Phaedra Royle Lab

Lauren Fromont, Ph.D.

Présentation

Je viens de terminer mon doctorat en Sciences Biomédicales, option orthophonie. J’ai travaillé sur la coarticulation longue distance en français [9] lors de ma maîtrise en Sciences de la parole à University College London. J’ai ensuite conduit un projet au groupe de recherche multi-sensorielle de l’Université Pompeu Fabra, visant à comprendre le rôle de la prosodie et des gestes dans le traitement de la syntaxe [3-4]. Mon projet, dirigé par Phaedra Royle et Karsten Steinhauer, se concentre sur le traitement des catégories syntaxiques et des indices lexico-sémantiques, dans les modalités écrite et orale, chez les locuteurs natifs et les apprenants du français québécois. Ma thèse de doctorat proposera une réévaluation des modèles de compréhension du langage.

Financement

  • Bourses de voyage
    • CRBLM Travel Award (2018 & 2019)
    • REPAR : Programme de soutien pour présentation à des événements scientifiques (2016)
    • BUCLD  Paula Menyuk Student Presenter Award (2016)
    • Bourses d’appui à la diffusion de résultats de recherche FESP UdeM (2017–2018)
    • Direction des affaires internationales Mobilité étudiante – Soutien aux doctorants (2018)

Publications

  1. Fromont LA, Steinhauer K, Royle P (2020) Verbing nouns and nouning verbs: ERP evidence against “syntax-first” approaches to sentence processing. PLoS ONE 15(3): e0229169. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229169
  2. Fromont LA, Royle P, Steinhauer K (2020) Growing Random Forests reveals that proficiency accounts for individual variability in L2 (and L1) brain potentials for syntax and semantics. Brain and Language, 204, 104770. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104770
  3. Simon M, Fromont LA, Le Normand M-T, Leybaert J. (2019) Spelling, reading abilities, and speech perception in deaf children with a cochlear implant. Scientific Studies of Reading, 23, 494-508.
    doi:10.1080/10888438.2019.1613407
  4. Royle P, Fromont LA, Drury J. (2018) Definiteness and maximality in French language acquisition, more adult-like than you would expect. Frontiers in Communication, 3, 27. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2018.00027
  5. Biau E, Fromont LA, Soto-Faraco S. (2017) Beat gestures and syntactic parsing: an ERP study. Language learning, 68, 102-126. doi:10.1111/lang.12257
  6. Fromont LA, Soto-Faraco S, Biau E. (2017) Searching High and Low: Prosodic Breaks Disambiguate Relative Clauses. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 96. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00096
  7. Steinhauer K, Drury JE, Royle P, Fromont LA. (2017) The priming of priming: Evidence that the N400 reflects context-dependent post-retrieval word integration in working memory. Neuroscience letters, 651, 192-197. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2017.05.007

Actes de conférences

  1. Fromont LA, Royle P, Herbay A, Misirliyan C, Steinhauer K. (2019) Reevaluating the dynamics of auditory sentence processing: an ERP study in French. Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Helsinki Finlande, 20 août, 2019.
  2. Royle P, Fromont LA, Courteau E, Steinhauer K. (2018) How age and meta-linguistic abilities modulate ERP patterns in French-speaking children. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 131, S144-S145.
  3. Fromont LA, Royle P, Steinhauer K. (2018) The interplay between syntactic and semantic processing in late learners of French: An Event-related potentials study. Paper presented at the 20th International Congress of Linguists. Cape Town, South Africa, July 2nd-6.
  4. Royle P, Fromont LA, Steinhauer K. (10–13 mai, 2018). Acquisition and processing of a non-transparent gender system: Event-related brain potentials in French children. IMM18 (18th International Morphology Meeting), Budapest, Hongrie.
  5. Fromont LA, Royle P, Perlitch I, Steinhauer K. (2016) Re-evaluating the dynamics of phrase-structure processing using Event-Related Potentials: the case of syntactic categories in French. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 108, 86.
  6. Royle P, Drury JE, Perlitch I, Fromont LA, Steinhauer K. (2016) Stimulus lists can modulate semantic priming effects on the N400. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 108, 89.
  7. Chiu F, Fromont LA, Lee A, Xu Y. (2015) Long-Distance Anticipatory Vowel-to-Vowel Assimilatory Effects In French and Japanese, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, University of Glasgow: Glasgow.

Conférences internationales

  1. Courteau E, Fromont LA, Royle P, Steinhauer K (2018) Gender agreement and semantic processing in French children: ERP effects of age and proficiency. Poster presented at City University of New York (CUNY) Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis (CA), March 15-17. (Presentation by Courteau & Fromont)
  2. Herbay, A, Royle, P, Drury, JE, Fromont, LA, & Steinhauer, K. (2018). Contrasting lexical pre- activation, prediction-based and post-lexical integration accounts of the N400 ERP effect in priming studies. Poster presented at City University of New York (CUNY) Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis (CA), March 15-17.
  3. Fromont LA. (2017). Noun and Verb processing during sentence comprehension – an ERP study. Poster presented at Society for Neurobiology of Language Meeting, Baltimore (ML), November 8-10.
  4. Fromont LA, Steinhauer K, Royle P (2017) The neural correlates of gender agreement and semantic processing in children : Age of proficiency effects. Paper presented at the14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France, July 17-21.
  5. Fromont LA, Royle P, Honigman M, Martignetti L, Steinhauer K. (2017) Late L2 learners recruit lexical- semantic mechanisms to process syntactic category violations – ERP evidence. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Bilingualism vs. Monolingualism, Toulouse, France, June 19-20.
  6. Fromont LA, Royle P, Honigman M, Martignetti L, Steinhauer K. (2017) Traitement des catégories syntaxiques chez les apprenants du français : une étude de potentiels évoqués. Paper presented at the 85th Congress of the Francophone Association for Science (ACFAS), Montreal (QC), May 8-12.
  7. Fromont LA, Royle P, Steinhauer K (2017) On-line processing of French syntactic word categories in native speakers and late second language learners: An ERP study. Poster presented at the 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston (MA), March 29-31.
  8. Fromont LA, Royle P, Courteau E, Steinhauer K. (2016) Processing of grammatical gender agreement and word knowledge in French children. Paper presented at the International Congress of the School of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, Montreal (QC), November 14-15.
  9. Royle P, Valois D, Fromont LA, Drury JE. (2016) French children’s mastery of definiteness and maximality. Poster presented 41st Annual BUCLD, Boston, MA, November 4-6.(Presentation by Royle & Fromont)
  10. Fromont LA, Royle, P, Steinhauer, K. (2016) Pour une amélioration des méthodes de recherche en neurosciences du langage. Paper presented at the 84th Congress of the Francophone Association for Science (ACFAS), Montreal (QC), May 9-13.
  11. Fromont LA, Royle P, Steinhauer K. (2015) Finding agreement: an on-line study of gender processing in adults and children, Poster presented at Society for Neurobiology of Language Meeting, Chicago (IL), October 15-17.
  12. Biau E, Fromont LA, Soto-Faraco S. (2014) The effect of pauses and beat gestures on syntactic parsing, Poster presented at International Multisensory Research Forum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 11-14.