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. My research is funded by NIDCD.
Teaching Interests
Psychology of Language
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Memory
Research Methods
Selected Publications
O'Seaghdha, P. G. & Chen, J.-Y. (2009). Toward a language-general account of word production: The
proximate units principle. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.,), Proceedings of the 31st Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Society (pp. 68-73). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Link
Pérez E., Santiago J., Palma A., & O'Seaghdha P. G. (2007) Perceptual bias in speech error data
collection: Insights from Spanish speech errors. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 36, 207-235.
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.
