Géraldine Légendre

Johns Hopkins University — United States

Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation(45), Language Development and Disorders(30), Phonetics and Phonology Research(19), Natural Language Processing Techniques(18), Reading and Literacy Development(16)

Publications98 total

Optimality Theory in Syntax
Elsevier eBooks·2026
The relationship between working memory, production, and comprehension: evidence from children’s errors in complex wh questions
Journal of Child Language·2025Open Access
A multidimensional perspective on the acquisition of subject-verb dependencies by Haitian-Creole speaking children
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Does D Select the CP in Light Verb Constructions? A Reply to Hankamer and Mikkelsen 2021
Linguistic Inquiry·2022· 13 cited
Syntactic Intervention cannot explain agreement attraction in English wh-questions
2022Open Access
The acquisition of <i>wh-</i>questions: Beyond structural economy and input frequency
Language Acquisition·2021· 4 cited
Converging Evidence of Underlying Competence: Comprehension and Production in the Acquisition of Spanish Subject-Verb Agreement
Journal of Child Language·2021· 2 citedOpen Access
Infinite use of finite means? Evaluating the generalization of center embedding learned from an artificial grammar
2021· 5 citedOpen Access
Clausal Restructuring in the complex nominal
2021
Cue reliability, salience and early comprehension of agreement: Evidence from Greek
Journal of Child Language·2020· 2 citedOpen Access
Syntactic Creativity Errors in Children's Wh‐Questions
Cognitive Science·2020· 7 citedOpen Access
Covert movement in English probing wh-questions
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
10. Optimality-theoretic Syntax
2019· 152 cited
The comprehension of 3rd person singular <i>-s</i> by NYC English-speaking preschoolers
Language acquisition & language disorders·2019· 7 cited
Finiteness and modality in early child French
Language Acquisition·2019· 1 cited
Towards Abstract Syntax at 24 Months: Evidence from Subject-Verb Agreement with Conjoined Subjects
Language Learning and Development·2019· 6 cited
Strong Integration in bilingual grammar, formalized
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism·2018· 3 cited
7. Auxiliaries
2017· 3 cited
A competition-based analysis of French anticausatives
Lingvisticae Investigationes·2017· 2 cited
Agarra, agarran: Evidence of early comprehension of subject–verb agreement in Spanish
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology·2017· 17 citedOpen Access
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Paul Smolensky(18), Jennifer Culbertson(9), Thierry Nazzi(9), Isabelle Barrière(8), Yoshiro Miyata(5), Louise Goyet(4), Paul Hagström(3), Sarah Kresh(3), Colin Wilson(2), Anne Vainikka(2), Marina Todorova(2), Lisa Hsin(2), Elena Koulaguina(2), Nayeli Gonzalez‐Gomez(2), William D. Raymond(1), Yosbiro Miyata(1), Erin Zaroukian(1), Kristin Homer(1), William Raymond(1), Michael T. Putnam(1)