Maud Pélissier

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

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

Featured Publications

Multidimensional Signals and Analytic Flexibility: Estimating Degrees of Freedom in Human-Speech Analyses

Recent empirical studies have highlighted the large degree of analytic flexibility in data analysis that can lead to substantially …

Stefano Coretta, Joseph V. Casillas, Maud Pélissier, et al, Timo Roettger

Multidimensional Signals and Analytic Flexibility: Estimating Degrees of Freedom in Human-Speech Analyses

Competition between form-related words in bilingual sentence reading: Effects of language proficiency

Sentence reading involves constant competition between lexical candidates. Previous research with monolinguals has shown that the …

Maud Pélissier, Dag Haugland, Bjørn Handeland, Beatrice Zitong Urland, Linda Wheeldon, Allison Wetterlin, Steven Frisson

Competition between form-related words in bilingual sentence reading: Effects of language proficiency

The N400 reveals implicit accent-induced prejudice

In this paper, we examine what happens in the electrical activity of the brain when what the speaker says does not match their accent. Results show that these mismatches trigger an N400, a component usually associated with semantic violations, as well as a P3, a component related to the updating of expectations.

Maud Pélissier, Emmanuel Ferragne

The N400 reveals implicit accent-induced prejudice

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Victoria Kamp, Maud Pélissier (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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Agnes Celle, Maud Pélissier (2022). Surprise questions in spoken French. In Linguistics Vanguard.

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Maud Pélissier (2020). Comparing ERPs between native speakers and second language learners: Dealing with individual variability. In Interpreting language learning data.

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Upcoming talks

Exploring the Foreign Language Effect: A Study on Emotional Responses to Taboo Words

We will present the results of a study the autonomous reaction to swear words in L1 French and L2 English, as measured by electrodermal activity.

Wed 15 May, 2024 09:00 — Fri 17 May, 2024 17:00 Lyon France

Victoria Kamp, Maud Pélissier, Emmanuel Ferragne

Past talks

To voice or not to voice: cross-linguistic effects on phonological representations

Fri 23 Feb, 2024 09:30 Stockholm, Sweden

Projects

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

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)

Université de Paris, Laboratoire CLILLAC-ARP

Oct 2020 – Present Paris, France

Teaching in psycholinguistics and English didactics.

Visiting researcher

Universitetet i Agder, Experimental Linguistics Lab

Jan 2023 – Jun 2023 Kristiansand, Norway

EEG research on non-native contrast perception.

Post-doctoral researcher

Universitetet i Agder, Experimental Linguistics Lab

Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 Kristiansand, Norway

Eye-tracking research on form-priming in bilingual reading.

Post-doctoral researcher

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, LPP

Nov 2018 – Sep 2019 Paris, France

EEG research on mismatches between accent and message.

Doctoral researcher

Université Paris Diderot

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.