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Phaedra Royle

ResearcherLanguage AcquisitionUniversité de Montréal

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Phaedra Royle

Researcher

Language Acquisition

Université de Montréal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
4 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (6 SSHRC), most recently in 2022.

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Research

morphosyntax syntax lexical-semantics cognition auditory processing bilingualism adolescence event-related brain potentials (ERPS)

Latest papers

Oral language abilities in French-speaking children from highly multicultural and low socio-economic status environments.
Clinical linguistics & phonetics · 2026 · first author
Investigation of Lexical and Inflectional Verb Production and Comprehension in French-Speaking Teenagers with Developmental Language Disorders (DLDs).
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025 · senior author
Number agreement processing in adolescents with and without developmental language disorder (DLD): evidence from event-related brain potentials.
Scientific reports · 2023

All 11 publications

Latest funding

Language Acquisition and Processing in Teen and Adult L1 and L2
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$199,976
Language Acquisition and Processing in Teen and Adult L1 and L2
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$67,137
Aging and the time-course of morphology for reading in French
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$148,472

All 11 grants and awards

11 publications.

Oral language abilities in French-speaking children from highly multicultural and low socio-economic status environments.

Royle P, Marquis A, Rvachew S

Clinical linguistics & phonetics2026First author

DOI: 10.1080/02699206.2026.2615069 PMID: 41593861

Investigation of Lexical and Inflectional Verb Production and Comprehension in French-Speaking Teenagers with Developmental Language Disorders (DLDs).

Pourquié M, Courteau E, Duquette AS, Royle P

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2025Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/bs15091252 PMID: 41009282

Number agreement processing in adolescents with and without developmental language disorder (DLD): evidence from event-related brain potentials.

Courteau É, Royle P, Steinhauer K

Scientific reports2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49121-1 PMID: 38129437

The Multilingual Picture Database.

Duñabeitia JA, Baciero A, Antoniou K, Antoniou M, Ataman E, Baus C, Ben-Shachar M, Çağlar OC, Chromý J, Comesaña M, Filip M, Đurđević DF, Dowens MG, Hatzidaki A, Januška J, Jusoh Z, Kanj R, Kim SY, Kırkıcı B, Leminen A, Lohndal T, Yap NT, Renvall H, Rothman J, Royle P, Santesteban M, Sevilla Y, Slioussar N, Vaughan-Evans A, Wodniecka Z, Wulff S, Pliatsikas C

Scientific data2022

DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01552-7 PMID: 35864133

Corrigendum: Eliciting ERP Components for Morphosyntactic Agreement Mismatches in Perfectly Grammatical Sentences.

Courteau É, Martignetti L, Royle P, Steinhauer K

Frontiers in psychology2020

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00860 PMID: 32431650

Growing Random Forests reveals that exposure and proficiency best account for individual variability in L2 (and L1) brain potentials for syntax and semantics.

Fromont LA, Royle P, Steinhauer K

Brain and language2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104770 PMID: 32114146

Verbing nouns and nouning verbs: Using a balanced design provides ERP evidence against "syntax-first" approaches to sentence processing.

Fromont LA, Steinhauer K, Royle P

PloS one2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229169 PMID: 32168357

Eliciting ERP Components for Morphosyntactic Agreement Mismatches in Perfectly Grammatical Sentences.

Courteau É, Martignetti L, Royle P, Steinhauer K

Frontiers in psychology2019

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01152 PMID: 31312150

The priming of priming: Evidence that the N400 reflects context-dependent post-retrieval word integration in working memory.

Steinhauer K, Royle P, Drury JE, Fromont LA

Neuroscience letters2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.05.007 PMID: 28483650

Speech articulation performance of francophone children in the early school years: norming of the Test de Dépistage Francophone de Phonologie.

Rvachew S, Marquis A, Brosseau-Lapré F, Paul M, Royle P, Gonnerman LM

Clinical linguistics & phonetics2013

DOI: 10.3109/02699206.2013.830149 PMID: 24093160

Language Acquisition and Processing in Teen and Adult L1 and L2

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Royle, Phaedra

Keywords: bilingualism; adolescence; event-related brain potentials (ERPS); morphosyntax; syntax; lexical-semantics; cognition; auditory processing

$199,976

Language Acquisition and Processing in Teen and Adult L1 and L2

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Royle, Phaedra

Keywords: bilingualism; adolescence; event-related brain potentials (ERPS); morphosyntax; syntax; lexical-semantics; cognition; auditory processing

$67,137

Aging and the time-course of morphology for reading in French

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Wilson, Maximiliano A.

Keywords: morphology; aging; reading; semantics; orthography; ERPs; priming

$148,472

L’HYPOTHÈSE LEXICALISTE ET LA REPRÉSENTATION MENTALE DES NOMS DÉVERBAUX

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Valois, Daniel

Keywords: (1) syntaxe théorique; (2) linguistique expérimentale; (3) structure d'argument; (4) représentation mentale du langage; (5) phrase et syntagme nominal; (6) amorçage bimodal

$44,350

Tracking language acquisition and processing in specific language impairment

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Royle, Phaedra

Keywords: specific language impairment; event-related brain potentials ERPs; morphosyntax; syntax; lexical-semantics; cognition; music; phonology; auditory processing

$318,659

Re-evaluating the temporal dynamics of syntactic online processing: towards an ecologically valid model

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Steinhauer, Karsten

Keywords: psycholinguistics; neurolinguistics; linguistic theory; syntax-semantics and syntax-prosody interfaces; event-related brain potentials ERP; magneto-encephalography MEG

$482,335

Eye movement studies of first and second language idiom processing

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Titone, Debra A.

