Articles in peer reviewed journals

Accepted         NIE, C., SU, E., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘The Comprehension of Mandarin Wh-questions in Children with and without Autism’. Applied Psycholinguistics.

Accepted         BAUMEISTER, F.; WOLFER, P.; VILA BORRELLAS, E.; SOLAIMANI, E.; EIGSTI, I.-M.; DURRLEMAN, S. Associations between second-language proficiency and executive functions in autistic and neurotypical children. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science.

In press           BAUMEISTER, F., WOLFER, P. DURRLEMAN, S.  Which aspect of the bilingual experience affects Theory of Mind in autistic and neurotypical children? Research in Autism.

2026              ZUBAN, Y., BAUMEISTER, F., WOLFER, P. DURRLEMAN, S.  ‘Comprehension of passive voice in autistic German and French-speaking children: no negative effects of bilingualism’. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728926101242

2026            SOLAIMANI, E., BAUMEISTER, F., BENTEA, A., CHONDROGIANNI, V., DELAGE, H., WOLFER, P., & DURRLEMAN, S.‘Bilingualism, working memory, and relative clause comprehension in children’. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.24037.sol

2026           DE VILLIERS, J. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Theory of Mind: Effects of Ecological Syntactic Training in Children with and without Autism’. Child Language Teaching and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1177/026565902614206 

2026           DU, J., DURRLEMAN, S., HE, X., & YU, H.. ‘The digital coloring page task for examining comprehension of passives in Mandarin-speaking children with DLD and children with ASD’. Lingua. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104094

2026               OUDET, S., HOWARD, K., KATSOS, N., & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Better engagement with culturally and linguistically diverse parents of autistic children in online parent-led therapy? An interpretative phenomenological analysis’. Advances in Autism. doi:10.1108/AIA-09-2025-0090

2026               WOLFER, P., BAUMEISTER, F., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Bilingualism Enhances Metalinguistic Awareness in Autism: Extending the Two-Dimensional Grammaticality Judgment Task’. Autism Research. doi: 10.1002/aur.70173

2026               WOLFER, P., TSELEKIDOU, F., BAUMEISTER, F., GAGARINA, N., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘The impact of exposure to additional languages and cognitive factors on narrative macrostructure in autistic and neurotypical children’. Journal of Communication Disorders. doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106611

2025               BURNEL, M., DURRLEMAN, S., REBOUL, A., PYLOUSTER, J., BACIU, M., & PERRONE-BERTOLOTTI, M. ‘Children with ASD do not understand hidden emotions before false belief attribution.’
Autism Research. DOI: 10.1002/aur.70170

2025              WOLFER, P., BAUMEISTER, F., DAUM, M.; DIMITROVA, N., LEONE, G.; NAIGLES, L.; SOLAIMANI, E., DURRLEMAN, S. The impact of balance of multilingual exposure on gesture comprehension in children above preschool age. Applied Psycholinguistics 46, e32, 1–22 doi:10.1017/S0142716425100192

2025              SOLAIMANI, E., WOLFER, P., BAUMEISTER, F, CHONDROGIANNI, V., BENTEA, A., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Brain Boosters: How Bilingualism and Working Memory Enhance Children’s Comprehension of which-questions’. Second Language Research.https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583251348942

2025               WOLFER, P., BAUMEISTER, F., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Co-speech gesture comprehension in autistic children?’ Journal of Child Language, 1–22 doi:10.1017/S0305000925000157

2025              CHEN L, HE X, DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Aspectual Production in Preschool Mandarin-speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder’. Journal of Child Language. Published online 2025:1-32. doi:10.1017/S0305000925100275

2025              BAUMEISTER, F., WOLFER, P., SOLAIMANI, E. DAUM, M., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘On the impact of exposure to different languages on Theory of Mind in neurotypical and autistic children’. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bilingualism-language-and-cognition/article/on-the-impact-of-exposure-to-different-languages-on-theory-of-mind-in-neurotypical-and-autistic-children/9EB3F9AF70156ACDBC677021B4E63855

