Cécile De Cat

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Cécile De Cat plays a role.

Book series

Studies in Bilingualism (SiBil)

Edited by Fatih Bayram and Tihana Kraš

ISSN 0928-1533

Title

The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure

Edited by Cécile De Cat and Katherine Demuth

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 131] 2008. xix, 355 pp.

Subjects Generative linguistics | Other African languages | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles (10) | Order by:

Tomić, Aleksandra, Yulia Rodina, Fatih Bayram and Cécile De Cat 2024 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language
Policy 10. 2014: A causal inference approach Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article

Using a causal inference approach, we explored the relationships among the language experience determinants of morphosyntactic sensitivity, to identify the factors that indirectly and directly cause its acquisition or maintenance in immigration contexts. We probed the sensitivity to… read more

Kašćelan, Draško and Cécile De Cat 2022 A constellation of continua: Reconceptualising bilingualism, autism and language research Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 59–64 | Commentary

De Cat, Cécile 2018 Evaluating Yang’s algorithms: An outline Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang, pp. 712–716 | Commentary

De Cat, Cécile 2015 The cognitive underpinnings of referential abilities The Acquisition of Reference, Serratrice, Ludovica and Shanley E.M. Allen (eds.), pp. 263–283 | Article

The aim of the chapter is to take stock and bring together fields of enquiry relevant to the investigation of preschool children’s referential abilities. After an appraisal of the evidence as to what adults’ referential abilities really are, the key cognitive prerequisites for unhindered… read more

De Cat, Cécile 2013 Beyond the first step: A commentary on O’Grady (2013) Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady, pp. 308–311 | Commentary

De Cat, Cécile 2012 Towards an interface definition of root phenomena* Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye (eds.), pp. 135–158 | Article

Root phenomena are those that typically occur in matrix clauses but are also allowed in a restricted set of embedded (“root-like”) clauses. This paper explores root phenomena with an interpretive import, and identifies three kinds of data that a purely syntactic approach cannot account for: the… read more

De Cat, Cécile 2006 Do root infinitives ever have an overt subject in child French? Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz, Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 57–76 | Article

De Cat, Cécile 2004 On the Impact of French Subject Clitics on the Information Structure of the Sentence Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 33–46 | Article

De Cat, Cécile 2004 Apparent non-nominative subjects in L1 French The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories, Prévost, Philippe and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 51–88 | Article

De Cat, Cécile 2004 Early ‘Pragmatic’ Competence and its Implications regarding the Null Subject Phenomenon Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 17–32 | Article