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Personal profile
Biography
Check out my lab webpage here
I am a graduate of the Department of Linguistics and the Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. My dissertation was an experimental study of the representation of morphological information in the mental lexicon. After completing my degree, I took up a three year post-doctoral position working with Willem Levelt, from the Production Group, and Sotaro Kita, in the Gesture Project, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. I also spent three years as a Post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in Psycholinguistics at Saarland University in Germany working with Matthew Crocker. I joined the School of Psychology at the University of Dundee in 2006.
Check out my lab webpage here
Research
My research combines linguistic theory, psychological models, and experimental methodology into a line of research that investigates what speakers know about words. Specifically, I conduct research on the nature and organization of lexical representations, focusing on the nature of different types of semantic relations (e.g., a comparison of effects arising from the relationship between dog and horse and the relationship between horse and saddle) as well as on sociolinguistic factors like dialectal lexical variations. I've developed novel variants of well-known experimental paradigms, specifically Rasha Abdel Rahman and I developed a multiple word variant of picture-word interference paradigm to investigate the relationships between different types of distractor effects. Check out my research webpage here.
Teaching
Language processing (Level 2)
Language (Level 3)
Gesture, Cognition, and Communication (Level 4 and Msc)
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Projects
The Development of Idiom Comprehension Processes in Children: Developing an Online Methodology
1/02/16 → 31/01/17
Project: Research
Research Output
Semantic processing during language production: an update of the swinging lexical network
Abdel Rahman, R. & Melinger, A., 16 Apr 2019, In : Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 34, 9, p. 1176-1192 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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3
Citations
(Scopus)
61
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The closer they are, the more they interfere: Semantic similarity of word distractors increases competition in language production
Rose, S. B., Aristei, S., Melinger, A. & Abdel Rahman, R., 1 Apr 2019, In : Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 45, 4, p. 753-763 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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12
Citations
(Scopus)
198
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To re-tune or not to re-tune: Comments on the flexible criterion
Melinger, A. & Abdel Rahman, R., 2019, In : Cognitive Neuropsychology. 36, 5-6, p. 212-215 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Open Access
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1
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(Scopus)
55
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Distinguishing languages from dialects: A litmus test using the picture-word interference task
Melinger, A., 1 Mar 2018, In : Cognition. 172, p. 73-88 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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3
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(Scopus)
201
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Bilingual advantage, bidialectal advantage or neither? Comparing performance across three tests of executive function in middle childhood
Ross, J. & Melinger, A., Jul 2017, In : Developmental Science. 20, 4, p. 1-21 21 p., e12405.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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19
Citations
(Scopus)
336
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Activities
Women in Science
Alissa Melinger (Speaker), , Josephine Ross (Speaker), , Mariel Symeonidou (Speaker), & Yaroslava Goncharova (Speaker)
5 Mar 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition
Institue of Social Sciences Research Launch
Alissa Melinger (Organiser)
13 Jun 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Press / Media
Dundee University researchers breakthrough in language selection
1/02/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research