Publications
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Books
- Kaan, E., & Grüter, T. (2021, Eds.) Prediction in second language processing and learning. [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition (BPA), 12]. John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/bpa.12
- Grüter, T., & Paradis, J. (2014, Eds.), Input and Experience in Bilingual Development [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, Vol. 13]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.13
Papers & other publications
2025/in press/accepted
- Grüter, T. (2025/to appear). Prediction and Error-Driven Learning. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2nd ed.). Wiley. [pdf]
- Zhu, Y. A., & Grüter, T. (2024/FirstView). Native speakers and learners of Mandarin predict upcoming arguments in dative constructions based on categorical and gradient verb constraints. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000749 (published online 12/12/2024)
- Nguyen, H., Grüter, T. (2024/OnlineFirst). Facilitative use of classifiers in heritage Vietnamese. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.24001.ngu (published online 12/2/2024)
- Hao, J., Kubota, M., Bayram, F., González Alonso. J., Grüter, T., Li, M., & Rothman, J. (2024/OnlineFirst). Schooling and home language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241270900 (published online 9/23/2024)
- Zhu, Y. A., & Grüter, T. (2024/FirstView). Structural priming facilitates L2 learning of the dative alternation in Mandarin. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S027226312400041X (published online 9/18/2024)
2024
- Siegman, C., Kim, J., Nishikawa, T., Jocson, C., & Grüter, T., (2024). The HALA Online: Test manual and materials. Kaipuleohone, the University of Hawai'i's Ethnographic Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/108117
2023
- Grüter, T., Kim, J., Nishizawa, H., Wang, J., Alzahrani, R., Chang, Y., Nguyen, H., Nuesser, M., Ohba, A., Roos, S., & Yusa, M. (2023). Language proficiency modulates listeners’ selective attention to a talker’s mouth: a conceptual replication of Birulés et al. (2020). Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(4), 1074-1089. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263123000086 (published online 3/27/2023)
- Grüter, T. (2023). Synthesis: Psycholinguistics across the lifespan. In A. Godfroid & H. Hopp (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics (pp. 97-107). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003018872-10
- Hopp, H., & Grüter, T. (2023). The time-course of competition from the L1 grammar in L2 sentence processing: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming. Second Language Research, 39(1), 133-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583211009586 (published online 4/25/2021)
2022
- Brown, J. D., & Grüter, T. (2022). The same cloze for all occasions?: Using the Brown (1980) cloze test for measuring proficiency in SLA research. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 60(3), 599-624. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2019-0026 (accepted 9/12/2019, published online 11/17/2020)
- Ling, W., & Grüter, T. (2022). From sounds to words: The relation between phonological and lexical processing of tone in L2 Mandarin. Second Language Research, 38(2), 289-313. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658320941546 (published online 7/20/2020)
2021
- Grüter, T., Zhu, Y. A., & Jackson, C. N. (2021). Forcing prediction increases priming and adaptation in second language production. In E. Kaan & T. Grüter (Eds.), Prediction in second language processing and learning (pp. 208-231). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.12.10gru
- Kaan, E., & Grüter, T. (2021). Prediction in second language processing and learning: advances and directions. In E. Kaan & T. Grüter (Eds.), Prediction in second language processing and learning (pp. 2-24). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.12.01kaa
- Grüter, T., & Hopp, H. (2021). How permeable are native and non-native syntactic processing to crosslinguistic influence? Journal of Memory and Language, 121, 104281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2021.104281
- Kim, H., & Grüter, T. (2021). Predictive processing of implicit causality in a second language: A visual-world eye-tracking study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 43(1), 133-154. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263120000443
- Grüter, T. (2021). Marr's levels of analysis and the notion of copying. Second Language Research, 37(3), 449-452. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658320934140 [commentary on keynote paper by Marit Westergaard]
2020
- Grüter, T., Lau, E., & Ling, W. (2020). How classifiers facilitate predictive processing in L1 and L2 Chinese: The role of semantic and grammatical cues. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(2), 221-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1648840
- Ling, W., & Grüter, T. (2020). Learning words with lexical tone: Is manipulation of attentional focus beneficial? In M. M. Brown & A. Kohut (Eds.) Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 308-321). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Schwartz, B. F., Fiestas, C. E., & Grüter, T. (2020). Tense and finiteness in contemporary child Pidgin (Hawai'i Creole): Distinguishing between developmental language disorder and language difference. In M. M. Brown & A. Kohut (Eds.) Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 562-571). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2019
- Kim, H., & Grüter, T. (2019). Crosslinguistic activation of implicit causality biases in Korean learners of English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22(3), 441-455. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000561
- Schafer, A. J., Camp, A., Rohde, H., & Grüter, T. (2019). Contrastive prosody and the subsequent mention of alternatives during discourse processing. In K. Carlson, C. Clifton Jr., & J. Fodor (Eds.), Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing – Essays in Honor of Lyn Frazier (pp. 29-44). Springer: Studies in Theoretical Linguistics.
