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School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures

Yves Roberge

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Adjunct Professor

Linguistics

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Credentials:
PhD (UBC)
Area of expertise:
French and Romance syntax, first language acquisition

Bio

Yves Roberge is Professor Emeritus of linguistics in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on argument structure, pronominal systems, and recursion in Romance languages, and on their development in first language acquisition. He has published extensively in professional journals and has authored and edited several books, including The Syntactic Recoverability of Null Arguments (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990) and Direct Objects in Language Acquisition with Cambridge University Press (2017). He is the recipient of a National Achievement Award from the Canadian Linguistic Association and received a Faculty of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award. 

Current research projects/information

Professor Roberge is currently co-editor (with Ana Pérez-Leroux) of the , a collection of contributions covering a rich array of key topics and phenomena in first language acquisition that includes a variety of theoretical perspectives and acquisition phenomena as well as broad representation of learner populations.