Prof. emerita Susanne Carroll
Positions
Adjunct Professor, Linguistics
Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
B.A. Linguistics, York University, 1975
Doctor of Philosophy Linguistics, Université de Montréal, 1981
M.A. Linguistics, Université de Montréal, 1978
Research
Areas of Research
My research covers both first and second language acquisition, in children and adults. But adults are my favourite learners, especially in the early stages of exposure.
Like all serious language acquisition researchers, my work begins with models and theories of human natural languages. My research career began with a doctoral thesis on French syntax, specifically left and right dislocations, constructions that are mediated by propositional semantics, Information Structure, and language-in-use factors (=def pragmatics). My acquisition research has investigated French gender assignment, grammatical number, classifiers, and the segmentation of sound-forms (which touches on intonation, stress and cliticization processes, and phonological templates).
I have used a variety of research methods, including corpus analysis and experimentation. In particular, I have conducted many studies on adults exposed to a language for the first time in a laboratory setting. Most of this research has something to do with the topic "input to learning mechanisms", which connects to general theories of learning based on associative, distributional, and statistical learning --- and from there to core issues in psychology.
Publications
- What absolute beginners learn from input: From laboratory to classroom research. Susanne E. Carroll & Angela George. Instructed Second Language Acquisition 2(2): . 112-136. (2019)
- Second language processing of English mass-count nouns by native speakers of Korean. Danica MacDonald and Susanne E. Carroll. Glossa 3(1). 1-27. (2018)
- Learning exponents of number on first exposure to an L2. Susanne E. Carroll and Elizabeth Widjaja. Second Language Research 29(2). 201-229. (2013)
- Exposure and input in bilingual language acquisition. Susanne E. Carroll. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition 20(1). 3-16. (2017)
- Constructed language and constructed languages in language acquisition studies: Similarities and differences between natural, lab, and artificial languages. Susanne Carroll and Lindsay Hracs. In J.W. Windsor & Alison Long (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Constructed Languages. 294-339. (2026)
- Input processing in Conceptual Semantics. Susanne Carroll and Lindsay Hracs. In Wynne Wong & Joe Barcroft (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Input Processing. 87-102. (2024)
- Language and Situation: language varieties and their social contexts. Michael Gregory and Susanne Carroll. Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). (2020)
- Input and evidence: The raw material of second language acquisition. Susanne E. Carroll. John Benjamins. (2001)
- Language and Situation: language varieties and their social contexts. Michael Gregory and Susanne Carroll. Routledge and Kegan Paul. (1978)
- Lenguaje y situación: variedades del lenguaje y sus contextos sociales. Michael Gregory and Susanne Carroll, translated by Leonardo Rodriguez. Fondo de cultura económica. (1986)
- ‘Acquisition’ in grammatical development: What does word order tell us? . Susanne E. Carroll. In E. Rinke & T. Kupisch (eds.), The development of grammar. Language acquisition and diachronic change in honour of Jürgen M. Meisel. 19-46. (2019)
- Input and SLA: Adults’ sensitivity to different sorts of cues to French gender. Susanne E. Carroll. In R. DeKeyser (ed.), Grammatical Development in Language Learning. Best of Language Learning Series. Blackwell. 79-138. (2005)
- Segmental targets versus lexical interference: Production of second-language targets on first exposure with minimal training. Susanne E. Carroll & Joseph W. Windsor. In Hagen Peukert (ed.), Transfer effects in multilingual language development. HSLD4. 53-85. (2015)
- Processing ‘words’ in early stage SLA: A comparison of first exposure and early stage learners. Susanne E. Carroll. In ZH. Han & R. Rast (eds.), First exposure to a second language: Learners' initial input processing. 107-138. (2014)
- First exposure learners make use of top-down lexical knowledge when learning new words. Susanne E. Carroll. In K. Braunmüller, & C. Gabriel (eds.), HSM13 Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, John Benjamins. 23-46. (2012)
- Learning classifiers on first exposure to a second language. Susanne E. Carroll and Lindsay Hracs. In In M. Guertin, Y. Léveillé & R. Pinsonneault (eds.), Actes du Colloque 50 ans de linguistique à UQAM : Regards croisés sur les enjeux de la linguistique. 51-63. (2024)
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The list of publications focuses on (a) most recent, and (b) most important publications. For a complete list see my info. in Google Scholar.
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