Nikole D Patson

Biographic Data

ID822291
NAMENikole D Patson
GIVEN NAMESNikole D
FAMILY NAMEPatson
SIGNATUREPATSON N D
AFFILIATIONSThe Ohio State University
ORCID0000-0002-1921-4370
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS46
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • “Science is in everything, whether we realize it or not”

    Open AccessEllie Kaiser, Nikole D Patson et al.ARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2024

    One way to bring greater awareness to the fact that language can be, and often is, studied scientifically is to show people the scientific tools that linguists use to study it, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). This project investigated how doing a common IPA activity might influence people’s perceptions of language science and linguists. Adult visitors to a science museum ( N = 117) participated in an activity in which they saw …

  • To what extent does the general public endorse language myths

    Open AccessLaura Wagner, Sumurye Awani et al.ARTICLELanguage and Linguistics Compass2023

    This paper reports on an investigation of adults' level of endorsement of 18 language myths, including myths about non‐mainstream dialects of English, children's language development, bilingualism, linguistic diversity across the world, the use of English in the language arts, and the job of a linguist. Participants ( N = 187) read short vignettes of situations related to each misconception and were asked to justify their assessment of the situat…

  • Using Language Science to Promote Interest in Science in a Science Museum

    Open AccessNikole D Patson, Nathan Baker et al.ARTICLEVisitor Studies2023

    The current study investigated how science museum visitors react to a demonstration based on language science, a topic typically under-represented in science museums. Language science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of language. It combines social and biological sciences with computer science and engineering, and has strong connections to humanities, education, and clinical fields. Our qualitative analysis revealed that science museum …

  • What does the public think about language science

    Laura Wagner, Laura M Wagner et al.ARTICLELanguage2022

    Despite the long tradition of using the scientific method to study language, there is a widespread, if largely anecdotally based, feeling among language scientists that the general public does not perceive language to be a classic object of scientific study. The goal of the current study was to investigate this notion. We report the results of three experiments conducted in informal science learning environments that: (i) confirm the public think…

  • What does the public think about language science

    Open AccessLaura Wagner, Laura M Wagner et al.ARTICLELanguage2022

    Despite the long tradition of using the scientific method to study language, there is a widespread, if largely anecdotally based, feeling among language scientists that the general public does not perceive language to be a classic object of scientific study. The goal of the current study was to investigate this notion. We report the results of three experiments conducted in informal science learning environments that: (i) confirm the public think…

  • Conceptual Factors Influence Children's Distributivity Bias

    Nikole D Patson, Julie M HuppARTICLEThe Journal of General Psychology2018References: 2

    Sentences such as "The girls read a book" can lead to multiple interpretations: They could be reading the same book (collective) or they could each be reading their own book (distributive). In ambiguous contexts, adults prefer the collective interpretation, and preschool children show a slight bias for a distributive interpretation. The current research investigated whether conceptual factors (number of actors) influences interpretations of these…

  • The Processing of Plural Expressions

    Open AccessNikole D PatsonARTICLELanguage and Linguistics Compass2014Cited by: 1References: 43

    This paper reviews the psycholinguistic work on the processing of plurals and offers a novel account of how plural expressions are represented during comprehension. The evidence suggests that there are three distinct types of plural representation. The first type of representation is completely underspecified such that the plural expression may denote a singleton. The second type of representation specifies that the plural expression refers to mu…

  • The 'Good Enough' Approach to Language Comprehension

    Open AccessFernanda Ferreira, Nikole D PatsonARTICLELanguage and Linguistics Compass2007Cited by: 45References: 36

    Ferreira and colleagues argued that the language comprehension system creates syntactic and semantic representations that are merely 'good enough' (GE) given the task that the comprehender needs to perform. GE representations contrast with ones that are detailed, complete, and accurate with respect to the input. In this article, we review the original argument for GE processing, and we present new evidence that supports the concept: first, local …

  • Age- and ability-related differences in young readers' use of conjunctions

    Open AccessKate Cain, Nikole D Patson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2005

    Two studies investigating young readers' use of conjunctions are reported. In Study One, 145 eight- to ten-year-olds completed one of two narrative cloze tasks in which different types of conjunction were deleted. Performance for additive conjunctions was not affected by age in this study, but older children were more likely to select the target conjunction than were younger children for temporal, causal, and adversative terms. Performance was su…