@article {pozniak:hal-03510031, title = {Failures of Gricean reasoning and the role of stereotypes in the production of gender marking in French}, journal = {Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2021-...)}, volume = {6}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, month = {Jan}, publisher = {Open Library of Humanities}, doi = {10.5334/gjgl.1310}, url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03510031}, author = {Pozniak, Celine and Heather Burnett} } @article {burnett:hal-03510028, title = {Political dimensions of gender inclusive writing in Parisian universities}, journal = {Journal of Sociolinguistics}, volume = {25}, number = {5}, year = {2021}, month = {Nov}, pages = {808-831}, publisher = {Wiley}, doi = {10.1111/josl.12489}, url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03510028}, author = {Heather Burnett and Pozniak, Celine} } @article {6475, title = {Empathy influences how listeners interpret intonation and meaning when words are ambiguous}, journal = {Memory and Cognition}, year = {2020}, doi = {10.3758/s13421-019-00990-w}, author = {Nuria Gibert Esteve and Shafer, Amy and Barbara Hemforth and Cristel Portes and Pozniak, Celine and D{\textquoteright}Imperio, Mariapaola} } @article {6149, title = {Seeing events vs. entities: The processing advantage of Pseudo Relatives over Relative Clauses}, journal = {Journal of Memory and Language}, year = {2019}, month = {08/2019}, pages = {128-151}, abstract = {

We present the results of three offline questionnaires (one attachment preference study and two acceptability judgments) and two eye-tracking studies in French and English investigating the resolution of the ambiguity between Relative Clause and Pseudo Relative interpretations. This structural and interpretive ambiguity has recently been shown to play a central role in the explanation of apparent cross-linguistic asymmetries in Relative Clause attachment (Grillo \& Costa,\ 2014;\ Grillo et al.,\ 2015). This literature has argued that Pseudo Relatives are preferred to Relative Clauses because of their structural and interpretive simplicity. This paper adds to this growing body of literature in two ways. First we show that, in contrast to previous find- ings, French speakers prefer to attach Relative Clauses to the most local antecedent once Pseudo Relative availability is controlled for. We then provide a direct test for the Pseudo Relatives pref- erence, showing that Relative Clause disambiguation of strings that are initially compatible with a Pseudo Relative interpretation leads to degraded acceptability and longer fixation durations.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.04.001}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X19300415}, author = {Pozniak, Celine and Barbara Hemforth and Yair Haendler and Andrea Santi and Nino Grillo} } @article {6363, title = {Cross-Domain Priming From Mathematics to Relative-Clause Attachment: A Visual-World Study in French}, journal = {Frontiers in Psychology}, year = {2018}, month = {Nov. 2018}, abstract = {

Human language processing must rely on a certain degree of abstraction, as we can produce and understand sentences that we have never produced or heard before. One way to establish syntactic abstraction is by investigating structural priming. Structural priming has been shown to be effective within a cognitive domain, in the present case, the linguistic domain. But does priming also work across different domains? In line with previous experiments, we investigated cross-domain structural priming from mathematical expressions to linguistic structures with respect to relative clause attachment in French (e.g., la fille du professeur qui habitait \à Paris/the daughter of the teacher who lived in Paris). Testing priming in French is particularly interesting because it will extend earlier results established for English to a language where the baseline for relative clause attachment preferences is different form English: in English, relative clauses (RCs) tend to be attached to the local noun phrase (low attachment) while in French there is a preference for high attachment of relative clauses to the first noun phrase (NP). Moreover, in contrast to earlier studies, we applied an online-technique (visual world eye-tracking). Our results confirm cross-domain priming from mathematics to linguistic structures in French. Most interestingly, different from less mathematically adept participants, we found that in mathematically skilled participants, the effect emerged very early on (at the beginning of the relative clause in the speech stream) and is also present later (at the end of the relative clause). In line with previous findings, our experiment suggests that mathematics and language share aspects of syntactic structure at a very high-level of abstraction.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02056}, author = {Pozniak, Celine and Barbara Hemforth and Scheepers, Christoph} } @article {4716, title = {Acquisition des pronoms objets en fran{\c c}ais langue seconde}, journal = {Discours}, year = {2016}, abstract = {

Abstract

Acquisition of object pronouns in L2 French is always a source of problems for every learners regardless of their L1. Based on a study from Gr\üter \& Crago (2012), we ran an elicited production experiment as well as a Reading Span task with two groups of learners whose L1 is German and Mandarin Chinese. A control of French native speakers was added as a control group. We looked at the acquisition of object pronouns in different contexts and depending on the verb type. Our results showed that the two groups of learners have a similar pattern of production. Moreover, reflexive pronouns seem to be the most difficult type of pronouns to master for both groups of Mandarin Chinese and German, which supposes that this form is especially different from other object pronouns and difficult. Our findings suggest that influence of the L1 and level in L2 French are not the major factors for explaining Second Language Acquisition of object pronouns, but that Working Memory does play a role as well.

Key words : acquisition, bilingualism, working memory, production, object pronoun, French.

R\ésum\é

L\&$\#$39;acquisition des pronoms objets en fran\çais L2 est une r\éelle difficult\é pour tous les apprenants de diff\érentes L1. En s\&$\#$39;inspirant de l\&$\#$39;\étude de Gr\üter \& Crago (2012), nous avons r\éalis\é une exp\érience de production ainsi qu\&$\#$39;un test de m\émoire de travail avec deux groupes d\&$\#$39;apprenants dont la L1 est respectivement l\&$\#$39;allemand et le chinois mandarin. Un groupe de fran\çais a \ét\é inclus \également en tant que groupe de contr\ôle. Notre exp\érience permet d\&$\#$39;approfondir la recherche sur les pronoms objets notamment en regardant leur ma\îtrise par les apprenants dans diff\érents contextes et selon diff\érents types de verbes. Les r\ésultats montrent le m\ême pattern pour les deux groupes d\&$\#$39;apprenants. Egalement, on constate que les pronoms objets semblent \être mieux ma\îtris\és dans les contextes appropri\és que les r\éfl\échis, que ce soit pour le groupe allemand ou le groupe chinois, ce qui indiquerait une difficult\é sp\écifique de cette forme. Nous envisagerons finalement le fait que le facteur d\éterminant ne serait pas uniquement la langue maternelle ou la comp\étence en L2 mais \également la m\émoire de travail.

Mots-cl\és : acquisition, bilinguisme, m\émoire de travail, production, clitique objet, fran\çais.

}, url = {https://discours.revues.org/9120}, author = {Pozniak, Celine and Barbara Hemforth} }