PAPERS

2009
  • Grüter, Theres. 2009. A unified account of object clitics and referential null objects in French. Syntax 12.3, 215-241.
2008
  • Grüter, Theres. 2008. When learners know more than linguists: (French) direct objects clitics are not objects. Probus 20.2, 211-234.
  • Grüter, Theres, Moti Lieberman & Andrea Gualmini. 2008. The acquisition of the scope properties of disjunction by Japanese learners of English: A test case for L1 vs. UG at the L2 initial state. In Roumyana Slabakova, Jason Rothman, Paula Kempchinsky and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2007), 47-56. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1625.
2007
  • Grüter, Theres. 2007. Investigating object drop in child French and English: A truth value judgment task. In Alyona Belikova, Luisa Meroni and Mari Umeda (eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA), 102-113. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1551.
2006
  • Grüter, Theres. 2006. Object (clitic) omission in L2 French: Mis-setting or missing surface inflection? In Mary Grantham O’Brian, Christine Shea and John Archibald, (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2006), 63-71. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1488.
2005
  • Grüter, Theres. 2005/2006. Another Take on the L2 Initial State: Evidence from Comprehension in L2 German. Language Acquisition 13.4, 287-317.
  • Grüter, Theres. 2005. Comprehension and Production of French Object Clitics by Child Second Language Learners and Children with Specific Language Impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics 26.3, 363-391.
2004
  • Grüter, Theres. 2004. Another take on the L2 initial state: Evidence from comprehension in L2 German. In Yukio Furukawa and Heather Newell, (eds.), McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 18.2, 1-24. (superseded by the paper in Language Acquisition 13.4)
2003
2002
  • Grüter, Theres. 2002. Why Thomas is ‘Tömu’ and Markus ‘Küsu’: An OT account of hypocoristics in Bernese Swiss German. In Theres Grüter and Myunghyun Yoo, (eds.), McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 16.2, 65-94. (superseded by the paper in the Journal of Germanic Linguistics 15.1)


RESEARCH REPORT

2009
  • Grüter, Theres. 2009. Colloquium – Comparing Child L2 and SLI (Specific Language Impairment): Crosslinguistic Perspectives. Language Teaching 42.2.


MANUSCRIPTS

(submitted)
  • Grüter, Theres, Moti Lieberman & Andrea Gualmini. Acquiring the scope of disjunction and negation in L2: A bidirectional study of learners of Japanese and English.


EDITED VOLUMES

2003
  • Grüter, Theres & Tomokazu Takehisa (eds.). 2003. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics/ Cahiers linguistiques de McGill 17.2.
2002
  • Grüter, Theres & Tomokazu Takehisa (eds.). 2002. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics/ Cahiers linguistiques de McGill 17.1.
  • Grüter, Theres & Myunghyun Yoo (eds.). 2002. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics/ Cahiers linguistiques de McGill 16.2.


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2009
  • Grüter, Theres & Martha Crago. The roles of L1 transfer and processing limitations in the L2 acquisition of French object clitic constructions: Evidence from Chinese- and Spanish-speaking learners. 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston University, Boston, MA, November 2009.
  • Grüter, Theres & Martha Crago. Null objects in Chinese learners' L2 French: L1 transfer or processing limitations? 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB7), Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2009.
  • Hurtado, Nereyda, Theres Grüter, Virginia Marchman & Anne Fernald. Are bilingual toddlers slower than monolinguals in real-time processing of spoken language? 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB7), Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2009. (poster)
2008
  • Lieberman, Moti, Theres Grüter & Andrea Gualmini. 2008. The interpretation of disjunction under negation in L2 English and L2 Japanese. 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston University, Boston, MA, October 2008.
  • Grüter, Theres, Moti Lieberman & Andrea Gualmini. 2008. Acquiring the scope of disjunction and negation in L2 Japanese and L2 English. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America  (GALANA) 3, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, September 2008.
  • Grüter, Theres, Caroline Erdos & Fred Genesee. 2008. Working memory and the underlying representation of missing objects in the development of French. XI International Congress For The Study Of Child Language (IASCL), Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2008.
2007
  • Grüter, Theres, Moti Lieberman & Andrea Gualmini. 2007. The L2 acquisition of English disjunction: A case of failed parameter resetting? Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, September 2007.   (poster)
  • Grüter, Theres, Moti Lieberman & Andrea Gualmini. 2007. The acquisition of the scope properties of disjunction by Japanese learners of English: A test case for L1 vs. UG at the L2 initial state. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA) 9, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, May 2007.
2006
  • Grüter, Theres. 2006. Investigating object drop in child French and English: A truth value judgment task. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America  (GALANA) 2, McGill University, Montreal, QC, August 2006.
  • Grüter, Theres. 2006. Object (clitic) omission in L2 French: Mis-setting or missing surface inflection? Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA) 8, University of Calgary, Banff, AB, April 2006.
  • Grüter, Theres. 2006. When learners know more than linguists: Direct object clitics are not pronouns. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) 36, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 2006.
  • Grüter, Theres. 2006. Null objects in French L1 and SLI: Evidence from truth-value judgments. Latsis Colloquium: Early Language Development and Disorders, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, January 2006.
2005
  • Grüter, Theres. 2005. Null objects in child French: Are they speaking Chinese? 10th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, July 2005.
2004
  • Grüter, Theres & Simone Conradie. 2004. Full transfer at the L2 initial state: Evidence from Afrikaans learners of German. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA), University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, December 2004.
  • Grüter, Theres. 2004. The extent of transfer at the L2 initial state: Evidence from comprehension. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA) 7, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, April 2004.
2003
  • Grüter, Theres. 2003. Teasing apart L2 and SLI: Will comprehension make the difference? 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston University, Boston, MA, November 2003.
  • Grüter, Theres. 2003. The initial state in L2 acquisition: What comprehension can tell us. Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) Annual Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, June 2003.
  • Grüter, Theres. 2003. Minimal Trees or Full Transfer? Evidence on the L2 initial state from comprehension. Psycholinguistics Shorts, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, April 2003.
2002
  • Grüter, Theres. 2002. How Thomas became ‘Tömu’ and Alfons ‘Fönsu’: An OT account of hypocoristics in Bernese Swiss German. Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, University of California, Berkeley, CA, April 2002.
  • Grüter, Theres. 2002. How Lukas became ‘Lüku’ and Alfons ‘Fönsu’: Hypocoristics in Bernese Swiss German. Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto (MOT) Phonology Workshop, McGill University, Montréal, QC, February 2002.



INVITED PRESENTATIONS

  • Acquiring the scope of disjunction and negation in L2. Stanford University, Department of Linguistics, May 2009.
  • Object clitics and their omission in child and adult French. University of Toronto, Department of Linguistics, October 2006.


WORKSHOPS

  • “Raising bilingual babies”, workshop offered at Blossom Birth, a non-profit parenting resource organization, Palo Alto, CA, January 2007.