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Lai, Y. Y., Braze, D., & Piñango, M. M. (2023). The time-course of contextual modulation for underspecified meaning: An eye-movement study. The Mental Lexicon, 18(1).
Piñango, M. M. (2023). Solving the elusiveness of word meanings: two arguments for a continuous meaning space for language. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 6.
Piñango, M.M., Fuchs, M. (2023). Cognitive underpinnings of the meaning of Spanish estar: implications for its diachronic change. Gumiel-Molina, Silvia & Pérez-Jiménez, Isabel (eds). Spanish in Context.
Zhang, M., Piñango, M.M., & Deo, A. (2022). Word-meaning variation in English have-sentences: The impact of cognitive versus social factors on individuals’ linguistic context-sensitivity. Language 98(1), 123-156. doi:10.1353/lan.2021.0088. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/849529/figure/fig03
Aveledo, F., Sanchez-Alonso, S., & Piñango, M. M. (2022). Contextual dependency and overuse of estar in the acquisition of Spanish copula verbs. First Language, 42(5).
Piñango, M. M. (2022). The Structure of The Lexical Item and Sentence Meaning Composition. Papafragou, Anna; Trueswell,John; Gleitman, Lila R. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Mental Lexicon.
Fuchs, M., Piñango, M.M., Deo, A. (2021). Operationalizing the Role of Context in Language Variation: The Role of Perspective Alignment in the Spanish Imperfective Domain. In: Löbner, S., Gamerschlag, T., Kalenscher, T., Schrenk, M., Zeevat, H. (eds) Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology. Language, Cognition, and Mind, vol 7.
Fuchs, M., & Piñango, M. M. (2021). Language variation and change through an experimental lens: Contextual modulation in the use of the Progressive in three Spanish dialects. In: Whitney Chappell & Bridget Drinka (eds.). Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and Contact. 77-102. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Fuchs, M., & Piñango, M. M (2019). Explaining the forces underpinning grammaticalization paths: The Progressive-to-Imperfective shift in three varieties of Spanish. Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, (4), 6, 1:11. DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4491.
Zhang, M., Piñango, M. M., & Deo, A. (2018). Real time roots of meaning change: Electrophysiology reveals the contextual-modulation processing basis of synchronic variation in the location-possession domain. In Kalish, C., Rau, M., Zhu, J., & Rogers, T. T. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 27832788). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Lai, Y.-Y. and Piñango, M.M. (2017) Comprehending underspecified meaning: resolving ambiguity by contextual and conceptual search. In Conference handbook of The 19th Annual International conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS).
Lai, Y.-Y., Braze, D., and Piñango, M.M. (2017) Context and semantic composition of multiple dimension representations in real-time comprehension. In Proceedings of The Technical Report of Language and Thought, MAPLL-TCP. The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL).
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Sánchez-Alonso, S., Deo, A., & Pinango, M. M. (2016) Copula Distinction and Constrained Variability of Copula Use in Iberian and Mexican Spanish. Penn Linguistics Conference Proceeding.
Lai, Y. Y., Lacadie, C., Constable, T., Deo, A., & M. M. Piñango. (2016) The structured individual hypothesis for processing aspectual verbs. Berkeley Linguistics Society 42 Proceeding.
Piñango, M. M., Zhang, M., Foster‐Hanson, E., Negishi, M., Lacadie, C., & Constable, R. T. (2016). Metonymy as referential dependency: psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic arguments for a unified linguistic treatment. Cognitive science.
Piñango, M. M. & Deo, A. (2015). Reanalyzing the complement coercion effect through a generalized lexical semantics for aspectual verbs. Journal of Semantics.
Sanchez-Alonso, S., Ly, A., Braze, D., Lacadie., C. M., Constable, R. T., & Piñango, M. M. (2014). The neural basis of argument structure composition through eye-tracking, focal-brain lesion and fMRI. In Bello, P., Guarini, M., S, McShane, M., & Scassellati, B. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2877-2882). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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Wiese, H. & Piñango, M.M. (2014). Computations in the mental lexicon: Noun classes and the mass/count distinction. In y Priemer, A. M., Nolda, A., & Sioupi, A. (Eds.), Zwischen Kern und Peripherie: Untersuchungen zu Randbereichen in Sprache und Grammatik,(pp. 209-235). Göttingen: GmbH & Co. KG.
Katsika, A., Braze, D., Deo, A., & Piñango, M.M. (2012). Complement coercion: Type-shifting vs. pragmatic inferencing. Mental Lexicon 7(1), 58-76.
Wittenberg, E. & Piñango, M.M. (2011). Processing Light Verb Constructions. Mental Lexicon. 6(3):393-413.
Deo, A. & Piñango, M.M. (2011). Quantification and context in measure adverbials (Proceedings from SALT 2011, Rutgers University, NJ.) http://elanguage.net/journals/salt/article/view/21.295/2516
Burkhardt, P., Piñango, M.M., Ruigendijk, M.E., & Avrutin, S. (2010). Reference assignment in Dutch: Evidence for the syntax-discourse divide. Lingua, 120, 1738-1763.
Piñango, M. M., Mack, J., & Jackendoff, R. (2006). Semantic combinatorial processes in argument structure: Evidence from light-verbs. In Proceedings of Berkeley Linguistics Society.