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Education

    

  • 2003-present : PhD Candidate – Département des Sciences du Langage (Linguistics)                            

    University of Nantes (France)

    •    Dissertation Title: Acquisition of Long-Distance Questions by French speaking children. Direct vs. Indirect Dependency strategies and alternative questions.

    •    Supervisor: Hamida Demirdache     

     
  • 2006    Student - ELCO (Ecole de linguistique de Corpus Oraux)
  • Organisers : Amina Mettouchi, Anne Lacheret et Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), l'Institut universitaire de France (IUF), l'Université de Nantes (BQR, UFR Langues, UFR Lettres et langages), le Laboratoire de linguistique de Nantes (LLING) et le Centre de recherche inter-langues sur la signification en contexte (Crisco). Nantes. June, 19-25. 
  • 2006    Student - Ecole CNRS: « Acquisition du langage & corpus en Linguistique et en Psychologie : une mutualisation des ressources (outils et données)  
  • Organisers : Karine Duvignau, Anne Lacheret & le Comité d’Organisation (Laboratoire Lordat - Université Toulouse 2, Equipe Cognition, Communication, Développement - Université Toulouse 2, Laboratoire Crisco - Université de Caen). Moissac, France. 
  • May, 14-19. 
 

  • Student – EALing, Fall school in Linguistics - ENS, Paris.

    September 18-26.    2006

  • Student – EMLAR III (Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research).

    Three-day course focusing on experimental methods in acquisition – November 12-13, 2006.

    Netherlands Graduate School in Linguistics (LOT), Utrecht University.

  • 1st semester 2005-2006: Visitor Student during the fall semester – Linguistics Department. University of Massachusetts (Amherst, US).  Invited by Pr. Tom Roeper, acquisitionnist. Acquisition Research studies – supported and directed by Tom Roeper.

    •    Courses attended:

-    Psycholinguistics: Linguistic Form teached by Lyn Frazier.

-    Proseminar in Semantics: Greg Carlson

-    Language Acquisition: Tom Roeper    

  • Student - EGG European Generative Grammar Summer School in Linguistics.  University of Cluj (Rumania).  Two-week courses in theoretical linguistics.

    July 26 - August 7. Summer 2004

       

  • “DEA”/Master 2 - Département des Sciences du Langage (Linguistics)          

    University of Nantes (France)   

    •    Thesis Title: Acquisition Syntaxique: la Compréhension des questions à longue distance.

    •    Supervisor: Hamida Demirdache

    •    Committee Members: Célia Jakubowicz (Université de Paris 8), Sophie Wauquier-Gravelines (Université de Nantes), Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes).

    •    Mention Très Bien (18/20).    2002-2003 

     

  • Student - EMLAR (Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research).

    Two-day course focusing on experimental methods in acquisition – November 12-13.

    Netherlands Graduate Scool in Linguistics (LOT), Utrecht University.    2003

     

  • Student - EALing, Fall school in Linguistics.

    Two-week courses in theoretical linguistics.

    September 23-October 2. 2003.

     ENS, Paris.

     

  • “Maîtrise”/Master 1 - 2001-2002- Département des Sciences du Langage (Linguistics)     University of Nantes (France)       

    •    Thesis Title: Acquisition des questions à longue distance.

    •    Supervisor: Hamida Demirdache

    •    Committee Members: Sophie Wauquier-Gravelines (Université de Nantes), Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes).

       

    Grants or positions

     

  • ATER position - 2006-2007 

     Research & education position

  • PhD Doctoral Fellowship & research grant awarded by the french ministery of Education and Research  2003-2006

  • Master 2 - 2002-2003 


    University Graduate Scholarship 3780 € (1 year)     


    Teaching experience at University of Nantes (courses taught)

     

Département des Sciences du Langage           2nd semester  2006-2007

Language Acquisition

 Teaching one  2 hours weekly-class (6 weeks) to upper level undergraduate students (Master 1) majoring in Linguistics.

Acquisition of wh-questions (production / comprehension), factivity. 


Language Acquisition

Teaching one 1 1/2  -hours weekly-class (5 weeks) to second year undergraduate students (BA) majoring in “Lettres Modernes” with a minor in Linguistics. 

