Highlighted publications
Avrutin, S. (2006). Weak syntax. In Y. Grodzinsky, & K. Amunts (Eds.), Broca's region (pp. 49-62). Oxford University Press.
Avrutin, S., & Baauw, S. (2013). A processing view on agrammatism. In L. L. Cheng, & N. Corver (Eds.), Diagnosing Syntax (pp. 397-411). Oxford University Press.
Avrutin, S., & Wexler, K. (2000). Children's knowledge of subjunctive clauses: obviation, binding and reference. Language Acquisition, 1(8), 69-102.
Avrutin, S., Bos, L. S., Dragoy, O., Iskra, E., & Bastiaanse, R. (2014). Understanding discourse-linked elements in aphasia: a threefold study in Russian. Neuropsychologia, 57, 20-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.02.017
Avrutin, S., Burkhardt, P., Pinango, M., & Ruigendijk, E. (2008). Slower-Than-Normal Syntactic Processing in Agrammatic Broca's Aphasia: Evidence From Dutch. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 21(2), 120-137.
Publications
2022
Scholarly publications
Du, K., Avrutin, S., & Chen, A. (2022). Building bridges: The role of prosody in Mandarin-speaking adults' and children's anaphora resolution. In Proc. Speech Prosody 2022 (pp. 77-81). ISCA-INST SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-16
Kotsolakou, A., Wijnen, F., & Avrutin, S. (2022). The Role of Pauses and Entropy in Learning Nonadjacent Dependencies.
2021
Scholarly publications
Radulescu, S., Kotsolakou, A., Wijnen, F., Avrutin, S., & Grama, I. (2021). Fast but Not Furious. When Sped Up Bit Rate of Information Drives Rule Induction. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-20. Article 661785. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661785
2020
Scholarly publications
Xie, Y., Avrutin, S., & Coopmans, P. H. A. (2020). Development of Syntax-Discourse Interface Knowledge in 3- to 6-Year-Old Mandarin Chinese Speaking Children. In M. M. Brown, & A. Kohut (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 2, pp. 738-748). Cascadilla Press.
2019
Scholarly publications
Radulescu, S., Wijnen, F., & Avrutin, S. (2019). Patterns Bit by Bit. An Entropy Model for Rule Induction. Language Learning and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2019.1695620
Xie, Y., Avrutin, S., & Coopmans, P. H. A. (2019). Development of the Syntax-Discourse Interface knowledge in 3-6 year old Mandarin Chinese Children. Poster session presented at Boston university conference on language development (BUCLD 44), Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Xie, Y., Avrutin, S., & Coopmans, P. H. A. (2019). Mandarin-Chinese Speaking Children’s Acquisition of Definiteness and Specificity. Poster session presented at International conference on the acquisition of information structure, Leuven, Belgium.
Avrutin, S. (2019). What do journalists, children and brain damaged patients have in common?. Paper presented at International conference on linguistics and literature, Athens, Greece.
Avrutin, S. (2019). Wave Interference, Entropy, and Speech Production / Comprehension Asymmetry. Paper presented at International conference on literature, languages and linguistics, Barcelona, Spain.
Avrutin, S. (2019). Wave Interference, Entropy and the Speech Production / Comprehension Asymmetry. Paper presented at Emlar XV, Utrecht, Netherlands.
2018
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S., Radulescu, S., & Wijnen, F. N. K. (2018). How to analyze a sample with few data points per participant in a familiarization paradigm in artificial grammar learning?. Poster session presented at Small Sample Size Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Avrutin, S., Wijnen, F. N. K., Radulescu, S., & Gervain, J. (2018). Same processing costs for encoding sameness and difference in the developing brain. Paper presented at fNIRC, Tokyo, Japan.
Avrutin, S., Wijnen, F. N. K., Radulescu, S., & Giannopoulou, E. (2018). Item-bound vs Category-based Generalizations. An entropy model. Poster session presented at Architecture and mechanisms of Language Processing conference, Berlin, Germany.
Avrutin, S., Wijnen, F. N. K., Radulescu, S., & Murali, M. (2018). When Attention Distraction Helps Rule Induction. Paper presented at Architecture and mechanisms of Language Processing conference, Berlin, Germany.