2025              NIE, C. SU, Y. DURRLEMAN, S. & He, X. ‘Differences in language impairment between Developmental Language Disorder and Autism: Insights from Mandarin Ba and Bei Constructions’. Autism and Developmental Language Impairments. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23969415251341248

2025              WOLFER, P., BAUMEISTER, F., DIMITROVA, N., COHEN, D. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Co-speech gesture comprehension in autistic children’. Journal of Child Development. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40223704/

2025              PERISTERI, E. DURRLEMAN, S., PAPAGEORGIOU, S., POTGAS, C., FRANTZIDIS, C., KOTROTSIOS, A. SCARMEAS, N. & TSAPKINI, K. ‘Theory of mind deficits in non-fluent primary progressive aphasia’. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.03.012

2025              BAUMEISTER, F., Bagioka, D.V., Rivoletti, L., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘The impact of bilingualism on theory of mind in children with and without developmental disorders: A scoping review’. Developmental Review. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273229725000012

2024         WOLFER, P., BAUMEISTER F.,  RUDELLI, N., CORRIGAN, G., NAIGLES, L., and DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Exploring metalinguistic awareness in school-aged autistic children: insights from grammatical judgment’. Journal of Autism and Related Disorders.

2024              PERISTERI, E., VOGELZANG, M., TSIMPLI, I., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Bilingualism and second-order theory of mind development in autistic children over time: Longitudinal relations with language, executive functions, and intelligence’. Autism Research. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.3214

2024              BAUMEISTER, F., WOLFER, P., SAHBAZ, S., RUDELLI, N., CAPALLERA, M., DAUM, M., SAMSON, A., CORRIGAN, G., NAIGLES, L., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Measuring Theory of Mind: A preliminary analysis of a novel linguistically simple and tablet-based measure for children’. Front. Dev. Psychol. Sec. Cognitive Development. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/developmental-psychology/articles/10.3389/fdpys.2024.1445406/abstract

2024               OUDET, S., HOWARD, K., GILHUBER, C., ROBERT, M., ZIMMERLI, J. KATSOS, N. DURRLEMAN, S. Parent-led communication therapy for young bilingual autistic children: A scoping rewiew. Journal of Autism and Related Disorders. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-024-06478-0?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20240811&utm_content=10.1007/s10803-024-06478-0

2024              SERRAT, E.1, AMADO, A., DURRLEMAN, S., INTXAUSTEGUI, A., SIDERA, F. ‘Expressive syntax matters for second order false belief: a study with hearing impaired children’, Frontiers in Communication (section Language Communication). https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1401576/full

2023              WOLFER, P. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Book review: Silvia Silleresi, Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and Methodological Implications’, First Language, 43:6. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01427237231207521

2023               CHEN, L., HE, X., DURRLEMAN, S.  Acquisition of Mandarin long passives by children with developmental language disorder. The International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37282550/

2023               CHEN, L., HE, X., DURRLEMAN, S.  ‘Acquisition of Grammatical Aspect by Mandarin-speaking Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder’. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37231561/

2023                 SCHAEFFER, J. RAZIQ, M. CASTROVIEJO, E. DURRLEMAN, S., FERRE, S., GRAMA, I., HENDRICKS, P., KISSINE, M., MANENTI, M., MARINIS, T., MEIR, N., NOVOGRODSKY, R., PEROVIC, P., PANZERI, F., SILLERESI, S., SUKENIK, N., VICENTE, A., ZEBIB, R. PREVOST, P., TULLER, L. ‘Language in autism: domains, profiles and co-occurring conditions’ Journal of Neural Transmission.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-023-02592-y

2023              MARINIS, T., ANDREOU, M., BAGIOKA, D., BAUMEISTER, F., BONGARTZ, C., CZYPIONKA, A., GOLEGOS, A., PERISTERI, E., SKRIMPA, V., DURRLEMAN, S., TERZI, A. ‘Development and validation of a task battery for verbal and non-verbal first- and second-order theory of mind’ Frontiers in Language Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3389/flang.2022.1052095

