Members

Anne-Marie DiSciullo

<p>Coming soon</p>

Denis Foucambert

<p>Coming soon</p>

Fred Genesee

Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Stewart Biological Sciences Bldg., 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue #N7/19
tel: 514-398-6022
e-mail: genesee(at)ego.psych.mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Principal Member

Research Themes

Language Acquisition

Areas of Expertise

Second language and bilingual acquisition, second language teaching, bilingual education, literacy, language development in adopted children

Current Research Interests

Current research projects include studies of (a) the development of grammatical competence in children acquiring two languages simultaneously, (b) speech processing in bilingual infants, (c) language and reading acquisition in school contexts by typically-developing children and children with language or reading impairments; and (d) language development by international adoptees.

Selected Publications

  • Comeau, L., Genesee, F. & Mendelson, M. (In press). Bilingual children’s repairs of breakdowns in communication. Journal of Child Language.
  • Genesee, F. & Geva, E. (2006). Cross-linguistic relationships in working memory, phonological processes, and oral language. In D. August & T. Shanahan (Eds.), Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners (pp. 169-177). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Genesee, F., Lindholm-Leary, K., Saunders, W. & Christian, D. (2006). Educating English Language Learners: A Synthesis of Research Evidence. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Genesee, F., & Nicoladis, E. (2006). Bilingual first language acquisition. In E. Hoff & M. Shatz (eds.), Handbook of Language Development (pp. 324-342). Oxford, England: Blackwell.
  • Zwanziger, E. E., Allen, S.E.M., & Genesee, F. (2006). Crossl-inguistic influence in bilingual acquisition: Subject omission in learners of Inuktitut and English. Journal of Child Language, 32, 893-910.
  • Sundara, M., Polka, L., & Genesee, F. (2005). Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d-D / in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English. Cognition, 1-20.
  • Genesee, F., Paradis, J., & Crago, M. (2004). Dual Language Development and Disorders. Brookes.

Graduate Students

  • Caroline Erdos (PhD candidate)
  • Karine Gauthier (PhD candidate)
  • Erin White (PhD candidate)

Relevant Links

Heather Goad

Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
McGill University
1085 Dr. Penfield, #320
tel: 514-398-4223
e-mail: heather.goad(at)mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Associate Member

Research Themes

Language Acquisition
Speech Science Modeling

Areas of Expertise

Phonology, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Genetic Dysphasia, Speech Perception

Current Research Interests

My research is broadly concerned with examining the role that highly-articulated representations play in circumscribing the notion ‘possible grammar’ in the acquisition of phonology. In first language acquisition, my current research focusses on the acquisition of constituency in prosodic structure (specifically, the syllabification of left-edge clusters, word-final consonants, and stress). In second language acquisition, my work focusses on trying to find prosodic explanations for asymmetries in the patterns of suppliance of functional morphology (specifically, determiners, tense and agreement morphology), a domain of enquiry for which syntactic explanations are typically sought.

Selected Publications

  • Goad H. & Y. Rose, (Eds.)(2003). Segmental-prosodic interaction in phonological development: A comparative investigation. Special issue of Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 48(3/4), 139-452.
  • Goad, H. & Rose, Y. (2004). Input elaboration, head faithfulness and evidence for representation in the acquisition of left-edge clusters in West Germanic. In R. Kager, J. Pater, & W.Zonneveld, (Eds.), Constraints in Phonological Acquisition, 109-157. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Goad, H. & Buckley, M. (2006). Prosodic structure in child French: Evidence for the foot. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 5, 109-142. Special Issue on the Acquisition of Romance Languages as First Languages.
  • Goad, H. & White, L. (2006). Ultimate attainment in interlanguage grammars: A prosodic approach. Second Language Research, 22, 243-268.

Graduate Students

  • Brannen, Kathleen
  • Mah, Jen
  • Qu, Chen

Relevant Links

Lucie Godard

Coming soon

Panayiota Kendeou

Assistant Professor
Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology
Faculty of Education
McGill University

3700 McTavish Avenue
tel: 514.398.3449
e-mail: panayiota.kendeou(at)mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Principal Member

Research Themes

Language Acquisition
Neural Bases of Language
Visual Language Processing

Areas of Expertise

Discourse Processes, Text Comprehension, Reading Acquisition

Current Research Interests

Professor Kendeou’s research focuses on the investigation of the cognitive processes that support language and memory.  She investigates these processes in the context of reading comprehension by employing three complementary lines of inquiry: experimental investigations, developmental investigations, and computational modeling. In the first line of inquiry (i.e., experimental), she examines the factors that impact comprehension and learning from texts, and specifically, the interactive effects between readers’ individual differences, text properties, and the instructional context in which reading takes place. In the second line of inquiry (i.e., developmental), she examines the development of children’s language and comprehension skills using longitudinal methods.  In the third line of inquiry (i.e., modeling), she uses computational modeling to simulate higher-order processes in the context of reading comprehension.

