Liina Pylkkänen
Associate Professor of Linguistics, PsychologyPh.D. 2002, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (Linguistics); M.A. 1997, University of Pittsburgh (Linguistics).
Office Address:
Department of Linguistics
New York University
10 Washington Place #605
New York, NY 10003
Email:
Phone: 212-992-8764
Fax: 212-995-4707
Personal Homepage
Areas of Research/Interest
Neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, semantics, syntax, lexicon.
Selected Publications
Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Introducing Arguments. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [BOOK]
Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Mismatching Meanings in Brain and Behavior. Language and Linguistics Compass 2/4, 712–738.
Pylkkänen, L. & McElree, B. (2007). An MEG Study of Silent Meaning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1905-1921.
Pylkkänen, L. & McElree, B. (2006). The syntax-semantics interface: On-line composition of sentence meaning. In M. Traxler & M.A. Gernsbacher (eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (2nd Ed) (pp. 537-577). NY: Elsevier.
Pylkkänen, L., Llinas, R. & Murphy, G. (2006). Representation of polysemy: MEG evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18:1, pp. 1-13.
Pylkkänen, L., Feintuch, S., Hopkins, E., & Marantz, A. (2004). Neural correlates of the effects of morphological family frequency and family size: an MEG study. Cognition, 91, B35-B45.
Pylkkänen, L., & Marantz, A. (2003). Tracking the time course of word recognition with MEG. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 187-189.
Pylkkänen, L., Stringfellow, A., & Marantz, A. (2002). Neuromagnetic evidence for the timing of lexical activation: An MEG component sensitive to phonotactic probability but not to neighborhood density. Brain and Language, 81, 666-678.