2023              ZHENG, Y., DENERVAUD, S. DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Bilingualism and creativity across development: Evidence from divergent thinking and convergent thinking’. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.1058803

2023               DELAGE, H., STANFORD, E., BARATTI, C. DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Working memory training in children with DLD: Effects on complex syntax in narratives’. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fresc.2022.1068959/full

2023              DURRLEMAN, S. BENTEA, A., PRISECARU, A., THOMMEN, E., & DELAGE, H. Training Syntax to Enhance Theory of Mind in Children with ASD. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 53(6), 2444–2457. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05507-0

2022              OUDET, S., HOWARD, K., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Early years autism and bilingualism: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of parent perspectives during lockdown’. Autism & Developmental Language Impairments. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23969415221138704

2022              DURRLEMAN, S., ‘The Relevance of Autism for Evolutionary Linguistic Theory: Introduction’. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/elt.00036.int

2022              DURRLEMAN, S., PERISTERI, E., TSIMPLI, I. ‘The language-communication divide: Evidence from bilingual children with atypical development’. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/elt.00037.dur

2022              CHEUNG, C., RONG, Y., DURRLEMAN, S. Steps in theory-of-mind development in Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism. Journal of Cognition and Development. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15248372.2022.2100397

2022              CHEN, L. & DURRLEMAN, S., ‘Comprehension of Mandarin Aspect markers by Preschool Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder’, Frontiers in Psychology-Language Sciences. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.839951/full 

2021               DURRLEMAN, S.  DUMONT, A. DELAGE, H. The relevance of syntactic training for Theory of Mind in deaf children. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enab034

2021               DURRLEMAN, S. & BENTEA, A. ‘Locality in the acquisition of object A’-dependencies: insights from French’. Glossa. https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5876/ 

2021              DELAGE, H., EIGSTI, I.-M., STANFORD, E., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘A preliminary examination of the impact of working memory training on syntax and processing speed in children with ASD’. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-021-05295-z 

2021              DELISSER, T., DURRLEMAN, S., SHLONSKY, U., RIZZI, L. ‘Root infinitives in Jamaican Creole’, Glossa. https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5705/

2021              PERISTERI, E., BALDIMTSI, E., VOGELZANG, M., TSIMPLI, I., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘The cognitive benefits of bilingualism in autism’. Autism Research. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.2542 Also accessible here https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:182821

2021               DELAGE, H., STANFORD, E., DURRLEMAN, S. Working memory training enhances complex syntax in children with Developmental Language Disorder. Applied Psycholinguistics.

2021               SCHROEDER, K., DURRLEMAN, S. SANFELIEU DELGADO, A., MASANA MARIN, A., HINZEN, W. Relations between intensionality, theory of mind and complex syntax in autism spectrum conditions. Cognitive Development.

2020              ANDREOU, M., TSIMPLI, I., DURRLEMAN, S. PERISTERI, E., Theory of Mind, Executive Functions and Syntax in bilingual children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Languages.

2020              BURNEL, M., DURRLEMAN, S., REBOUL, A, CARRE, A., BACIU, M, PERRONE-BERTOLOTTI, M., ‘Theory of mind during childhood: investigating syntactic and executive contributions’. Social Development.

2020               DURRLEMAN, S. & DELAGE, H. Durrleman, S., & Delage, H. (2020). Training complements for belief reasoning in developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(6), 1861–1877. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00075

2020               DELAGE, H., STANFORD, E., PILLIER, A. DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Entraînement de la mémoire de travail : Quels effets sur la mémoire et la syntaxe d’enfants présentant un trouble développemental du langage ?’ Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez l’Enfant (ANAE).

