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Academic History
University of Toronto, Ph.D., 1986 
Univeristy College Cork, M.A., 1977 
University College Cork, B.A., 1973 

Research Interests
Language production, psycholinguistics, cognition.

Current work ranges from basic processes of word production, especially the status of sublexical units, through morphological processes and their liaison with syntax and phonology, to sentence level planning. Recent collaborations involve crosslinguistic work on Mandarin Chinese and on Spanish.

Teaching Interests
Psychology of Language
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Memory
Research Methods

Selected Publications
O’Seaghdha, P. G. (2002). Syntactic encoding and syntactic choice. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
    Macmillan/Nature Group.

O'Seaghdha, P. G. & Marin, J. W. (2000). Phonological competition and cooperation in form-related
    priming: Sequential and nonsequential processes in word production. Journal of Experimental
    Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26
, 57-73

Stallings, L., MacDonald, M. C., & O'Seaghdha, P. G. (1998). Phrasal ordering constraints in sentence     production: Phrase length and verb disposition in Heavy-NP shift. Journal of Memory and Language,
    39
, 392-417.

O'Seaghdha, P. G. (1997). Conjoint and dissociable effects of syntactic and semantic context. Journal of
     Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23
, 807-828.

O'Seaghdha, P. G. & Marin J. W. (1997).  Mediated semantic-phonological priming: Calling distant
    relatives. Journal of Memory and Language, 36, 226-252.

Dell, G. S. & O'Seaghdha, P. G. (1992).  Stages of lexical access in language production. Cognition,
    42
, 287-314.  Reprinted (1993) in W. J. M. Levelt (Ed.), Lexical access in speech production
    (pp. 287-314). Cambridge, MA:Blackwell.