Patrick Sturt

Reader

  • Psychology
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Room G29, Psychology Building

City
7 George Square, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9JZ

Availability

  • Office hours: Tuesdays 3-4pm

Biography

Background

Representative publications (see "Publications" section for full list)

1. Zhu, M., Sturt, P., and Damian, M. (in press). Language switch costs in sentence comprehension between chinese and english: Evidence from self-paced reading. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

2. Hao, J., Chondrogianni, V., and Sturt, P. (in press). Sources of children’s difficulties with noncanonical sentence structures: Insights from Mandarin. Journal of Child Language.

3. Kwon, N. and Sturt, P. (2024). When social hierarchy matters grammatically: Investigation of tthe processing of honorifics in Korean. Cognition, 251.

4. Sturt, P. and Kwon, N. (2024). Agreement attraction in comprehension: Do active dependencies and distractor position play a role? Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, pages 279–301.

5. Cunnings, I. and Sturt, P. (2023). Illusions of plausibility in adjuncts and co-ordination. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38:1318–1337.

6. Hao, J., Chondrogianni, V., and Sturt, P. (2023). Heritage language development and processing: Non-canonical word orders in Mandarin–English child heritage speakers. Bilingualism Language and Cognition, pages 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000639.

7. Cokal, D., Filik, R., Sturt, P., and Poesio, M. (2023). Anaphoric reference to mereological entities. Discourse Processes, 60:202–223.

8. Xu, Z. and Sturt, P. (2023). The influence of stereotypical information on gender inference in Chinese. SN Social Sciences, 3(30).

9. Sturt, P. (2022). Syntactic and semantic mismatches in English number agreement. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 1(1).

10. Cokal, D. and Sturt, P. (2022). The real-time status of strong and weak islands. PLoS ONE, 17

 

 

Undergraduate teaching

I currently teach Psychology of Language 1 and 2 (MSc), Data Analysis for Psychology in R 1 (DAPR1) (1st year undergraduate).

My OFFICE HOURS are 3-4pm Tuesdays, or you could simply email me to arrange a meeting time

Current PhD students supervised

Research summary

Syntactic processing in language comprehension, Computational models of incremental parsing. Anaphor resolution. Eye movements in reading.

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