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Ariel M. Goldberg
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Contact Info
Department of Psychology
Tufts University
Psychology Building
Room 114
Medford, MA 02155
Tel: 617-627-3525
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Instructor of Psychology
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2009 (expected)
My research program focuses on understanding the cognitive processes that underlie
spoken and written language production. Of primary interest to me are the
processes involved in producing morphologically complex words, specifically the
interplay of lexical and grammatical processes and the ways in which
morphological structure affects phonological form. To address these issues I
utilize several methodologies from cognitive science including phonology and
phonetics, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuropsychology and computational
simulation. This approach allows me to pursue these questions in a
problem-centered, interdisciplinary manner.Some of the questions I ask are:
Spoken Production
- How are multimorphemic words such as compounds stored in long term memory, what factors
influence the way they are represented, and what implications do these different
representations have for phonological production?
- How do performance factors such as the speed of lexical retrieval and cascading
activation influence the outcome of grammatical phonological processes?
- How is information from various processing streams (whole word vs. compositional routes
in morphology; lexical and sub-lexical routes in reading) integrated?
Written Production
- How is serial order -the process by which each letter in a word is produced in the
proper order- achieved in spelling?
- What is the structure of orthographic representations?
- What statistical knowledge do we have of the way letters may combine in a language?
- How does morphological structure influence spelling?
Representative Publications
- Goldberg, A.M., & Rapp, B. (2008). Is compound chaining the serial order
mechanism of spelling? A simple recurrent network investigation. Cognitive
Neuropsychology, 25(2), 218-255.
- Landau, B., Dessalegn, B., & Goldberg, A.M. (in press) Language and space: Momentary
interactions. To appear in P. Chilton and V. Evans (Eds.), Language,
cognition and space: The state of the art and new directions. Advances in
Cognitive Linguistics Series. London: Equinox.
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