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)
Liu, Meng and De Cat, Cécile (in press). Open Science in Applied Linguistics: A Preliminary Survey. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/kuf26 To appear in: Plonsky, L. (Ed.). Open Science in Applied Linguistics. John Benjamin.
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 & 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) "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) "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)
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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 (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.
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 (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 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 & 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 (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)
If your institution doesn't give you free access to this publication, you can get a free copy here, while "stock" lasts.
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 (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.
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 (2000) "Towards a unified analysis of French floating quantifiers." Journal of French Language Studies 10: 1-25. (zipped RTF file)