Selected Publications

  • Kendeou, P., & van den Broek, P. (in press). Interactions between prior knowledge and text structure during comprehension of scientific texts. Memory & Cognition.
  • Rapp, D. N., & Kendeou, P. (in press). Revising what readers know: The effectiveness of refutations as a function of task and content. Memory & Cognition.
  • van den Broek, P., & Kendeou, P. (in press). Cognitive processes in comprehension of
    science texts: The role of co-activation in confronting misconceptions. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
  • Kendeou, P., van den Broek, P., White, M., & Lynch, J. (2007). Preschool and early elementary comprehension: Skill development and strategy interventions. In D. S. McNamara (Ed.) Reading comprehension strategies: Theories, interventions, and technologies, (pp.27-45). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Kendeou, P., & van den Broek, P. (2005). The effects of readers’ misconceptions on 
    comprehension of scientific text. Journal of Educational Psychology, 97, 235-245.
  • Kendeou, P., Lynch, J. S., van den Broek, P., Espin, C., White, M., & Kremer, K. E. (2005). Developing successful readers: Building early narrative comprehension skills through television viewing and listening. Early Childhood Education Journal, 33, 91-98. 
  • van den Broek, P., Rapp, D. N., & Kendeou, P. (2005). Integrating memory-based and
    Constructionist approaches in accounts of reading comprehension. Discourse Processes, 39, 299-316.

Graduate Students

  • Sandra Fulton Behrens (PhD candidate, co-supervised)

Relevant Links

  • coming soon

Marie Labelle

Professeure
Déartement de linguistique et de didactique des langues
UQAM
tel: 514-987-3000, poste 7036
e-mail: labelle.marie(at)uqam.ca

Membership Status

Associate Member

Research Themes

Language Acquisition

Areas of Expertise

Description du français, acquisition du français, langue maternelle

Current Research Interests

Je m'intèresse à l'acquisition de la langue maternelle par les enfants, et, de plus en plus, à l'acquisition du français langue seconde. Je travaille surtout sur l'acquisition du français par les élèves allophones inscrits dans des classes régulières, en collaboration avec mes collègues Lucie Godard, Lori Morris et Line Laplante.

Selected Publications

  • Labelle, M. & Hirschbühler, P. (2005). Changes in clausal organization and the position of clitics in Old French. In Mo. Batllori, M.-L. Hernanz, C. Picallo & F. Roca (Eds.), Grammaticalization and Parametric Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Hirschbühler, P., &mp; Labelle, M. (2004). Proclisis and enclisis of object pronouns at the turn of the 17th century: the speech of the future Louis XIIIth, dans D. Arteaga & R. Gess (Eds.), Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and Perspectives. Amsterdam, NL: Benjamins.
  • Godard, L., & Labelle, M. (2004). Time unit duration and estimation of duration : Normal and dysphasic children. Proceedings of the 26 th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australie.

Relevant Links

Roy Lyster

Associate Professor
Department of Integrated Studies in Education
McGill University
3700 McTavish Street
tel: 514-398-5942
e-mail: roy.lyster@mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Principal Member

Research Themes

Language Acquisition

Areas of Expertise

Second language acquisition, immersion education, classroom discourse, educational sociolinguistics, cross-cultural pragmatics

Current Research Interests

My research is primarily classroom-based and focuses on the effects of different types of classroom interaction and instructional options on second language development, especially in the context of content-based second language classrooms. Of special interest to me are the pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of form-focused negotiation, including the types of retrieval processes that most effectively trigger developmental changes in a learner's underlying interlanguage system.

Selected Publications

  • Lyster, R. (2004). Research on form-focused instruction in immersion classrooms: Implications for theory and practice. Journal of French Language Studies, 14 (3). 321-341
  • Lyster, R. (2004). Differential effects of prompts and recasts in form-focused instruction. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 399-432.
  • Lyster, R. (2006). Predictability in French gender attribution: A corpus analysis. Journal of French Language Studies, 16, 69-92.
  • Lyster, R., & Mori, H. (2006). Interactional feedback and instructional counterbalance. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28, 269-300.

