Research and Outreach

Alemán Bañón, J., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2023). The neurolinguistics of the L2 syntactic system. In K. Morgan-Short and J. Van Hell (Editors), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics, 133-147. Routledge.

Covey, L. and Gabriele, A. (2023). Psycholinguistic methods in second language acquisition. In S. Gass and A. Mackey (Editors), Current Approaches in Second Language Acquisition Research, 170-194. Wiley-Blackwell.

Wang, T. and Gabriele, A. (2023). Individual differences modulate sensitivity to implicit causality bias in both native and non-native processing. Studies inSecond Language Acquisition, 25, 4, 853-881. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263122000468

Tang, W., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele. A. (2023) Examining transfer in the acquisition of the count-mass distinction in L2 English. Second Language Research 39, 1, 231-257. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F02676583211023729

Covey, L., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2022). Island sensitivity in L2 learners: evidence from event-related potentials and acceptability judgments. Second Language Research. Published online August 24, 2022.  https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221116039

Aldosari, S., Covey, L. and Gabriele, A. (2022). The role of individual differences in the acceptability of island violations in native speakers and second language learners of English. Second Language Research. (Published online 6-7-22) https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221099243

Gabriele, A., Alemán Bañón, J. Hoffman, L., Covey, L., Rossomondo, A., and Fiorentino, R. (2021). Examining variability in the processing of agreement in novice learners: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 47,7, 1106-1140.

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Gabriele, A. (2021). Microvariation and transfer in L2 and L3 Acquisition. (Commentary on Westergaard, 2021 keynote article). Second Language Research, 37, 3, 453-458.  https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0267658320941063

Pham. C., Covey, L., Gabriele, A., Aldosari, S., and Fiorentino, R. (2020). Examining individual differences and island sensitivity. Glossa: a Journal of General Linguistics 5(1), 94. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1199

Feroce, N., Fiorentino, R., Covey, L., and Gabriele, A. (2020). Neural evidence for the processing of referential ambiguity and referential failure in Spanish. In D. Pascual y Cabo & I. Elola (Eds.), Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 153-174. John Benjamins.

Alemán-Bañón, J., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2018). Using event-related potentials to track morphosyntactic development in second language learners: The processing of number and gender agreement in Spanish. PLOS ONE, 13(7): e0200791. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200791.

Fiorentino, R., Covey, L. Gabriele, A., (2018). Individual differences in the processing of referential dependencies in English. Neuroscience Letters 673, 79-84.

Covey L. Gabriele, A., Fiorentino, R. (2018). Can learners use morphosyntactic cues to facilitate processing?: Evidence from gender agreement in Hindi. Language Acquisition 25, 3, 327-337. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2017.1359272

Gabriele, A., Fiorentino, R., and Covey. L. (2017). Understanding the symptoms and sources of variability in second language sentence processing (commentary). Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-2. doi: 10.1017/S1366728916000961

Johnson, A., Fiorentino, R., Gabriele, A. (2016). Syntactic constraints and individual differences in the native and nonnative processing of wh-movement. Frontiers in Psychology/Language Sciences 7:549, 1-17. 

Gabriele, A., Fiorentino, R., and Johnson. A. (2015). Attentional control and prediction in native and non-native speakers (commentary). Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5, 470-475.

Gabriele, A., Alemán-Bañón, J., Lopez-Prego, B., and Canales, A. (2015). Examining the influence of transfer and prototypes on the acquisition of the progressive in L2 Spanish. In D. Ayoun (ed.), The Present Tense in Second Language Acquisition, 113-151. John Benjamins.

Gabriele, A. and Sugita Hughes, M. (2015). Tense and aspect in Japanese as a second language. In M. Nakayama (Ed.) Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics, 271-302. Mouton de Gruyter.

Alemán-Bañón, J., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2014). Morphosyntactic processing in advanced L2 learners: An event related potential investigation of the effects of L1-L2 similarity and structural distance. Second Language Research 30,3 275-306.

Lopez-Prego, B. and Gabriele, A. (2014). Examining the nature of morphological variability in native and non-native Spanish. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4, 191-222.

Gabriele, A., Fiorentino, R., Alemán-Bañón, J. (2013). Examining second language development using event-related potentials: a cross-sectional study on the processing of gender and number agreement. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3, 2, 213-232.

Alemán-Bañón, J., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2012). The Processing of Number and Gender Agreement in Spanish: An Event-Related Potential Investigation of the Effects of Structural Distance. Brain Research, 1456, 49-63.

Kulundary, V. and Gabriele, A. (2012). Examining the role of syntactic development in the L2 on the acquisition of an L3: a look at relative clauses. In  J. Cabrelli-Amaro, S. Flynn, and J. Rothman (eds.), Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood, 195-222. John Benjamins.

Gabriele, A. and McClure, W.  (2011). Why only some imperfectives are learned imperfectly. Language Acquisition 18, 39-83.

Gabriele, A. and Canales, A. (2011).  No time like the present: examining transfer at the interfaces in second language acquisition. Lingua 121, 670-687.

Aldwayan, S., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2010). Evidence of syntactic constraints in the processing of wh-movement: a study of Najdi Arabic learners of English. In B. Van Patten and J. Jegerski (eds.) Research onSecond Language Processing and Parsing, 65-86. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Gabriele, A. (2010).  Deriving meaning through context: the interpretation of bare nominals in L2 Japanese. Second Language Research 26, 379-405.

Gabriele, A. (2009). Transfer and Transition in the L2 Acquisition Aspect. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 31,3, 371-402.

Gabriele, A., Troseth, E., Martohardjono, G. and Otheguy, R. (2009).  Emergent literacy skills in bilingual children: assessing the role of L1 and L2 syntax comprehension.  International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education 12, 5, 533-547.

National Science Foundation (6/1/2018-11/31/2024) BCS #1747143: Examining Native Language Variability and its Effects on Second Language Processing: An Event-Related Potentials Investigation of Referential Dependencies. Co-Principal Investigators: Robert Fiorentino, Alison Gabriele, Lesa Hoffman, Manuel Carreiras, Simona Mancini, Jose Alemán Bañón ($434,380)

National Science Foundation (6/1/2019-12/31/2020. BCS-1844790 Doctoral Dissertation Research: Examining the linguistic cues that guide prediction in the processing of Mandarin relative clauses: An ERP study. Co-Principal Investigators: Xiao Yang, Robert Fiorentino, Alison Gabriele, Utako Minai ($18,000)                               

National Science Foundation (8/15/2017-1/31/2020). BCS #1728019:  Doctoral Dissertation Research:  An ERP Investigation of Individual Differences in the Processing of Wh-dependencies by Native and Non-native Speakers. Co-Principal Investigators: Lauren Covey, Alison Gabriele, Robert Fiorentino ($12,000)

National Science Foundation (5/1/2010-10/31/2015) BCS #0951900: Examining development and ultimate attainment in second language processing: an ERP investigation. Co-Principal Investigators: Robert Fiorentino and Alison Gabriele ($250,000)                                 

National Science Foundation BCS #0951900 Supplement award: Examining development and ultimate attainment in second language processing: an ERP investigation. Co-Principal Investigators: Robert Fiorentino and Alison Gabriele  ($44,945)