Peer-reviewed journal articles
- Jennifer Lewendon, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & James Britton (in press). The MMN by another name? Exploring the autonomy of the Phonological Mapping (Mismatch) Negativity. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Lei Pan, Jueyao Lin, & Ka Keung Lee (2023). Long-lag identity priming in the absence of long-lag morphological priming: evidence from Mandarin tone alternation. Glossa: Psycholinguistics, 2, 2. (poster 1, poster 2, poster 3, slides)
- Yao Yao, Katrina Connell, & Stephen Politzer-Ahles (in press). Hearing emotion in two languages: a pupillometry study of Cantonese-Mandarin bilinguals' perception of affective cognates in L1 and L2. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
- Xiaocong Chen, Caicai Zhang, Yiya Chen, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Yuyu Zeng, & Jie Zhang (2022). Encoding category-level and context-specific phonological information at different stages: an EEG study of Mandarin third-tone sandhi word production. Neuropsychologia, 175, 108367.
- Jie Zhang, Caicai Zhang, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Ziyi Pan, Xunan Huang, Chang Wang, Gang Peng, & Yuyu Zeng (2022). The neural encoding of productive phonological alternation in speech production: Evidence from Mandarin Tone 3 sandhi. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 62, 101060.
- Teresa Girolamo, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Samantha Ghali, & Brittany Williams (2022). Preliminary evaluation of applicants to master's programs in speech-language pathology using vignettes and criteria from a holistic review process. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31, 552-577.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Jueyao Lin, Lei Pan, & Ka Keung Lee (2022). N400 evidence that the early stages of lexical access ignore knowledge of phonological alternations. Language and Speech, 65, 354-376. (slides 1, slides 2)
- Mehdi Bakhtiar, Maryam Mokhlesin, Chotiga Pattamadilok, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & Caicai Zhang (2021). The effect of orthographic transparency on auditory word recognition across the development of reading proficiency. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 3129.
- Wenting Xue, Meichun Liu, & Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2021). Processing of complement coercion with aspectual verbs in Mandarin Chinese: evidence from a self-paced reading study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1973.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles & Suyeon Im (2020). Mismatch negativity is not always modulated by lexicality. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 459. (slides)
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2020). What can electrophysiology tell us about the cognitive processing of scalar implicatures? Language and Linguistics Compass, 14, 1-22. (slides)
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Teresa Girolamo, & Samantha Ghali (2020). Preliminary evidence of linguistic bias in academic reviewing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 47, 100895.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Ka Keung Lee, & Lue Shen (2020). Ganong effects for frequency may not be robust. JASA Express Letters, 147, EL37-EL42. (poster 1, poster 2)
- Seán Roberts, Christine Cuskley, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & Tessa Verhoef (2020). Double-blind reviewing and gender biases at EvoLang conferences: an update. Journal of Language Evolution, 5, 92-99.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles & Lei Pan (2019). Skilled musicians are indeed subject to the McGurk effect. Royal Society Open Science, 6, 181868.
- Mante Nieuwland, Dale Barr, Federica Bartolozzi, Simon Busch-Moreno, Emily Darley, David Donaldson, Heather Ferguson, Xiao Fu, Evelien Heyselaar, Falk Huettig, E. Matthew Husband, Aine Ito, Nina Kazanina, Vita Kogan, Zdenko Kohút, Eugenia Kulakova, Diane Mézière, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Guillaume Rousselet, Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer, Katrien Segaert, Jyrki Tuomainen, Sarah Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn (2019). Dissociable effects of prediction and integration during language comprehension: evidence from a large-scale study using brain potentials. Philosophical Transactions B, 375, 20180522. (preprint)
- I-Hsuan Chen, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & Chu-Ren Huang (2018). Determining the types of contrasts: the influence of prosody on pragmatic inferences. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2110.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles & Page Piccinini (2018). On visualizing phonetic data from repeated measures experiments with multiple random effects. Journal of Phonetics, 70, 56-69.
- Mante Nieuwland, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Katrien Segaert, Emily Darley, Nina Kazanina, Sarah Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn, Federica Bartolozzi, Vita Kogan, Aine Ito, Diane Mézière, Dale J. Barr, Guillaume Rousselet, Heather J. Ferguson, Simon Busch-Moreno, Xiao Fu, Jyrki Tuomainen, Eugenia Kulakova, E. Matthew Husband, David I. Donaldson, Zdenko Kohút, Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer, Falk Huettig (2018). Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension. eLife, 7, e33468. (preprint)
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles & E. Matthew Husband (2018). Eye movement evidence for context-sensitive derivation of scalar inferences. Collabra: Psychology, 4, 3. (poster)
- Kevin Schluter, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Meera Al-Kaabi, & Diogo Almeida (2017). Laryngeal features are phonetically abstract: mismatch negativity evidence from Arabic, English, and Russian. Frontiers in Psychology - Language Sciences, 8, 746.
