Gareth Gaskell's Home Page...

Position:	Professor
Office:	PS/C226
Address:	Department of Psychology University of York York YO10 5DD
Phone:	+44 1904 433187
Fax:	+44 1904 433181
Email:	`g.gaskell@psych.york.ac.uk`
*Research Groups:*	Psycholinguistics Research Group Sleep, Language and Memory Lab
*Official web page:*	Psychology Academics Page

About my work

I carry out research on language, sleep, memory and the interaction between these areas. Some particular questions that interest are:

How do we process speech and deal with variations in the sounds of words?
What is the structure of the mental lexicon?
How do we learn new words?
What neural systems underlie these abilities?
What happens to knowledge when we sleep?
How does sleep affect our recent memories?

Our two-bed sleep lab allows polysomnographic recording during sleep.

With Nicolas Dumay, Anna Maria di Betta, Lisa Henderson and Shane Lindsay I've been working on how word representations become established in the mental lexicon, and how sleep affects our language knowledge (funded by the MRC, ESRC and now the Leverhulme Trust). A recent workshop examined this issue and is the basis of a Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B theme issue.

Jelena Mirković and I are examining how sleep affects the learning and consolidation of different kinds of linguistic mappings that differ in systematicity and consistency (funded by the ESRC).

I'm part of a recent EU Marie Curie RTN (Sound to Sense). The project I was involved in (with Noël Nguyen, Uli Frauenfelder, Oliver Niebuhr, Meghan Clayards andChristine Meunier ) examines the perception and production of variants in speech cross-linguistically.

With Philip Quinlan, Sandie Cleland and Jakke Tamminen, I've been working on a project investigating informational bottlenecks in speech perception (funded by a BBSRC grant).

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More information about psycholinguistics research at York, and information for potential graduate students.

New book (June 2011)

Lexical Representation
A Multidisciplinary Approach
(Eds. Gareth Gaskell & Pienie Zwitserlood

Newish book (Jan 2009)

The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics

Now out in paperback...

Recent special issue

Teaching

I teach first and second year units on language, and a third year module on the Cognitive Psychology of Sleep.

About me

I joined York Psychology Department in 1999 after a two-year spell at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. Before that I was a post-doc and graduate student at the Centre for Speech and Language, which was at Birkbeck College in London at the time, and before that an undergraduate at Cambridge University.

Selected Publications

Please contact me if you would like a preprint or reprint of an article.

