Journal Articles/Conference Proceedings
J. Culbertson. (conditionally accepted). "Covergent evidence for categorial change in French: from subject clitic to agreement marker" Language.
G. Legendre, J. Culbertson, I. Barrière, T. Nazzi, and L. Goyet. (in press). "Experimental and empirical evidence for the status and acquisition of subject clitics and agreement marking in adult and child Spoken French." In Torrens, V., Escobar, L., Gavarro, A., and Mangado, J., (Eds), Movement and Clitics. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Culbertson, J., and S. Gross. (2009).
Are Linguists Better Subjects? The British
Journal of Philosophy of Science. doi:
10.1093/bjps/axp032.
Culbertson, J. (2009). The status of
Old French clitics in the 12th century.
In Masullo, P. J., et al (eds.) Romance Linguistics 2007:
Selected Papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium
on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15-18 March 2007. 89-104.
New York: John Benjamins. [ABSTRACT]
Culbertson, J., and G. Legendre. (2008).
"Qu'en est-il des clitiques sujet en
français oral contemporain?" Proceedings
of the 1er Congrès mondial de linguistique
française. Paris, France. [PDF]
Legendre, G., T. Nazzi, I. Barriere,
J. Culbertson, M. Lopez-Gonzalez, and
E. Zaroukian (2006), "Acquiring subject-verb
agreement in French: Evidence of early
syntactic representations from comprehension."
Proceedings of BUCLD 31, Boston. [ABSTRACT]
Demuth, Culbertson and Alter (2006),
"Word-minimality, epenthesis and coda
licensing in the early acquisition of
English." Language and Speech
49(2), 137-174. [PDF]
Conference Talks
Culbertson, J. and P. Smolensky. (2009). "Testing Greenberg's universal 18 using an artificial language learning paradigm". NELS40, Cambridge, MA.
Culbertson, J., G. Legendre and L. Brunetti. (2009). "Subject doubling in European Colloquial French : Experimental & Corpus Evidence". Graduate Student Symposium, Indiana University. March 2009.
Culbertson, J., G. Legendre and L. Brunetti. (2009). "Le redoublement clitique du sujet en français parlé". Université Denis Diderot, Paris. March 2009.
Legendre, G., and J. Culbertson. (2008). "A propos du statut des pronoms clitiques sujet en français parlé: Etudes expérimentales portant sur les adultes et les très jeunes enfants". Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence, Aix, France. October 2008.
Culbertson, J., and G. Legendre. (2008). "Redoublement ou détachement? Résultats expérimentaux". Atelier “Détachements”, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence, Aix, France. October 2008.
Culbertson, J. (2008). "Subject doubling in Spoken French and the status of subject clitics." Meeting Clitics Workshop. Barcelona, Spain.
[HANDOUT]
Culbertson, J., G. Legendre. (2008). "Qu'en est-il des clitiques sujet en français oral contemporain?" 1er Congrès mondial de linguistique française. Paris, France.
[proceedings paper available above]
Culbertson, J., G. Legendre, T. Nazzi, & N. Filippin. (2008). "Subject Doubling in Spoken French: Evidence from acceptability judgments, prosody, and acquisition." Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXXVIII, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
[HANDOUT]
Culbertson, J. (2007), “The status of Old French clitics in the 12th century”, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXXVII, Pittsburgh, PA.
[HANDOUT]
Culbertson, J. & G. Legendre (2007), “Verb second and clitic second effects in 12th century Old French”, 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, CA.
[HANDOUT]
Legendre, G., T. Nazzi, I. Barriere, J. Culbertson, M. Lopez-Gonzalez, and E. Zaroukian (2006), "Acquiring subject-verb agreement in French: Evidence of early syntactic representations from comprehension." 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston.
[ABSTRACT]
Posters
Culbertson, J. & S. Gross. (2008). "Are Linguists Better Subjects?" Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
[POSTER]
Culbertson, J., G. Legendre, N. Filippin, T. Nazzi (2007), "Experimental Evidence on Subject Doubling in Spoken French." Hopkins Workshop on Language 4, Baltimore.
[POSTER]
Manuscripts
Culbertson, J. "Gradient auxiliary selection: Support for a semantic approach to unaccusativity." MS Brown University 2004.