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
- 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.
- Taft, M., & Álvarez, C.J. (2014). Coda optimization in the segmentation of English polysyllabic letter-strings. Experimental Psychology, 61, 488-494.
- Xu, J., & Taft, M. (2014). Solely soles: Inter-lemma competition in inflected word recognition. Journal of Memory & Language, 76, 127-140.
- Taft, M., & Nillsen, C. (2013). Morphological decomposition and the transposed-letter (TL) position effect. Language and Cognitive Processes,28, 917-938. in press. doi:10.1080/01690965.2012.679662
- Taft M., Kacanas D., Huen W., Chan R. (2011). An empirical demonstration of contrastive rhetoric: Preference for rhetorical structure depends on one's first language. Intercultural Pragmatics, 8(4), 503-516. doi:10.1515/IPRG.2011.023
- Lee C.H., Taft M. (2011). Subsyllabic structure reflected in letter confusability effects in Korean word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 18(1), 129-134. doi:10.3758/s13423-010-0028-y
- Nguyen-Hoan M., Taft M. (2010). The impact of a subordinate L1 on L2 auditory processing in adult bilinguals. Bilingualism, 13(2), 217-230. doi:10.1017/S1366728909990551
- Taft M., Nguyen-Hoan M. (2010). A sticky stick? The locus of morphological representation in the lexicon. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25(2), 277-296. doi:10.1080/01690960903043261
- Tamaoka K., Taft M. (2010). The sensitivity of native Japanese speakers to On and Kun kanji readings. Reading and Writing, 23(8), 957-968. doi:10.1007/s11145-009-9184-8
Personal Links
Full list of publications, including electronic access: http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/Users/mtaft/
