Lab publications

Schmitt, C., Primucci, E., Munn, A., Brandani, L., & Avelana, A. (2024). When clitic systems collide, animacy, for the most part, beats gender. Estudos Lingüísticos e Literários, 77, 316–335.

Forsythe, H., Greeson, D., & Schmitt, C. (2021). How pre-schoolers acquire the null-overt contrast in Mexican Spanish: Evidence from production. In J. J. Colomina-Almiñana & S. Sessarego (Eds.), Language patterns in Spanish and beyond (pp. 245–264). Routledge.

Forsythe, H., & Schmitt, C. (2021). Considering the whole paradigm: Preschoolers’ comprehension of agreement is not uniformly late. Language Acquisition, 28(3), 272–293. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2021.1887872

Avellana, A., Brandani, L., Forsythe, H., & Schmitt, C. (2019). How to be faithful to the input in a situation of language contact. In D. W. Lightfoot & J. Havenhill (Eds.), Proceedings of the georgetown university round table: Variable properties: Their nature and acquisition. Georgetown University Press.

Lê, N. L., Forsythe, H., & Schmitt, C. (2019). Vietnamese children’s interpretation of definite noun phrases. In H. Dũng, T. Trinh, & T. Phan (Eds.), Current issues in vietnamese linguistics (pp. 215–240). Springer.

Lê, N. L., Forsythe, H., & Schmitt, C. (2018). Interactions between number and definiteness: Vietnamese children’s comprehension of definites. In A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42th Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 2, pp. 427–440). Cascadilla Press.

Liter, A., Huelskamp, T., Heffner, C. C., & Schmitt, C. (2018). Grammaticalized number, implicated presuppositions and the plural. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 3(1), 39:1–28.

Liter, A., Heffner, C. C., & Schmitt, C. (2017). The interpretation of plural morphology and (Non-) obligatory number marking: An argument from artificial language learning. Language Learning and Development, 13(4), 451–480.

Lê, N. L., & Schmitt, C. (2016). Plurality in classifier languages: A view from Vietnamese pluralizers. In E. Clem, V. Dawson, A. Shen, A. Horan Skilton, G. Bacon, A. Cheng, & E. H. Maier (Eds.), Proceedings of the forty-second annual meeting of the berkeley linguistics society. Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Gamache, J., & Schmitt, C. (2014). Children’s forms as derivational steps: External evidence for a new synthetic compound structure. In Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 2012. Chicago Linguistic Society.

Miller, K., & Schmitt, C. (2014). Spanish-speaking children’s use of verbal inflection in comprehension. Lingua, 144, 40–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2013.06.008

Ogiela, D., Schmitt, C., & Casby, M. (2014). Interpretation of verb phrase telicity: Sensitivity to verb-type and determiner-type. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57(3), 1–11.

Gamache, J. L., & Schmitt, C. (2012). Children’s forms as derivational steps: External evidence for a new synthetic compound structure. Proceedings from the 48th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 48, 235–246.

Miller, K. L., & Schmitt, C. (2012). Variable input and the acquisition of plural morphology. Language Acquisition, 19(3), 223–261. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2012.685026

Schmitt, C., Holtheuer, C., & Miller, K. (2012). Ser and estar: What is there to learn? In A. Avellana & L. Brandani (Eds.), La adquisición del language y la enseñanza de segundas lenguas (Vol. 11, pp. 77–113). Ediciones Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento.

Wang, C.-Y., Schmitt, C., & Lin, Y.-H. (2012). Children’s acquisition of Mandarin tone 3 sandhi in flat structures. In Q. Ma, H. Ding, & D. Hirst (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th international conference on speech prosody (Vol. 1, pp. 202–205). Tongji University Press.

Holtheuer, C., Miller, K., & Schmitt, C. (2011). Ser and estar: The role of adjective-type. In M. Pirvulescu, M. C. Cuervo, A. T. Pérez-Leroux, J. Steele, & N. Strik (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 4th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2010) (pp. 90–105). Cascadilla Press.

Miller, K., & Schmitt, C. (2010). Effects of variable input in the acquisition of plural in two dialects of Spanish. Lingua, 120(5), 1178–1193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2008.05.009

Nakano, N., Park, H.-S., & Schmitt, C. (2010). A comparative study of the acquisition of plural morphemes in Japanese and Korean. In Y. Otsu (Ed.), Proceedings of the 11th tokyo conference on psycholinguistics (pp. 181–200). Hituzi Publishing Company.

