Research

Scholarship of Teaching

Conference Participation

• Bolger, P. A. (2021, Apr). Formative math-focused assessment: Harnessing the power of the exams package for R. Asynchronous talk given at the 2021 Transformational Teaching and Learning Conference (“Reimagining Teaching, Learning, and Engagement”), College Station, TX. Available at https://ttlc.tamu.edu/previous-years/2021-annual-conference/2021-full-program (scroll down to Faculty Contributions, then Optimizing Assessment, and then to Talk).

Psychology of Language

Dissertation

• Bolger, P. A. (2005). Alphabetic Processing in English and Spanish. PhD dissertation, The University of Arizona, United States. [Supervisor: Cecile McKee; Committee members: Kenneth Forster, Janet Nicol; Examiners: Heidi Harley, Mary Zampini.]

Refereed Articles

• Porretta, V., Tremblay, A., & Bolger, P. A. (2017). Got experience? PMN amplitudes to foreign-accented speech modulated by listener experience. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 44, 54-67.
  
• Hendrix, P., Bolger, P. A., & Baayen, H. (2017). Distinct ERP signatures of word frequency, phrase frequency, and prototypicality in speech production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(1), 128-149.
  
• Miwa, K., Dijkstra, T., Bolger, P. A., & Baayen, R. H. (2014). Reading English with Japanese in mind: Effects of frequency, phonology, and meaning in different-script bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(3), 445-463.
  Bolger, P. A., & Zapata, G. C. (2011). Psycholinguistic approaches to language processing in heritage speakers. Heritage Language Journal, 8(1), 1-29.
  
• Bolger, P. A., & Zapata, G. C. (2011). Semantic categories and context in L2 vocabulary learning. Language Learning, 61(2), 614-646.
  
• Borgwaldt, S. R., Bolger, P. A., & Jakab, E. (2010). Shallow versus deep footprints in pseudo-word grapheme-to-phoneme conversion: Dutch and English. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 22(4), 425-443.
  Bolger, P. A., Borgwald, S., & Jakab, E (2009). Letter and grapheme perception in English and Dutch. Written Language & Literacy, 12(1), 116-139.
  
• McKee, C., & Bolger, P. A. (2003). Dominio del ASL y ortografía inglesa: Manejo de la ortografía inglesa del niño con dominio del ASL (ASL dominance and English orthography: The ASL-dominant child’s mastery of English orthography). Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología, 23, 114-134.

Book Reviews

• Bolger, P. A. (2001). [Review of the book Language acquisition by eye]. The Linguist List. http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-1885.html

Conference Participation

• Bolger, P. A., Robles, D., & Zapata, G. C. (2018, Nov.). Grammatical knowledge in performance-based instruction. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New Orleans, LA.
  
• Zapata, G. C., & Bolger, P. A. (2014, Mar.). Dative constructions by monolinguals, early bilinguals, and L2 students. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, Los Angeles, CA.
  
• Bolger, P. A., Zapata, G. C., & Mateu-Martin, A. (2011, Apr.). Semantically clustered contexts and L2 vocabulary: A classroom- and laboratory-based study. Paper presented at the UIC Bilingualism Forum, Chicago, IL.
  
• Bolger, P. A., & Borgwaldt, S. (2010, Jul.). The time course of letter detection: The role of digraph status, lexicality and frequency. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
  
• Miwa, K., Bolger, P. A., Dijkstra, T., & Baayen, H. (2010, Jul.). The case of different scripts: Cross-linguistic effects in Japanese-English bilingual word recognition. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
  
• Zapata, G. C., & Bolger, P. A. (2010, Jul.). The effect of semantically clustered contexts on L2 vocabulary learning: A classroom- and laboratory-based study. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
  
• Bolger, P. A. (2009, Aug.). Predicting saccade length in the L2 reading of English passages: A pilot study using mixed-effects modeling. Poster presented at the 15th European Conference on Eye Movements, Southampton, England.
• Columbus, G., & Bolger, P. A. (2009, Aug.). Multiword unit processing in native and proficient non-native speakers of English. Poster presented at the 15th European Conference on Eye Movements, Southampton, England.
  
• Bolger, P. A., Borgwaldt, S., & Jakab, E. (2008, Oct.). Crosslinguistic letter detection: Effects of lexicality and orthographic transparency. Poster presented at the 6th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
  
• Bolger, P. A., & Zapata, G. C. (2008, Aug.). How semantic homogeneity in story contexts affects vocabulary learning. Paper presented at the 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Essen, Germany.
  
• Bolger, P. A., Borgwaldt, S., & Jakab, E. (2006, Oct.). Letter detection with masked priming: A crosslinguistic study. Poster presented at the 5th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, McGill, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.