Laurent Dekydtspotter

Arts and Humanities · Indiana University

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Language Development and Disorders Reading and Literacy Development

Publications

Citations

977

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Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 1992

Research summary

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Laurent Dekydtspotter studies how people acquire and process second languages, with a focus on the grammar (syntax) and meaning (semantics) of complex sentence structures, often in French and English. Much of the work uses brain-recording techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG) to compare how native and non-native speakers handle sentences involving long-distance dependencies (for example, question and pronoun structures). The research combines linguistic theory with the neuroscience of language.

Second-language acquisitionSyntax and semanticsNeurolinguistics and brain oscillations (EEG)Sentence processing in native vs. non-native speakersWh-dependencies and anaphora resolution

Publication activity has been steady over the past decade, averaging around one to two papers per year with occasional busier years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.4/year recently

Recent publications

Dataset for Aperiodic Dynamics for L1 and L2 Processing of French Wh-Dependencies
Indiana University Bloomington Libraries · 2026
Semantics and the Conceptual Component in L2 Acquisition
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026
Aperiodic Dynamics of Cell Assemblies Recruited for L1 and L2 Processing of French Wh-Dependencies Highlight a Temporo-Parietal Engagement in Syntax
Brain Sciences · 2026
Cortical γ-oscillations implement basic language operations: Evidence from electroencephalography in anaphora during english filler-gap dependency processing
PLoS ONE · 2025
Hierarchical neural processing in γ oscillations for syntactic and semantic operations accounts for first- and second-language epistemology
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · 2024
Input Processing in Generative Second Language Acquisition
2024
The timing versus resource problem in nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from a time-frequency analysis of anaphora resolution in successive wh-movement in native and nonnative speakers of French
PLoS ONE · 2023
Minimal brain adaptation for representational prioritization in non-native parsing: Evidence from a time-frequency analysis of recursion in Wh-dependencies in French
Journal of Neurolinguistics · 2021
Inference-based form selection in native and non-native speakers: Evidence from subject-verb agreement error detection in French
Lingua · 2021
On feature-based vocabulary selection mechanisms in late insertion: third person number agreement in the French future tense
Glossa a journal of general linguistics · 2021
When embeddedness matters: Electrophysiological evidence for the role of head noun position in Chinese relative clause processing
Journal of Neurolinguistics · 2019
4. When Nonnative Speakers Show Distinction: Syntax and Task Interactions in Long-Distance Anaphoric Dependencies in French
Multilingual Matters eBooks · 2019
When Nonnative Speakers Show Distinction:
Channel View Publications eBooks · 2019
An Electrophysiological Investigation of Domain-Specific Procedures in (Nonnative) French
2019
Animacy-based processing loads in anaphora resolution in (non-native) French
Studies in bilingualism · 2018

Publishes in

PLoS ONE×2
Journal of Neurolinguistics×2
Multilingual Matters eBooks×1
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience×1
Studies in Second Language Acquisition×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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