Brian Dillon

Brian Dillon

University of Massachusetts Amherst

H-index: 20

North America-United States

About Brian Dillon

Brian Dillon, With an exceptional h-index of 20 and a recent h-index of 19 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializes in the field of Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Syntax.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Same Sentences, Different Grammars, Different Brain Responses: An MEG study on Case and Agreement Encoding in Hindi and Nepali Split-Ergative Structures

Large-scale benchmark yields no evidence that language model surprisal explains syntactic disambiguation difficulty

Crosslinguistic evidence against interference from extra-sentential distractors

Romanian (subject-like) DPs attract more than bare nouns: Evidence from speeded continuations

Discourse Factors Do Not Explain Islands

Quantification at a distance and grammatical illusions in French

Syntactic and semantic interference in sentence comprehension: Support from English and German eye-tracking data

Surprisal does not explain syntactic disambiguation difficulty: evidence from a large-scale benchmark

Brian Dillon Information

University

Position

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Citations(all)

1740

Citations(since 2020)

1021

Cited By

1098

hIndex(all)

20

hIndex(since 2020)

19

i10Index(all)

27

i10Index(since 2020)

26

Email

University Profile Page

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Brian Dillon Skills & Research Interests

Linguistics

Psycholinguistics

Syntax

Top articles of Brian Dillon

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Same Sentences, Different Grammars, Different Brain Responses: An MEG study on Case and Agreement Encoding in Hindi and Nepali Split-Ergative Structures

bioRxiv

Dustin A Chacón

Subhekshya Shrestha

Brian W Dillon

Rajesh Bhatt

Diogo Almeida

...

2024

Large-scale benchmark yields no evidence that language model surprisal explains syntactic disambiguation difficulty

Journal of Memory and Language

Kuan-Jung Huang

Suhas Arehalli

Mari Kugemoto

Christian Muxica

Grusha Prasad

...

2024/8/1

Crosslinguistic evidence against interference from extra-sentential distractors

Journal of Memory and Language

Daniela Mertzen

Anna Laurinavichyute

Brian W Dillon

Ralf Engbert

Shravan Vasishth

2024/8/1

Romanian (subject-like) DPs attract more than bare nouns: Evidence from speeded continuations

Journal of Memory and Language

Adina Camelia Bleotu

Brian Dillon

2024/2/1

Discourse Factors Do Not Explain Islands

Available at SSRN 4635713

Shota Momma

Brian Dillon

2023

Quantification at a distance and grammatical illusions in French

Syntax

Jérémy Pasquereau

Brian Dillon

Lyn Frazier

2023/10/22

Syntactic and semantic interference in sentence comprehension: Support from English and German eye-tracking data

Glossa Psycholinguistics

Daniela Mertzen

Dario Paape

Brian Dillon

Ralf Engbert

Shravan Vasishth

...

2023/6/1

Surprisal does not explain syntactic disambiguation difficulty: evidence from a large-scale benchmark

Kuan-Jung Huang

Suhas Arehalli

Mari Kugemoto

Christian Muxica

Grusha Prasad

...

2023/4/21

Eye-Tracking and Experimental Syntax

Dave Kush

Brian Dillon

2023/3/16

Grammatical Perspective-Taking in Comprehension and Production

Open Mind

Carolyn Jane Anderson

Brian Dillon

2023/2/1

Article II Individual differences in cue weighting in sentence comprehension: An evaluation using Approximate Bayesian Computation

A computational evaluation of feature distortion and cue weighting in sentence comprehension

Himanshu Yadav

Dario Paape

Garrett Smith

Brian W Dillon

Shravan Vasishth

2022

Processing agreement in Hindi: When agreement feeds attraction

Journal of Memory and Language

Sakshi Bhatia

Brian Dillon

2022/8/1

SPR mega-benchmark shows surprisal tracks construction-but not item-level difficulty

35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Santa Cruz, California. Society for Human Sentence Processing

Kuan-Jung Huang

Suhas Arehalli

Mari Kugemoto

Christian Muxica

Brian Dillon

...

2022

Individual differences in cue weighting in sentence comprehension: An evaluation using Approximate Bayesian Computation

Open Mind

Himanshu Yadav

Dario Paape

Garrett Smith

Brian W Dillon

Shravan Vasishth

2022/7/1

Probabilistic Listener: A Case of Reflexive ziji" self" Ambiguity Resolution in Mandarin

Fengyue Zhao

Brian Dillon

Ming Xiang

2022/10/21

11. What Tagalog can teach us: The influence of word order in reflexive processing

Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara

Brian Dillon

2022

How Much Do Modifications to Transformer Language Models Affect Their Ability to Learn Linguistic Knowledge?

Simeng Sun

Brian W Dillon

Mohit Iyyer

2022/5

Syntactic surprisal from neural models predicts, but underestimates, human processing difficulty from syntactic ambiguities

arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.12187

Suhas Arehalli

Brian Dillon

Tal Linzen

2022/10/21

Do (Subject-like) DPs Attract More than Bare Nouns? Evidence from Agreement Attraction in Romanian

Adina C Bleotu

Brian Dillon

2022/4/19

Alignment between Thematic Roles and Grammatical Functions Facilitates Sentence Processing: Evidence from Experiencer Verbs

Available at SSRN 4235952

Michael Wilson

Brian Dillon

2022/9/26

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