Gary Libben, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research, Brock University, Associate Member, CRIR
Phone: 905 688-5550
Email: [email protected]
Education
- B.A., Cum Laude, Psychology, Concordia University, 1976
- M.A., Applied Linguistics, Concordia University, 1982
- Ph.D., Linguistics, McGill University, 1987
Research interest
Mental lexicon
Selected publications
Libben, G. (2008). How do we parse compound words? In N. Srinivasan, A.K. Gutpa & J. Pandey (Eds) Advances in Cognitive Science. New Dehli : Sage Publications.
Libben, G. (2008). Disorders of Lexis. In B. Stemmer & H.A. Whitaker (Eds) Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language (pp. 147-154). New York : Elsevier.
Libben, G. (2007). Everything is psycholinguistics. Material and methodological considerations in the study of compound processing. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 50, 267-283.
Libben, G. & Jarema, G. (Eds) (2006). The Representation and Processing of Compound Words (258 pages). Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
Libben, G. (2006). Getting at psychological reality: On- and off-line tasks in the investigation of hierarchical morphological structure (pp. 235-255). In G. Wiebe, G. Libben, T. Priestly, R. Smythe & S. Wang (Eds), Phonology, Morphology, and the Empirical Imperative: Papers in Honour of Bruce L. Derwing. Tapei: Crane.
de Almeida, R.G. & Libben, G. (2005). Changing morphological structures: The effect of sentence context on the interpretation of structurally ambiguous English trimorphemic words. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20(1/2), 373-394.
Krott, A, Libben, G., Jarema, G., Dressler, W., Schreuder, R. & Baayen, H. (2004). Probability in the grammar of German and Dutch: Interfixation in triconstituent compounds. Language and Speech, 47(1), 83-106.
Libben, G. (2004). Brain and language. In W. O’Grady & J. Archibald (Eds.), Contemporary linguistic analysis (Fifth Edition) (pp. 473-493). Toronto ON: Copp Clark Pitman Ltd.
Libben, G., Buchanan, L. & Colangelo, A. (2004). Morphology, semantics, and the mental lexicon: The failure of deactivation hypothesis. Logos and Language, 4(1), 45-53.
Libben, G. & Jarema, G. (2004) Conceptions of the mental lexicon. Brain and Language, 90(1-3), 2-8.
Schirmeier, M., Derwing, B.L, & Libben, G. (2004). Lexicality, morphological structure and semantic transparency in the processing of German ver-verbs. Brain and Language, 90(1-3), 74-87.
Stark, J., Dressler, W., Pons, C., Libben, G., Jarema, G. & Ruprecht, A. (2004). Potential words in aphasic noun compound production. Brain and Language, 91(1), 158-159.
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