2017
Scholarly publications
Radulescu, S., Avrutin, S., & Wijnen, F. N. K. (2017). Statistical learning and cognitive constraints on rule induction. An entropy model. In Proceedings of Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (pp. 47) http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/amlap2017/files/2017/06/amlap_proceedings_10.8.2017.pdf
Avrutin, S., Neophytou, K., & van Egmond, M. (2017). Zipf's law in aphasia across languages: A comparison of English, Hungarian and Greek. Quantitative linguistics, 24(2-3), 178-196 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2016.1263786
Blom, W. B. T., van Dijk, C., Vasic, N., van Witteloostuijn, M., & Avrutin, S. (2017). Textese and use of texting by children with typical language development and Specific Language Impairment. Computers in Human Behavior, 66, 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.09.010
Popularising publications
Avrutin, S. (2017). Introduction to Psikhologicheskie Aspekty Emigratzii.
Other output
Radulescu, S., Avrutin, S., & Wijnen, F. N. K. (2017). Statistical learning and cognitive constraints on rule induction. An entropy model. Poster session presented at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning 2017, Bilbao, Spain.
2016
Scholarly publications
Radulescu, S., Wijnen, F. N. K., & Avrutin, S. (2016). Input Complexity and Rule Induction. An Entropy Model. Abstract from 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainesville, Florida, United States.
van Dijk, C. N., van Witteloostuijn, M., Vasic, N., Avrutin, S., & Blom, E. (2016). The Influence of Texting Language on Grammar and Executive Functions in Primary School Children. PLoS One, 11(3), Article e0152409. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152409
Avrutin, S., & van Ewijk, E. (2016). Lexical access in non-fluent aphasia: a bit more on reduced processing. Aphasiology, 30(11), 1264-1282. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2015.1135867
Professional publications
Blom, W. B. T., Avrutin, S., van Dijk, C. N., Vasic, N., & van Witteloostuijn, M. T. G. (2016). Is er een verband tussen het gebruik van texting-taal en taalontwikkeling bij kinderen tussen de 10 en 13 jaar? Levende Talen Tijdschrift, 17(2), 3-12. http://www.lt-tijdschriften.nl/ojs/index.php/ltt/issue/view/333
2015
Scholarly publications
Radulescu, S., Avrutin, S., & Wijnen, F. N. K. (2015). Input complexity and Rule induction. An entropy model. In Proceedings of Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
van Egmond, M., van Ewijk, E., & Avrutin, S. (2015). Zipf’s law in non-fluent aphasia. Quantitative linguistics, 22(3), 233-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2015.1037158
Other output
Avrutin, S. (2015, Dec 5). An indecent nature of Russian reflexives and what children know about it. A keynote presentation at the workshop on acquisition of Slavic Languages; Potsdam, Germany.
Radulescu, S., Wijnen, F. N. K., & Avrutin, S. (2015). Input complexity and rule induction. An entropy model. Paper presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Valletta, Malta.
2014
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S., Bos, L. S., Dragoy, O., Iskra, E., & Bastiaanse, R. (2014). Understanding discourse-linked elements in aphasia: a threefold study in Russian. Neuropsychologia, 57, 20-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.02.017
Manika, S., Avrutin, S., & Reuland, E. J. (2014). The effect of verb’s inflectional entropy on the processing of reflexive objects. In G. Rundblad, A. Tytus, O. Knapton, & C. Tang (Eds.), Selected Papers from the 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (pp. 213-227). UK Cognitive Linguistics Association.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278144/Manika%2520et%2520al%2520%282013%29_Final.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278144/Manika%2520et%2520al%2520%282013%29_Final.pdf?sequence=1
Other output
Avrutin, S., van Egmond, M., & Neophytou, K. (2014). Word frequency distributions in aphasic speech across languages. Paper presented at 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Avrutin, S., & van Egmond, M. (2014). Defying Zipf's law. Poster session presented at International Quantitative Linguistics Conference (QUALICO) , Olomoutz, Czech Republic.