- Jiayu Zhan, Xiaoming Jiang, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & Xiaolin Zhou (2017). Neural correlates of fine-grained meaning distinctions: an fMRI investigation of scalar quantifiers. Human Brain Mapping, 8, 3848-3864.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Ming Xiang, & Diogo Almeida (2017). "Before" and "after": investigating the relationship between temporal connectives and chronological ordering using event-related potentials. PLoS ONE, 12, e0175199. (poster)
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2017). An extension of within-subject confidence intervals to models with crossed random effects. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 13, 75-94.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Kevin Schluter, Kefei Wu, & Diogo Almeida (2016). Asymmetries in the perception of Mandarin tones: evidence from mismatch negativity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 1547-1570. (poster 1, poster 2, slides, proceedings paper)
- Kevin Schluter, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & Diogo Almeida (2016). No place for /h/: ERP investigation of English fricative place features. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31, 728-740. (poster)
- Robert Fiorentino, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Natalie Pak, María Teresa Martínez-García, & Caitlin Coughlin (2015). Dissociating morphological and form priming with novel complex word primes: evidence from masked priming, overt priming, and event-related potentials. The Mental Lexicon, 10, 413-434.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles & Laura Gwilliams (2015). Involvement of prefrontal cortex in scalar implicatures: evidence from magnetoencephalography. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30, 853-866. (poster)
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles & Jie Zhang (in press). Evidence for the role of tone sandhi in Mandarin speech production. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series. (proceedings paper)
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles & Robert Fiorentino (2013). The realization of scalar inferences: context sensitivity without processing cost. PLoS ONE, 8, e63943. (poster)
- Lamar Hunt III, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Linzi Gibson, Utako Minai, & Robert Fiorentino (2013). Pragmatic inferences modulate N400 during sentence comprehension: evidence from picture-sentence verification. Neuroscience Letters, 534, 246-251.
- Hyunjung Lee, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & Allard Jongman (2013). Speakers of tonal and non-tonal Korean dialects use different cue weightings in the perception of the three-way laryngeal stop contrast. Journal of Phonetics, 41, 117-32. (poster)
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Robert Fiorentino, Xiaoming Jiang, & Xiaolin Zhou (2013). Distinct neural correlates for pragmatic and semantic meaning processing: an event-related potential investigation of scalar implicature processing using picture-sentence verification. Brain Research, 1490, 134-152. (poster 1, poster 2, poster 3, master's thesis)
Chapters
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles & Si Chen (2019). Significance. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Letters/commentaries/errata
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Seán Roberts, Christine Cuskley, & Tessa Verhoef (2019). Errata for Roberts & Verhoef (2016). Journal of Language Evolution, 4, 140-141.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Jeffrey J. Holliday, Teresa Girolamo, Maria Spychalska, & Kelly Harper Berkson (2016). Is linguistic injustice a myth? A response to Hyland (2016). Journal of Second Language Writing, 34, 3-8.
Manuscripts
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Katrina Connell, Lei Pan, & Yu-Yin Hsu (under revision). Mandarin third tone sandhi may be incompletely neutralizing in perception as well as production.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Wing Ki Ng, & Li Chong Shih (under revision). No significant loanword priming advantage in Cantonese-English bilinguals. Lingua Sinica.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles & Si Chen (manuscript that won't be resubmitted anywhere because Sassenhagen & Alday published a very similar paper around the same time and it's just as good). You don't need t- or F-tests to show that your groups are matched.
Selected working papers and proceedings papers
- Candice Chi-Hang Cheung, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Heeju Hwang, Ronald Lung Yat Chui, Man Tak Leung, & Tempo Po Yi Tang. (2017). Comprehension of presuppositions in school-age Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 31 (conference proceedings special issue), 557-572.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2015). "Maybe" not all scalar implicatures are created equal. LSA Extended Abstracts. (slides)
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2012). Are intermediate levels of the scale used during online comprehension of scalar implicatures? Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 33, 1-15.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles & Jie Zhang (2012b). The role of phonological alternation in speech production: Evidence from Mandarin tone sandhi. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 18, 060001.
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2011). A Minimalist account of Uyghur genitives. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 32, 106-119.
Dissertation
- Stephen Politzer-Ahles (2013). Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic investigations of scalar implicature. Doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas.