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Magda Oiry [email protected] University of Massachusetts, Amherst http://blogs.umass.edu/moiry/home/

Education 2003-2008 PhD in linguistics University of Nantes (France) Dissertation Title: Acquisition of Long-Distance Questions by French native speakers. Direct vs. Indirect strategies and alternative questions. Mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury - with highest honors Supervisor: Professor Hamida Demirdache

Grants and fellowships 2006-2007 Research & teaching grant French ministry of Education and Research. Amount: 12,600 euros

2003-2006 PhD fellowship Doctoral Fellowship & research grant awarded by the French ministry of Education and Research. Amount: 48,600 euros

2002-2003 MA Merit Scholarship Amount: 3780 euros

Teaching positions 2012-2015 Full-time Lecturer Department of Linguistics and Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Massachusetts 2010- 2012 Lecturer Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, French and Italian Unit, University of Massachusetts 2008-2010 Lecturer Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts 2003-2007 PhD fellow instructor Department of Linguistics, University of Nantes

Courses taught 2013-2014 Undergraduate and graduate level courses at the Linguistics and LLC depts Introduction to Syntax 401 Proseminar in Acquisition of Syntax 750: with Kyle Johnson. Advanced Grammar and composition (LLC) French Phonetics (LLC) Professional development

of 6 2012-2013 Undergraduate and graduate level courses Introduction to Syntax 401 Introduction to linguistic theory and the grammar of English 501 French Literature and Speech Forms 597v French 573 Advanced Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages Linguistics 793 Second year seminar: professional development

2011-2012 Undergraduate level courses Intensive Introductory French Intermediate French Phonetics Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Language Acquisition in the Department of Linguistics (with Prof. Thomas Roeper).

2010-2011 Undergraduate and Graduate Level Courses Intensive Introductory French Intermediate French French Literature and Speech Forms

Fall 2009 Undergraduate courses Introduction to Linguistics (twice)

2006-2007 Undergraduate and Graduate courses Language Acquisition (twice) Introduction to Morphology and syntax Linguistic Tools (stylistics and literature)

2005-2006 Undergraduate courses Introduction to Morphology and syntax Linguistic Tools

2004-2005 Undergraduate courses Introduction to Morphology and syntax (twice)

2003-2004 Undergraduate courses Introduction to Phonology & Phonetics Morphology and syntax

of 6 Publications

Books Oiry, M. 2011a. L’acquisition des questions à Longue Distance par des enfants de langue maternelle francaise. Stratégies à dependance directe versus indirecte et questions alternatives. Editions Universitaires Européennes.

Refereed Book Chapters Oiry M. & Roeper T. 2009. How Language Acquisition Reveals Minimalist Symmetry in the Wh-System. Selected papers from the Cyprus Syntaxfest. Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohman and Phoevos Panagiotidis. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 11-28.

Oiry M. & Demirdache H. 2006. “Evidence from L1 Acquisition for the Syntax of Wh- Scope Marking in French”. In The acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages. Language acquisition and language disorders, nº 41. Torrens, V., Escobar, L. (eds.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 289-315.

Journal Articles

In progress. Embedded cleft questions.

In progress. Guilliot, N. and Oiry, M. Some questions (and answers) about cleft sentences.

Oiry, M. 2011b. A case of true optionality: Wh-in-situ patterns like Long Movement in French. Linguistic Analysis (37:1-2) The Optionality of Wh- Movement, Anna Roussou and Christos Vlachos (eds): 112-139.

Dissertation notice Oiry, M. 2011. Acquisition of Long-Distance Questions in French. Language Acquisition 18: 205-207.

Proceedings & Working papers

Demirdache H. & Oiry M. 2008. “On the Syntax and Semantics of Long-Distance Questions in Child French”. Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2007. Edited by Anna Gavarró and M. João Freitas. Cambridge Scholars Publishing : 177-188.

Demirdache H. & Oiry M. 2007. On the Felicity Conditions for Long-Distance Questions in L1 Acquisition. Proceedings of BUCLD 31. Edited by Heather Caunt- Nulton, Samantha Kulatilake and I-Hao Woo. Cascadilla Press: 184-195.

Oiry M. 2006. “Direct versus indirect Wh-scope marking strategies in French child grammar”. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Page 3 of 6 Oiry M. 2004. “Les Questions Exceptionnelles en Français L1”. In Actes du Colloque APLIC.

Manuscripts Oiry, M. (2003) Unpublished MA thesis. La compréhension des questions à Longue Distance. University of Nantes.

Oiry, M. (2002) Unpublished MA thesis. La production des questions à Longue Distance. University of Nantes.

Conference presentations

2014 French embedded clefts. RALFe, Paris 8, Fall 2014.

2013 Each and Every. Workshop on the acquisition of quantification. UMass Amherst. Fall 2013. With Seth Cable, Rama Novogrodsky and Tom Roeper.

2011 With Nicolas Guilliot. Some questions (and answers) about cleft sentences. Talk given at LSRL 41, Ottawa, May 2011.

2009 ‘A case of true optionality: Wh-in-situ patterns like Long Movement in French’. Workshop on the Optionality of Wh-Movement, ISTAL 19, Thessaloniki April 5th.

2008 ‘Acquisition of Long-Distance questions in French L1: varying experimental contexts’. Paper presented at UUSLAW (University of Connecticut, University of Massachusetts, Smith College Language Acquisition Workshop).

2007 “On the syntax and the semantics of Long-Distance questions in Child French”. Paper presented with H. Demirdache at GALA 2007. Barcelona.

2006 “On the felicity conditions for long-distance questions in L1 acquisition”. Paper presented with H. Demirdache at Boston University Conference on Language Development 31 (BUCLD).

2006 ‘Wh- Scope marking in French L1 and their felicitous context’. WoSS 4. Paris VIII.

2006 ‘Wh-Scope Marking and the acquisition of Complementation’. With O. Lungu, H. Demirdache. Paper presented at the Romance Turn II. Utrecht, Pays- Bas.

of 6 2005 ‘Wh-Scope Marking in French L1’. Paper presented at UUSLAW (University of Connecticut, University of Massachusetts, Smith College Language Acquisition Workshop).

2004 On The Syntax Of Exceptional Questions in French L1 Acquisition. Paper presented at The Romance Turn, Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages. Madrid (Spain).

2004 ‘Evidence from L1 Acquisition for the Syntax of Wh- Scope Marking’. Paper presented at the 2nd Student Workshop on Syntax and Semantics (WoSS). Universitat autonoma de Barcelona.

2004 ‘Les Questions Exceptionnelles en Français L1’. Poster presented at the APLIC Conference (Acquisition, Pratiques Langagières, Interactions verbales et Contacts). Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.

Invited talks

“Beyond Theory of Mind and complementation.” Cognitive Brown Bag lunch. Developmental Psychology department at UMass Amherst. Fall 2013

“ Acquisition des questions à longue distance chez les enfants francais à l'interface syntaxe-semantique.” Paris Diderot University (7). Spring 2013.

‘The acquisition of Long-Distance questions: a poverty of stimulus argument.’ University of Maryland. Visit supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to Valentine Hacquard and Jeff Lidz on "Acquiring the semantics and pragmatics of attitude verbs". Fall 2012.

Academic Services Director of Certificate Programs in Linguistics. Romance Liaison for Second Language Acquisition. Professional Development liaison in linguistics.

Review Ad hoc reviewer for: Lingua Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique. Psycholinguistics

Advising

Student Supervision Ph.D.: Maria Turrero (LLC), chair

Masters: Maria Turrero (LLC), chair. Page 5 of 6 Cindy Utama (Student Development), for the Graduate Certificate in Cognitive Science (advisor). Honors thesis: Rebecca Hoell (LLC), chair.

Generals papers: Michael Clauss (Linguistics), member of generals committee. Hannah Greene (Linguistics), member of generals committee