Developmental Linguistics Research Group
Research Area
Second language acquisition and bilingualism
- the nature of ultimate attainment in near-native speakers
- divergent representations in non-native grammars
- interaction between different types of cognitive faculties engaged by second language learners and bilingual speakers
- explicit vs. implicit knowledge of a second language
- the acquisition of lexical semantic knowledge and its interface with syntactic knowledge
- processing in L2 syntax and its interfaces
- the nature of lexico-phonological representations in second language
First language acquisition
- the perception, production and lexical acquisition of prosodic phenomena
- cue-weighting in children's speech perception
- social cognition and early syntax
- differentiation and reciprocal effects between the bilingual child's grammatical systems
Phonological development in atypical population
- developmental dyslexia
- speech processing and autism
First language attrition
- selectivity of attrition on L1 syntax
- asymmetrical effects of attrition in the syntax-semantics interface
Diachronic language change
- dispersion of syntactic change through a population
- optionality resulting from diachronic change