Keywords: idiomatic language; cross-linguistic comparison; first and second language processing; reading; eye movement measures

$133,623

Tracking the acquisition of syntax and semantics in French noun phrases: a theoretical, behavioral and electrophysiological approach

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Royle, Phaedra

Keywords: language acquisition; evoked response potentials; agreement; determinancy; specific language impairment

$155,787

Une étude oculométrique de l'impact de la morphologie en lecture

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Research Development Initiatives

Principal investigators: Royle, Phaedra

Keywords: morphologie; lecture; oculométrie

$38,300

Acquisition of adjective agreement in Spanish children with and without language impairment

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Royle, Phaedra

Keywords: language acquisition; language disorders; complex noun phrase (DP); morphosyntax; Spanish

$122,159

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Phaedra Royle

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Oral language abilities in French-speaking children from highly multicultural and low socio-economic status environments.

Investigation of Lexical and Inflectional Verb Production and Comprehension in French-Speaking Teenagers with Developmental Language Disorders (DLDs).

Number agreement processing in adolescents with and without developmental language disorder (DLD): evidence from event-related brain potentials.

The Multilingual Picture Database.

Corrigendum: Eliciting ERP Components for Morphosyntactic Agreement Mismatches in Perfectly Grammatical Sentences.

Growing Random Forests reveals that exposure and proficiency best account for individual variability in L2 (and L1) brain potentials for syntax and semantics.

Verbing nouns and nouning verbs: Using a balanced design provides ERP evidence against "syntax-first" approaches to sentence processing.

Eliciting ERP Components for Morphosyntactic Agreement Mismatches in Perfectly Grammatical Sentences.

The priming of priming: Evidence that the N400 reflects context-dependent post-retrieval word integration in working memory.

Speech articulation performance of francophone children in the early school years: norming of the Test de Dépistage Francophone de Phonologie.

Language Acquisition and Processing in Teen and Adult L1 and L2

Language Acquisition and Processing in Teen and Adult L1 and L2

Aging and the time-course of morphology for reading in French

L’HYPOTHÈSE LEXICALISTE ET LA REPRÉSENTATION MENTALE DES NOMS DÉVERBAUX

Tracking language acquisition and processing in specific language impairment

Re-evaluating the temporal dynamics of syntactic online processing: towards an ecologically valid model

Eye movement studies of first and second language idiom processing

Tracking the acquisition of syntax and semantics in French noun phrases: a theoretical, behavioral and electrophysiological approach

Une étude oculométrique de l'impact de la morphologie en lecture

Acquisition of adjective agreement in Spanish children with and without language impairment

Frequent collaborators

Karsten Steinhauer

Susan Rvachew

Emilie Courteau

Phaedra Royle

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Oral language abilities in French-speaking children from highly multicultural and low socio-economic status environments.

Investigation of Lexical and Inflectional Verb Production and Comprehension in French-Speaking Teenagers with Developmental Language Disorders (DLDs).

Number agreement processing in adolescents with and without developmental language disorder (DLD): evidence from event-related brain potentials.

The Multilingual Picture Database.

Corrigendum: Eliciting ERP Components for Morphosyntactic Agreement Mismatches in Perfectly Grammatical Sentences.

Growing Random Forests reveals that exposure and proficiency best account for individual variability in L2 (and L1) brain potentials for syntax and semantics.

Verbing nouns and nouning verbs: Using a balanced design provides ERP evidence against "syntax-first" approaches to sentence processing.

Eliciting ERP Components for Morphosyntactic Agreement Mismatches in Perfectly Grammatical Sentences.

The priming of priming: Evidence that the N400 reflects context-dependent post-retrieval word integration in working memory.

Speech articulation performance of francophone children in the early school years: norming of the Test de D&#xe9;pistage Francophone de Phonologie.

Language Acquisition and Processing in Teen and Adult L1 and L2

Language Acquisition and Processing in Teen and Adult L1 and L2

Aging and the time-course of morphology for reading in French

L’HYPOTHÈSE LEXICALISTE ET LA REPRÉSENTATION MENTALE DES NOMS DÉVERBAUX

Tracking language acquisition and processing in specific language impairment

Re-evaluating the temporal dynamics of syntactic online processing: towards an ecologically valid model

Eye movement studies of first and second language idiom processing

Tracking the acquisition of syntax and semantics in French noun phrases: a theoretical, behavioral and electrophysiological approach

Une étude oculométrique de l'impact de la morphologie en lecture

Acquisition of adjective agreement in Spanish children with and without language impairment

Frequent collaborators

Karsten Steinhauer

Susan Rvachew

Emilie Courteau

Speech articulation performance of francophone children in the early school years: norming of the Test de Dépistage Francophone de Phonologie.