"Comprendre c'est faire ce que l'on
veut comprendre"
Current research: First Language
acquisition, bilingualism, early second language acquisition (syntax
and morphology);
The syntax-morphology interface: verbal
agreement paradigms
Recent papers and conference presentations
- The
Acquisition of Past Participle Agreement in Québec French L1,
(2008) in Language Acquisition 15:2,
pp. 75-88 (with Isabelle
Belzil)
- Null
Objects in Child language: Syntax and
the Lexicon, (2008) in Lingua 118:3, pp.
370-398 (with
Ana T. Pérez-Leroux and Yves Roberge)
- Agreement
paradigms across moods and
tenses: the case of Romanian subjunctive and imperative, in
press, in Canadian Journal of Linguistics.
- Bilingualism
as a Window into the Language Faculty: The Acquisition of Objects in
French-speaking Children in Bilingual and Monolingual Contexts,
to appear in Bilingualism: Language
and Cognition (with Ana T.
Pérez-Leroux and Yves Roberge)
- Theoretical implications of clitic omission in early French:
spontaneous vs. elicited production, (2006) in Catalan
Journal
of Linguistics 5, pp. 221-236, special number on acquisition.
- The acquisition of object clitics in French L1 : spontaneous
vs. elicited production, (2006) in In: Belletti, A.,
Bennati, E., Chesi, C., DiDomenico, E., Ferrari, I.
(Eds.), Language Acquisition and
Development; Proceedings of GALA 2005. Cambridge
Scholars Press: Cambridge,
UK,
pp. 450-462
- Agreement paradigms across Moods and Tenses, (2006), in
Jean-Pierre Montreuil and Chiyo Nishida (eds.), New
Perspectives in Romance Linguistics, John Benjamins.
- Early object omission in child French and English, (2006),
in Jean-Pierre Montreuil and Chiyo Nishida (eds.), New
Perspectives in Romance Linguistics, John Benjamins (with Ana
T. Pérez-Leroux and Yves Roberge)
- Licit and Illicit Null Objects in L1 French, (2005) in
Randall S. Gess and Edward J. Rubin (eds.) Theoretical and
Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics, John
Benjamins. (with Yves Roberge)
- "Object clitic omission in French-speaking children: effects of
the elicitation task", (with isabelle Belzil) oral presentation,
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, North America, September
2008, University of Connecticut, US.
- "Unusual objects in acquisition", (with Ana T. Perez-Leroux and
Yves Roberge), oral presentation, Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition, North America, September 2008, University of Connecticut,
US.
- "What is the bilingual doing with the object? A bidirectional
study of object omissions in French-English bilingual acquisition",
(with Isabelle Belzil, Ana Perez-Leroux, Yves Roberge and Danielle
Thomas), Generative Approaches to Language acquisition (GALA),
September 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
- "Object clitic production and omission in early French and the
role of the extralinguistic context", (with Isabelle Belzil and Yves
Roberge), Generative Approaches to Language acquisition (GALA),
September 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
- "The acquisition of past participle agreement in Québec French L1", Linguistic Symposium on
Romance Languages 37, March 2007, University of Pittsbourgh.
- "The acquisition of object clitic in French L1: spontanoues vs.
elicited production", Generative Approaches to Language acquisition
(GALA),
September 2005, Siena, Italy.
- "L’acquisition des clitiques objets en français L1",
Association Canadienne de linguistique, 28-31 mai 2005, University of
Western Ontario.
- "Agreement paradigms across moods and tenses", Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages 35, February 2005, University of Texas
at Austin.
- "Early object omission in child French and English", (with Ana T.
Pérez-Leroux and Yves Roberge), Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages 35, February 2005, University of Texas at Austin.
Current projects
-
Object omission in French L1 and bilingual children
SPONTANEOUS
PRODUCTION study
(longitudinal corpora): this study aims at determining the contexts of
object omission in the early
grammar of
French.
Currently the study is based on
two longitudinal corpora from the
CHILDES database (York corpus); I am also in the process of recording
two French children: one
from Toronto, another from
Montréal.
EXPERIMENTAL
study (with Y. Roberge, A. T.
Pérez-Leroux): this study aims at comparing object omission in
French and English.
-
The
acquisition of past participle agreement in Québec
French L1
