Bourses / Scholarships, ÉtudiantEs / Students

Bourses étudiant·e·s automne 2023

Félicitations aux membres du laboratoire qui se sont mérités les bourses d’études suivantes.

Guillaume Blais a reçu la Bourse d’excellence en recherche interdisciplinaire du CIRCA. Maelys Pajon Roux a reçu la Bourse Découverte des ESP de recrutement à la maîtrise. Noémie Olmand a reçu une Bourse Desjardins du deuxième cycle, ainsi qu’une bourse de la fondation Aléo.

Congratulations to the following laboratory members who have been awarded scholarships.

Guillaume Blais received the CIRCA Interdisciplinary Research Excellence Scholarship. Maelys Pajon Roux received the Graduate and postdoctoral studies Discovery Scholarship for Master’s recruitment. Noémie Olmand received a Desjardins Graduate Student Scholarship, as well as a bursary from the Aléo Foundation.

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Nouvelle publication des membres du laboratoire

Émilie Courteau, Guillaume Loignon, Karsten Steinhauer et Phaedra Royle ont récemment publié un nouvel article intitulé:

Identifying Linguistic Markers of French-Speaking Teenagers With Developmental Language Disorder: Which Tasks Matter?

Résumé (en anglais):

This research aimed to identify reliable tasks discriminating French-speaking adolescents with developmental language disorder (DLD) from their peers with typical language (TL) and to assess which linguistic domains represent areas of particular weakness in DLD. Unlike English, morphosyntax has not been identified as a special area of weakness when compared with lexicosemantics in French preschoolers with DLD. Since there is evidence that subject-verb number agreement is consolidated in later childhood, one might expect morphosyntax to be a particular weakness and marker of French DLD only in (pre)adolescence.

Vous pouvez retrouver l’article ici

Bourses / Scholarships, ÉtudiantEs / Students

Bourse d’étude / Student Scholarship

Félicitations à Guillaume Blais qui s’est mérité bourse de fin d’études de maîtrise par la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales de l’Université de Montréal pour son projet de maîtrise sur la consolidation de la grammaire chez l’adolescent francophone.

Congratulations to Guillaume Blais who received a Master’s scholarship by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies of the Université de Montréal for his master’s project on teenager grammar consolidation. 

Bourses / Scholarships, Recherche / Research, Uncategorized

Postdoctoral researcher position, available from winter 2023

The Language Acquisition and Processing lab of the School of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology (ÉOA) at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, is offering a two-year postdoctoral researcher position.


The successful candidate will be expected to co-lead a research project on Language Acquisition and Processing in Teen and Adult L1 and L2 (Phaedra Royle, with Karsten Steinhauer, et al, SSHRC Insight Grant). This position will involve supervision of graduation students with a main focus on EEG/ERP data processing. This is a two-year fixed term position. The two main foci of the project are

1. French L2-learning in teens focusing on agreement (gender and number) or syntax (noun-phrase and clitics)

i. Environmental and individual characteristics affecting L2-acquisition

2. Interference effects in adult simultaneous Catalan-Spanish bilinguals focusing on gender interference in cognates (determiner agreement), in collaboration with Garcia Alcaraz, Universitat de les Illes Balears.

i. Language dominance effects on interference.

This position also offers the opportunity to advance the candidate’s profile in targeted interest domains where interests overlap with this lab and projects.
Requirements:


Essential:
– A PhD in cognitive neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, linguistics, psychology or a related discipline.
– A track record of research in ERPs, including experience disseminating research through conference presentations and publications.
– Excellent written and spoken English. At least intermediate knowledge of written and oral French. The language of the University is French, but accommodations for learners can be made.
– Experience managing ERP labs, ERP data, and data processing using Matlab, EEGLab and ERPLab, and R.
– Experience managing confidential participant information, dealing with ethical and administrative issues, and efficiently managing and cataloguing data.

Desirable:
– Experience supervising or teaching undergraduate or graduate students.
– High level of French proficiency
– High level of Spanish or Catalan proficiency
Conditions of employment:
– The position is available from winter 2023. Start date is negotiable.
– Full-time position (35 hours per week) with a term of appointment of 2 years. Part-time applications are also welcome.
– The salary in accordance with the salary scales of the Université de Montréal. The salary offered is 42 996 $ CAD, which includes health and dental coverage and one month vacation.
– The researcher will have access to state-of-the art research and training facilities and a conference and travel budget pending availability. French-speaking research assistants will be available to carry out local participant testing, if required.

