Publications

López-González, M. & G. Legendre. (2007). Acquiring the Spanish copulae ser and estar: evidence for sensitivity to semantic cues from spontaneous production. Submitted MS, Johns Hopkins University.

Legendre, G., T. Nazzi, I. Barriere, J. Culbertson, L. Goyet, M. Lopez-Gonzalez, and E. Zaroukian (2006), "Acquiring subject-verb agreement in French: Evidence of early syntactic representations from comprehension." Proceedings of BUCLD 31, Boston. [pdf]

Legendre, G. 2006. Early child grammars: Qualitative and quantitative analysis of morphosyntactic production. Cognitive Science 30:5.

Legendre, G., P. Hagstrom, J. Chen-Main, L. Tao, and P. Smolensky. 2004. Deriving Output Probabilities in Child Mandarin from a Dual-Optimization Grammar. Lingua, Vol. 114/9-10, 1147-1185.

Davidson, L. and G. Legendre. 2003. Defaults and Competition in the Acquisition of Functional Categories in Catalan and French. In Rafael Nuñez-Cedeño, Luis López & Richard Cameron, (eds.), A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use. 273-290.

Legendre, G, A. Vainikka, P. Hagstrom, and M. Todorova. 2002. Partial Constraint Ordering in Child French Syntax. Language Acquisition 10(3), 189-227.

Hagstrom, P., J. Chen-Main, G. Legendre, and L. Tao. 2002. Default ne in Child Mandarin Chinese. Korean Journal of Cognitive Science. 81-118.

Vainikka, A., G. Legendre, and M. Todorova. 1999. PLU Stages: An Independent Measure of Early Syntactic Development. Technical Report: JHU-CogSci-99-10.

Talks

Rissman, L. (2007). "L2 Acquisition of Spanish subject expression: Is the NSP enough?". Poster, 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Anaheim, CA.

Legendre, G., T. Nazzi, I. Barriere, J. Culbertson, L. Goyet, M. Lopez-Gonzalez, and E. Zaroukian (2006). "Acquiring subject-verb agreement in French: Evidence of early syntactic representations from comprehension." BUCLD 31, Boston. November 2006.

López-González, M. & G. Legendre. (2006). Acquiring the Spanish copulae ser and estar: evidence for sensitivity to semantic cues from spontaneous production. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, London, Ontario, Canada.

Compréhension de l'accord verb-pronoun sujet en français chez les 30 mois (with T. Nazzi). Séminaire du Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (EHESS/ENS/CNRS), Paris. July 2006.

An Optimality Theory perspective on Tense and Agreement Acquisition in French. Séminaire du Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception CNRS - Université Paris 5, Paris. July 2006.

On The Acquisition of Subject Clitics by French-speaking Children between 18 and 26 Months: Insights from production and Comprehension (with I. Barrière, T. Nazzi, T. Nicol, S. Long, J. Segawa, W. Street, M. Lopez-Gonzalez, and M. Tellock). The Romance Turn: Workshop on the Acquisition of Syntax of Romance Languages. Madrid, Spain. September 2004.

On the Production and Comprehension of Agreement Clitics by French Speaking 18 and 24 month olds: An Intermodal Preferential Looking Study (with T. Nazzi, I. Barrière, T. Nicol, and S. Long). Second Lisbon Meeting on Language Acquisition, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. June 2004.

Verb Acquisition in French: Lexical Comprehension and Sensitivity to Subject-verb Agreement at 18 and 24 months (with T. Nazzi, I. Barrière, T. Nicol, and S. Long). International Conference on Infant Studies. Chicago. May 2004.

L’acquisition de la morphosyntaxe du français, vue de la Théorie de Optimalité. Seminar DEA Acquisition, Department of Linguistics, University of Paris 10 at Nanterre, January 2004.

How children acquire the grammar of their native language(s). Colloquium. Department of Cognitive Science, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, January 2004.

Partial Rankings and Dual Optimization in Morphosyntactic Acquisition. Workshop on Logic, Neural Networks, and Optimality Theory. Berlin. July 2003.

Competition in Child Syntax: The Acquisition of Functional Categories in French. CNRS/Université de Paris 5 (Groupe Cognition & Dévelopement), Paris. October 2002.

Evidence for Syntactic Competition in the Acquisition of Tense and Agreement in Child French. Max-Planck Institute, Nijmegen (Netherlands). June 2002.

Competition in Child Syntax: The Acquisition of Functional Categories in French and Chinese. OTS Colloquium, Utrecht University (Netherlands). June 2002.

Partial Constraint Ranking as a Model of Linguistic Change: Evidence from Language Acquisition. University of Amsterdam Workshop on Language Change (Netherlands). June 2002.

Optionality and Markedness in Child Syntax. Workshop on Variation in Form vs. Variation in Meaning. University of Nijmegen (Netherlands). July 2002.

Explaining the Non-Optionality of Optional Infinitives in Catalan and French (w. Lisa Davidson). GALA Meeting, Palmela, Portugal. September 2001.

Comparing Early Acquisition of Temporal Categories in French/Catalan and Mandarin. 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS 2001), Beijing, China. August 2001.

Defaults and Competition in the Acquisition of Functional Categories in Catalan and French. (w. Lisa Davidson). LSRL 2001, Chicago, April 2001.