Published Peer-Reviewed Papers

  • Simonsen, R., Chacón, D.A. Using word order cues to predict verb class in L2 Spanish. Accepted to Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. First View, 1–12. [link]

  • Cayado, D.K.T., Wray, S., Chacón, D.A., Lai, M. C.-H., Matar, S., Stockall, L. (2024). MEG evidence for left temporal and orbitofrontal involvement in breaking down inflected words and putting the pieces back together. Cortex 181, 101–118. [link]

  • Moitra, S., Chacón, D.A., Stockall, L. (2024). How long is long?: Word length effects in reading correspond to minimal graphemic units: An MEG Study in Bangla. PLOS One 19(4), e0292979. [link]

  • Chacón, D.A. (2022). Default is different: Relations and representations in agreement processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 37(6), 785–804. [link]

  • Chacón, D.A. (2019). Minding the gap? Mechanisms underlying resumption in English. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 4(1), 68. [link]

  • Chacón, D.A., Imtiaz, M., Dasgupta, S., Murshed, S.M., Dan, M., Phillips, C. (2016). Locality and word order in active dependency formation in Bangla. Frontiers in Psychology 7, 1235. [link]

  • Chacón, D.A., Momma, S., Phillips, C. (2016). Linguistic representations and memory architectures: The devil is in the details. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39, e68. [link]

  • Chacón, D.A. (2011). Head movement in the Bangla DP. Journal of South Asian Linguistics 4(4). [link]

  • Pakhomov, S.V.S., Smith, G.E., Chacón, D., Feliciano, Y., Graff-Radford, N., Caselli, R., Knopman, D.S. (2010). Computerized analysis of speech and language to identify psycholinguistic correlates of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology 23(3), 165–177. [link]

  • Pakhomov, S.V.S., Chacón, D., Wicklund, M., Gundel, J. (2010). Computerized assessment of syntactic complexity in Alzheimer's disease: a case study of Iris Murdoch's writing. Behavioral Research Methods 43(1), 136–144. [link]

Published Proceedings, Books, and Theses

  • Chacón, D.A. (2024, to appear). It's about time!: Relating structure, the brain, and comparative syntax. Journal of South Asian Languages. [preproof]

  • Chacón, D.A. (2021). Acceptability judgments (and other) experiments for studying comparative syntax. In G. Goodall (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax. [proof]

  • Kohrt, A., Sorensen, T., O’Neill, P., Chacón, D.A. (2020). Inactive gap formation: An ERP study on the processing of extraction from adjunct clauses. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. [link]

  • Kohrt, A., Sorensen, T., Chacón, D.A. (2018). The real-time status of semantic exceptions to the adjunct island constraint. Proceedings of the 54th Chicago Linguistics Society. [proof]

  • Kraft, A., Coltz, J., Chacón, D.A. (2018). Testing the real-time status of covert movement of wh-operators and QPs in English. Proceedings of the 54th Chicago Linguistics Society [proof]

  • Zhang, B., Chacón, D.A. (2018). Embedding, covert movement, and intervention in Kathmandu Newari. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. [link]

  • Chacón, D.A. (2018). How to make a pronoun resumptive. Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. [link]

  • Chacón, D.A. (2015). Comparative Psychosyntax. PhD Thesis, University of Maryland. [link]

  • LaTerza, C., Kramer, R., Rood, M., Chacón, D., Johnson, J. (2015). Plural shifted indexicals are plural: Evidence from Amharic. Proceedings of the Northeast Linguistic Society [preproof].

  • LaTerza, C., Rood, M., Chacón, D., Kramer, R., Johnson, J. (2015). New puzzles for shifting indexicals: An Amharic case study. Proceedings of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics. [preproof]

  • David, A.B. (2015). Descriptive Grammar of Bangla. T. Conners & D.A. Chacón (eds.). de Gruyter. [link]

Submitted Drafts

  • Dunagan, D.G., McLendon, J., Jordan, T., Chacón, D.A. Rapid parallel visual presentation provides a new perspective on relative clauses processing in Mandarin Chinese. Submitted to Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.[submitted draft]

  • Khokhar, H., Hoque, Z., McLendon, J., Dunagan, D.G., Chacón, D.A. Seeking universal visual word form area: An EEG investigation into word-specific responses to occipito-temporal cortex in English, Chinese, and Urdu using sLORETA. (in preparation).

  • Chacón, D.A., Dunagan, D.G., McLendon, J., Khokhar, H., Hoque, Z. Quick, don't move!: Wh-movement and wh-in-situ in rapid parallel reading – EEG studies in English, Urdu, and Mandarin Chinese. Submitted to Glossa: Psycholinguistics. [submitted draft]

  • Dunagan, D.G., Jordan, T., Hale, J., Pylkkänen, L., Chacón, D.A. Rapid visual form-based processing of (some) grammatical features in parallel reading: An EEG study in English. Submitted to Cognition. [submitted draft]

  • Chacón, D.A., Shrestha, S., Dillon, B.W., Bhatt, R., Almeida, D., Marantz, A. Same sentences, different grammars, different brain responses: An MEG study on case and agreement encoding in Hindi and Nepali split-ergative structures. Submitted to Journal of Neurobiology of Language. [submitted draft]

  • Chacón, D.A., Pylkkänen, L. Disentangling semantic prediction and association in processing filler-gap dependencies: An MEG study in English. Submitted to Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. [submitted draft]

  • Chacón, D.A., Pylkkänen, L. Disentangling semantic prediction and association in processing filler-gap dependencies: An MEG study in English. [link]

  • Chacón, D.A., Kohrt, A., O’Neill, P., Sorensen, T. Limits on semantic prediction in the processing of extraction from adjunct clauses. [draft]

  • Chacón, D.A., Albastaki, A., Lang, B., Marantz, A. Split ergative agreement in Khaleeji Bastaki. [draft]