Avrutin, S., & van Egmond, M. (2014). Defying Zipf’s law. Poster session presented at Mental Lexicon Conference , Niagara-on-the Lake, Canada.
Radulescu, S., Avrutin, S., & Wijnen, F. (2014). Limits and variations of linguistic generalizations. Poster session presented at 20th AMLaP conference, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2013
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S., & Baauw, S. (2013). A processing view on agrammatism. In L. L. Cheng, & N. Corver (Eds.), Diagnosing Syntax (pp. 397-411). Oxford University Press.
Other output
Bastiaanse, Y. R. M., Dragoy, O., Avrutin, S., Iskra, E., & Bos, L. (2013). Discourse-linking in agrammatic and fluent aphasia. Poster session presented at Academy of Aphasia, Lucerne, Switzerland.
2012
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S., van Egmond, M., & van Ewijk, E. (2012). Zipf's law in non-fluent aphasia. Paper presented at 13th International Science of Aphasia conference, Groninen, Netherlands.
Avrutin, S., van Egmond, M., & van Ewijk, E. (2012). Zipf's law in aphasia.. Paper presented at Neuropsycholinguistic perspectives on aphasia., Toulouse, France.
Avrutin, S., van Egmond, M., & van Ewijk, E. (2012). Zipf's law in non-fluent aphasia. Paper presented at Qualico (Belgrade, Serbia).
Avrutin, S., Reuland, E. J., & Manika, S. (2012). The bits of dependencies. Poster session presented at GLOW 35 Workshop, Potsdam, Germany.
Avrutin, S. (2012). Lexical access in language impairment and special registers: An information – theoretic approach.. Paper presented at Lexical access in language impairment and special registers: An information – theoretic approach., Verona, Italy.
2011
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S., & Schumacher, P. B. (2011). Register Affects Language Comprehension: ERP evidence from article omission in newspaper headlines. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 24, 304. Article 3.
Baauw, S., Zuckerman, S., Ruigendijk, M. E., & Avrutin, S. (2011). Principle B Delays as a processing problem: evidence from task effects. In A. Grimm, A. Muller, C. Hamann, & M. E. Ruigendijk (Eds.), Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language Mouton de Gruyter.
Koornneef, A. W., Avrutin, S., Wijnen, F. N. K., & Reuland, E. J. (2011). Tracking the preference for bound-variable dependencies in ambiguous ellipses and only-structures. In J. Runner (Ed.), Experiments at the interfaces. (Syntax and Semantics; No. 37). Emerald.
Ruigendijk, M. E., Baauw, S., Zuckerman, S., Vasic, N., de Lange, J., & Avrutin, S. (2011). A cross-linguistic study on the interpretation of pronouns by children and agrammatic speakers: Evidence from Dutch, Spanish and Italian. In E. Gibson, & N. J. Pearlmutter (Eds.), The Processing and Acquisition of Reference MIT Press.
van Egmond, M., van Ewijk, E., & Avrutin, S. (2011). A New Theoretical Model for Word-Finding Difficulties in Aphasia. In Academy of Aphasia, 49th Annual Meeting https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.09.226
Other output
van Egmond, M., van Ewijk, E., & Avrutin, S. (2011). A new theoretical model for word-finding difficulties in aphasia.. 175-176. Abstract from Unknown event.
van Ewijk, E., & Avrutin, S. (2011). Verb retrieval in non-fluent aphasia: an information theoretic approach.. 104-105. Abstract from Unknown event. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/23
2010
Scholarly publications
Baauw, S., Ruigendijk, M. E., Cuetos, F., & Avrutin, S. (2010). The interpretation of stressed and non-stressed pronouns in Spanish language breakdown. Aphasiology, (iFirst), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2010.493295
van Ewijk, E., & Avrutin, S. (2010). Article omission in Dutch children with SLI: A Processing Approach. Entropy, 12(4), 798-817. https://doi.org/10.3390/e12040798
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/179989/2010_SLI_Entropy.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/179989/2010_SLI_Entropy.pdf?sequence=1
Reuland, E. J., & Avrutin, S. (2010). Interpretive dependencies: The case of backward anaphora. Linguistic Analysis, 34(3-4), 271-315.
