Introduction

I have been contracted to write an upper-level undergraduate/postgraduate textbook on psycholinguistics, focussing on 'classical' Psycholinguistics (i.e. chronometric studies of language representation and processing in adult monolinguals), but also touching on more recent neuropsychological and neurophysiological studies of language, first and second language acquisition and development, multilingual processing and empirical research in Language and Cognition, including Linguistic Relativity). In order to tackle this highly ambitious undertaking, my intention is to structure the book and the constituent chapters around a canon of key articles in psycholinguistics, papers published over the last sixty years (and especially since the mid 1980s. For concreteness, one might take Fodor's Modularity of Mind as a useful watershed date.)

To make this textbook as relevant and interesting as possible, I would like to ask for your help in sending me your "Top 10s"  lists for a wide range of mid-level topics, such as "spoken word recognition", "morphological processing", "lexical organisation in bilinguals", "syntactic priming" etc. To begin, though, I'd like your help in constructing a overall "Top 30", the thirty most significant articles in psycholinguistics since 1950.

The lists should consist of primary sources, journal articles published in peer-reviewed journals (with an impact factor sufficient to make them accessible to undergraduates through any university library, or articles that are easily accessible though other databases e.g., JSTOR, Web of Science, etc). I am not necessarily looking for the articles that are most cited, though this is an important measure of significance, but for those that you consider most interesting, perhaps because they present counter-intuitive or controversial findings.

It is not necessary to send me 30 titles—or 10 titles, in the case of subtopic—(though that's fine!): you can just send in one or two, I will collate and rank-order all suggestions for all of the relevant lists. You can find links to collated lists on this page. To contact me, either post a comment to this message, or email me at nigelduffield@gmail.com

Many thanks in advance.