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Meet Our Graduates

Claire Renaud
PhD, French Linguistics (ABD)
crenaud @indiana.edu

Degrees earned

BA, Université de Caen
MA, Université de Caen
MA, University of Delaware
MA, Indiana University

Scholarly interests

Second language acquisition
Morphology-syntax interface

Achievements

Articles

Dekydtspotter, L., & Renaud, C. (2009). On the contrastive analysis of features in second language acquisition: Uninterpretable gender on past participles in English-French processing. Second Language Research, 25, 251-263.

Renaud, C. (2008). Verbal agreement in second language acquisition: the case of object pronouns in French. In R. Slabakova, J. Rothman, P. Kempchinsky, & E. Gavruseva (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (pp. 196-205). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Dekydtspotter, L. & Renaud, C. (2007). On intermediate traces in English-French grammar and sentence processing. In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake, & I. Woo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, (pp. 160-171). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Conference Presentation:

“Feature Assembly in Early Stages of L2 Acquisition: Processing Evidence from L2 French” Presented at the L2 Processing and Parsing Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, May 21-24, 2009.

“Modularity of L2 Sentence Processing: Prosody, Context, and Morphology in Relative Clause Aambiguity in English-French Interlanguage” Presented with L. Dekydtspotter, A. C. Edmonds, A. L.
Fultz, & R. A. Petrush at the Mind-Context Divide workshop, University of Iowa, April 20-May 2, 2009.

“Uninterpretable Features in the Processing of Past Participle Agreement in L2 French” Presented at Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition 10, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 13-15, 2009.

Dissertation title

On the nature of agreement in English-French acquisition: A processing investigation in the verbal and nominal domains?

Dissertation Director

Laurent Dekydtspotter

Dept of French and Italian, Ballantine Hall 642, 1020 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
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Last updated: 13-Nov-2009 Comments: Nancy Stoute