Gary Libben
Professor
Department of Teacher Education
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Gary Libben is a psycholinguist and neurolinguist who is working on the development of new models and research methods to advance our understanding of how words are represented in the mind and brain. He received a PhD in Linguistics from McGill University in 1986 and holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Concordia University. Dr. Libben is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, co-founder and editor of the journal The Mental Lexicon, founding director and co-director of the University of Alberta’s Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics, and former President of the Canadian Linguistics Association.
Research Interest
Words are the backbone of human language ability. Gary Libben’s research is focused on questions of how words may be represented in the human mind and brain, how they are linked to one another, and how they are accessed in the processes of language comprehension and production. To address these questions, he uses a variety of psycholinguistic laboratory techniques. His experimentation has been conducted across languages (e.g., English, French, German, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and Kannada) and across populations (e.g., persons with aphasia, adults, and children).
Publications
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Libben, G. & Goral, M. (2015). How bilingualism shapes the mental lexicon. Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Processing.
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Libben, G. (2015) Word-formation in psycholinguistics and neuro-cognitive research: a psycholexical approach. In Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen and Franz Rainer (Eds.), Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe. Berlin/New York/Boston: DeGruyter Mouton.
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Jarema, G., Libben, G., & Tucker, B.V. (2015). The integration of phonological and phonetic processing: A metter of sound judgment. In G. Jarema, & G. Libben (Eds.). Phonological and phonetic aspects of lexical processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Archibald, J.A. & Libben, G. (submitted). Second language morphology: representations, interfaces, and processing. Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory.
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Teddiman, L. & Libben, G. (in press). Segmented binaural presentation as a means to examine lexical substructure. The Mental Lexicon, 10: 3.
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Libben, G. (in press). The quantum metaphor and the organization of words in the mind. Brain, Cognition and Culture, 1.