Henderson, L. M., Weighall, A., Brown, H., & Gaskell, M. G. (in press). Vocabulary acquisition is associated with sleep in children. Developmental Science.
Lindsay, S. & Gaskell, M. G. (in press). Lexical integration of novel words without sleep. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition.
Rodd, J. M., Berriman, R., Landau, M., Lee, T., Ho, C. Gaskell, M. G. & Davis, M. H. (in press). Learning new meanings for old words: effects of semantic relatedness. Memory & Cognition.
Brown, H., Weighall, A., Henderson, L. M., Gaskell, M. G. (2012). Enhanced recognition and recall of new words in 7- and 12-year old children following a period of offline consolidation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112, 56-72.
Bürki , A. & Gaskell, M. G. (2012). Lexical representation of schwa words: two mackerels, but only one salami. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 38, 617-631.
Cleland, A. A., Tamminen, J., Quinlan, P. T., & Gaskell M. G. (2012). Spoken word processing creates a lexical bottleneck. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 572-593.
Dumay, N., & Gaskell, M. G. (2012). Overnight lexical consolidation revealed by speech segmentation. Cognition, 123, 119-132.
Gaskell, M. G., & Brown, H. (2012). Language Processing. In N. Braisby, & A. Gellatly (Eds.), Cognitive Psychology, Second Edition.Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Lindsay, S., Sedin, L. M. & Gaskell, M. G. (2012). Acquiring novel words and their past tenses: Evidence from lexical effects on phonetic categorisation. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 210-225.
Brown, H. & Gaskell, M. G. (2011). The time-course of talker-specificity effects for newly learned pseudowords: Evidence for a hybrid model of lexical representation. Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, Florence, IT, ISCA.
Gaskell, G. & Zwitserlood, P. (2011), Lexical representation: A multidisciplinary approach. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Mirković, J., Forrest, S. F. and Gaskell, M. G. (2011): Semantic regularities in grammatical categories: Learning grammatical gender in an artificial language. In L. Carlson, C. Holscher, T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Petrova, A., Gaskell, M. G., & Ferrand, L. (2011) Orthographic consistency and word-frequency effects in auditory word recognition: New evidence from lexical decision and rime detection. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:263.
Lindsay, S., & Gaskell, M. G. (2010). A complementary systems account of word learning in L1 and L2. Language Learning, 60, S2, 45-63.
Tamminen, J., Payne, J. D., Stickgold, R., Wamsley, E. J., & Gaskell, M. G. (2010). Sleep spindle activity is associated with integration of new memories and existing knowledge. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 14356-14360.
Davis, M. H. & Gaskell, M. G. (2009). A complementary systems account of word learning: neural and behavioural evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 3773-3800.
Gaskell, M. G. & Ellis, A. W. (2009). Word learning and lexical development across the lifespan. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 3607-3615.
Lindsay, S. & Gaskell, M. G. (2009). Spaced learning and the lexical integration of novel words. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2517-2522). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Snoeren, N. D., Gaskell, M. G. & Di Betta, A.M. (2009). The perception of assimilation in newly learned novel words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 35, 542-549.
Davis, M.H., Di Betta, A.M., Macdonald, M.J.E., and Gaskell, M.G. (2009) Learning and consolidation of novel spoken words. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 21, 803–820.
Gaskell, M. G. & Snoeren, N. D. (2008). The impact of strong assimilation on the perception of connected speech. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 1632-1647.
Gaskell, M.G., Quinlan, P.T., Tamminen, J.T., & Cleland, A.A. (2008). The nature of phoneme representation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 282-302.
Tamminen, J., & Gaskell, M. G. (2008). Newly learned spoken words show long-term lexical competition effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 361-371.
Chéreau, C., Gaskell, M. G., & Dumay, N. (2007). Reading spoken words: Orthographic effects in auditory priming. Cognition, 102, 341-360.
Dahan, D., & Gaskell, M. G. (2007). The temporal dynamics of ambiguity resolution: Evidence from spoken-word recognition. Journal of Memory & Language, 57, 483-501.
Dumay, N. & Gaskell, M. G. (2007). Sleep-associated changes in the mental representation of spoken words. Psychological Science, 18, 35-39.
Gaskell, M. G. (2007). The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Gaskell, M. G. (2007). Statistical and connectionist models of speech perception and word recognition. In M. G. Gaskell (Ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Snoeren, N.D. & Gaskell, M.G. (2007). Computational modeling of assimilated speech: Cross-linguistic evidence. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1509-1514). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Cleland, A. A., Gaskell, M. G., Quinlan, P.T., & Tamminen, J. (2006). Frequency effects in spoken and visual word recognition: Evidence from dual-task methodologies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 104-119.
Tamminen, J.,& Gaskell, M. G. (2006). Learning new words: effects of lexical competition and age of acquisition. In R. Sun (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 822-827). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Tamminen, J., Cleland, A.A., Quinlan, P.T., & Gaskell, M.G. (2006). Processing semantic ambiguity: different loci for meanings and senses. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 2222-2227). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Dumay, N., & Gaskell, M. G. (2005). Do words go to sleep? Exploring consolidation of spoken forms through direct and indirect measures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 69-70.
Gaskell, M. G. (2005). Language Processing. In N. Braisby et al. (Eds.) Cognitive Psychology. (pp. 197-230). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Dumay, N., Gaskell, M. G. & Feng, X. (2004). A day in the life of a spoken word. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 339-344). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Huettig, F., Gaskell, M. G. & Quinlan, P. T. (2004). How speech processing affects our attention to visually similar objects. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Rodd, J. M., Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2004). Modelling the effects of semantic ambiguity in word recognition. Cognitive Science, 28, 89-104.
Zhou, X., Qu, Y., Shu, H., Gaskell, G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. (2004). Constraints of lexical tone on semantic activation in Chinese spoken word recognition. Acta Psychological Sinica, 36, 379-392.
Gaskell, M. G., (2003). Modelling regressive and progressive effects of assimilation in speech perception. Journal of Phonetics, 31, 447-463.
