MacWhinney, B. (2007) A Unified Model. In N. Ellis & P. Robinson (Eds.) Handbook of cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition. Lawrence Erlbaum Press.

MacWhinney, B.(2006) Emergentism -- Use Often and With Care. Applied Linguistics, 27, 729-740.

Hernandez, A., Li, P., & MacWhinney, B. (2005). The emergence of competing modules in bilingualism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 220-225.

MacWhinney, B. (in press). Emergent fossilization. In Z. Han and T. Odlin (Eds.) Perspectives on fossilization. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Tokowicz, N., & MacWhinney, B. (2005) Implicit and explicit measures of sensitivity to violations in second language grammar: An event-related potential investigation. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

MacWhinney, B. (2002) The Competition Model: The input, the context, and the brain. In Robinson, P. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Matessa, M., & Anderson, J. (2000). Modeling focused learning in role assignment. Language and Cognitive Processes, 15, 263-292. Using data from Blackwell's 1996 dissertation, Matessa and Anderson show that by limiting the learner to tracking only one cue at a time, ACT-R does a better job than the Competition Model in accounting for the very early stages of cue learning in artificial languages.

Kempe, V., & MacWhinney, B. (1998). The acquisition of case-marking by adult learners of Russian and German. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 20, 543-587.

MacWhinney, B. (1997) Implicit and Explicit Processes: Commentary. SSLA, 19, 277-281.

MacWhinney, B. (1996). Language Specific Prediction in Foreign Language Learning. Language Testing, 12, 292-320. Are some languages harder to learn than others and why?

Kempe, V., & MacWhinney, B. (1996). The crosslinguistic assessment of foreign language vocabulary learning. Applied Psycholinguistics, 17, 149-183.

MacWhinney, B. (1995). Evaluating foreign language tutoring systems. In V. M. Holland, J. D. Kaplan, & M. R. Sams (Eds.), Intelligent language tutors: Theory shaping technology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

MacWhinney, B. (1983). Miniature Linguistic Systems as tests of the use of universal Operating Principles in second-language learning by children and adults. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 12, 467-478.