Malathi Thothathiri


Publications

  • Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2008). Syntactic priming during language comprehension in three- and four-year-old children. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 188-213. pdf
  • Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2008). Give and take: syntactic priming during spoken language comprehension. Cognition, 108(1), 51-68. pdf
  • Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2006). Lively looks: priming preschoolers' predictions of post-verbal arguments during online sentence processing. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2246). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2006). Children’s representation of verbs: Evidence from priming during online sentence comprehension. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (p. 643). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Book Chapters

  • Snedeker, J. and Thothathiri, M. (2008). What lurks beneath: Structural priming during language comprehension in preschoolers (and adults). In I. A. Sekerina, E. M. Fernandez and H. Clahsen (Eds.), Developmental psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Manuscripts in Preparation

  • Thothathiri, M., Snedeker, J. and Hannon, E. Distributional category learning by 12-month-old infants: an investigation into the role of prosody and distributional frames.
  • Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. The role of thematic roles in sentence processing: Evidence from structural priming in young children.

Posters

  • Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2007). New methods for studying syntactic acquisition. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
  • Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2006). Structural priming during comprehension of datives. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York, NY.
  • Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2005). Distributional learning of syntactic categories. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA. pdf
  • Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2005). Children’s representation of verb: Evidence from priming during online sentence comprehension. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
  • Thothathiri, M. and Snedeker, J. (2005). Children’s representation of verb: Evidence from priming during online sentence comprehension. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, AZ.

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