 Courses taught: theory of mind experiment, method of experimental tasks, acquisition of complex questions, speech pathology (SLI and Aphasic children).

Grading the mid-term and the exam.

Class size: 15 students. 

 
Morphology and syntax
Teaching two 2-hours weekly-class (6 weeks) to first year undergraduate students (BA) majoring in “Lettres Modernes” with a minor in Linguistics.
Introduction to syntactic analysis. Language typology and Universals. Introduction to the concepts of Principles & Parameters.
Responsabilities include: designing the content of the class, including problems set and homework assignments.
Grading the mid-term and the exam.
Class size: 25 students.

Linguistics Tools
Teaching two 2-hours weekly-classes (12 weeks) to second year undergraduate students (BA) majoring in “Lettres Modernes” with a minor in Linguistics.
Introduction to stylistic, especially about enunciation, deictic, tense and aspect,  reported speech,  based on literature.
Responsabilities include: designing the content of the class, including problems set and homework assignments.
Grading the mid-term and the exam.
Class size: 35 students.
   
   
Département des Sciences du Langage          2nd semester  2005-2006
Morphology and syntax
Teaching a two-hour weekly-class (12 weeks) to first year undergraduate students (BA) majoring in “Lettres Modernes” with a minor in Linguistics.
Introduction to syntactic and morphology analysis. Language typology and Universals. Introduction to the concepts of Principles & Parameters.
Responsabilities include: designing the content of the class, including problems set and homework assignments.
Grading the mid-term and the exam.
Class size: 20 students.


Linguistics Tools
Teaching two 2-hours weekly-classes (12 weeks) to second year undergraduate students (BA) majoring in “Lettres Modernes” with a minor in Linguistics.
Introduction to stylistic, especially about enunciation, deictic, tense and aspect, based on literature.
Responsabilities include: designing the content of the class, including problems set and homework assignments.
Grading the mid-term and the exam.
Class size: 35 students.
    


Département des Sciences du Langage         2nd semester 2004-2005
Morphology and syntax
Teaching a two-hour weekly-class (12 weeks) to first year undergraduate students (BA) majoring in “Lettres Modernes” with a minor in Linguistics.
Introduction to syntactic and morphology analysis. Language typology and Universals. Introduction to the concepts of Principles & Parameters.
Responsabilities include: designing the content of the class, including problems set and homework assignments.
Grading the mid-term and the exam.
Class size: 30 students.
    


Département des Sciences du Langage        1st semester 2004-2005
Morphology - Syntax
Teaching 2 1½-hour weekly-classes (12 weeks) to second year undergraduate students (BA) majoring in “Lettres Modernes” with a minor in Linguistics.
This course reviews basic concepts in syntax, in particular phrase structure, X’-theory, Grammatical Relations and theta’s theory.
Responsabilities include: writing problems set and homework assignments. Grading both mid-terms and exams.
Class size: 30 students.
   
   
Département des Sciences du Langage         2nd semester 2003-2004
Introduction to Phonology & Phonetics
Teaching 2 1½ hour weekly-classes (12 weeks) to first year undergraduate students (BA) majoring in “Lettres Modernes” with a minor in Linguistics.
This course provides an introduction to basic concepts in phonology and phonetics.
Responsabilities include: writing problems set and homework assignments.
Grading both mid-terms and exams.
Class size: 25 students.
   


Département des Sciences du Langage                  1st semester 2003-2004
Morphology – Syntax
Teaching 2 1½-hour weekly-classes (12 weeks) to second year undergraduate students (BA) majoring in “Lettres Modernes” with a minor in Linguistics.
This course reviews basic concepts in syntax, in particular phrase structure, X’-theory, Grammatical Relations and theta’s theory.
Responsabilities include: writing problems set and homework assignments. Grading both mid-terms and exams.
Class size: 20 students.


Publications

Demirdache H. & Oiry M. To appear. On the Syntax and the Semantics of Long-Distance Questions in Child French. Proccedings of GALA 2007.

Oiry M. & Roeper T. 2007. How Language Acquisition Reveals Minimalist Symmetry in the Wh-System. Phases Conference Book, Cyprus 2006 December.

