Downloadable Documents

Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu and Yves Roberge, in press, "A Syntactic Transitivity Approach to Null Objects in Child Language", Lingua.
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Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu and Yves Roberge, to appear, "The Acquisition of Objects in French-speaking Children in Bilingual and Monolingual Contexts", Bilingualism: language and cognition.

Mihaela Pirvulescu and Isabelle Belzil, to appear, "The Acquisition of Past Participle Agreement in Québec French L1" to appear, Language Acquisition 15, Issue 2, scheduled to appear in April, 2008.
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"Theoretical Implications of Clitic Omission in Early French: Spontaneous vs. Elicited Production", (2006) in Catalan Journal of Linguistics 5, Special number on the acquisition of Romance languages.

"The Acquisition of Object Clitics in French L1: Spontaneous vs. Elicited Production", (2006) Proceedings of GALA 2005, ed. by Adriana Belletti, Elisa Bennati, Cristiano Chesi, Elisa DiDomenico and Ida Ferrari, Cambridge Scholars Press: Cambridge,UK. pp. 450-462.

Pérez-Leroux, A.T, M. Pirvulescu, Y. Roberge, L. Tieu and D. Thomas. 2006.
Variable input and object drop in child Language.
Submitted to the proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association Conference.
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Pérez-Leroux, A. T., , M. Pirvulescu, and Y. Roberge. (2006) Early Object Omission in Child French and English. In Montreuil, Jean-Pierre and Nishida, Chiyo (eds.) Selected papers from LSRL 2005. New Perspectives in Romance Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (PDF)

Cummins,S. & Y. Roberge (2005) "A Modular Account of Null Objects in French", (S. Cummins & Y. Roberge) Syntax 8.1: 44-64. 2005 (PDF)

Pirvulescu, M. & Y. Roberge (2005); "Licit and Illicit Null Objects in L1 French" in Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics, edited by Randall S. Gess & Edward J. Rubin. John Benjamins: Amsterdam. pp. 197-212. (PDF)

Isabelle Belzil, Ana Perez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu, Yves Roberge and Danielle Thomas "What is the bilingual doing with the object? A bidirectional study of object omissions in French-English bilingual acquisition", Generative Approaches to Language acquisition (GALA), oral presentation, September 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
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Isabelle Belzil, Mihaela Pirvulescu and Yves Roberge. "Object Clitic Production and Omission in Early French and the Role of the Extralinguistic Context", Generative Approaches to Language acquisition (GALA), oral presentation, September 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
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Anny P. Castilla, Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Alice Eriks-Brophy. "Omissions and Substitutions in early Spanish clitics, Generative Approaches to Language acquisition (GALA), oral presentation, September 2007, Barcelona, Spain. (Word Document)

Ana Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu and Yves Roberge. "Unusual Objects in Acquisition", Annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Saskatchewan, May 2007
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