CanNRT Research Forum: Distinguished Speaker Series | Stephanie Durrleman

Speaker 

After earning her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Geneva, Stephanie Durrleman collaborated with research teams in psycholinguistics at the same university, as well as in cognitive science at the University of Lyon, language science at the University of Tours, and science and medicine at the University of Fribourg. Her research spans diverse topics, including syntactic cartography, syntactic locality, language acquisition, bilingualism, the grammar-cognition interface, and language disorders. She investigates these areas across a wide range of linguistic contexts (e.g., Romance, Germanic, Creole, Kwa, Sino-Tibetan). By integrating linguistic theory with empirical methods (experimental, corpus-based, etc.), her work often leads to practical applications, such as refining language policies and developing therapeutic interventions for children with atypical language development.

Dr. Durrleman is currently a professor at the Department of Science and Medicine at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland’s only bilingual university, where she leads a research group of PhD and postdoctoral collaborators exploring bilingualism in both typical and atypical development.