My main area of interest is the development of Ā-dependencies for children whose language presents a reduction or absence of surface signals to the Ā-gap. My work focuses on the case of Tashlhiyt Berber for this property, where word order does not help differentiate between subject and object Ā-extraction, but specific morphology (verbal agreement impoverishment) does. I built a novel corpus of Tashlhiyt parent-child conversations over the course of my doctorate and my PhD dissertation combines findings related to this database of utterances as well as behavioral work with Tashlhiyt-acquiring toddlers.
Research Languages: Berber languages (Tashlhiyt)