To appear Peristeri, E., Baldimtsi, E., Tsimpli, I. M. & DURRLEMAN, S. 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.
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).
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.
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
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.
2022 DURRLEMAN, S., ‘The Relevance of Autism for Evolutionary Linguistic Theory: Introduction’. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory.
2022 DURRLEMAN, S., PERISTERI, E., TSIMPLI, I. ‘The language-communication divide: Evidence from bilingual children with atypical development’. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory.
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.
2022 CHEN, L. & DURRLEMAN, S., ‘Comprehension of Mandarin Aspect markers by Preschool Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder’, Frontiers in Psychology-Language Sciences.
2022 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.
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.
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.
2021 DELISSER, T., DURRLEMAN, S., SHLONSKY, U., RIZZI, L. ‘Root infinitives in Jamaican Creole’, Glossa.
2021 PERISTERI, E., BALDIMTSI, E., VOGELZANG, TSIMPLI, I., DURRLEMAN, S. ‘The cognitive benefits of bilingualism in autism’. Autism Research.
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
To appear 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 BENTEA, A. & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Person Matters: Relative Clauses in the Acquisition of French’.
Submitted DELISSER, T., & DURRLEMAN, S. ‘Acquisition of negation in Jamaican’.
Accepted 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.
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.