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Hamida Demirdache is professor of linguistics at the University of Nantes, and member of the LLiNG Lab (UMR6310, CNRS/UN). Her interests lie at the syntax, semantics and language acquisition interfaces. Her research seeks to integrate theoretical and experimental methodologies to probe issues at these interfaces across a variety of typologically different adult and child languages. She is particularly interested in understanding how languages express (and children acquire) concepts that are essentially abstract (e.g. tense, quantification) and which all languages convey while showing a widespread variation in the means used to linguistically express them across languages. What are the source and limits of crosslinguistic diversity at these interfaces?

Prof. Arnon is a linguist and developmental psycholinguist. Her main interests are first language acquisition, learning theory, psycholinguistics, and the way cognitive biases impact language emergence and structure. Her research lies at the intersection of Linguistics, Psychology, and Cognitive Science and uses a variety of experimental methods to explore how language is learned and how learning changes as a function of prior knowledge and experience.