2020              DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Mentalizing: What’s language got to do with it ?’, Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2020.1769624

2019               DURRLEMAN, S., BURNEL, M., DE VILLIERS, J., THOMMEN, E., DELAGE, H. (2019). The Impact of Grammar on Mentalizing: A Training Study Including Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Language Disorder. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 2478. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02478

2019               OSTASCHENKO, E., DELIENS, G., DURRLEMAN, S., KISSINE, M. ‘An eye-tracking study of selective trust development in children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder’. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology: 189:104697 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096519300980?via%3Dihub

2019               STANFORD, E., DURRLEMAN, S., DELAGE, H. ‘The effect of working memory training on a clinical marker of French-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder’, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 16:1-23. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31419156

2018              DURRLEMAN, S., HINZEN, W., FRANCK, J. False belief and relative clauses in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Communication Disorders, 74:35-44. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0021992416302088

2017               BURNEL, M., PERRONE-BERTOLOTTI, M., REBOUL, A., BACIU, M., DURRLEMAN, S. Reducing the language content in Theory of Mind tests: a developmental scale. Developmental Psychology, (2):293-307. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-51816-001

2017              DURRLEMAN, S., BURNEL, M. & REBOUL, A. ‘Theory of mind in Specific Language Impairment revisited: links with syntax, comparisons with Autism Spectrum Disorder’. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, (6):816-830. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28470886

2017              DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Do grammatical and cognitive phenotypes illuminate each other? Reflections on Un-Cartesian linguistics and the language-ToM interface’, (invited contribution), Theoretical Linguistics, 43 (3-4): 249-260. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/thli.2017.43.issue-3-4/tl-2017-0016/tl-2017-0016.xml

2017              BENTEA, A. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Not committing has its advantages: Facilitating children’s comprehension of object filler-gap dependencies is one of them’. Journal of Child Language, (45): 35-71. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-child-language/article/not-committing-has-its-advantages-facilitating-childrens-comprehension-of-object-fillergap-dependencies-is-one-of-them/88B892D721C2982226E0819873D77851

2017              DELISSER, T., DURRLEMAN, S., SHLONSKY, U., RIZZI, L. ‘The Acquisition of Tense, Modal and Aspect markers in Jamaican Creole’. Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development- JCLAD, vol. 5, no. 4, p. 219-255. https://www.unige.ch/lettres/linguistique/files/9615/3736/0001/DeLisseretal2017.pdf

2017              DURRLEMAN, S., DELAGE, H., PREVOST, P., TULLER, L. The comprehension of passives in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Glossa, 2(1), 88. The comprehension of passives in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Glossa, 2(1), 88.

2017              BURNEL, M., PERRONE-BERTOLOTTI, M., DURRLEMAN, S., REBOUL, A, BACIU, M. ‘Role of two types of syntactic embedding in belief attribution in adults with or without Asperger syndrome’. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:743. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00743/full

2016              DURRLEMAN, S. & DELAGE, H. ‘Autism Spectrum Disorder and Specific Language Impairment: Overlaps in syntactic profiles’, Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 23, 361-386. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10489223.2016.1179741

2016              BENTEA, A., DURRLEMAN, S. & RIZZI, L. ‘Refining Intervention: The Acquisition of Featural Relations in Object A’-dependencies’, Lingua, Vol 169, Pages 21-41. https://www.unige.ch/lettres/linguistique/files/8514/7369/7252/Bentea_Durrleman_Rizzi_-_2016_-_Refining_Intervention.pdf

2016              DELAGE, H., DURRLEMAN, S., FRAUENFELDER, U. ‘Disentangling sources of difficulty associated with the acquisition of accusative clitics in French’, Lingua, 180, 1-24. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384116300110

2016               DURRLEMAN, S., MARINIS, T., FRANCK, J. ‘Syntactic complexity in the comprehension of wh-questions and relative clauses in typical language development and autism’. Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, 1:1-27. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/applied-psycholinguistics/article/syntactic-complexity-in-the-comprehension-of-whquestions-and-relative-clauses-in-typical-language-development-and-autism/C30750908628D08828B14947FD0CCB7E

