I have arranged my publications by the methods of enquiry used:
Computational: Computer simulations of language learning
Behavioral: Human simulations of language learning
Brain Imaging: Cognitive Neuroscience of language learning
Computer simulations of language learning
Waterfall, H.R., Sandbank,B., Luca Onnis, L, and Edelman, S. (in press). An empirical generative framework for computational modeling of language acquisition. Journal of Child Language. ( abstract | pdf )
Christiansen, M., Onnis, L., & Hockema, S. (2009). The secret is in the sound: From unsegmented speech to lexical categories. Developmental Science, 12(3), 388-395. ( abstract | pdf )
Onnis, L. & Christiansen, M.H. (2008). Lexical Categories at the Edge of the Word. Cognitive Science, 32(1), 184-221. ( abstract | pdf )
Onnis, L., Christiansen, M., & Chater, N. (2008). Connectionist models of language processing. In L. Squire (Ed.) The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier.
Baroni, M., Lenci, A., & Onnis, L. (2007). ISA meets Lara: A fully incremental word space model for cognitively plausible simulations of semantic learning. In Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. ( abstract | pdf )
Roberts, M., Onnis, L., & Chater, N. (2005). Language Acquisition and Language Evolution: Two puzzles for the price of one. In M. Tallerman (Ed.) Prerequisites for the evolution of language, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.334-356. ( abstract | pdf )
Onnis, L., Christiansen, M., & Chater, N. (2005). Connectionist models of human language processing. In K. Brown (Ed.) The encyclopedia of language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Onnis, L., Roberts, M., & Chater, N. (2002). Simplicity: A cure for overregularizations in language acquisition? In Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 720-725. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. ( abstract | pdf )
Human simulations of language learning
Onnis, L. (submitted). Language-induced constraints on statistical learning: Evidence from Korean and English speakers. ( abstract | pdf )
Onnis, L., Waterfall, H., & Edelman S. (2008). Learn locally, act globally: Learning language with variation set cues. Cognition, 109, 423-430. ( abstract | pdf )
Onnis, L., Baroni, M., Spivey, M., Christiansen, M., & Farmer, T. (2009). Generalizable distributional regularities aid fluent language processing: The case of semantic valence tendencies. Special Issue of the Italian Journal of Linguistics, 21(2). ( abstract | pdf )
Onnis, L., Waterfall, H., & Edelman S. (2008). Variation Sets Facilitate Artificial Language Learning. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Onnis, L., Monaghan, P., Richmond, K. & Chater. N. (2005). Phonology impacts segmentation in speech processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 53/2, 225-237. ( abstract | pdf )
Onnis, L., Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M.H., & Chater, N. (2004). Variability is the spice of learning, and a crucial ingredient for detecting and generalising nonadjacent dependencies. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. ( abstract | pdf )
Onnis, L. Christiansen, M., Chater, N. & Gomez, R. (2003) Reduction of uncertainty in human sequential learning: Evidence from artificial language learning. Proceedings of The 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp.886-891). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. ( abstract | pdf )
Onnis, L. (2001) Fluency in native and non-native speakers. Published undergraduate dissertation. In Carli A.(Ed.) Aspetti linguistici e interculturali del bilinguismo. (pp.20-139) Milano: Franco Angeli.
Theoretical papers
Onnis, L., and Spivey, M. (submitted). A new model visualization for the language sciences. ( abstract | pdf )
Goldstein, M., Waterfall, H., Lotem, A., Halpern, J., Schwade, J., Onnis, L., Edelman, S. (submitted). General Cognitive Principles for Learning Structure in Time and Space. ( abstract | pdf )
Onnis, L., Spivey, M., & Farmer, T. (2009). Where do the arrows flow? Reply to Glenberg and Mehta.Special Issue of the Italian Journal of Linguistics, 21(2), 275-282. ( abstract | pdf )
Cognitive Neuroscience of language learning
Christiansen, M., Conway, C., and Onnis, L. (submitted). The P600 as an Index of Expectation Violations in Language and Statistical Learning. ( abstract | pdf )
Christiansen, M.H., Conway, C., & Onnis, L. (2007). Neural Responses to Structural Incongruencies in Language and Statistical Learning Point to Similar Underlying Mechanisms. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. ( abstract | pdf )