Schmitt, C., & Miller, K. (2010). Comprehension methods. In E. Blom & S. Unsworth (Eds.), Experimental methods in language acquisition research (pp. 35–56). John Benjamins.

Miller, K., & Schmitt, C. (2009). Syllable-final /s/ lenition and the acquisition of plural morphology in Spanish-speaking children. In J. Grinstead (Ed.), Hispanic child languages: Typical and impaired development (pp. 3–27). John Benjamins.

Miller, K., & Schmitt, C. (2009). Variable and consistent input. In J. Brucart, A. Gavarró, & J. Sola (Eds.), Merging features: Computation, interpretation and acquisition (pp. 123–137). Oxford University Press.

Munn, A., Zhang, X., & Schmitt, C. (2009). Acquisition of plurality in a language without plurality. In J. Brucart, A. Gavarró, & J. Sola (Eds.), Merging features: Computation, interpretation and acquisition (pp. 310–327). Oxford University Press.

Klecha, P., Jalbert, J., Munn, A., & Schmitt, C. (2008). Explaining why gonna precedes will in language acquisition. In H. Chan, K. Enkeleida, & H. Jacob (Eds.), Supplemental proceedings of the 32nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Cascadilla Press. http://www.bu.edu/bucld/files/2011/05/32-Klecha.pdf

Schmitt, C., & Miller, K. (2007). Making discourse-dependent decisions: The case of the copulas ser and estar in Spanish. Lingua, 117(11), 1907–1929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2006.11.007

Miller, K., & Schmitt, C. (2006). The effect of variable input on comprehension: Evidence from Spanish. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, & C. Zaller (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) (pp. 365–376). Cascadilla Press.

Munn, A., Miller, K., & Schmitt, C. (2006). Maximality and plurality in children’s interpretations of definites. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, & C. Zaller (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) (pp. 377–387). Cascadilla Press.

Miller, K., Munn, A., Chang, H.-H., & Schmitt, C. (2005). Young children understand some implicatures. In A. Brugos, M. R. Clark-Cotton, & S. Ha (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) (pp. 389–400). Cascadilla Press.

Miller, K., & Schmitt, C. (2005). The interpretation of indefinites and bare singulars in Spanish child language. In D. Eddington (Ed.), Selected proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and the 6th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. The University of New Mexico, October 16-18, 2003 (pp. 92–101). Cascadilla Press.

Ogiela, D., Casby, M., & Schmitt, C. (2005). Event realization and default aspect: Evidence from children with specific language impairment. In A. Brugos, M. R. Clark-Cotton, & S. Ha (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) (pp. 424–435). Cascadilla Press.

Miller, K., & Schmitt, C. (2004). An experimental study on child comprehension of spanish indefinites and bare singulars. Language Acquisition, 12(3/4), 247–256. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.1995.9671745

Miller, K., & Schmitt, C. (2004). Wide-scope indefinites in English child language. In J. van Kampen & S. Baauw (Eds.), Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 2003 (pp. 317–328). LOT.

Perez-Leroux, A. T., Munn, A., Schmitt, C., & DeIrish, M. (2004). Learning definite determiners: Genericity and definiteness in english and spanish. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla, & C. E. Smith (Eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 28th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press. http://www.bu.edu/bucld/files/2011/05/28-perez-leroux.pdf

Perez-Leroux, A. T., Schmitt, C., & Munn, A. (2004). The development of inalienable possession in English and Spanish. In R. Bok-Bonnema, B. Hollebrandse, & B. Kampers-Manhe (Eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: selected papers from Going Romance Groningen, November 28-30, 2002 (pp. 199–216). John Benjamins.

Schmitt, C., Holtheuer, C., & Miller, K. (2004). Acquisition of ser and estar: Syntax, lexical semantics and discourse. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla, & C. E. Smith (Eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 28th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD. Cascadilla Press. http://www.bu.edu/bucld/files/2011/05/28-schmitt.pdf

Perez-Leroux, A. T., Schmitt, C., & Munn, A. (2002). Syntactic features and discourse factors in children’s interpretation of definite determiners in inalienable possession. In S. Burelle & S. Somesfalean (Eds.), Actes de l’ACL 2002/2002 Canadian Linguistics Association Proceedings (pp. 245–255). http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/2002/Perez-Leroux_Schmitt_Munn_2002.pdf