- Rankin, T., Grüter, T., & Hopp, H. (2019). Investigating co-activation of L1 syntax during processing of wh-questions: Eye-tracking evidence from L1 German-L2 English. In R. Slabakova, J. Corbet, L. Dominguez, A. Dudley, & A. Wallington (Eds.), Explorations in Second Language Acquisition and Processing (pp. 154-171). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2018
- Peters, R., Grüter, T., & Borovsky, A. (2018). Vocabulary size and Native Speaker self-identification influence flexibility in linguistic prediction among adult bilinguals. Applied Psycholinguistics, 39(8), 1439-1469. doi: 10.1017/S0142716418000383
- Grüter, T. (2018). Children: Processing at higher levels [Chapter 10]. In F. Grosjean & K. Byers-Heinlein (Eds.), The Listening Bilingual: Speech Perception, Comprehension, and Bilingualism (pp. 199-2019). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Grüter, T., Lau, E., & Ling, W. (2018). L2 listeners rely on the semantics of classifiers to predict. In A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan (Eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 303-316). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2017
- Grüter, T., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. J. (2017). Coreference and discourse coherence in L2: The roles of grammatical aspect and referential form. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 7(2), 199-229. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.15011.gru
- Grüter, T. (2017). Vocabulary does not equal language, but neither does morphosyntax. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20(1), 17-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000286 [commentary on keynote paper by Susanne Carroll]
- Marchman, V. A., Martínez, L. Z., Hurtado, N., Grüter, T., & Fernald, A. (2017). Caregiver talk to young Spanish-English bilinguals: Comparing direct observation and parent-report measures of dual-language exposure. Developmental Science, 20, n/a, e12425. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12425
2016
2015
- Schafer, A. J., Takeda, A., Camp, A., Rohde, H., & Grüter, T. (2015). Effects of contrastive intonation and grammatical aspect on processing coreference in Mainstream American English. In Proceedings of ICPhS2015: 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
- Peters, R., Grüter, T., & Borovsky, A. (2015). Anticipatory and locally coherent lexical activation varies as a function of language proficiency. In Proceedings of CogSci2015: The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
- Lau, E., & Grüter, T. (2015). Real-time processing of classifier information by L2 speakers of Chinese. In E. Grillo & K. Jepson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 311-323). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2014
- Grüter, T., Hurtado, N., Marchman, V. A., & Fernald, A. (2014). Language exposure and online processing efficiency in bilingual development: Relative versus absolute measures. In T. Grüter & J. Paradis (Eds.), Input and Experience in Bilingual Development (pp. 15-36). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Grüter, T., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. J. (2014). The role of discourse-level expectations in non-native speakers’ referential choices. In W. Orman & M. J. Valleau (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 179-191). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Grüter, T. (2014). How do children learn language? In R. E. Silver & L. S. Marlar (Eds.), Language in Education: Social Implications (pp. 87-104). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Hurtado, N., Grüter, T., Marchman, V. A., & Fernald, A. (2014). Relative language exposure, processing efficiency and vocabulary in Spanish-English bilingual toddlers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(1), 189-202.
