Heidi Lorimor
About Heidi Lorimor
Director, Bucknell's Linguistic Lab
Education
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
Research Interests
The psychological processes involved in language production and comprehension, including syntactic priming, word-level errors, disfluencies, and how agreement is computed, with a special focus on the influences of experience, word order, conceptual information, and morphology on agreement.
Courses
- FOUN 098 Our Brains -- Our Selves (W1)
This W1 course is designed to develop writing, reading, speaking, listening, and information literacy skills at the collegiate level. At the same time, we will investigate how the brain works and what this teaches us about being human. - LING 105 Linguistic Analysis: Sounds & Words
One semester of a two-semester introduction to linguistics. Topics include: phonetics, phonology, word forms, language change, language acquisition. [I've developed an invented language assignment to correspond to each of the major units (phonetics, phonology, morphology).] - LING 205 Phonetics and Phonology
An investigation into the articulatory and acoustic properties and patterns of speech sounds, with application to speech pathology, processing and phonological theory. - LING 206 Morphology
Explores the mental lexicon, the internal structure of words, and the processes by which words are formed in a wide variety of languages. - LING 220 Bilingualism
An examination of the psychological and social factors involved in the acquisition and use of two or more languages across the lifespan. Topics will also include language contact and bilingual education. - LING 230 Psycholinguistics
Analysis of psychological processes involved in language. Topics include language production and perception in children, adults, bilinguals, and exceptional populations. - LING 237 Intro to Language Development (Crosslisted as PSYC 237)
Survey of the mechanisms involved in language development. Topics include the stages in language development, theoretical approaches to language development, the biological bases of language, and atypical language development. - LING 319 Undergraduate Research
Research in psycholinguistics. Research topics may be posed by students or faculty. - LING 325 Language and the Brain (W2)
An examination of the physical basis for language. Topics include the nature of language as a cognitive faculty, atypical language development in childhood, and acquired aphasia. - LING 330 Advanced Topics in Psycholinguistics (W2)
Advanced study in psycholinguistics. Includes topics such as language production, language comprehension, and bilingualism.
Selected Publications
Lorimor, H., Jackson, C. N., & van Hell, J. G. (2018). The interaction of notional number and morphophonology in subject-verb agreement: A role for working memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Lorimor, H., Adams, N., & Middleton, E. M. (2018). Agreement with conjoined NPs reflects language experience. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 9, 489.
Lorimor, H., Jackson, C. N., Spalek, K., & Van Hell, J. G. (2016). The impact of notional number and grammatical gender on agreement with conjoined noun phrases. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
Lorimor, H., Jackson, C. N., & Foote, R. (2015). How gender affects number: Cue-based retrieval in agreement production. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30, 947-954.
Lorimor, Heidi. (2009). "Sentence Coordination." in Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Vol 4. KeesVersteegh, ed.
Lorimor, Heidi, J. Kathryn Bock, E. Zalkind, A. Sheyman, and R. Beard. (2008). "Number Agreement and Attraction in Russian." Language and Cognitive Processes23, 769-799.
Lorimor, H. (2007). Conjunctions and grammatical agreement: When wholes differ from the sum of their parts. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. University of Illinois. pdf
Benmamoun, Elabbas and Heidi Lorimor. (2006). "Featureless Expressions: When Morphological Markers are Absent." Linguistic Inquiry37(1), 1-23.
Lorimor, Heidi. (2005). "Agreement Alternations: How Optional Patterns of Agreement Arise." Perspectives In Arabic Linguistics XVII- XVIII. Elabbas Benmamoun and Mohammad T. Alhawary, eds. John Benjamins Press. 222-239.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
"Learning from Agreement." Invited Distinguished Alumni Lecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Linguistics Department. September 30, 2013.
"Producing Subject-Verb Agreement with Conjoined Subject Noun Phrases." Paper presented at the Beckman Institute Graduate Seminar. May 10, 2006. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
PRESENTATIONS
"The interaction of conceptual number and morphophonology in subject-verb agreement: A role for working memory". Poster presented at the 30th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 15-17, 2018. Davis, CA. (With Carrie Jackson and Janet van Hell) pdf
"Using ERPs to investigate the comprehension of passive versus active sentences in English". Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. November 8-10, 2017. Baltimore, MD. (With Carrie Jackson and Janet van Hell) abstract
"Agreement attraction in English is modulated by linear order". Paper presented at the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 30-April 1, 2017. Cambridge, MA. pdf
"Repetition modulates the range of learning in subject-verb agreement". Poster presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 3-5, 2016. Gainesville, FL. (With Nora Adams '16 and Carrie Jackson) pdf
"Semantic and morphophonological information affect the comprehension of subject-verb agreement in German: An auditory ERP study". Poster presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. November 19-22, 2015. Chicago, IL. (With Carrie Jackson, Juliane Domke, Katharina Spalek, and Janet van Hell)
"When it comes to complex NPs, preschoolers don't always agree". Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 19-21, 2015. Los Angeles, California. (With Nola Stephens and Carol Miller) pdf
"Naming errors within families are constrained by semantic category". Paper presented at the 9th Annual International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Sept 30 - Oct 1, 2014. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. (With Julia Buffinton and Lindsay Zajac '14) abstract
"Delaying verb production changes what matters in subject-verb agreement". Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 13-15, 2014. Columbus, OH. (With Arielle Allentoff '14) pdf
"Objects and actions in (dis)agreement". Poster presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 21-23, 2013. Columbia, South Carolina. (With Jason Schoenberg '13) pdf
"The impact of grammatical features and notional number on agreement." Poster presented at 7th International Workshop on Language Production. New York University. July 18-20, 2012. New York, New York. (With Carrie Jackson and Janet van Hell) pdf
"What drives agreement." Paper presented at the Center for Language Science Colloquium at Penn State University. May 7, 2010. State College, PA.
"Mixed Agreement in Lebanese Arabic." Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. March 8-9, 2008. College Park, MD. handout
"Expressing Number Agreement for Pre- and Post-verbal Subjects in Lebanese Arabic." Poster presented at the 4thHopkins Workshop on Language. October 12-14, 2007. Baltimore, MD. (With Elabbas Benmamoun) pdf
"Word Order and Agreement Asymmetries in Lebanese Arabic and English". Paper presented at the 31st Penn Linguistics Colloquium. February 23-25, 2007. Philadelphia, PA.
"Variable Agreement with Conjoined Subjects." Paper presented at the Linguistics Departmental Seminar. October 19, 2006. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"The Effects of Word Order and Noun Type on Agreement with Conjoined Subjects." Poster presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Language Production. August 13-15, 2006. Chicago, IL. (with Erica Middleton and Kathryn Bock) pdf
"One and One Makes Singular Agreement." Poster presented at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 23-25, 2006. New York, NY. (with Erica Middleton and Kathryn Bock) pdf
"Number Agreement and Attraction in Russian." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 5-8, 2006. Albuquerque, NM. (with Kathryn Bock)
"A Case for Notional Agreement: Number Agreement and Attraction in Russian." Paper presented at the Linguistics Departmental Seminar, November 11, 2004. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
"Syntactic Expressions of Semantic Agreement Effects." Paper presented at the Arabic Linguistics Symposium. March 19, 2004. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
"Language Choice for African Literature." Paper presented at the Africa-in-Academics Student Association Conference. March 1, 2003. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.