Recent Publications

2005. ‘A Stylistic Approach to the Linguistic Idiosyncrasies of T.S.Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. In Greg Watson and Sonia Zyngier (Eds.), Pedagogic al Stylistics. (To appear).

2005. ‘A Stylistic Analysis of T.S.Eliot’s ‘Obscurity’ in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. In David L. Hoover (Ed.), Poetics and Linguistics. Amsterdam and New York, NY: Rodopi.

2004. 'The Multilingual Mental Lexicon and Lemma Transfer in Third Language Learning'. In International Journal of Multilingualism.

2004. 'Verbs in Chinese/English Code Switching'. In The Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism and on CD ROM. Cascadilla Press.

2003. Book review on Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition: Psycholinguistic Perspectives edited by Jasone Cenoz, Britta Hufeisen and Ulrike Jessner, Multilingual Matters Ltd., 2001. In Lingual 113.

2003. 'An Implicational Hierarchy of Morpheme Acquisition Order in Second Language Learning'. In ITL Review of Applied Linguistics 139-140.

2003. 'Activation of Lemmas in the Multilingual Mental Lexicon and Transfer in Third Language Learning'. In The Multilingual Lexicon edited by Jasone Cenoz, Britta Hufeisen and Ulrike Jessner. Cambridge University Press.

2002. 'The Bilingual Mental Lexicon and Speech Production Process'. In Brain and Language 81. Academic Press.

2002. 'The Multilingual Mental Lexicon: Language Separation/Activation in Trilinguals'. Interactive CD-ROM: Third Language Acquisition and Trilingualism, Fryske Akademy.

2001. 'Lemma Congruence Checking between Languages as an Organizing Principle in Intrasentential Codeswitching'. In International Journal of Bilingualism 5/2. Kingston Press Services Ltd., London.

2000. 'Unequal Election of Morphemes in Adult Second Language Acquisition'. In Applied Linguistics 21/1. Oxford University Press.

2000. 'Types of Morphemes and Their Implications for Second Language Morpheme Acquisition'. In International Journal of Bilingualism 4/1. Kingston Press Services Ltd., London.

1999. 'Complex Lexical Structure and Morpheme Acquisition in Interlanguage Development'. In M. Catherine Gruber, Derrick Higgins, Kenneth S. Olson, and Tamra Wysocki (Eds.), CLS 34, Part 2: The Status of Constraints, the Acquisition of Spoken Language, Acquisition and the Lexicon. Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, IL.

1998. Book review on Issues in Bilingualism and Biculturalism: A Hong Kong Case Study by David C. S. Li, New York: Peter Lang, 1996. In International Journal of Bilingualism 2/1. Kingston Press Services Ltd., London.

1997. Book review on Japanese/English Code Switching: Syntax and Pragmatics by Miwa Nishimura, New York: Peter Lang, 1997. In Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 18/6.

1996. 'Organizational Principles behind Codeswitching and Interlanguage Development in Early Adult Second Language Acquisition'. In Jennifer Arnold, et. al. (Eds.), Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis. Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, Stanford University, CA.

Recent Presentations

7/2004. 'A Stylistic Analysis of T. S. Eliot's 'Obscurity' in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"'. The 24th Annual Conference of Poetics and Linguistics Association. New York University, NY.

5/2004. 'Corpora as Inputs to Interlanguage Research'. Symposium on Corpus Linguistics. Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ.

4/2004. 'Second Language Production of English Dative Constructions: Sources of Learner Errors'. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL LXX). The University of Alabama, AL.

3/2004. 'Interlanguage Syntax as a Composite Developing System'. The 49th Annual Conference of International Linguistic Association. Hunter College, City University of New York, NY.

9/2003. 'The Multilingual Mental Lexicon and Lemma Transfer in Third Language Learning'. The 3rd International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Trilingualism. The Institute of Technology, Ireland.