Demirdache H. & Oiry M. 2006. On the Felicity Conditions for Long-Distance Questions in L1 Acquisition. Proceedings of BUCLD 31.  

Oiry M. 2006. “Direct versus indirect Wh-scope marking strategies in French child grammar”. UMOP. University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Oiry M. & Demirdache H. 2006. “Evidence from L1 Acquisition for the Syntax of Wh- Scope Marking in French”. To appear in The acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages. Language acquisition and language disorders, nº 41. Torrens, V., Escobar, L. (eds.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Oiry M. 2004. “Les Questions Exceptionnelles en Français L1”. In Actes du Colloque APLIC.


Conference presentations

  • 2007 On the Syntax and the Semantics of Long-Distance Questions in Child French. With Hamida Demirdache. GALA 2007. September 6-8, Barcelona.

  • 2006c  On the Felicity Conditions for Long-Distance Questions in L1 Acquisition. With Hamida Demirdache. BUCLD 31. November, 5-7.

  • 2006b Wh-Scope Marking and the acquisition of complementation; Romance Turn II. With Hamida Demirdache , Oana Lungu.

  • 2006a Wh-Scope Marking  (and their Semantics value). Workshop in Syntax & Semantics. Université de Paris 8.

  • 2005     Wh-Scope Marking in French L1

    Paper presented at UUSLAW (UConn, UMass, Smith Language Acquisition Workshop).

    Organiser: University of Massachusetts.

    December, 10th. 

  • 2004c        On The Syntax Of Exceptional Questions in French L1 Acquisition.

    Paper presented at The Romance Turn, Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages. Madrid (Spain).

        Organisers: Linda Escobar (Universidad Nacional de Educacion Distancia), Anna Gavarro (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Vicenc Torrens (Universidad Nacional de Educacion Distancia) and Kenneth Wexler (M.I.T.).

    September 16-18.    

  • 2004b    Evidence from L1 Acquisition for the Syntax of Wh- Scope Marking.

    Paper presented at the 2nd Student Workshop on Syntax and Semantics.

    Organiser: Universitat autonoma de Barcelona.

    September 15-17.

  • 2004a    Les Questions Exceptionnelles en Français L1. Poster presented at the APLIC Conference (Acquisition, Pratiques Langagières, Interactions verbales et Contacts). Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. Organisers: CALIPSO (EA 170). June 25-26.



Others conferences, workshops, schools attended

 

  • 2005    Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 30.

    Boston, Etats-Unis.

    November 3-5.

  • 2005    NELS

    Organisé par l’Université du Massachusetts.

    Amherst, Etats-Unis

    October 27-29.

  • 2004    Journées d’Etudes Linguistiques.

    Organised by Olivier Crouzet, Hamida Demirdache and Sophie Wauquier–Gravelines AAI (JE 2220 Acoustique, Acquisition, Interprétation), University of Nantes.

    Nantes.

    May 5-7. 

  •  2003    Journées d’études: « La Syntaxe de la périphérie gauche ».

    Organised by the federation “Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques”.

    Paris, annexe de l’EHESS.

    December 12. 

  •  2003    Journée sur la généricité, University of Paris 7.

    Organized by Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin.

    April 26.

  • 2003    Colloque Interfaces Prosodiques.

    Organised by Amina Mettouchi and Gaëlle Ferré, University of Nantes.

    March 27-29.   


  • 2002 Workshop «On Wh- Movement».

    Organised by Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) and Norbert Corver (Utrecht University), UiL-OTS & ULCL. Utrecht & Leiden University.

    December 11-13.

  • 2002     Colloque Indéfinis et prédications.

    Organised by Francis Corblin (Paris 4) and Lucien Kupferman (Tel Aviv), Université Paris-Sorbonne.

    October 3-5.

     

      


    Administrative experience

  •  Graduate Student Council Representative for the « Ecole Doctorale » Connaissances, Langage et Cultures (CLC) - University of Nantes. 2007-2008.

  •  Workshop organization: WoSS 3. Organiser commitee with  Nicolas Guilliot, Valérie Gautier.  September 2005.

  • Graduate Student Council Representative for the « Ecole Doctorale » Connaissances, Langage et Cultures (CLC) - University of Nantes.            2003-2005