Professor Marcus Taft
Professor Marcus Taft
Professor
Contact details
Phone: (02) 9385 3026
Email: Professor Marcus Taft
Fax: (02) 9385 3641
Office: Mathews, Room 714
Research Summary
Research Areas: Lexical processes in reading: Orthography, phonology, and morphology. Orthographic influences in speech comprehension. Bilingualism. Reading Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The relationship between lexical and episodic memory.
Current Research Projects:
Project: Processing the Internal Structure of English Words
Project: Reading in Languages Other Than English
Project: Bilingual Processes
Project: The Relationship Between Lexical and Episodic Memory
Teaching
Courses:
PSYC2071: Perception and Cognition
PSYC3311: The Psychology Of Language
Publications
- Liang, A., & Taft, M. (2020). The relationship between L2 phonological processing and early musical training in adult bilinguals. Music & Science, 3, 1-11. DOI: doi.org/10.1177/2059204320919285.
- Beyersmann, E., Grainger, J., & Taft, M. (2019). Evidence for embedded word length effects in complex nonwords. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1659989.
- Taft, M. & Li, S. (2019). It’s hard to be talented: What possessional adjectives tell us about lexical representation. The Mental Lexicon, 14 (1), 124-151. DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ml.18011.taf.
- Li, J., Taft, M., Zhu, J., & Zhang, B. (2019). A difference in processing prefixed and suffixed words by Chinese EFL Learners. Modern Foreign Languages, 42, 623-635 [in Chinese].
- Li, J. & Taft, M. (2019). The processing of English prefixed words by Chinese-English bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1-11. DOI: doi:10.1017/S0272263119000172.
- Taft, M., Li, S., & Beyersmann, E. (2018). What cross-morphemic letter transposition in derived nonwords tells us about lexical processing. Journal of Cognition, 1(1), 36. DOI: 10.5334/joc.39.
- Beyersmann, E., Kezilas, Y., Coltheart, M., Castles, A., Ziegler, J.C., Taft, M., & Grainger, J. (2018). Taking the book from the bookshelf: Masked constituent priming effects in compound words and nonwords. Journal of Cognition, 1(1): 10, pp. 1–13, DOI: 10.5334/joc.11.
- Zhou, J., Ma, G., Li, X., & Taft, M. (2018). The time course of incremental word processing during Chinese reading. Reading & Writing, 31, 607–625. DOI: 10.1007/s11145-017-9800-y.
- Li, J, Taft, M., & Xu, J. (2017). The processing of English derived words by Chinese-English bilinguals. Language Learning, 67, 858-884.
- Álvarez, C. J., Taft, M., & Hernández-Cabrera, J. A. (2017). Syllabic strategy as opposed to coda optimization in the segmentation of Spanish letter-strings using word spotting. Scientific Studies of Reading, 21, 99-108.
- Tao, L. & Taft, M. (2017). Influences of cognitive processing capacities on speech perception in young adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 266.
- Tao, L., & Taft, M. (2017). Effects of early home language environment on perception and production of speech. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 1030-1044.
- Taft, M., Xu, J., & Li, S. (2017). Letter coding in visual word recognition: The impact of embedded words. Journal of Memory and Language, 92, 14–25.
- Álvarez, C. J., Garciá-Saavedra, G., Luque, J. L., & Taft, M. (2016). Syllabic parsing in children: A developmental study using visual word-spotting in Spanish. Journal of Child Language [doi: 10.1017/S0305123916000040]
- Taft, M. (2015). The nature of lexical representation in visual word recognition. In A. Pollatsek, & R. Treiman (Eds.) Handbook on Reading. Pp. 99-113. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Tao, L., Taft, M., & Gollan, T. (2015). The bilingual switching advantage: Sometimes related to bilingual proficiency, sometimes not. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 21, 531–544.
- Xu, J., & Taft, M. (2015). The effects of semantic transparency and base frequency on the recognition of English complex words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 904-910.
Personal Links
Full list of publications, including electronic access: http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/Users/mtaft/
