Michèle Kail

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michèle Kail plays a role.

Journal

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Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism

Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems

Edited by Michèle Kail and Maya Hickmann †

Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
This article presents a large scope of issues on early and late language plasticity that increase our understanding of the neurobehavioral dynamics of change, the main property of the learning brain. In their pioneering work, Bates and Kuhl have convincingly demonstrated that plasticity is… read more
Kail, Michèle, Maria Kihlstedt and Philippe Bonnet 2018 Chapter 15. Online sentence processing in simultaneous French/Swedish bilingualsSources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners, Hickmann, Maya †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa (eds.), pp. 313–338 | Chapter
Within the Competition Model, cue validity and cue cost can serve to make predictions about real-time sentence processing in a cross-linguistic perspective. Previous research with monolingual children and adults in French (Kail 2004) and Swedish (Kail et al. 2012) proposed that cue cost is… read more
The last twenty years have witnessed the development of promising methodologies and new paradigms that have brought substantial findings and have changed our views on early language acquisition. Focusing on early comprehension, this article is mainly devoted to a review of these new paradigms… read more
The last twenty years have witnessed the development of promising methodologies and new paradigms that have brought substantial findings and have changed our views on early language acquisition. Focusing on early comprehension, this article is mainly devoted to a review of these new paradigms… read more
Kail, Michèle, Armanda Costa and Isabel Hub Faria 2010 Chapter 10. On-line grammaticality judgments: A comparative study of French and PortugueseLanguage Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems, Kail, Michèle and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 179–203 | Article
Online sentence processing in children is still an emerging field. This crosslinguistic study examined the on-line sentence processing in a grammaticality judgment experiment. In each language (French, Portuguese) three age groups of children (6–7 year-olds, 8–9 year-olds and 10–11 year-olds) and a… read more
Kail, Michèle 1999 Linguistic variations and cognitive constraints in the processing and acquisition of languageLanguage Diversity and Cognitive Representations, Fuchs, Catherine and Stéphane Robert (eds.), pp. 179–194 | Article
Kail, Michèle and Kleopatra Diakogiorgi 1994 Morphology and word order in the processing of Greek sentences: A crosslinguistic and developmental studyThemes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993, Philippaki-Warburton, Irene, Katerina Nicolaidis and Maria Sifianou (eds.), pp. 325–332 | Article
Kail, Michèle and Jürgen Weissenborn 1991 Conjunctions: Developmental IssuesLanguage Bases ... Discourse Bases: Some aspects of contemporary French-language psycholinguistics research, Piéraut-Le Bonniec, Gilberte and Marlene Dolitsky (eds.), pp. 125–142 | Article
Seguy, J. and Michèle Kail 1991 Pronoun Assignment in the Processing of Locally Ambiguous SentencesLanguage Bases ... Discourse Bases: Some aspects of contemporary French-language psycholinguistics research, Piéraut-Le Bonniec, Gilberte and Marlene Dolitsky (eds.), pp. 109–124 | Article