Newcastle University

Background

Post-Doctoral study in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Georgetown University. 2006 – 2009.

Ph.D. in Language Development. Cornell University. 2002 - 2005.      

Esteem indicators

British Academy grant  

Editorial board for the journal Glossa (since 2008)

Reviewer for the Cognitive Science conference (since 2008) 

Service

Co-organizer of the La-Lunch (Language Acquisition Lunch) research group at the Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences 

Schools Liaison/Partners Recruitment Officer 

Linguistics marketing committee

Student supervision

I welcome enquiries from PG students interested in a wide range of topics in child language development, including structural representations, processing, brain basis, bilingualism, or developmental disorders.  

Research interests

• Language acquisition and development in monolingual or bilingual, normal or abnormal child populations
• Neuro-cognitive basis of language development
• Neurodevelopmental disorders, including Specific Language Impairement (SLI), Dyslexia, Autism Spectrum Disorders,  Tourette’s Syndrome, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Linguistic theory 

Papers under review or in preparation

Dye, C.D., Walenski, M., Mostofsky, S. & Ullman, M.T. Storage and composition of inflected forms in children.

Németh, D., Dye, C.D., Gardian, G., Janacsek, K., Sefcsik, T., Klivényi, P., Vécsei, L. & Ullman M.T.  Language impairement in pre-symptomatic Huntington’s Disease.

Dye, C.D., Janasek, K., & Nemeth, D. Implicit sequence learning in developmental dyslexia.

Dye, C.D., Walenski, M., Mostofsky, S. & Ullman, M.T. Speeded phonological processing in children with Tourette’s Syndrome.

Dye, C.D., Foley, C., & Lust, B.  Effects of clausal complexity on the production of verb inflection in bilingual vs. monolingual toddlers.

Dye Child French Corpus (Dye 2005)

Cross-sectional spontaneous speech samples from 50 monolingual French-speaking normally-developing children, from Paris and Nancy, with ages ranging from one year eleven months to three years two months. Registered with the Open Language Archives (OLAC)  http://www.language-archives.org/item/oai:clal.cornell.edu:clal5 and hosted by the Virtual Center for Language Acquisition (VCLA) http://vcla.clal.cornell.edu/

For more information about the corpus please see the article below:

Dye CD. Reduced auxiliaries in early child language: Converging observational and experimental evidence from French. Journal of Linguistics 2011, 47(2), 301-339. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002222671000037X

Those interested in using this corpus should send an email to cristina.dye@ncl.ac.uk

Undergraduate

SEL1028 Introduction to language structure & applications II 

SEL2086 Introduction to child language development & adult second language acquisition

SEL3352 Child language development in (a)typical circumstances

Postgraduate

SEL8040  Issues in child language development

SEL8500  Research Methods 

• Hedenius M, Persson J, Tremblay A, Adi-Japha E, Verissimo J, Dye CD, Alm P, Jennische M, Tomblin B, Ullman MT. Grammar Predicts Procedural Learning and Consolidation Deficits in Children with Specific Language Impairment. Research in Developmental Disabilities 2011, 32(6), 2362-2375.
• Dye CD. Reduced auxiliaries in early child language: Converging observational and experimental evidence from French. Journal of Linguistics 2011, 47(2), 301-339.
• Dye CD. A continuum in French children’s surface realization of auxiliaries. In: Leow R; Campos H; Lardiere D, ed. Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Acquisition. Selected Papers from the 2007 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2009, pp.237-246.
• Hoffmann I, Nemeth D, Dye CD, Pákáski M, Irinyi T, Kálmán J. Temporal parameters of spontaneous speech in Alzheimer’s Disease. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2010, 12(1), 29-34.
• Lust B, Foley C, Dye CD. The first language acquisition of complex sentences. In: Bavin EL, ed. The Cambridge handbook of child language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp.237-258.
• Dye CD. Barely there: Hard-to-detect auxiliaries shed light on children's acquisition of French. Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium 2008, 14(1), 107-120.
• Németh D, Dye CD, Gardian G, Klivényi P, Sefcsik T, Ambrus G, Lukacs A, Vécsei L, Ullman MT. Functional morphology in pre-symptomatic Huntington’s Disease : evidence from Hungarian. In: Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2008). 2008, Davis, California: Department of Linguistics at California State University, Fresno.
• Dye CD. A- and Ā-movement in Romanian supine constructions. Linguistic Inquiry 2006, 37(4), 665-674.
• Dye CD. Optional infinitives or silent auxes? New evidence from Romance. In: Bok-Bennema,R;Hollebrandse,B;Kampers-Manhe,B;Sleeman,P, ed. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory. Selected Papers from ‘Going Romance’ Groningen, 28–30 November 2002. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins, 2004, pp.83-98.
• Dye CD. The status of ostensibly nonfinite matrix verbs in Child French: Results from a new corpus. In: Proceedings of the 29th Boston University Conference on Language Development. 2004, Boston, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Dye CD, Foley C, Blume M, Lust B. Syntax First: Mismatches between Morphology and Syntax in First Language Acquisition Elucidate Linguistic Theory. In: 28th Boston University Conference on Language Development. 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.