Letícia Schiavon Kolberg

Lecturer at Université Paris Nanterre

Associate Researcher at Université Paris Cité (LaPsyDE, UMR CNRS 8240)

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Language acquisition, processing & development; syntax-prosody interface; experimental methods; spoken and written language comprehension.

PhD. in Linguistics, State University of Campinas - June 2020

M.A. in Linguistics, State University of Campinas - July 2015

Degree in Letters, Federal University of Paraná - December 2012

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Kolberg, L. S.*, Charpentier, E.*, & de Carvalho, A. (2023, Oct). Coverbal speech gestures do not impact preschoolers' ability to use prosodic information to constrain parsing. Proceedings of the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA. (*joint first author)
de Carvalho, A.*, Kolberg, L. S.*, Trueswell, J. & Christophe, A. (2022). Cross-linguistic evidence for the role of phrasal prosody in syntactic and lexical acquisition. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, 396-400. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-81 (*joint first author)
Kolberg, L. S., de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Havron, N., Fiévet, A.-C., Abaurre, B., & Christophe, A. (2021). “The tiger is hitting! the duck too!” 3-year-olds can use prosodic information to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis. Cognition, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104626.
Matos, F. I., & Kolberg, L. S. (2019). Implications of T-to-C movement for stripping in embedded sentences. Revista Linguística Rio, 4(1), 77–102. Retrieved from https://www.linguisticario.letras.ufrj.br/20182—tema-livre.html

Kolberg, L. S. & de Carvalho, A. (2023, Jan). Prosody can guide French children’s interpretations of ambiguous relative clauses. Presented at the 13th annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development - BCCCD, Budapest, Hungary.
Kolberg, L. S., de Carvalho, A., & Christophe, A. (2021, April). Cross-Linguistic evidence for the role of phrasal prosody in constraining parsing in young children. Presented at the Symposium Beyond categories: Infant syntax above the word level. SRCD 2021 biennial meeting.
Kolberg, L. S., de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Havron, N., Fievet, A.-C., Abaurre, B., & Christophe, A. (2020). “The tiger hits! The duck too!” Three-year-olds can use prosodic information to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis. 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development - BUCLD, Boston, MA.
Kolberg, L. S., de Carvalho, A., & Christophe, A. (2020). French- and Brazilian Portuguese-learning 3-year-olds can use prosodic information to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis. Neurolinguistics Colloquium of the University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.

Applied Psycholinguistics

Speech Communication

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