2016              DURRLEMAN, S., BURNEL, M., THOMMEN, E. FOUDON, N., SONIE, S., REBOUL, A., FOURNERET, P. ‘The language-cognition interface in ASD: Complement sentences and false belief reasoning’, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 21, 109-120. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750946715001427?via%3Dihub

 

2015              DURRLEMAN, S. & FRANCK, J. ‘Exploring links between language and cognition in autism spectrum disorders: complement sentences, false belief, and executive functioning’. Journal of Communication Disorders, Vol. 54:15-31. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021992417300710?via%3Dihub

 

2015               DELISSER, T., DURRLEMAN, S., SHLONSKY, U., RIZZI, L. ‘Early Null Subjects: Insights from Creole Acquisition’, Language Acquisition, 23:3, 261-292. https://unige.ch/lettres/linguistique/files/7414/7369/7255/De_Lisser_Durrleman_Rizzi_Shlonsky_-_2016_-_The_acquisition_of_Jamaican_Creole.pdf

2015               DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Nominal architecture in Jamaican Creole’, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Vol. 30:2, 265 – 306 https://benjamins.com/catalog/jpcl.30.2.03dur

 

2014              DURRLEMAN, S., HIPPOLYTE, L., ZUFFEREY, S., IGLESIAS, K., HADJIKHANI, N. ‘Complex Syntax in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Study of Relative Clauses’. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, Vol 50:2, 260-267. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1460-6984.12130

2014              DELISSER, T., DURRLEMAN, S., SHLONSKY, U., RIZZI, L. ‘DE LISSER, The Acquisition of Jamaican Creole: A Research Project. In:Rivista di Grammatica Generativa,, n° 36, p. 29-46. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:96264

2009              DURRLEMAN, S. & ZUFFEREY, S. ‘The Nature of Syntactic Impairment in Autism’, Rivista di Grammatica Generativa vol. 34, p. 57-86.  https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/af7e/14705505e0e900891b16451b4aa43b7ba186.pdf

 

Peer-reviewed monographs/ edited books

2022            DURRLEMAN, S., The Relevance of Autism for Evolutionary Linguistic Theory. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory.

2020            SCHAEFFER, J. DURRLEMAN, S., EIGSTI, E. On links between language development and extra-linguistic cognitive knowledge: What we can learn from autism? Special Issue of Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics.

2018            GAVARRO, A. & DURRLEMAN, S. (eds.) Investigating Grammar in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Research topic hosted by Frontiers in Psychology. http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/4699/investigating-grammar-in-autism-spectrum-disorders

2017            BLOCHOWIAK, J., GRISOT, C., DURRLEMAN, S. & LAENLINGER, C. (eds.) Formal Models in the Study of Language. Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319488318

2008            DURRLEMAN-TAME, S. The Syntax of Jamaican Creole: A Cartographic Perspective, John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.127

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

In press         ‘English vs. Mandarin Wh-Question Comprehension in Toddlers：Influence of Movement Type and Distance Effect’ NIE, C.; SU, Y. (E.); DURRLEMAN, S.; NAIGLES, L. Boston University Conference on Language Development (50) proceedings.

In press        SCHOUWENAARS, A.; HENDRIKS, P.; BAUMEISTER, F.; SOLAIMANI, E.; VILA BORRELLAS, E.; WOLFER, P.; DURRLEMAN, S.‘Pronoun Interpretation in Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from 400 Autistic and Neurotypical Children’ Boston University Conference on Language Development (50) proceedings.

