research and publications

manuscripts, presentations, and publications

2008

• Snider, Neal. 2008.
  Evidence for a Unified Theory of Structural and Lexical Priming.
  21st CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Mar 13-15. UNC Chapel Hill.
  Abstract

• Strunk, Jan and Neal Snider. 2008.
  Extraposition Without Subjacency.
  30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics (DGfS 2008). Feb 27-29. Bamberg, Germany.
  Handout

• Snider, Neal. 2008.
  Exemplars and constructions in syntactic production.
  LSA Annual Meeting. Jan 3-6. Chicago, IL.

2007

• Tily, H., Snider, N., Kothari, A., Arnon, I. , & Bresnan, J. 2007.
  Phonetic production reflects syntactic probability: Evidence from duration and disfluency.
  13th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing.August 24-27, 2007, Turku, Finland

• Snider, Neal. 2007.
  Exemplars in Syntax: Evidence from Priming in Corpora.
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Exemplar-Based Models of Language Acquisition and Use.
  19th ESSLLI. Trinity College, Dublin.
  slides

• Jaeger, T.F. and Neal Snider. 2007.
  Implicit learning and syntactic persistence: Surprisal and cumulativity.
  University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences,. 3(1). Rochester, NY.

• Ivan Sag, Philip Hofmeister, & Neal Snider. 2007.
  Processing Complexity in Subjacency Violations: The Complex Noun Phrase Constraint.
  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. May 3-5. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

• Neal Snider and T. Florian Jaeger. 2007.
  Surprisal and cumulativity in syntactic priming: Evidence for implicit learning.
  CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 29-31. UCSD, La Jolla, CA.
  *Winner of the 2007 Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award

• Harry Tily, Inbal Arnon, Joan Bresnan, Anubha Kothari and Neal Snider. 2007.
  What makes a construction predictable? Using semantic and contextual cues to better model phonetic reduction.
  CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 29-31. UCSD, La Jolla, CA.

• Neal Snider. 2007.
  Evidence from priming for hierarchical representation in syntactic structure.
  LSA Annual Meeting. Jan 4-7. Anaheim, CA.

2006

• Neal Snider and T. Florian Jaeger. 2006.
  Surprisal in syntactic priming: Evidence for implicit learning.
  Center for Research in Language Seminar, UCSD Department of Cognitive Science. Nov 17. La Jolla, CA.
  

• Neal Snider and Mona Diab. 2006.
  Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes Using Syntactic Frames and LSA.
  COLING-ACL. July 17-21.Sydney,Australia.
  poster

• Neal Snider and Mona Diab. 2006.
  Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes.
  HLT-NAACL. June 5-7. New York, NY.

• Neal Snider and Annie Zaenen. 2006.
  Animacy and Syntactic Structure: Fronted NPs in English.
  in M. Butt, M. Dalrymple, and T.H. King, eds. Intelligent Linguistic Architectures: Variations on Themes by Ronald M. Kaplan. CSLI Publications: Stanford.

• Florian Jaeger, Neal Snider, Laura Staum, and Daniel Jurafsky. 2006.
  (In)dependence of lexical and syntactic production: that-reduction and omission in spontaneous speech.
  CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 23-25. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.

• Neal Snider and Mona Diab. 2006.
  Using the Arabic Treebank for Lexical Semantics.
  Arabic Linguistic Society Symposium. 2006. March 3-5. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.

• Inbal Arnon, Neal Snider, Philip Hofmeister, T. Florian Jaeger, Ivan A. Sag. 2006.
  Processing accounts for gradience in acceptability: The case of multiple wh-questions.
  BLS. 2006. Feb. 10-12.  University of California - Berkeley.

• Philip Hofmeister, T. Florian Jaeger, Inbal Arnon, Ivan Sag, and Neal Snider. 2006.
  Locality and accessibility in 'wh'-questions.
  International Conference on Linguistic Evidence. 2006. Feb. 1-4.  University of Tubingen, Germany.

2005

• Philip Hofmeister, Neal Snider, Inbal Arnon, Bruno Estigarribia, T. Florian Jaeger, Jeanette Pettibone, Ivan A. Sag. 2005.
  Processing Accounts for Superiority Effects.
  S-TREND 2005. April 16. Stanford University.

• Snider, Neal. 2005.
  A Corpus Study of Left Dislocation and Topicalization.
  Dept. of Linguistics QPFest 2005. April 8. Stanford University.

• Inbal Arnon, Bruno Estigarribia, Philip Hofmeister, T. Florian Jaeger, Jeanette Pettibone, Ivan A. Sag, and Neal Snider, 2005.
  Rethinking superiority effects - a processing model.
  poster presented at CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Mar. 30 - Apr. 2, University of Arizona.

• Snider, Neal. 2005.
  A Corpus Study of Left Dislocation and Topicalization.
  PhD Qualifying Paper. Stanford University.

• Inbal Arnon, Bruno Estigarribia, Philip Hofmeister, T. Florian Jaeger, Jeanette Pettibone, Ivan A. Sag, and Neal Snider, 2005.
  Long-distance dependencies without island constraints.
  poster presented at Hopkins Workshop on Language, Jan 14-15, Johns Hopkins University.

• Cueni, Anna, Neal Snider, & Annie Zaenen, 2005.
  Boundaries to the influence of animates.
  paper presented at LSA Annual Meeting Jan 6-9, Oakland, CA.
  Bibliography

2003

• Snider, Neal, 2003.
  Tongan Raising: A Minimalist Analysis.
  Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

2002

• Snider, Neal.
  Neural Network Simulations of Relative Clauses.
  presentation in Language, Cognition and Brain Research Group Meeting, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2000

• Snider, Neal. 2003.
  Electron-beam lithography for carbon nanotube devices.
  Master's Defense, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

1999

• Paulson, S., M. R. Falvo, N. Snider, et al. 1999.
  In situ resistance measurements of strained carbon nanotubes.
  Applied Physics Letters 75(19): 2936-2938.