Tomić, A., Rodina, Y., Bayram, F., & De Cat, C. (2024). Individual language experience determinants of morphosyntactic variation in heritage and attriting speakers of Bosnian and Serbian. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.24016.tom
Liu, Meng and De Cat, Cécile (2024). Open Science in Applied Linguistics: A Preliminary Survey. In: Plonsky, L. (Ed.). Open Science in Applied Linguistics (pp. 63-93). Applied Linguistics Press.
Megan Wood, Lydia Gunning & Cecile De Cat (2023) Achieving representativity in opportunity sampling: the ‘Bradford effect’ in the multilingual families Covid-19 survey, International Journal of Multilingualism, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2023.2284291.
De Cat, Cécile, & Unsworth, Sharon (2023). So many variables, but what causes what? Journal of Child Language, 50(4), 832-836. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000107.
Tomić, Aleksandra, Rodina, Yulia, Bayram, Fatih, & De Cat, Cécile (2023). Documenting heritage language experience using questionnaires. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1131374.
De Cat, Cécile , Kašćelan, Drasko, Prévost, Philippe, Serratrice, Ludovica, Tuller, Laurie, Unsworth, Sharon, and the Q-BEx Consortium (2023). How to quantify bilingual experience? Findings from a Delphi consensus survey. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(1), 112-124. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000359.
Kašćelan, Drasko and De Cat, Cécile (2022). A constellation of continua: Reconceptualising bilingualism, autism and language research. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12(1): 59-64. (Commentary on the keynote article "Bilingual language development in autism" by Philippe Prévost and Laurie Tuller). https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.21069.kas or pdf
Kašćelan, Drasko, Prévost, Philippe, Serratrice, Ludovica., Tuller, Laurie, Unsworth, Sharon, and De Cat, Cécile (2022). A review of questionnaires quantifying bilingual experience in children: Do they document the same constructs? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 25(1): 29-41. Preprint available on the OSF. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921000390
De Cat, Cécile (2022). Opportunities and challenges in the analysis of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). First Language. 42(2), 321-329. DOI:10.1177/01427237211064695. (Commentary on the articles in the special issue on Children’s Acquisition of Referentiality in Narratives)
De Cat, Cécile and Melia, Tara (2021). What does the Sentence Structure component of the CELF-IV index, in monolinguals and bilinguals? Journal of Child Language, 1-28. doi:10.1017/S0305000920000823
De Cat, Cécile (2021). Socioeconomic status as a proxy for input quality in bilingual children? Applied Psycholinguistics, 42(2): 301-324. doi:10.1017/S014271642000079X (Open access. Part of a special issue on individual differences in bilingualism)
Serratrice, Ludovica and De Cat, Cécile (2020) Individual differences in the production of referential expressions: the effect of language proficiency, language exposure and executive function in bilingual and monolingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 23(2): 371 - 386. Doi: 10.1017/S1366728918000962 (published online April 2019) (pdf) Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/w74zk/
Barbosa, Pilar, & De Cat, Cécile (2019) Intervention effects in wh-chains: the combined effect of syntax and processing. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1), 127. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1005
Oxley, Emily & De Cat, Cécile (2019) A systematic review of language and literacy interventions in children and adolescents with English as an additional language (EAL), The Language Learning Journal, DOI: 10.1080/09571736.2019.1597146 Preprint: https://osf.io/92s6v
De Cat, Cécile, Gusnanto, Arief, & Serratrice, Ludovica (2018). Identifying a threshold for the executive function advantage in bilingual children. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263116000486 or main paper and supplementary material (See also the summary of this paper on OASIS) This paper has received the Albert Valdman award for outstanding publication in SSLA for the year 2018.
De Cat, Cécile, Klepousniotou, Ekaterini and Baayen R. Harald (2015). Representational deficit or processing effect? An electrophysiological study of noun-noun compound processing by very advanced L2 speakers of English. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:77. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00077.
De Cat, Cécile, Klepousniotou, Ekaterini and Baayen R. Harald (2015). Representational deficit or processing effect? An electrophysiological study of noun-noun compound processing by very advanced L2 speakers of English. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:77. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00077.
De Cat, Cécile (2015). The cognitive underpinnings of referential abilities. In L. Serratrice & S. Allen (Eds.), The Acquisition of Reference. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp 263-283.