2024        DANA-GORDON, C., BENTEA, A. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Bilingual effects on ToM in children with DLD’, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston University Conference on Language Development (48) proceedings. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/48/BUCLD48-17.pdf

2023            CHEN, L. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Mandarin Aspect Production in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Plus Language Impairment’ Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston University Conference on Language Development (47) proceedings. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/47/BUCLD47-08.pdf

2023            BENTEA, A. & SHLONSKY, U., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Towards a hierarchy of featural mismatch effects in the acquisition of A’-dependencies: A comprehension study with French children’, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston University Conference on Language Development (47) proceedings. BUCLD47-04.pdf

2022            DURRLEMAN, S., TSIMPLI, I., PERISTERI, E. ‘Domino Effects of Bilingualism in Autism Spectrum Disorders? Executive Functions, Complement Clauses and Theory of Mind. Boston University Conference on Language Development (46) proceedings. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/46/BUCLD46-14.pdf

2021            BENTEA, A. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Number Mismatch and Intervention in the Absence of Lexical Restriction: An Investigation of Celui/Celle Headed Relatives in French’. Boston University Conference on Language Development (45) proceedings. 

2021            PERISTERI, E., TSIMPLI, I., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Positive effects of bilingualism on social cognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder: a study of social exclusion and theory of mind’. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 45) proceedings.

2020            BALDIMTSI, E., PERISTERI, E., TSIMPLI, I., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘The impact of bilingualism on Theory of Mind and Executive Functions in TD and ASD. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44) proceedings.

2020            HOLLEBRANDSE, B., DURRLEMAN, S., RIZZI, L., VAN HOUT. ‘Long-Distance Wh-Questions in French Children: Revisiting Computational Complexity. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44) proceedings.

2019            PERISTERI, E., BALDIMTSI, E. DURRLEMAN, S., TSIMPLI, I. ‘Bilingualism effects in children with Specific Language Impairment: metalinguistic awareness, executive functions and false-belief reasoning’, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 43) proceedings, 523-536. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/43/BUCLD43-41.pdf

2019            BENTEA, A. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Topichood and the Comprehension of Relative Clauses in French. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 43) proceedings, 57-68. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2018            GUASTI, T. DELAGE, H. DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Syntactic awareness of clitic pronouns and articles in French-speaking children with autism, specific language impairment and developmental dyslexia’ Language Acquisition and Language Disorders Series (Selected Papers of Romance Turn), Vol 62, pp 147-168. John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/lald.62.07gua

2018            DELAGE, H. & DURRLEMAN, S. Developmental Dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment: Distinct syntactic profiles? Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol 32:8. 758-785. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02699206.2018.1437222

2018            SILLERESI, S., TULLER, L., DELAGE, H., DURRLEMAN, S. BONNET-BRILLHAULT, F., MALVY J.,  & PREVOST, P. ‘Sentence repetition and language impairment in French-speaking children with ASD’, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders Series (Selected Papers of Romance Turn), Vol 62, pp. 235–258. John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/lald.62.11sil

2014            BENTEA, A. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘To Move or Not to Move? Movement, Intervention and Optionality in the Acquisition of A’-dependencies in French’, New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages: Selected Proceedings of the Romance Turn V, pp. 78-100, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004856?_s=lH_yTKx3zzdsUrum&_k=SFdEfape-HGPXYav

2014            BENTEA, A. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Children Don’t Like Restrictions: Evidence from the Acquisition of Object A’-dependencies in French’, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 38), pp 1-15, online proceedings. http://www.bu.edu/bucld/files/2014/04/bentea.pdf

2013            DURRLEMAN, S. & ZUFFEREY, S. ‘Investigating Complex Syntax in Autism’, Advances in Language Acquisition (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference Proceedings), pp 405-415. Cambridge Scholars. https://uol.de/fileadmin/user_upload/anglistik/GALA/GALA_2011_CSP.pdf

2013            BENTEA, A. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘A’-Dependencies in French: A Study from Acquisition’, Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory. Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Utrecht 2011, pp 1-16. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pre-print version available at http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001983

Contribution to books

Submitted     DELISSER, T., RAMCHAND, G. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Temporality in L1 acquisition’, The Cambridge Handbook of Temporality in Language.

