Julie Franck
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 844044 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Julie Franck |
| PRENOMES | Julie |
| SOBRENOME | Franck |
| ASSINATURA | FRANCK J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0003-0966 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The architecture of agreement
In this paper we raise the question “why is agreement so common across natural languages?”. We will argue that the challenge of grammar inference in natural and artificial languages provides key insights into the ubiquity of agreement. By grammar inference , we mean the discovery of a procedure that (i) determines string well-formedness on the basis of exposure to unannotated expressions of a language; and (ii) allows for the construction of stru…
Pedagogical Translanguaging in L2 Teaching for Adult Migrants
Pedagogical translanguaging (PTL) refers to the use of educational techniques that incorporate learners’ entire linguistic repertoire. Recent studies indicate that PTL is efficient in the teaching of morphological awareness to bilingual children. The question remains whether it can be successfully applied in the highly specific context of adult forced migrants’ classrooms. This study describes a new protocol developed within the framework of PTL …
An Empirical Investigation of Featural Similarity in Wh-islands
According to the most recent version of Relativized Minimality, the ungrammaticality of weak islands is the result of featural similarity between elements in an intervention configuration. The theory posits that only features triggering movement have the potential to induce intervention effects leading to ungrammaticality. However, recent advancements in the theory have extended the set of features claimed to generate intervention effects to enco…
L2 French learning by Eritrean refugee speakers of Tigrinya
This study reports data on 47 Tigrinya speaking Eritrean refugees learning French. L2 French proficiency is assessed through the placement test Ev@lang, a standardized grammar test, and fine corpus analyses. Analysis of individual factors shows that, whereas school education, number of years in Switzerland, and French classes attended play no role in proficiency, age penalizes learning and, critically, multilingualism facilitates it. Corpus analy…
Do infants have abstract grammatical knowledge of word order at 17 months? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
We test the comprehension of transitive sentences in very young learners of Mandarin Chinese using a combination of the weird word order paradigm with the use of pseudo-verbs and the preferential looking paradigm, replicating the experiment of Franck et al. (2013) on French. Seventeen typically-developing Mandarin infants (mean age: 17.4 months) participated and the same experiment was conducted with eighteen adults. The results show that hearing…
The Interplay of Emotions, Executive Functions, Memory and Language
Refugee children tend to show low emotional well-being and weak executive functions that may have consequences on language and therefore complicate a potential diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in this population. We assessed the performance of 140 children living in Switzerland aged 5 to 8 (20 monolinguals, 86 non-refugee bilinguals, 34 refugee bilinguals) on LITMUS language tasks (nonword repetition, sentence repetition, parent…
Encoding interference effects support self-organized sentence processing
According to cue-based retrieval theories of sentence comprehension, establishing the syntactic dependency between a verb and the grammatical subject is susceptible to interference from other noun phrases in the sentence. At the verb, the subject must be retrieved from memory, but non-subject nouns that are similar on dimensions that are relevant to subject-verb agreement, like number marking, can make the retrieval more difficult. However, cue-b…
Object attraction and the role of structural hierarchy
Research on subject-verb agreement production in SVO languages has shown that objects moved pre-verbally sometimes trigger attraction, i.e., erroneous agreement of the verb with the object rather than the subject. Moreover, objects c-commanding one of the agreement positions in the hierarchical structure were found to generate stronger attraction than those linearly preceding them. Evidence for the role of c-command comes from the observation tha…
A learning bias for word order harmony
Word order harmony describes the tendency, found across the world's languages, to consistently order syntactic heads relative to dependents. It is one of the most well-known and well-studied typological universals. Almost since it was first noted by Greenberg (1963), there has been disagreement about what role, if any, the cognitive system plays in driving harmony. Recently, a series of studies using artificial language learning experiments repor…
Covert Movement in Multiple‐ Wh Questions