De Cat, Cécile (2007) "French dislocation without movement." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 25(3): 485-534. (available online from SpringerLink - or here in PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2000) "Towards a unified analysis of French floating quantifiers." Journal of French Language Studies 10: 1-25. (zipped RTF file)
De Cat, Cécile, Klepousniotou, Ekaterini & Baayen, R. Harald. (2014). Electrophysiological correlates of noun-noun compound processing by non-native speakers of English. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Stroudsburg, PA: ACL. (PDF)
De Cat, Cécile. (2013). Root phenomena as interface phenomena: Evidence from non-sententials. In R. Folli & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Syntax and its Limits. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
De Cat, Cécile (2013) "Egocentric definiteness errors and perspective evaluation in preschool children". Journal of Pragmatics 56: 58-69. (DOI or see pre-publication version: PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2012). Towards an interface definition of root phenomena. In L. Aelbrecht, L. Haegeman & R. Nye (Eds.), Main Clause Phenomena. New Horizons. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp 135-158.
De Cat, Cécile (2012) "Explaining children's over-use of definites in 'partitive contexts'". First Language 32(1-2): 137-150. (DOI - or see pre-publication version: PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2011) "Information tracking and encoding in early L1: linguistic competence vs. cognitive limitations". Journal of Child Language. 38(4):828-860. (DOI or see pre-publication version: PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2009) "Experimental evidence for preschoolers' mastery of topics". Language Acquisition 16:224-239. (DOI)
De Cat, Cécile (2012). Towards an interface definition of root phenomena. In L. Aelbrecht, L. Haegeman & R. Nye (Eds.), Main Clause Phenomena. New Horizons. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp 135-158.
De Cat, Cécile (2012) "Explaining children's over-use of definites in 'partitive contexts'". First Language 32(1-2): 137-150. (DOI - or see pre-publication version: PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2011) "Information tracking and encoding in early L1: linguistic competence vs. cognitive limitations". Journal of Child Language. 38(4):828-860. (DOI or see pre-publication version: PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2009) "Experimental evidence for preschoolers' mastery of topics". Language Acquisition 16:224-239. (DOI)
De Cat, Cécile and Demuth, Katherine (Eds.) (2008) The Bantu-Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Linguistik Actuell / Linguistics Today 131).
De Cat, Cécile (2008) "Experimental evidence for preschoolers' mastery of topics". In A. Gavarró and M.J. Freitas (Eds.) Proceedings of GALA 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 155-165. (PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2007) French Dislocation. Interpretation, Syntax, Acquisition. Oxford: OUP (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 17) - (second edition available in paperback, 2009).
De Cat, Cécile (2007) "French dislocation without movement." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 25(3): 485-534. (available online from SpringerLink - or here in PDF)
De Cat, Cécile & Tsoulas, George (2006). The structure of fragments in (child) French. in A. Belleti, E. Bennati, C. Chesi, E. Di Domenico, I. Ferrari (Eds.). Language Acquisition and Development. Proceedings of GALA 2005. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar Press. 142-147. (Word doc)
De Cat, Cécile (2006). "Do Root Infinitives ever have overt subjects in child French?" in S. Unsworth, T. Parodi, A. Sorace & M. Young-Scholten (Eds) .Paths of development in L1 and L2 acquisition. In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz. Amsterdam, John Benjamins (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 39), pp 55-76.
De Cat, Cécile (2005) "French subject clitics are not agreement markers." Lingua 115: 1195-1219. (available online from Elsevier - or here in PDF) An earlier version appeared in theYork Working Papers in Linguistics Series 2, 1:65-92.
Adger, David and De Cat, Cécile (2004) "Core questions about the edge". In D. Adger, Cécile De Cat and G. Tsoulas (Eds.) Peripheries.Syntactic edges and their effect. Dordrecht, Kluwer. 1-18.
De Cat, Cécile (2005) "French subject clitics are not agreement markers." Lingua 115: 1195-1219. (available online from Elsevier - or here in PDF) An earlier version appeared in theYork Working Papers in Linguistics Series 2, 1:65-92.
Adger, David and De Cat, Cécile (2004) "Core questions about the edge". In D. Adger, Cécile De Cat and G. Tsoulas (Eds.) Peripheries.Syntactic edges and their effect. Dordrecht, Kluwer. 1-18.
