Associate professor of Language Sciences at Université Grenoble Alpes
Researcher at the Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique lab (GIPSA-lab; UMR 5216 CNRS)
e-mail: leticia.kolberg@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3655-764X
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
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
Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos
Revista Faces da História
Revista Linguística Rio