Results from a new grammaticality‐judgment experiment in French confirm the published finding in English that sentences containing a Superiority violation involving a bare extracted element and a lexically restricted intervener (e.g., ‘What did which student buy?’), a configuration termed inverse inclusion , are more acceptable than those involving a lexically restricted extracted element and a bare intervener (e.g., ‘Which book did who buy’), a …
Continuity in the Adult and Children's Comprehension of Subject and Object Relative Clauses in French and Italian
Subject and object relative clauses have been studied from the point of view of language acquisition and adult sentence processing. In the adult sentence processing literature, subject relative clauses (RCs) are read faster than object RCs (e.g., Frauenfelder et al. 1980 for French; King and Kutas 1995 for English; Schriefers et al. 1995 for Dutch). Similarly, children understand and produce subject RCs earlier and with greater accuracy than obje…
Language down the garden path
Reviewed by: Language down the garden path: The cognitive and biological basis for linguistic structures ed. by Montserrat Sanz, Itziar Laka, Michael K. Tanenhaus Julie Franck Language down the garden path: The cognitive and biological basis for linguistic structures. Ed. by Montserrat Sanz, Itziar Laka, and Michael K. Tanenhaus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 518. ISBN 9780199677139. $45. Language down the garden path leads the reade…
Intervention effects and Relativized Minimality
Knowledge of the OV parameter setting at 19 months
Revisiting evidence for lexicalized word order in young children
Reaching agreement as a core syntactic process
Phonological Regularities and Grammatical Gender Retrieval in Spoken Word Recognition and Word Production
Agreement and movement
Subject-verb agreement errors in French and English
We report two parallel experiments conducted in French and in English in which we induced subject-verb agreement errors to explore the role of syntactic structure during sentence production. Previous studies have shown that attraction errors (i.e., a tendency of the verb to agree with an immediately preceding noun instead of with the subject of the sentence) occur when a preverbal local noun disagrees in number with the subject head noun. The att…
Intervention effects and Relativized Minimality
Continuity in the Adult and Children's Comprehension of Subject and Object Relative Clauses in French and Italian
Subject and object relative clauses have been studied from the point of view of language acquisition and adult sentence processing. In the adult sentence processing literature, subject relative clauses (RCs) are read faster than object RCs (e.g., Frauenfelder et al. 1980 for French; King and Kutas 1995 for English; Schriefers et al. 1995 for Dutch). Similarly, children understand and produce subject RCs earlier and with greater accuracy than obje…
Revisiting evidence for lexicalized word order in young children
Reaching agreement as a core syntactic process
Subject-verb agreement errors in French and English
We report two parallel experiments conducted in French and in English in which we induced subject-verb agreement errors to explore the role of syntactic structure during sentence production. Previous studies have shown that attraction errors (i.e., a tendency of the verb to agree with an immediately preceding noun instead of with the subject of the sentence) occur when a preverbal local noun disagrees in number with the subject head noun. The att…
Agreement and movement
Phonological Regularities and Grammatical Gender Retrieval in Spoken Word Recognition and Word Production
Reaching agreement as a core syntactic process
Revisiting evidence for lexicalized word order in young children
Knowledge of the OV parameter setting at 19 months
Language down the garden path
Reviewed by: Language down the garden path: The cognitive and biological basis for linguistic structures ed. by Montserrat Sanz, Itziar Laka, Michael K. Tanenhaus Julie Franck Language down the garden path: The cognitive and biological basis for linguistic structures. Ed. by Montserrat Sanz, Itziar Laka, and Michael K. Tanenhaus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 518. ISBN 9780199677139. $45. Language down the garden path leads the reade…
Intervention effects and Relativized Minimality
Continuity in the Adult and Children's Comprehension of Subject and Object Relative Clauses in French and Italian
Subject and object relative clauses have been studied from the point of view of language acquisition and adult sentence processing. In the adult sentence processing literature, subject relative clauses (RCs) are read faster than object RCs (e.g., Frauenfelder et al. 1980 for French; King and Kutas 1995 for English; Schriefers et al. 1995 for Dutch). Similarly, children understand and produce subject RCs earlier and with greater accuracy than obje…
Object attraction and the role of structural hierarchy
