Géraldine Legendre
List of John Benjamins publications in which Géraldine Legendre is involved.
2025 A multidimensional perspective on the acquisition of subject-verb dependencies by Haitian-Creole speaking children: Insights from comprehension and production Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 40:1, pp. 35–93 | Article
The present multidimensional study investigates the acquisition of pronominal subject-verb dependencies in Standard Haitian Creole (HC). A corpus analysis confirms that HC subject pronouns are phonological clitics in the target grammar and that their reduction is optional and unpredictable. The… read more
2019 The comprehension of 3rd person singular -s by NYC English-speaking preschoolers Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 7–33 | Chapter
Monolingual English 4-year-olds were administered a Subject-Verb agreement comprehension task that included stimuli such as the boys spinø versus the boyø spins (…/freely/in the hall). They were categorized as users of Mainstream American English (MAE) (N = 8), Some Variation (N = 9) and Strong… read more
2019 Strong Integration in bilingual grammar, formalized: Making the case from cross-linguistic influence in wh -questions Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:3, pp. 427–467 | Article
We present elicited production data reflecting cross-linguistic interference effects in the English wh-questions of Spanish-English bilingual children to provide a proof-of-concept for a proposed new formal analysis of such effects across cross-linguistic influence phenomena. The observed… read more
2017 A competition-based analysis of French anticausatives Transitivity and Valency: From theory to acquisition, Fotiadou, Georgia and Hélène Vassiliadou (eds.), pp. 25–42 | Article
Some long-standing questions surrounding anticausatives in languages like French include whether the morphological marking (presence/absence of se) correlates with interpretational differences and/or different syntax. We examine the three anticausatives classes (optional se, obligatory se, no… read more
2007 Optimizing auxiliary selection in Romance Split Auxiliary Systems: A cross-linguistic perspective, Aranovich, Raúl (ed.), pp. 145–180 | Article
2003
Defaults and competition in the acquisition of functional categories in Catalan and French
A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001, Núñez-Cedeño, Rafael, Luis López and Richard Cameron (eds.), pp. 273–290 | Article
2000 Positioning Romanian verbal clitics at PF: An Optimality-Theoretic analysis Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax, Gerlach, Birgit and Janet Grijzenhout (eds.), pp. 219–254 | Article
This paper argues that Romanian auxiliary and pronominal clitics are phrasal affixes subject to a set of conflicting PF alignment constraints that are responsible for the clustering, rigid ordering, and overall positioning in a clause of both so-called verbal clitics (in Romanian) and… read more