Coralie Hervé
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
M13 9PL
Manchester
Email: coralie.herve@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
PhD Title: Bilingual children's linguistic packaging of old and new information
Aims and objectives
- To provide an account of English-French bilingual children's structural encoding of old vs. new information in their two languages
- To compare bilingual and monolingual children's choice of linguistic forms to express the discourse status of entities in spontaneous speech (old vs. new)
- To investigate the relationship between bilingual and monolingual children's use of syntactic constructions marking discourse status and caregivers' own use
- To explore the role of language dominance in terms of potential cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual children's choice of constructions.
Analysis
Bilingual children's use of dislocation and their other referential choices will be compared across languages and within languages to the data from the monolingual children. In addition, the same constructions will be analysed in the child-directed speech in the corpora to investigate the relationship between input and children's own production. Amount of language exposure and children's language dominance will be factored in to account for the observed patterns of behaviour.
Supervisors
Dr. Ludovica Serratrice, Dr. Thea Cameron-Faulkner, Dr. Inbal Arnon
Main Discipline Areas
Linguistics, Bilingual First Language Acquisition
Research Interests
BFLA, Language Contact, Child Language, Cognition, Sociolinguistics
Presentations
14th October 2010. Usage-based perspective in child bilingual acquisition. Language Documentation and Language Contact Research Seminar, University of Manchester.
9th April 2010. The influence of parents' discourse strategies on bilingual children. Sorbonne Nouvelle University Graduate Linguistics Symposium, Paris, France.
Membership in Professional Organizations
2010-present: Member of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain
2009-10: Member of the Multimodal group and SESYLIA. Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle - Paris III
Professional biography
I did a B.A in English Literature, Civilisation and Linguistics at Université François Rabelais - Tours (Loire Valley, France). I then went to London for a year where I was teaching assistant at Ernest Bevin College. I returned to France to start an MA in Linguistics at Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle - Paris III (France). I spent the first year working on semantics and syntax under the supervision of Prof. Genevieve Girard-Gillet. In the second year of my MA, I started working on Child Bilingual Acquisition under the supervision of Prof. Aliyah Morgenstern. I started my PhD at University of Manchester in September 2010.
Other
PGR student representative for English Language and Linguistics, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester.