Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux

Project Participants

Principal Investigator

Prof. Ana T. Pérez-Leroux. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Dept. of Linguistics, Director of the Cognitive Science Program, U. of Toronto

Prof. Yves Roberge, Dept. of French, Principal of New College, University of Toronto, http://french.utoronto.ca/profiles/14

Collaborators

Prof. Susana Bejar, Dept. of Linguistics, U. of Toronto, http://linguistics.utoronto.ca/people/faculty.html

Prof. Anny P. Castilla-Earls, Dept. of Communication Disorders and Sciences,http://www.fredonia.edu/department/commdisorders/castilla.asp   http://www.fredonia.edu/department/commdisorders/childlab.asp

Prof. Manami Hirayama, Ritsumeikan University, http://research-db.ritsumei.ac.jp/Profiles/91/0009016/prof_e.html

Prof. Diane Massam, Dept. of Linguistics, U. of Toronto, http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~dmassam/

Prof. Thomas Roeper, Dept. of Linguistics, U. of Massachusetts at Amherst,http://people.umass.edu/roeper/     UMASS language acquisition lab:  http://www.umass.edu/languageacquisition/

Prof. Petra Schulz, Goethe University Frankfurt, https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/44202082/Prof_-Dr_-Petra-Schulz

Research assistants

Ailis Cournane

I am a recent graduate of the PhD program in Linguistics. My work explores how child language acquisition contributes to language change.

Erin Hall

I am a PhD student in Linguistics, interested in the intersection between language acquisition and language variation and change. 

Sophie Harrington

After a B.A. and M.A in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, I am now a PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics. My interests are Syntax and Child Language Acquisition; my three children acting as my inspiration

Gabrielle Klassen

I am a PhD Hispanic Linguistics Student at the University of Toronto. I am interested in questions of complexity in acquisition, in particular in the domain of nominal modification.

Olivia Marasco

I am a PhD student in the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and project manager for the complexity and recursion project. My research is on how people learn to understand and produce the intonation of questions and statements in a second language. 

Erin Pettibone

I am a PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics. My research interests include bilingual and L2 language acquisition with a focus on syntax and semantics.

Jida Jaffan

I am an undergraduate student in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Toronto. 

Natalia Docteur

I am an undergraduate student in Linguistics and Psychology at the University of Toronto. 

This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.