Antoine COCHARD

Sciences du Langage / Linguistics

• L1 - Domaines des Sciences du Langage / 1^st year bachelor - Introduction to Linguistics
• L1 - Questions épistémologiques en Sciences du Langage / 1^st year bachelor - Epistemic questions in Linguistics
• L2 - Acquisition & Psycholinguistique I / 2^nd year bachelor - Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic I
• L3 - Acquisition & Psycholinguistique II / 3^rd year bachelor - Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic II

Thèse de doctorat : "Développement du Langage Logique chez les enfants : études de cas en français L1"
Ph.D. thesis: "Development of Children's Logical Language: Case study in French L1" (supervisors: Hamida Demirdache, Angeliek van Hout) 

• Acquisition / Language Acquition
• Langage logique / Logical Language
• Sémantique et pragmatique expérimentales / Experimental semantics and pragmatics

Articles :

• SOON --> A paper on Child free Choice disjunction.
• van Hout, A., Kisjes, J., Cochard, A., Gulás, M., Hoeksema, J., Pagliarini, E., Slim, M. S., Van Wijk, A., & Surányi, B. (2024). Prosodic disambiguation and the scope ambiguity of sentences with negation and disjunction in Dutch. In TABU (pp. 329–365). University of Groningen Press. DOI: 10.21827/tabu.2023.41281
• Cochard, A., Demirdache, H. & van Hout, A. (2023). Interpreting Disjunction Across Positive and Negative Contexts: Evidence from Child French. Proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Gappmayr. P. & Kellog, J. (eds.). Somerville: Cascadilla Press. (pp. 159-172)

Communications orales et posters : / Talks and posters: 

• Cochard, A., Demirdache, H., & van Hout, A. (2024). Title to be decided. 16^th conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA16). September 12-14. NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisbon.
• Cochard, A., Demirdache, H., & van Hout, A. (2024). “Liz can buy a croissant or a donut… Both together, right?” Distinguishing target Free Choice from non-target Modal AND in Child French. 3rd edition of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM3). June 12-14. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
• Cochard, A., Demirdache, H., & van Hout, A. (2023). “You can buy the croissant or the donut”: that means both, right? Reconsidering children’s interpretation of Free Choice disjunction. 8th Bucharest Colloquium of Langage Acquisition - Workshop on Logical Operators: Theory and Acquisition. November 16-18. University of Bucharest, Bucharest.
• Cochard, A., Demirdache, H., & van Hout, A. (2022). Child disjunction across positive and negative contexts: Evidence from L1 French. Poster presented at the 47^th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD47). November 3-6. Boston University. Boston.
• Quellec, L., & Cochard, A. (2022). Liquids and Obstruent-Liquid clusters: Content and Structure, the view from French children. 18^th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (WoSSP18). October 20-21. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona.
• Cochard, A. (2022). Interpreting OR across positive and negative contexts: Evidence from L1 French. Poster presented at the 18^th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (WoSSP18). October 20-21. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona.
• Cochard, A., Demirdache, H., & van Hout, A. (2022). Interpreting OR across positive and negative contexts: Evidence from L1 French. 15^th conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA15). September 22-24. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt Am Main.

Communications invitées à des colloques et workshops : / Invited presentations at conferences and workshops:

• Cochard, A., van Hout, A, & Demirdache, H. (2024). When Modal Disjunction is interpreted as Modal Conjunction in Child French: "Liz can buy a croissant or a donut…that means both, right?". Free Choice Inferences: Theoretical and experimental approaches. Online. 
• Cochard, A., van Hout, A, & Demirdache, H. (2023). Tracking down French children's free choice disjunction: You can buy a candy or a chocolate...that means both, right?. Post-defense Workshop of Elizabeth Heredia-Murillo. University of Groningen, Groningen.
• Cochard, A., Demirdache, H., van Hout, A., & Hollebrandse, B., (2020). Development of logical language: Toward a unified approach across contexts, OASIS 2.5 Student Workshop, University of Nantes, France.

Communication invitée à des séminaires : / Invited presentation at seminars:

• Cochard, A. (2024). Interpreting modal disjunction as modal conjunction: "You can buy a croissant or a donut: that means both right?". CLCG Syntax Seminar. University of Groningen, Groningen. (April 17th-24th).
• Cochard, A. (2023). Child free choice disjunction: a coin-based innovative design to disentangle "Free Choice" from "Modal Conjunction". CLCG Acquisition Lab Seminar. University of Groningen, Groningen. (June 5th)
• Cochard, A. (2021). The acquisition of logical language: the case of (NEG) OR/AND, results and overview. CLCG Acquisition Lab Seminar. University of Groningen, Groningen. (November 29th- December 6th).
• Cochard, A., Demirdache, H., van Hout, A., & Hollebrandse B., (2020). Free choice disjunction: the conjunction of multiple inferences. CLCG Acquisition Lab Seminar. University of Groningen, Groningen. (November 30th)
• Cochard, A., & Demirdache, H., (2020). Non-adult interpretations of disjunction in positive vs. negative contexts in child L1 French. CLCG Acquisition Lab Seminar. University of Groningen, Groningen. (February 4th-11th)