gerunds and Infinitives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.