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Laurent Dekydtspotter Associate Professor of French Linguistics Department of French and ItalianBallantine Hall 642 1020 East Kirkwood Avenue Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-8044 ldekydts@indiana.edu Education
Prof. Dekydtspotter's main areas of investigation are second language (L2) interpretation in relation to L2 epistemology and second language sentence processing. His research program seeks to determine the extent to which L2 grammars and L2 sentence processing follow from universal constraints on possible grammars and from universal processing principles. His work focuses on the syntax-semantics interface in the acquisition of French. What second language learners know about the interpretation of certain structures of the target language (i.e., French) which are not found in the native language (i.e., English) can be very probative of the kind of knowledge involved in knowing a second language, because not all syntactic systems have the same semantic consequences. He often colaborates with Rex A. Sprouse (Indiana University) and Bonnie D. Schwartz (University of Hawaii) on a number of projects. For more information on his research program, please click here. Recent Courses Taught
Recent Publications “Evidence for the C-domain in Early Interlanguage.” 2005. In Susan Foster-Cohen María del Pilar Garcia-Mayo and Jasone Cenoz, eds., EUROSLA Yearbook 5. Co-authors: Bonnie D Schwartz, Rex Sprouse and Audrey Liljestrand. (In press) “Was für N interrogatives and quantifier scope in English German interpretation.” Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA) 7. Indiana University (Bloomington), April 16, 2004. Co-authors: Rex A. Sprouse & Thaddeus G. Meyer. (In press) “(Mis)interpretations of Adverbials at the Left-edge in Early English-French as a result of the sentence processor.” 2005. In Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North-America. Co-author: Audrey Liljestrand. (In press) “Quelque chose (...) de remarquable in English-French Acquisition: Mandatory, Informationally Encapsulated Computations in Second Language Interpretation.” 2005. Second Language Research 21: Co-author: Jon Hathorn. (In press) “A Syntactic Bias in Scope Ambiguity Resolution in the Processing of English-French Cardinality Interrogatives: Evidence for Informational Encapsulation.” 2005. Language Learning.1: 1-37. Co-author: Samantha D. Outcalt. “The Resolution of Scope Ambiguity in English-French Sentence Interpretation.” 2004. In Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 28. pp. 414-423. Authors: Samantha D. Outcalt & Laurent Dekydtspotter “The Limits of Context in L2 Semantic Ambiguity Resolution.” 2004. In Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 2003). pp. 329-340. Authors: Samantha D. Outcalt & Laurent Dekydtspotter “Putting out Fire with Gasoline: What the L2 Acquisition of Argument Structure Tells Us about L2 Epistemology.” 2003. In L.-O. Delsing, C. Falk, G. Josefsson & H. Sigurdsson, eds., Grammar in Focus: Festschrift for Christer Platzack, Vol. 2. Lund: Lund University. pp. 305-13. Authors: Schwartz, B.D., L. Dekydtspotter & R.A. Sprouse. “Reflexes of a Syntactico-Semantic Organization in English-French Implicatures” 2003. In Proceedings of the 6th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2002). Ed. Juana Liceras et al., 34-44. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press Project. Co-author: Jon C. Hathorn “Interlanguage Representations, Computations and Intuitions.” In Proceedings of the 6th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2002). 2003. Ed. Juana Liceras et al., 45-54. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press Project.Co-author: Rex A. Sprouse. “Pouring the Fire with Gasoline: Questioning Conclusions on L2 Argument Structure.” 2003. In Proceedings of the 6th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2002). Ed. Juana Liceras et al., 248-259. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press Project. Authors: Bonnie Schwartz, Laurent Dekydtspotter & Rex A. Sprouse. "Reflexes of Mental Architecture in Second Language Acquisition: the Interpretation of Discontinuous Combien Extractions in English-French Interlanguage." 2001. Language Acquisition 9: 175-227. Co-authors: Rex Sprouse and Kimberly Swanson. "The Universal Parser and Interlanguage: Domain-specific Mental Organization in the Comprehension of Combien Interrogatives in English-French Interlanguage.” 2001. Second Language Research 17: 93-145. "The Interpretation of Two Kinds of Relative Clauses in English-French Interlanguage." 2001. In Proceedings of Boston Univeristy Conference On Language Development 25. Co-authors: Rex Sprouse and Erin Gibson. "Mental Design and (Second) Language Epistemology: Adjectival restrictions of Wh-Quantifier and Tense in English-French Interlanguage.” 2001. Second Language Research 17: 1-35. Co-author: Rex Sprouse. "The Primacy of Syntax and Second Language Acquisition: the Interpretation of Combien Extractions in English-French Interlanguage. 2000. In Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition IV. Co-authors: Rex A. Sprouse and Kimberley Swanson. "Necessity in Grammatical Design and L2 Acquisition: Quantifier and Tense in English- French Interlanguage.” 2000. In Proceedings of Boston University Conference On Language Development 24. pp. 253-264. Co-authors: Rex A. Sprouse and Alison Leininger. "The Interpretation of Quantification at a Distance in English-French Interlanguage: Domain- specificity and Second Language Acquisition.” 1999/2000. Language Acquisition 8: 265-320. Co-authors: Rex Sprouse and Rachel Thyre. "Semantics, Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition: the Case of Combien... de Extractions.” 1999. In Proceedings of Boston University Conference On Language Development 23. pp. 162-171. Co-authors: Rex A. Sprouse, Kimberley Swanson, and Rachel Thyre. "Futur Simple and Futur Proche: the Role of General and Singular Propositions in the Expression of the Future.” 1999. In Francis Corblin, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, and Jean Marie Marandin, (eds.). Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics, Selected Papers from Conférence de Syntaxe et Sémantique de Paris. The Hague: Thesus. pp. 293-308. Refereed volume. "Interlanguage A-bar Dependencies: Binding Construals, Null Prepositions and Universal Grammar.” 1998. Second Language Research 14: 341-358. Co-authors: Rex Sprouse and Bruce Anderson. "The Interpretive Interface in L2 Acquisition: the Process-Result Distinction in English-French Interlanguage Grammars." 1997. Language Acquisition 6: 297-332. Co-authors: Rex Sprouse and Bruce Anderson. "Evidence of Full UG Access in L2 Acquisition from the Interpretive Interface: Quantification at a Distance in English-French Interlanguage.” 1998. In Proceedings of Boston University Conference On Language Development 22. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 141-152. Co-author: Rex Sprouse and Rachel Thyre. "Convergence in L2 Acquisition: English-French Interlanguage Development of Nominals.” 1998. Proceedings of GASLA: McGill Working Papers in Linguistics. Montreal, Quebec: McGill University. pp. 30-39. Co-authors: Rex Sprouse and Bruce Anderson. Awards
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