Journal articles

Keshev, M., Cartner, M., Meltzer-Asscher, A., and Dillon, B. (Undergoing revisions). Representation distortion contributes to agreement attraction in comprehension.

Cartner, M.*, Kogan, M.*, Webster, N.*, Wagers, M., and Sichel, I. (Undergoing revisions). Subject islands do not reduce to construction-specific discourse function. (* = co-first authors) (Preprint)

Cartner, M., Meltzer-Asscher, A., and Horvath, J. (Under review). Late insertion in code-switching: Evidence from gender agreement strategies of Hebrew-English bilinguals.

Keshev, M., Cartner, M., Meltzer‐Asscher, A., and Dillon, B. (2024). A working memory model of sentence processing as binding morphemes to syntactic positions. Topics in Cognitive Science. (PDF)

Katz, Y. Z., Cartner, M., and Siloni, T. (2021). Garden Path: Reanalysis as Last Resort. Language and Brain. (PDF)


Conference proceedings

Cartner, M. and Horvath, J. (Under review). Intra-sentential code-switching at the syntax-phonology interface. (Preprint)

Keshev, M., Cartner, M., Meltzer‐Asscher, A., and Dillon, B. (2024). A working memory model of sentence processing as binding morphemes to syntactic positions. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46(0). (PDF)


Selected peer-reviewed talks

Cartner, M. and Horvath, J. Intra-sentential code switching at the syntax-prosody interface. Talk at the 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG). UNED, Madrid, Spain. May 7-9, 2025. (slides)

Cartner, M., Meltzer-Asscher, A. and Horvath, J. The bilingual lexicon under Distributed Morphology: An investigation of gender agreement in code-switching. Talk at the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL). University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. April 25-27, 2025. (slides)

Cartner, M. and Meltzer-Asscher, A. Gap prediction is not fully constrained by grammar: Hebrew Maze results. Talk at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP). University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. March 27-29, 2025. (slides, recording)

Webster, N., Cartner, M., Kogan, M., Wagers, M., and Sichel, I. Information structure alone cannot account for subject islandhood: an experimental study. Talk at the 47th Annual Meeting of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW). Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. March 25-27, 2025. (slides)

Cartner, M., Keshev, M., Lipitz, S., Dillon, B. and Meltzer-Asscher, A. Representational agreement attraction: Evidence from illusory feature conjunction in Hebrew. Talk at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 30 (AMLaP). Edinburgh, Scotland. September 5-7, 2024. (slides)


Selected peer-reviewed posters

Cartner, M. and Horvath, J. Intra-sentential code switching at the syntax-prosody interface. Poster at the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 56). New York University, New York, NY, USA. October 15-17, 2025. (poster)

Cartner, M., Dillon, B., Meltzer-Asscher, A., and Keshev, M. Rational inference does not predict agreement errors: Gender vs number attraction in Hebrew comprehension. Poster at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP). University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. March 27-29, 2025. (poster)

Kogan, M., Cartner, M., Webster, N., Wagers, M., and Sichel, I. Subject islands are not caused by information structure clashes: cross-constructional evidence. Poster at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP). University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. March 27-29, 2025. (poster)

Cartner, M., Meltzer-Asscher, A. and Horvath, J. Grammatical gender agreement in bilingual code-switching: Representational and processing considerations. Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 29 (AMLaP). San Sebastian, Spain. August 31-September 2, 2023. (poster)

Cartner, M., Kishinevsky, E., Gidron, N. and Meltzer-Asscher, A. Competing structural pressures: Active antecedent search modulates gap prediction in Hebrew. Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 29 (AMLaP). San Sebastian, Spain. August 31-September 2, 2023. (poster)

Cartner, M. and Keshev, M. Optional resumption is used to overcome ambiguity in Hebrew. Poster at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP). University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. March 9-11, 2023. (poster)

Cartner, M., Sichel, I., Toosarvandani, M. and Wagers, M. Predictive parsing as a source for resumptive pronoun preference in Hebrew. Poster at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP). University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. March 9-11, 2023. (poster)