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ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS—last 10 years
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Tyler Peterson, Susana Bejar, Anny P. Castilla-Earls, Diane Massam, Yves Roberge. To appear. The acquisition of recursive modification in NPs. Language. pdf
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Erin Pettibone and Anny P. Castilla-Earls. To appear. Down two steps: Why bilingual children don’t have a delay with recursive nominal embedding. Matraga. Special issue on first language acquisition. pdf
Pérez-Leroux, A.T., M. Pirvulescu, Y. Roberge, N. Strik (2017) “Clitics as input to the acquisition of verbal transitivity in French”, in Fotiadou and Vassiliadou (eds.) Valence et transitivité: de la théorie à l’acquisition. Special issue of Linguisticae Investigationes
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Anny Castilla-Earls, Susana Bejar, Diane Massam, Tyler Peterson. To appear. Strong continuity and children’s development of NP recursion. In M. Maia, L. Amaral, A. Nevins (eds.), Recursion in Brazilian languages and beyond. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T. 2016. The expression of genericity in child language. In J. Lidz, W. Snyder, & J. Pater (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics, pp. 565-586. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Harrington, S. &A. T. Pérez-Leroux (2016) Subjunctive and subject pronoun realization: A Study of (Yo) No creo que. Borealis: International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 5(1), 87-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/1.5.1.3726
Markle-LaMontagne, Joanne and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux. 2016. In search of the perfect tense. In Alba de la Fuente, Anahí, Valenzuela, Elena and Martínez-Sanz, Cristina (eds.), Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana Liceras. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., & Anny P. Castilla-Earls. 2016. Adquisición del español como lengua materna. In Javier Gutierrez-Rexach (ed.) Enciclopedia de lingüística hispánica, 213-230. Routledge.
Castilla-Earls, Anny, Perez-Leroux, Ana T., Restrepo, Maria Adelaida, Gail, Daniel, & Chen, Ziqian. 2016. The complexity of the Spanish Subjunctive in Bilingual Children with SLI. Language Acquisition. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2016.1192636
Perez-Leroux, Ana T. 2016. The untouchables. (peer commentary to Susanne Carroll, Explaining bilingual learning outcomes in terms of exposure and input). Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 20 (1), 31-32.
Castilla-Earls, Anny P., Maria Adelaida Restrepo and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux. 2016. Interactions between bilingual effects and language impairment: Exploring grammatical markers in Spanish-speaking bilingual children. Applied Psycholinguistics (First view) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716415000521
Strik, Nelleke, Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu, and Yves Roberge. 2015. French object clitics in sequential versus simultaneous bilingual acquisition. Linguistica Atlantica, 34 (1), 2-18.
Cuervo, María Cristina and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux. 2015. The sum is more than its parts: Acquisition of clitic clusters in Spanish. In Juana Liceras & Elena Valenzuela (eds.), Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, pp. 147-167. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Peterson, T., A.T. Pérez-Leroux, A. Castilla-Earls, D. Massam, and S. Béjar. 2015. "Structural Complexity and the Acquisition of Recursive Locative PPs" in Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. T. Bui and D. Özyildiz (eds), pp. 223-232. Amherst, Mass: GLSA Publications
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T. and Arsalan Kahnemuyipour. 2014. News, somewhat exaggerated: A reply to Ambridge, Pine & Lieven. Language 90 (3). e115-e125. DOI: 10.1353/lan.2014.0049
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T. 2014. How children learn to detect and interpret agreement morphology: Introduction to the special issue. Lingua 144, 1-6. 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.03.002
Pirvulescu, Mihaela, Yves Roberge, Danielle Thomas, Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Nelleke Strik. 2014. Bilingual effects: exploring object omission in pronominal languages. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 17 (03), 495-510.
Pérez-Leroux , Ana T. 2014. Commentary to Amaral & Roeper. Second Language Research 30 (1), 59-63.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Erin O’Rourke and Gretchen Sunderman. 2014. Language dominance and codeswitching asymmetries. In Jeff McSwan (ed.), Grammatical theory and bilingual codeswitching. Cambridge, MIT Press.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T. and Danielle Thomas. 2013. Comparing second language learners to other populations: Age, transfer, and learnability. In Kimberly Geeslin (ed.), Handbook of Second Language Spanish, pp. 423-445. Walden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Pirvulescu, Mihaela and Yves Roberge. 2013. On the development of null implicit objects in L1 English. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 58 (3), 443-464.
Cuza, Alejandro, Pérez-Leroux, Ana T. and Liliana Sánchez. 2013. The role of semantic transfer in clitic drop among Chinese L1-Spanish L2 bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 35, 93-125.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Anny P. Castilla-Earls, Susana Bejar and Dianne Massam. 2012. Elmo’s sister’s ball. The development of nominal recursion in children. Language Acquisition 19 (4), 301-311.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Anny P. Castilla-Earls, and Jerry Brunner. 2012. General and specific effects of lexicon in grammar: Determiner and object pronoun omissions in child Spanish. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 55: 313-327.
Pirvulescu, Mihaela, Ana T. Perez-Leroux, and Yves Roberge. 2012. A bidirectional study of object omissions in French-English bilinguals. In Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, ed. by Kurt Braunmüller, Christoph Gabriel and Barbara Hänel‐Faulhaber, pp.171-188. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
Pirvulescu, M., A. Perez-Leroux, Y. Roberge and N. Strik. 2012. Clitic production across tasks in young French-speaking children. In BUCLD 36: Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, edited by Alia K. Biller, Esther Y. Chung, and Amelia E. Kimball, 461-473. Somerville, Cascadilla Press.