Please apply directly to Dr. Royle (phaedra.royle@umontreal.ca). Applications should include:
– A (maximum 2-page) application letter that a) outlines how you fit essential and desirable requirements listed above, and b) includes a short description of your research profile and objectives.
– A CV, including a list of publications and funding history.
– Contact details for three referees (referees will not be contacted unless you are invited to interview).


Application open until filled

ÉtudiantEs / Students, Recherche / Research

Soutenance de thèse / PhD Thesis defended

Félicitations à Émilie Courteau, qui vient soutenir sa thèse de doctorat intitulée « Lexico-semantic and morphosyntactic processing in French-speaking adolescents with and without developmental language disorder » [Traitement lexico-sémantique et morphosyntaxique chez des adolescents francophones avec et sans trouble développemental du langage]. La thèse a été déclarée comme étant « excellente », « dans les 10% des meilleures thèses dans son domaine » et elle a été nominée pour la liste du doyen. La thèse sera bientôt disponible sur Papyrus.

Congratulations to Émilie Courteau, who has defended her thesis entitled « Lexico-semantic and morphosyntactic processing in French-speaking adolescents with and without developmental language disorder« . The thesis was declared « excellent », « in the top 10% of theses in its field » and was nominated for the Dean’s List. The thesis will soon be available on Papyrus.

ÉtudiantEs / Students, Recherche / Research

Dépôt de thèse de doctorat / Thesis deposited

Félicitations à Émilie Courteau, qui vient de déposer sa thèse de doctorat intitulée « Lexico-semantic and morphosyntactic processing in French-speaking adolescents with and without developmental language disorder » [Traitement lexico-sémantique et morphosyntaxique chez des adolescents francophones avec et sans trouble développemental du langage] au nouveau programme en Sciences de l’orthophonie et de l’audiologie!

Congratulations to Émilie Courteau, who has deposited her thesis entitled « Lexico-semantic and morphosyntactic processing in French-speaking adolescents with and without developmental language disorder » in our new Speech-language pathology and audiology program!

Bourses / Scholarships, ÉtudiantEs / Students

Bourse du doyen et bourse alma mater / Dean’s scholarship and Alma Mater scholarship

Félicitations à Ariane Brucher, étudiante en Neurosciences cognitives, qui a reçu une bourse du doyen de la Faculté des arts et des sciences et une bourse alma mater du département de psychologie de l’Université de Montréal pour l’excellence académique le 2 décembre 2021.

Congratulations to Ariane Brucher, student in Cognitive Neurosciences, who was awarded the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Dean’s scholarship and an alma mater scholarship from the Department of Psychology of the University of Montreal for academic excellence on December 2nd, 2021.

ÉtudiantEs / Students, Recherche / Research

Présentations aux journées scientifiques du CRBLM et du Département de psychologie (2021) Presentations at CRBLM and Department of Psychology Scientific Days

Félicitations à Ariane Brucherqui a présenté son projet à la Journée scientifique du Département de psychologie de l’Université de Montréal le 12 mai 2021 ainsi qu’à la Journée scientifique du CRBLM le 18 mai 2021 (conférences virtuelles).

Ses présentations portaient sur le traitement des erreurs d’accord en genre en français oral, par l’étude des potentiels évoqués.

Congratulations to Ariane Brucher for presenting her project at the Department of psychology Scientific Day (Université de Montréal) on May 12, 2021, and at the CRBLM Scientific Day on May 18, 2021 (online conferences).

Her presentations focused on the processing of gender-agreement errors in oral French by studying ERPs.

Bourses / Scholarships, ÉtudiantEs / Students, Recherche / Research

Bourse de recherche de 1er cycle CRSNG / NSERC undergraduate scholarship

Félicitations à Ariane Brucher, étudiante en Neurosciences cognitives, qui a obtenu une bourse du CRSNG pour faire un stage d’été en recherche au laboratoire.

Congratulations to Ariane Brucher, student in Cognitive Neurosciences, who was awarded an NSERC scholarship to do a research internship in the lab over the summer.