Burkhardt, P., Pinango, M-M., Ruigendijk, M. E., & Avrutin, S. (2010). Reference assignment in Dutch: Evidence for the syntax-discourse divide. Lingua, 120, 1738-1763.
Other output
Avrutin, S. (2010). An information theoretic view on language development and language loss. Utrecht University.
Avrutin, S., De Bode, S., Tribushinina, E., & Vasic, N. (2010). When one hemisphere works for two: Language tasks following hemispherectomy. Poster session presented at NCU Research Day, Utrecht.
2009
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S. (2009). A cross-linguistic study on the interpretation of pronouns by children and agrammatic speakers: Evidence from Dutch, Spanish, and Italian. In T. Gibson, & N. Perlmutter (Eds.), The Processing and Acquisition of Reference MIT Press.
Avrutin, S., de Lange, J., & Vasic, N. (2009). Reading between (head)lines: A processing account of article omissions in newspaper headlines and child speech. Lingua, 10(119), 1523-1540.
2008
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S., Burkhardt, P., Pinango, M., & Ruigendijk, E. (2008). Slower-Than-Normal Syntactic Processing in Agrammatic Broca's Aphasia: Evidence From Dutch. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 21(2), 120-137.
2007
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S. (2007). The economy hierarchy of referential dependencies in child language: evidence from Dutch VP-ellipsis. In K. J Deen, & J. Nomura (Eds.), Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA), Honolulu, HI. University of Connecticut Occasional Papers in Linguistics
2006
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S. (2006). Weak syntax. In Y. Grodzinsky, & K. Amunts (Eds.), Broca's region (pp. 49-62). Oxford University Press.
Avrutin, S. (2006). The usability of syntax. Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, 27(1), 43-46.
Avrutin, S., Vasic, N., & Ruigendijk, E. (2006). Interpretation of pronouns in VP-ellipsis constructions in Dutch Broca's and Wernicke'a aphasics. Brain and Language, 96(2), 191-206.
Avrutin, S., Ruigendijk, E., & Vasic, N. (2006). Reference assignment: Using language breakdown to choose between theoretical approaches. Brain and Language, 96(3), 302-317.
2005
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S. (2005). Binding and beyond: Issues in backward anaphora. In A. Branco (Ed.), Anaphora Processing (pp. 139-162). John Benjamins Publishing.
Avrutin, S. (2005). Psycholinguistic investigations of linguistic dependencies. In M. Everaert (Ed.), Linguistics and The Study of the Mind (pp. 15-26). UiL OTS.
Avrutin, S. (2005). Optional omissions in an optionally null subject language. In J. van Kampen, & S. Baauw (Eds.), Proceedings of the GALA conference (pp. 187-198). LOT occasional series.
Ruigendijk, M. E., Burkhardt, P., & Avrutin, S. (2005). Slow sentence processing in agrammatic Broca's aphasia: evidence from Dutch reflexive-antecedent dependencies. Brain and Language, (95), 84-85.
Other output
Baauw, S., Avrutin, S., & de Lange, J. (2005). The omission of D and T in Dutch-speaking children. Poster session presented at BUCLD, Boston University, USA. http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/schedule.htm#PosterII
2004
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S. (2004). Backward anaphora and tense interpretation. In L. Verbitskaya, & T. Tchernigovskaya (Eds.), Teoreticheskie Problemy Jazykoznanija ('Theoretical Issues in Language Research') (pp. 67-93). St. Petersburg University.
Avrutin, S. (2004). Optional omissions in an optionaly null subject language. In J. van Kampen, & S. Baauw (Eds.), Proceedings of the GALA conference (pp. 187-198). LOT.
Avrutin, S. (2004). Optionality in child and aphasic speech. Lingue e Linguaggio, 1(1), 67-93.
2003
Scholarly publications
Ruigendijk, M. E., & Avrutin, S. (Accepted/In press). The comprehension of pronouns and reflexives in agrammatic and Wernicke's aphasia. Brain and Language, 87, 17-18.