Graduate Students

  • Susan Ballinger (PhD candidate)
  • Kimiko Hinenoya (PhD candidate)
  • Jesús Izquirdo (PhD candidate)
  • Daniéle Guènette (PhD candidate)
  • Margaret Quéguiner(PhD candidate)
  • Andrea Sterzuk (PhD candidate)
  • Yingli Yang (PhD candidate)
  • Michael Lenane (MA candidate)

Relevant Links

Lucie Ménard

Professeure
Département de linguistique et de didactique des langues
UQAM
tel: 514-987-3000 poste 3515
e-mail: menard.lucie(at)uqam.ca

Membership Status

Principal Member

Research Themes

Language Acquisition
Speech Science Modeling

Areas of Expertise

Phonetics, linguistics, cognitive sciences

Current Research Interests

Production-perception de la parole au cours du développement, role de la vision et de l'audition dans la production et la perception de la parole, prosodie et français québécois, synthèse de la parole

Selected Publications

  • Ménard, L., Polak, M., Denny, M., Lane, H., Matthies, M. L., Perkell, J. S., Burtin, E., Marrone, N., Tiede, M., & Vick, J. (Submitted). Interactions of speaking condition and hearing status on vowel production in postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
  • Ménard, L., Schwartz, J.-L., Boë, L.-J. & Aubin, J. (In press). Production-perception relationships during vocal tract growth for French vowels: analysis of real data and simulations with an articulatory model. Journal of Phonetics.
  • Dupont, S., Aubin, J. & Ménard, L. (2005). A study of the McGurk effect in 4 and 5-year-old French Canadian children. ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 40, 1 17.
  • Schwartz, J.-L., Abry, C, Boë, L.-J., Ménard, L. & Vallée, N. (2005). Asymmetries in vowel perception, in the context of the Dispersion-Focalisation Theory. Speech Communication, 45, 425-434.
  • Ménard, L. & Boë, L.-J. (2004). L'impact des facteurs anatomiques sur l'émergence du système vocalique chez l'enfant. Revue Canadienne de Linguistique, 49, 155-174.
  • Ménard, L., Schwartz, J.-L. & Boë, L.-J. (2004). The role of vocal tract morphology in speech development: Perceptual targets and sensori-motor maps for French synthesized vowels from birth to adulthood. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 47, 1059-1080.

Graduate Students

  • Johanna-Pascale Roy (PhD, postdoctoral fellow)
  • Jérôme Aubin (PhD candidate)
  • Juliane Bertrand (PhD candidate, co-supervised)
  • Marie-Ève Bouchard (PhD candidate, co-supervised)
  • Aude Noiray (PhD candidate, co-supervised)
  • Annie Brasseur (MA candidate)
  • Raoul Bugueno (MA candidate)
  • Anik Demers-Pelletier (MA candidate, co-supervised)
  • Caroline Émond(MA candidate)
  • Michel Lavoie (MA candidate, co-supervised)
  • Sophia Stevenson (MA candidate, co-supervised)

Relevant Links

Aparna Nadig

Assistant Professor
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
McGill University
1266 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1A8
tel: 514-398-4141

Membership Status

Principal Member

Research Themes

Language Acquisition
Visual Language Processing

Areas of Expertise

Processing of discourse and pragmatics, communication in autism spectrum disorders

Current Research Interests

I am interested in how we use multiple sources of information (visual, prosodic, from previous discourse, partner specific) to arrive at a speaker’s intended meaning, and how we compute pragmatic inferences in real time.
My research investigates these processes in different populations:
1) How does pragmatic processing become more robust over the course of typical development?
2) Does reduced multimodal language processing contribute to the pragmatic impairments observed in people with autism spectrum disorders?
3) Do sequential bilinguals rely on discourse cues more than linguistic cues when processing speech in their 2nd language?
Another line of my work concerns social communication in infancy, and detecting early markers of autism and language disorders.

Selected Publications

  • Vivanti, G., Nadig, A., Ozonoff, S. & Rogers, S. (Submitted).  What do children with autism look at during imitation tasks?
  • Nadig, A., Ozonoff, S., Young, G., Rozga, A., Sigman, M. & Rogers, S. (2007). A prospective study of response-to-name in infants at risk for autism. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Theme issue on Autism, 161(4), 378-383.
  • Nadig, A., Ozonoff, S., Singh, L., Young, G. & Rogers, S. (2007). Do 6-month-old infants at risk for autism display an infant-directed speech preference? Proceedings of the 31st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Nadig, A., Sedivy, J., Joshi, A. & Bortfeld, H. (2003).  The development of discourse constraints on the interpretation of adjectives.  Proceedings of the 27th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Nadig, A. & Sedivy, J. (2002). Evidence of perspective-taking constraints in children's on-line reference resolution. Psychological Science, 13(4), 329-336.

    • Relevant Links

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