2026            DURRLEMAN, S. “Theory of Mind in Autism.” In J. L. MATSON (Ed.), Cognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-11141-8_7

2025            BENTEA, A., BELLETTI, A., RIZZI, L., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Featural mismatches and the comprehension of relative clauses in French: Comparing gender and number’. The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky. 10.1075/lfab.20.01ben

2025            DURRLEMAN, S. & MARINIS, T. ‘Morphosyntax’. In Language in Autism. Jeannette Schaeffer, Rama Novogrodsky, Alexandra Perović, Philippe Prévost & Laurice Tuller (Eds.). Wiley. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Language+in+Autism-p-9781394180387

2025            DELISSER, T., & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Acquisition of negation in Jamaican’. In The Evolution, Acquisition and Development of Syntax
Insights from Creole Languages and Beyond. Dany Adone & Astrid Gabel (Eds.). Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/evolution-acquisition-and-development-of-syntax/CA60428BDD107DEA16C68D90A70E5D07#fndtn-information

2025            DELISSER, T., & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Missing subjects in creole acquisition: insights from Jamaican and Morisyen’. In The Evolution, Acquisition and Development of Syntax
Insights from Creole Languages and Beyond. Dany Adone & Astrid Gabel (Eds.). Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/evolution-acquisition-and-development-of-syntax/CA60428BDD107DEA16C68D90A70E5D07#fndtn-information

2024            PERISTERI, E., BALDIMTSI, E., TSIMPLI, I. M. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Bilingualism matters: a study of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Language Disorder’. In Multifaceted Multilingualism: Language, Cognition, and Communication. K. Grohmann (Ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/sibil.66?srsltid=AfmBOorxKIKCI6axRKkYe3EsjBd_9KnijKg3KFuha9Az164S1nAgqy3V

2024      DURRLEMAN, S. Baldimtsi, E., Peristeri, E., & Tsimpli, I. M. (to appear). Bilingualism matters: a study of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Language Disorder. In K. Grohmann (Ed.), Multifaceted Multilingualism: Language, Cognition, and Communication. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2022            BENTEA, A. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Person Matters: Relative Clauses in the Acquisition of French’. Isogloss, 8(5)/2, 1-16, ISSN 2385-4138 (digital), https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.214

2021            GUASTI, T., PAGLIARINI, E., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘The acquisition of disjunction under negation and the ‘ni ni’ construction in French’ Current Issues in L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The View from Romance, John Benjamins.

2020            PERISTERI, E., ANDREOU, M., TSIMPLI, I., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Bilingualism effects in the narrative comprehension of children with Developmental Language Disorder and L2-Greek: Links with language, executive function and Theory of Mind’. Developing narrative comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives. Eds. Ute Bohnacker & Natalia Gagarina. John Benjamins (SiBiL series, Studies in Bilingualism).

2018            DURRLEMAN, S. & GAVARRO, A. ‘Editorial introduction: Investigating Grammar in Autism Spectrum Disorders’. Published in Front. Psychol. Pp 4-5, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01004

2017            DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Grammar and Theory of Mind in Autism’. Formal Models in the Study of Language. pp 327-337, Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319488318

2016            DURRLEMAN, S., BURNEL, M. & REBOUL, A. ‘Connections between complementation sentences, executive functioning and theory of mind in autism.’ Invited contribution to Innovative Investigations of Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder, 163-182, The American Psychological Association and Walter de Gruyter. https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2016-23107-009

2015            DURRLEMAN, S. & SHLONSKY, U. ‘Focus and WH in Jamaican Creole: Movement and Exhaustiveness’. Beyond Functional Sequence: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures. Pp. 91-106. Oxford University Press. Pre-print version available at http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001930

Remediation applications (patents in prep)

 

2017            DURRLEMAN, S., Da Costa, J., DELAGE, H. Differentiating Ideas from Reality via Exercices: DIRE (2017), App training complementation to enhance Theory of Mind, available on iTunes for research, and after publications will be available for clinical practice.

2017            DELAGE, H., Da Costa, J. & DURRLEMAN, S. Magic Memory. App training working memory to enhance complex syntax, available on iTunes for research, and after publications will be available for clinical practice.