De Cat, Cécile (2004) "Apparent non-nominative subjects in L1 French". In P. Prévost & J. Paradis (Eds.) The acquisition of French in different contexts: Focus on functional categories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp 60-115. (PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2004) "A fresh look at how young children encode new referents." International Review of Applied Linguistics 42: 111-127. (PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2004) "A fresh look at how young children encode new referents." International Review of Applied Linguistics 42: 111-127. (PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2004). "Early `pragmatic' competence and the null subject phenomenon". in R. Bok-Bennema, B. Hollebrandse, B. Kampers-Manhe and P. Sleeman (Eds). Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002. Selected papers from Going Romance 2002. Amsterdam, John Benjamins: 17-32. (PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2004). "On the impact of French subject clitics on the information structure of the sentence". R. Bok-Bennema, B. Hollebrandse, B. Kampers-Manhe and P. Sleeman (Eds). Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002. Selected papers from Going Romance 2002. Amsterdam, John Benjamins: 33-46. (PDF)
Adger, David, De Cat, Cécile & Tsoulas, George (Eds.) (2004) Peripheries. Syntactic edges and their effect. Dordrecht, Kluwer (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 59).
De Cat, Cécile (2003). "Syntactic manifestations of very early pragmatic competence". in B. Beachley, A. Brown and F. Conlin (Eds). Proceedings of BUCLD27. Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Press: 209-219. (PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2002). "Heavy subjects and root infinitives in L1 French". in J. Costa and M. J. Freitas (Eds). Proceedings of the GALA 2001 Conference. Lisboa, Associação Portuguesa de Linguística: 33-40. ( PDF)
De Cat, Cécile & Plunkett, Bernadette (2002) "QU' est ce qu' i(l) dit, celui+Là ? Notes méthodologiques sur la transcription d'un corpus francophone." in C. D. Pusch & W. Raible (Eds.) Romanistische Korpuslinguistik: Korpora und gesprochene Sprache / Romance Corpus Linguistics: Corpora and Spoken Language. Tübingen, Narr.
De Cat, Cécile (2002). "Heavy subjects and root infinitives in L1 French". in J. Costa and M. J. Freitas (Eds). Proceedings of the GALA 2001 Conference. Lisboa, Associação Portuguesa de Linguística: 33-40. ( PDF)
De Cat, Cécile & Plunkett, Bernadette (2002) "QU' est ce qu' i(l) dit, celui+Là ? Notes méthodologiques sur la transcription d'un corpus francophone." in C. D. Pusch & W. Raible (Eds.) Romanistische Korpuslinguistik: Korpora und gesprochene Sprache / Romance Corpus Linguistics: Corpora and Spoken Language. Tübingen, Narr.
De Cat, Cécile (2002). French Dislocation. PhD thesis. University of York, UK. (UNPUBLISHED)
De Cat, Cécile (2001). "Investigating the left periphery in child French: A reply to Ferdinand (1996)". in M. Almgren, A. Barreña, M.-J. Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal and B. Mac Whinney (Eds). Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the IASCL. Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Press: 1334-1355. (PDF)
Plunkett, Bernadette & De Cat, Cécile (2001) "Root specifiers and null subjects revisited". In A. H.-J. Do, L. Domínguez & A. Johansen (Eds.) BUCLD 25 Somerville, MA, Cascadilla. 611-622. (PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2000)"Left- and right-dislocations as adjunction in early child French." Durham and Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics 6: 47-61.
De Cat, Cécile (2000). "On the syntax of French adverbs." PLUM Working Papers (Proceedings of the 1998 Manchester Postraduate Conference) 7: 79-105. (RTF)
De Cat, Cécile (2000). "Structure building and the acquisition of dislocations in child French". in C. Howell, S. A. Fish and T. Keith-Lucas (Eds) Proceedings of BUCLD 24. S. Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Press: 242-252. (PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2001). "Investigating the left periphery in child French: A reply to Ferdinand (1996)". in M. Almgren, A. Barreña, M.-J. Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal and B. Mac Whinney (Eds). Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the IASCL. Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Press: 1334-1355. (PDF)
Plunkett, Bernadette & De Cat, Cécile (2001) "Root specifiers and null subjects revisited". In A. H.-J. Do, L. Domínguez & A. Johansen (Eds.) BUCLD 25 Somerville, MA, Cascadilla. 611-622. (PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2000)"Left- and right-dislocations as adjunction in early child French." Durham and Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics 6: 47-61.
De Cat, Cécile (2000). "On the syntax of French adverbs." PLUM Working Papers (Proceedings of the 1998 Manchester Postraduate Conference) 7: 79-105. (RTF)
De Cat, Cécile (2000). "Structure building and the acquisition of dislocations in child French". in C. Howell, S. A. Fish and T. Keith-Lucas (Eds) Proceedings of BUCLD 24. S. Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Press: 242-252. (PDF)
De Cat, Cécile (2000) "Towards a unified analysis of French floating quantifiers." Journal of French Language Studies 10: 1-25. (zipped RTF file)