- Paradis, J., & Grüter, T. (2014). Introduction to “Input and experience in bilingual development.” T. Grüter & J. Paradis (Eds.), Input and Experience in Bilingual Development (pp. 1-14). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2013
- Grüter, T. (2013). Individual differences and the nature of the processor. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 3(3), 312-315. [commentary on keynote paper by William O'Grady]
Orfitelli, R., & Grüter, T. (2013). Do null subjects really transfer? In J. Cabrelli Amaro, T. Judy, & D. Pascual y Cabo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2013) (pp. 145-154). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2012
- Grüter, T., & Crago, M. (2012). Object clitics and their omission in child L2 French: The contributions of processing limitations and L1 transfer. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15(3), 531-549.
- Grüter, T., Lew-Williams, C., & Fernald, A. (2012). Grammatical gender in L2: A production or a real-time processing problem? Second Language Research, 28(2), 191-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583124379
- Grüter, T., Hurtado, N., & Fernald, A. (2012). Interpreting object clitics in real-time: eye-tracking evidence from 4-year-old and adult speakers of Spanish. In A. K. Biller, E. Y. Chung, and A. E. Kimball (eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 213-225). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2011
- Grüter, T., Lew-Williams, C., & Fernald, A. (2011). Grammatical gender in L2: Where is the problem? In N. Danis, K. Mesh, and H. Sung (eds.), Proceedings of the 35th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 246-258). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2010
- Grüter, T., Lieberman, M., & Gualmini, A. (2010). Acquiring the scope of disjunction and negation in L2: A bidirectional study of learners of Japanese and English. Language Acquisition, 17(3), 127-154.
- Grüter, T., & Crago, M. (2010). The roles of L1 transfer and processing limitations in the L2 acquisition of French object clitic constructions: Evidence from Chinese- and Spanish-speaking learners. In K. Franich, K. M. Iserman, and L. L. Keil (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), 150-161. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2009
- Grüter, T. (2009). A unified account of object clitics and referential null objects in French. Syntax, 12.3, 215-241.
- Grüter, T. (2009). Colloquium – Comparing Child L2 and SLI (Specific Language Impairment): Crosslinguistic Perspectives. Language Teaching 42.2.
2008
- Grüter, T. (2008). When learners know more than linguists: (French) direct objects clitics are not objects. Probus, 20.2, 211-234.
- Grüter, T., Lieberman, M., & Gualmini, A. (2008). The acquisition of the scope properties of disjunction by Japanese learners of English: A test case for L1 vs. UG at the L2 initial state. In R. Slabakova, J. Rothman, P. Kempchinsky and E. Gavruseva (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2007), 47-56. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1625.
2007
- Grüter, T. (2007). Investigating object drop in child French and English: A truth value judgment task. In A. Belikova, L. Meroni and M. Umeda (eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA), 102-113. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1551.
2006
- Grüter, T. (2006). Object (clitic) omission in L2 French: Mis-setting or missing surface inflection? In M. Grantham O’Brian, C. Shea and J. Archibald, (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2006), 63-71. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1488.
- Grüter, T., & Conradie, S. (2006). Investigating the L2 initial state: Additional evidence from the production and comprehension of Afrikaans-speaking learners of German. In R. Slabakova, S. A. Montrul and P. Prévost (eds.), Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White (pp. 89-114). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Grüter, T. (2006). Object clitics and null objects in the acquisition of French. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, McGill University. [pdf]
2005
- Grüter, T. (2005/2006). Another Take on the L2 Initial State: Evidence from Comprehension in L2 German. Language Acquisition, 13.4, 287-317.
- Grüter, T. (2005). Comprehension and Production of French Object Clitics by Child Second Language Learners and Children with Specific Language Impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics, 26.3, 363-391.
2004
- Grüter, T. (2004). Another take on the L2 initial state: Evidence from comprehension in L2 German. In Y. Furukawa and H. Newell, (eds.), McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 18.2, 1-24.
- Grüter, T. (2004). Teasing apart L2 and SLI: Will comprehension make the difference? In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla, and C. E. Smith, (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 220-231. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2003
- Grüter, T. (2003). Hypocoristics: The case of u-formation in Bernese Swiss German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 15.1, 27-63.
2002
- Grüter, T. (2002). Why Thomas is ‘Tömu’ and Markus ‘Küsu’: An OT account of hypocoristics in Bernese Swiss German. In Theres Grüter and Myunghyun Yoo, (eds.), McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 16.2, 65-94.