Gordishevsky, G., & Avrutin, S. (2003). Subject and Object Omissions in Child Russian. In Proceedings of Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics 19 http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/&7English/IATL/17/TOC.html
2002
Scholarly publications
Ruigendijk, M. E., Vasic, N., & Avrutin, S. (2002). The comprehension of pronouns and contrastive stress in Dutch agrammatism. Brain and Language, 83(1), 182-184.
Baauw, S., de Roo, E., & Avrutin, S. (2002). Determiner Omission in Language Acquisition and Language Impairement: Syntactic an Discourse Factors. In B. Skarabela, S. Fish, A. Do, L. Dominguez, & A. Johansen (Eds.), BUCLD 26: Proceedings of the 26th annual Conference on Langauge Acquisition and Development (pp. 24-35). Cascadilla Press.
de Roo, E., Baauw, S., Avrutin, S., & Hofstede, B. (2002). Determiner omission in the speech production of Broca aphasics and young children: structural and lexical factors. Brain & Language, 83, 47-49.
Zuckerman, S., Vasic, N., Ruigendijk, M. E., & Avrutin, S. (2002). Experimental evidence for the subject rule. In Y. Falk (Ed.), Proceedings of IATL 18 Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics. http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~english/IATL/18/TOC.html
Zuckerman, S., Vasic, N., & Avrutin, S. (2002). The Syntax-Discourse Interface and the Interpretation of Pronominals by Dutch-Speaking Children. In B. Skarabela, S. Fish, & A. Do (Eds.), BUCLD 26: Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on language acquisition and development (pp. 781-792). Cascadilla Press.
2001
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S. (2001). Linguistics and agrammatism. Glot international, 5(3), 1-11.
Avrutin, S., Haverkort, M., & van Hout, A. M. H. (2001). Brain and Language. Academic Press Inc.
Avrutin, S., & Brun, D. (2001). The expression of specificity in a language without determiners: Evidence from Child Russian. In A. H-J. Do, L. Domínguez, & A. Johansen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 70-81). Cascadilla Press.
2000
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S., & Wexler, K. (2000). Children's knowledge of subjunctive clauses: obviation, binding and reference. Language Acquisition, 1(8), 69-102.
Avrutin, S. (2000). Language acquisition and language impairment: a comparative psycholinguistic approach. Brain and Language, 1(71), 7-9.
Avrutin, S. (2000). The syntax-discourse interface and the Root Infinitives. In H. Bennis, M. B. H. Everaert, & E. J. Reuland (Eds.), Interface Strategies (pp. 1-20). Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Avrutin, S., & Coopmans, P. H. A. (2000). Children Who Build Bridges. In S. C. Howell, S. A. Fish, & T. Keith-Lucas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 80-91). Cascadilla Press.
Avrutin, S. (Accepted/In press). Comprehension of discourse-linked and non-discourse-linked questions by children and Broca's aphasics. In Y. Grodzinsky, L. Shapiro, & D. Swinney (Eds.), Language and the Brain (pp. 295-313). Academic Press Inc..
Avrutin, S. (2000). Comprehension of discourse-linked and non-discours-linked questions by children and Broca's aphasics. In Y. Grodzinsky, L. Shapiro, & D. Swinney (Eds.), Language and the Brain (pp. 295-313). Academic Press Inc..
1999
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S., Lubarsky, S., & Greene, J. (1999). Comprehension of Contrastive Stress by Agrammatic Broca's Aphasics. Brain and Language, 70, 163-186.
Avrutin, S. (1999). Development of the Syntax-Discourse Interface. Kluwer.
1998
Scholarly publications
Avrutin, S., & Philip, W. C. H. (1998). Quantification in Agrammatic Aphasia. In MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, MA (pp. 63-72). MIT.
Avrutin, S. (1998). Usvoenie jazyka ('Language Acquisition'). In A. Kubrik, I. Kobozeva, & I. Sekerina (Eds.), Fundamental'nye Napravlenija Sovremennoj Amerikanskoj Lingvistiki (Fundamental Trends of Modern American Linguistics) (pp. 17). Moscow University Press.