Research on subject-verb agreement production in SVO languages has shown that objects moved pre-verbally sometimes trigger attraction, i.e., erroneous agreement of the verb with the object rather than the subject. Moreover, objects c-commanding one of the agreement positions in the hierarchical structure were found to generate stronger attraction than those linearly preceding them. Evidence for the role of c-command comes from the observation tha…
A learning bias for word order harmony
Word order harmony describes the tendency, found across the world's languages, to consistently order syntactic heads relative to dependents. It is one of the most well-known and well-studied typological universals. Almost since it was first noted by Greenberg (1963), there has been disagreement about what role, if any, the cognitive system plays in driving harmony. Recently, a series of studies using artificial language learning experiments repor…
Covert Movement in Multiple‐ Wh Questions
Results from a new grammaticality‐judgment experiment in French confirm the published finding in English that sentences containing a Superiority violation involving a bare extracted element and a lexically restricted intervener (e.g., ‘What did which student buy?’), a configuration termed inverse inclusion , are more acceptable than those involving a lexically restricted extracted element and a bare intervener (e.g., ‘Which book did who buy’), a …
Encoding interference effects support self-organized sentence processing
According to cue-based retrieval theories of sentence comprehension, establishing the syntactic dependency between a verb and the grammatical subject is susceptible to interference from other noun phrases in the sentence. At the verb, the subject must be retrieved from memory, but non-subject nouns that are similar on dimensions that are relevant to subject-verb agreement, like number marking, can make the retrieval more difficult. However, cue-b…
L2 French learning by Eritrean refugee speakers of Tigrinya
This study reports data on 47 Tigrinya speaking Eritrean refugees learning French. L2 French proficiency is assessed through the placement test Ev@lang, a standardized grammar test, and fine corpus analyses. Analysis of individual factors shows that, whereas school education, number of years in Switzerland, and French classes attended play no role in proficiency, age penalizes learning and, critically, multilingualism facilitates it. Corpus analy…
Do infants have abstract grammatical knowledge of word order at 17 months? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
We test the comprehension of transitive sentences in very young learners of Mandarin Chinese using a combination of the weird word order paradigm with the use of pseudo-verbs and the preferential looking paradigm, replicating the experiment of Franck et al. (2013) on French. Seventeen typically-developing Mandarin infants (mean age: 17.4 months) participated and the same experiment was conducted with eighteen adults. The results show that hearing…
The Interplay of Emotions, Executive Functions, Memory and Language
Refugee children tend to show low emotional well-being and weak executive functions that may have consequences on language and therefore complicate a potential diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in this population. We assessed the performance of 140 children living in Switzerland aged 5 to 8 (20 monolinguals, 86 non-refugee bilinguals, 34 refugee bilinguals) on LITMUS language tasks (nonword repetition, sentence repetition, parent…
Pedagogical Translanguaging in L2 Teaching for Adult Migrants
Pedagogical translanguaging (PTL) refers to the use of educational techniques that incorporate learners’ entire linguistic repertoire. Recent studies indicate that PTL is efficient in the teaching of morphological awareness to bilingual children. The question remains whether it can be successfully applied in the highly specific context of adult forced migrants’ classrooms. This study describes a new protocol developed within the framework of PTL …
An Empirical Investigation of Featural Similarity in Wh-islands
According to the most recent version of Relativized Minimality, the ungrammaticality of weak islands is the result of featural similarity between elements in an intervention configuration. The theory posits that only features triggering movement have the potential to induce intervention effects leading to ungrammaticality. However, recent advancements in the theory have extended the set of features claimed to generate intervention effects to enco…
The architecture of agreement
In this paper we raise the question “why is agreement so common across natural languages?”. We will argue that the challenge of grammar inference in natural and artificial languages provides key insights into the ubiquity of agreement. By grammar inference , we mean the discovery of a procedure that (i) determines string well-formedness on the basis of exposure to unannotated expressions of a language; and (ii) allows for the construction of stru…
Linguistics (16 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (8 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (8 obras) · Grammar (6 obras) · Natural language processing (6 obras)