Pérez-Leroux, A.T., A. P. Castilla-Earls, S. Bejar and D. Massam. 2012. The acquisition of NP recursion in English-speaking children. In BUCLD 36: Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, edited by Alia K. Biller, Esther Y. Chung, and Amelia E. Kimball, 449-460. Somerville, Cascadilla Press.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Gavarró, Anna and Thomas Roeper. 2011. Language typology, and the acquisition of bare noun/DP contrasts. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 56 (3).413-422.
Roeper, Thomas and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux. 2011. Simplicity and complexity in child language and its explanation. Infancia y Aprendizaje 34 (3), 363-380.
Roeper, Thomas and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux. 2011. Author’s Response. On the intricacy of children’s innate abstractions. Infancia y Aprendizaje 34 (3), 415-418.
Strik, Nelleke and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux. 2011. Jij doe wat girafe? Wh-movement and inversion in Dutch-French bilingual children. Linguistics Approaches to Bilingualism 1 (2), 175-205.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T. 2011. What I don’t understand about interfaces: Open commentary. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1 (1), 71-73.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Pirvulescu, Mihaela and Yves Roberge. 2011. Topicalization and object drop in child language. First Language 31 (2), 1-20.
Sherkina-Lieber, Marina, Alana Johns, and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux . 2011. The syntax of receptive bilingualism. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 14 (3), 301-317.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Alejandro Cuza and Danielle Thomas. 2011. Clitic placement in Spanish/English bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 14 (1), 221-232.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Alejandro Cuza and Danielle Thomas. 2011. Input and parental attitudes: A look at Spanish-English bilingual development in Toronto. In Kim Potowski (ed.), Bilingual youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies, 149-175. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T. 2011. El Minotauro y la muñeca rusa: la gramática infantil y la teoría lingüística. In Selected Proceedings of the 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Luis A. Ortiz-López, 118-127. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com/2480.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Yadira Álvarez, and Tanya Battersby. 2010. Cuando era feliz, e indocumentado: An Aspectual Approach to Copula Choice in L2 Spanish. In Selected Proceedings of the 12th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Claudia Borgonovo, Manuel Español-Echevarría, and Philippe Prévost, 209-220. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/12/index.html
Sánchez-Naranjo, Jeannette and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux. 2010. In the wrong mood at the right time: children’s acquisition of Spanish subjunctive in temporal clauses. Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 55 (2), 227-255.
Castilla, Anny P., and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux. 2010. Omissions and substitutions in Spanish object clitics: Developmental optionality as a property of the representational system. Language Acquisition 17(1/2), 2-25.
Castilla, Anny P., María Adelaida Restrepo, and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux. 2009. Individual differences and the developmental interdependence hypothesis. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12(1), 1-16.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Mihaela Pirvulescu and Yves Roberge. 2009. Bilingualism as a window into the language faculty: The acquisition of objects in French-speaking children in bilingual and monolingual contexts. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 12 (1), 97-112.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., and Tanya Battersby. 2009. Early determination. In John Grinstead (Ed.) Hispanic child languages, pp. 117-139. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Pérez-Leroux, A. T., M. Pirvulescu, and Y. Roberge. 2009. On the Semantic Properties of Implicit Objects in Young Children's Elicited Production, In Proceedings of the 33rd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Ed. by Jane Chandlee, Michelle Franchini, Sandy Lord, and Gudrun-Marion Rheiner 398-409. Somerville: Cascadilla Press.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T. 2008. Subjuntivo y conciencia de la subjetividad en la adquisición infantil del lenguaje y la teoría de la mente. Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología 28, 90-98.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Mihaela Pirvulescu, and Yves Roberge. 2008. Null objects in child language: Syntax and the Lexicon. Lingua 118(3), 370-398. *Top 10 most cited papers 2007-2011.
Pérez-Leroux, A. T., M. Pirvulescu, and Y. Roberge. 2008. Children’s interpretation of null objects under the scope of negation. Proceedings of the 2008 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, ed. by S. Jones. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/actes2008/actes2008.html
Battersby, T. and A.T. Pérez-Leroux. 2008. Early determination. Proceedings of the 2008 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, ed. by S. Jones. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/actes2008/actes2008.html
Castilla, A. A.T. Pérez-Leroux, and A. Eriks-Brophy. 2008. Omission and substitutions in early Spanish clitics. Language acquisition and development: Proceedings of GALA 2007, ed. by A. Gavarró and J. Freitas, 112-122. Newcastle UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T., Alejandro Cuza, Monika Majzlanova and Jeannette Sánchez-Naranjo. 2008. Non-native recognition of the iterative and habitual meanings of Spanish preterite and imperfect tenses. In Juana Liceras, Helmut Zobl and Helen Goodluck, Formal features in second language acquisition, pp. 432-453. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Castilla, Anny P., Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, and Alice Eriks-Brophy. 2008. Syntax and the Lexicon in Early Omission of Spanish Clitics. Proceedings of the 32nd Boston University Conference on Language Development, ed. by Harvey Chan, Heather Jacob, and Enkeleida Kapi, 72-83. Somerville: Cascadilla Press.