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Barrière, Isabelle, Blandine Joseph, Katsiaryna Aharodnik, Sarah Kresh, Guetjens Prince Fleurio, Géraldine Legendre and Thierry Nazzi 2023 A multidimensional perspective on the acquisition of subject-verb dependencies by Haitian-Creole speaking children: Insights from comprehension and production Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Online-First Articles | Article

The present multidimensional study investigates the acquisition of pronominal subject-verb dependencies in Standard Haitian Creole (HC). A corpus analysis confirms that HC subject pronouns are phonological clitics in the target grammar and that their reduction is optional and unpredictable. The… read more

Barrière, Isabelle, Sarah Kresh, Katsiaryna Aharodnik, Géraldine Legendre and Thierry Nazzi 2019 The comprehension of 3rd person singular -s by NYC English-speaking preschoolers Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 7–33 | Chapter

Monolingual English 4-year-olds were administered a Subject-Verb agreement comprehension task that included stimuli such as the boys spinø versus the boyø spins (…/freely/in the hall). They were categorized as users of Mainstream American English (MAE) (N = 8), Some Variation (N = 9) and Strong… read more

Hsin, Lisa and Géraldine Legendre 2019 Strong Integration in bilingual grammar, formalized: Making the case from cross-linguistic influence in wh -questions Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:3, pp. 427–467 | Article

We present elicited production data reflecting cross-linguistic interference effects in the English wh-questions of Spanish-English bilingual children to provide a proof-of-concept for a proposed new formal analysis of such effects across cross-linguistic influence phenomena. The observed… read more

Legendre, Géraldine and Paul Smolensky 2017 A competition-based analysis of French anticausatives Transitivity and Valency: From theory to acquisition, Fotiadou, Georgia and Hélène Vassiliadou (eds.), pp. 25–42 | Article

Some long-standing questions surrounding anticausatives in languages like French include whether the morphological marking (presence/absence of se) correlates with interpretational differences and/or different syntax. We examine the three anticausatives classes (optional se, obligatory se, no… read more

Putnam, Michael T., Géraldine Legendre and Paul Smolensky 2016 How constrained is language mixing in bi- and uni-modal production? Epistemological issue with keynote article “The development of bimodal bilingualism: Implications for linguistic theory” by Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice Müller de Quadros and Deborah Chen Pichler, pp. 812–816 | Commentary

Legendre, Géraldine 2007 Optimizing auxiliary selection in Romance Split Auxiliary Systems: A cross-linguistic perspective, Aranovich, Raúl (ed.), pp. 145–180 | Article

Davidson, Lisa and Géraldine Legendre 2003 Defaults and competition in the acquisition of functional categories in Catalan and French A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001, Núñez-Cedeño, Rafael, Luis López and Richard Cameron (eds.), pp. 273 ff. | Article

Legendre, Géraldine 2000 Positioning Romanian verbal clitics at PF: An Optimality-Theoretic analysis Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax, Gerlach, Birgit and Janet Grijzenhout (eds.), pp. 219–254 | Article

This paper argues that Romanian auxiliary and pronominal clitics are phrasal affixes subject to a set of conflicting PF alignment constraints that are responsible for the clustering, rigid ordering, and overall positioning in a clause of both so-called verbal clitics (in Romanian) and… read more