Maud Pélissier

Maud Pélissier

Maître de Conférences (Permanent lecturer) in Psycholinguistics and Second Language Acquisition

Université Paris Cité

CLILLAC-ARP

Department of English studies

Labex Empirical Foundations of Linguistics

About me

I am a Maître de Conférences (~Permanent lecturer) in psycholinguistics and second language acquisition at Université Paris Cité. My studies in English linguistics and cognitive science have led me to focus my research on the cognitive aspects of the acquisition and processing of English as a foreign language.

Interests
  • L2 acquisition (syntax, morphosyntax, lexical stress)
  • Electrophysiological correlates of L2 processing (ERPs)
  • Bilingual reading
Education
  • PhD in English linguistics, 2018

    Université Paris Diderot

  • MSc in Cognitive Science, 2014

    EHESS, ENS, Université Paris Descartes

  • MA in English Language Teaching and Didactics, 2012

    ENS Cachan

Other recent publications

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(2022). Dominance shift during the stay-abroad experience: a tip-of-the-tongue experiment. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Experimental Linguistics.

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(2022). Surprise questions in spoken French. In Linguistics Vanguard.

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Projects

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GLITCH

GLITCH

A project investigating the impact of retrieval and spaced practice on L2 English grammar learning and the role of declarative and procedural memory.

INTEGRAL

INTEGRAL

A project investigating the impact of interleaving practice on the acquisition of inversion in main vs. embedded questions in L2 English by French learners.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Maître de Conférences (~Permanent Lecturer)
Oct 2020 – Present Paris, France
Research and teaching position. Teaching psycholinguistics and English didactics.
 
 
 
 
 
Visiting researcher
Jan 2023 – Jun 2023 Kristiansand, Norway
EEG research on non-native contrast perception.
 
 
 
 
 
Post-doctoral researcher
Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 Kristiansand, Norway
Eye-tracking research on form-priming in bilingual reading.
 
 
 
 
 
Post-doctoral researcher
Nov 2018 – Sep 2019 Paris, France
EEG research on mismatches between accent and message.
 
 
 
 
 
Doctoral researcher
Sep 2014 – Aug 2018 Paris, France
PhD thesis: “Effects of explicit and implicit training on the acquisition of English syntax by French learners: an ERP study” under the supervision of Emmanuel Ferragne and Agnès Celle.