Gaskell, M. G., Cox, H., Foley, K., Grieve, H & O’Brien, R. (2003). Constraints on definite article alternation in speech production: to “thee” or not to “thee”? Memory & Cognition, 31, 715-727.
Gaskell, M. G., & Dumay, N. (2003). Lexical competition and the acquisition of novel words. Cognition, 89, 105-132.
Gaskell, M. G., & Dumay, N. (2003). Effects of vocabulary acquisition on lexical competition in speech perception and production. In M.J. Solé, D. Recasens & J. Romero (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th ICPhS Conference (pp. 1485-1488). Adelaide, Australia: Causal Productions.
Boudelaa, S. & Gaskell, M. G. (2002). A re-examination of the default system for Arabic plurals. Language and Cognitive Processes, 17, 321-343.
Davis, M. H., Marslen-Wilson, W. D. & Gaskell. M. G. (2002). Leading up the lexical garden-path: segmentation and ambiguity in spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 218-244.
Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2002). Representation and competition in the perception of spoken words. Cognitive Psychology, 45, 220-266.
Gaskell, M. G., Spinelli, E., & Meunier, F. (2002). Perception of resyllabification in French. Memory and Cognition, 30, 798-810.
Rodd, J., Gaskell, G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. (2002). Making sense of semantic ambiguity: semantic competition in lexical access. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 245-266.
Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). Lexical ambiguity and spoken word recognition: bridging the gap. Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 325-349.
Gaskell, M. G. (2001). Phonological variation and its consequences for the word recognition system. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16, 723–729.
Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). Simulating parallel activation in spoken word recognition. In M. Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.), Connectionist Psycholinguistics. Ablex.
Rodd, J., Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). For better or worse: modelling effects of semantic ambiguity. In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 891-896). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Boudelaa, S. & Gaskell, M. G. (2000). In search of the minority default: the case of Arabic plurals. In L. R. Gleitman & A. K. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 48-53). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Rodd, J., Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2000). The advantages and disadvantages of semantic ambiguity. In L. R. Gleitman & A. K. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp 405-410). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Spinelli, E., Gaskell, G. & Meunier, F. (2000). Traitement du langage parlé: resyllabation, liaison et enchaînement. Actes des XXIIIèmes Journées d’Etude sur la Parole.
Davis, M., Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2000). Onset embedded words, segmentation and ambiguity: Experimental and computational investigations. Proceedings of SWAP. (pp. 71-74). Nijmegen: MPI for Psycholinguistics.
Gaskell, M. G. (2000). A quick rum picks you up, but is it good for you? Sentence context effects in the identification of spoken words. Proceedings of SWAP. (pp. 7-10). Nijmegen: MPI for Psycholinguistics.
Rodd, J., Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2000). Semantic ambiguity in spoken word recognition. Proceedings of SWAP. (pp. 103-106). Nijmegen: MPI for Psycholinguistics.
Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1999). The perception of assimilated speech. In O Fujimura, B. D. Joseph and B. Palek (Eds). Item Order in Language and Speech (pp. 671-687).
Moss, H. E., & Gaskell, M. G. (1999). Lexical semantic processing during speech. In Garrod, S. & Pickering, M. (Eds). Language Processing (pp. 59-99). Hove: Psychology Press.
Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1999). Ambiguity, competition and blending in spoken word recognition. Cognitive Science, 23, 439-462.
Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1998). Mechanisms of phonological inference in speech perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 24, 380-396.
Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1997). Integrating form and meaning: a distributed model of speech perception. Language and Cognitive Processes, 12, 613-656
Davis, M., Gaskell. M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (1997). Recognising embedded words in connected speech: context and competition. In J.A. Bullinaria, D. W. Glasspool & G. Houghton (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (pp. 254-266). London: Springer-Verlag.
Davis, M., Marslen-Wilson, W. D., & Gaskell. M. G. (1997). Ambiguity and competition in lexical segmentation. In M. G. Shafto & P. Langley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 167-172). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Gaskell, M. G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1997) Discriminating local and distributed models of competition in spoken word recognition. In M. G. Shafto & P. Langley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 247-252). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Gaskell, M. G. (1997). Type-2 problems are difficult to learn, but generalize well (in general). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 73.
Gaskell, M. G. (1996). Parallel activation of distributed concepts: Who put the P in the PDP? In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society G.W. Cottrell (ed.) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (pp. 284-289).
Gaskell, M. G., and Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1996) Phonological variation and inference in lexical access. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , 22, 144-158.
Gaskell, M. G., Hare, M. and Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (1995). A connectionist model of phonological representation in speech perception, Cognitive Science, 19, 407-439.
Gaskell, M. G. and Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (1995). Modeling the perception of spoken words. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society , J D Moore and J F Lehman (eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, (pp. 19-24).
Marslen-Wilson, W., Nix, A., & Gaskell, G. (1995) Phonological variation in lexical access: abstractness, inference and English place assimilation. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10, 285-308.
Gaskell, G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1994) Phonological inference in lexical access. In A. Ram & K Eiselt (Eds.) Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 341-345). Hillsdale, NJ:Erlbaum.
Gaskell, G. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1993) Match and mismatch in phonological context. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 446-451). Hillsdale, NJ:Erlbaum.
Gaskell, M. G., Einstein, A., Newton, I., & Pythagoras. (1992). A unifying theory of physics, mathematics and religion. USA Today, 22, 13-18.[OK, this one's a lie, but my you're observant. It was actually 1991]

Last revised: May 2012.