7/2003. 'Speakers as Rational Actors in Linguistic Choices'. The 8th International Pragmatics Conference. Toronto, Canada.

4/2003. 'Verbs in Chinese/English Code Switching'. The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Arizona State University.

10/2002. 'Code Switching as Unequal Activation of Lemmas in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon: A Psycholinguistic Approach'. The 3rd International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Banff, Alberta, Canada.

7/2002. 'Activation of Lemmas in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon and Language Assignment in Bilingual Production'. The International Conference on "Rethinking Language and Mind," the 35th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Potsdam, Germany.

4/2002. 'Linguistic Motivations for Code Switching: Unequal Activation of Lemmas in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon'. The 47th Annual Conference of International Linguistic Association. York University, Toronto, Canada.

4/2002. 'Obscurity and Image beyond Language: A Stylistic Analysis of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'. The 3rd International Association for Literary Semantics Conference. The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

11/2001. 'The Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Its Access and Activation in Code-switching'. Fall Conference of South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA.

11/2001. 'Sources of Learner Errors and Language Transfer: Evidence from Non-Native Acquisition of English Dative Lexical Structures'. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL LXV). Atlanta, GA.

9/2001. 'The Multilingual Mental Lexicon: Language Separation/Activation in Trilinguals'. The 2nd International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Trilingualism. Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden-Ljouwert, The Netherlands.

8/2001. 'An Implicational Hierarchy of Morpheme Acquisition Order in Second Language'.The 34th Societas Linguistica Europaea Conference: Language Study in Europe at the Turn of the Millennium. Leuven, Belgium.

4/2001. 'Code-switching as Unequal Activation of Lemmas in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon'. The 3rd International Symposium on Bilingualism. University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom.

4/2001. 'Linguistic Universals and Language Transfer: The Native vs. Non-Native Acquisition of English Dative Lexical Structures'. The 46th Annual Conference of International Linguistic Association. New York University, NY.

4/2001. 'Unequal Activation of Lemmas in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Evidence from Codeswitching'. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL LXIV). University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

10/2000. 'The Bilingual Mental Lexicon and Speech Production Process'. The 2nd International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Montreal, PQ, Canada.

4/2000. 'Intrasentential Codeswitching as Language Contact in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon'. The 45th Annual Conference of International Linguistic Association. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

9/1999. 'Levels of Morpheme Activation and Interlanguage Constructions'. The Second Language Research Forum. University of Minnesota, MN.

4/1999. 'Lemma Congruence Checking between Languages as an Organizing Principle in Intrasentential Codeswitching'. The 2nd International Symposium on Bilingualism. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

3/1999. 'A Stylistic Analysis of The Great Gatsby: Syntactic Structures and Communicative Intentions'. Linguistic Speaker Series 1999. Montclair State University, NJ. (With Steve Seegmiller)

2/1999. 'Types of Morphemes and Their Implications for Morpheme Acquisition in SLA'. Linguistics Colloquium. Ohio University, OH. (Invited as a guest speaker)

10/1998. 'Complex Lexical Structure and Interlanguage Development' (Special poster). The 4th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language. Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

4/1998. 'Codeswitching as a Bilingual Social Strategy in Conversational Exchanges'. The 43rd Annual Conference on Bilingualism, the International Linguistic Association. New York University, NY.

3/1998. 'Lemma Congruence between Languages in Intrasentential Codeswitching'. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL LVIII). Lafayette, LA.

10/1997. 'Variation in Morpheme Acquisition and Its Effects on Interlanguage Constructions'. Second Language Research Forum. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

4/1997. 'Not All Functional Elements Are Projected Equally: Two Kinds of System Morphemes in Second Language Acquisition'. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL LVI). University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC.

10/1996. 'Not All Functional Elements Are Projected Equally: Two Kinds of System Morphemes in Second Language Acquisition' (Special poster, with Janice L. Jake and Carol Myers-Scotton). Second Language Research Forum, Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.