Matthew Carlson

Matthew Carlson
Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics

Biography:

Lab

MuGlab: The MultiGrammar Lab

Research Interests

Psycholinguistics, phonology, morphology, the mental lexicon, bilingualism, second language acquisition, language development.

Representative Publications

Natvig, D., Pretorius, E., Putnam, M. T., & Carlson, M. T. (2025). A spanning approach to bilingual representations: Initial explorations. In Page, B. R. & Putnam, M. T. (Eds.) Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel (pp. 238-274). John Benjamins.

Carlson, M. T., DiMercurio, I. I., Gertel, V. H., Diaz, M. T., Sandberg, C. W. (2025). Canvassing the whole neighborhood: A large-scale view of neighbor network structure, and how it relates to lexical processing. Glossa Psycholinguistics4(1).

Carlson, M. T. & Crosson, A. C. (2024). The Synchronic Status of Historical Bound Roots in the Mental Lexicon: A Dynamic, Psychocentric Perspective. The Mental Lexiconhttps://doi.org/10.1075/ml.24032.car

Cohen, C. & Carlson, M. T. (2024). Shifting between storage and computation in lexical retrieval: Evidence from pronunciation variation. In M. Schlechtweg (Ed.). Interfaces of Phonetics. (pp. 155-204). Berlin: DeGruyter.

Carlson, M. T., Fábregas, A., & Putnam, M. T. (2021) How Wide the Divide? – Theorizing ‘Constructions’ in Generative and Usage-Based Frameworks. Frontiers in Psychology 12https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.601303.

López-Beltrán, P., & Carlson, M. T. (2020). How Usage-Based Approaches to Language Can Contribute to a Unified Theory of Heritage Grammars. Linguistics Vanguard 6(1)https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0072.

Carlson, M. T. & McAllister, A. (2019). I’ve heard that one before: Phonetic reduction in speech production as a possible contributing factor in perceptual illusory vowel effects. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 12(2), 281-308doi: 10.1515/shll-2019-2013

Carlson, M. T. (2019). Now you hear it, now you don’t: Malleable illusory vowel effects in Spanish-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 22(5), 1101-1122. doi: 10.1017/S136672891800086X

Carlson, M. T. & Gerfen, C. (2011). Productivity is the key: morphophonology and the riddle of alternating diphthongs in Spanish. Language 87(3), 510-538. doi: 10.1353/lan.2011.0054
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