Research Interests: Cristina Dye holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University with a specialization in syntax and first language acquisition and a minor in cognitive science. Her research interests span linguistic theory, typical and atypical language acquisition and development, and the neurocognition of language. Her main work has been on the first language acquisition of grammatical categories, especially auxiliaries. Dr. Dye is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to language acquisition, that is, approaches that merge advances from linguistic theory with methodologies from experimental psychology and recent developments in brain imaging techniques. Her work has been informed by cross-linguistic comparisons involving English and the Romance languages (in particular, French, Romanian, Italian, and Spanish).

In current work, she is focusing on the development of language in child populations with Tourette's Syndrome, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Dyslexia, and Specific Language Impairment (SLI).

Dye, C., Walenski, M., Mostofsky, S. H., & Ullman, M.T. (Under Review). Storage and composition of inflected forms in children and adults: A study of frequency and imageability effects.

Lust, B., Foley, C. & Dye, C. "The Acquisition of Complex Sentences." The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language, ed. by E. L. Bavin. Cambridge University Press. 237-258. 2009.

Hoffmann,I., Nemeth, D., Dye, C., Pakaski, M., Irinyi T. & Kalman, J. "Temporal Parameters of Spontaneous Speech in Alzheimer's Disease." International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 2009.

Dye, C. D., Nemeth, D., Walenski, M., Mostofsky, S. H., & Ullman, M. T. (2008). Interactions between language and memory in Tourette's Syndrome: New evidence. Paper presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

D. Nemeth, Dye, C., Gardian, G., Londe, Z., Klivenyi, P., Sefcsik, T., Ambrus, G., Lukacs, A., Vecsei, L. & Ullman M.T. (2008) Functional morphology in pre-symptomatic Huntington's Disease: Evidence from Hungarian. Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Western Conference on Linguistics. pp. 241-251.

Dye, C. (2006). A- and Ā-Movement in Romanian Supine Constructions. Linguistic Inquiry, 37(4), 665-674.

Dye, C. (2005). The Status of Ostensibly Nonfinite Matrix Verbs in Child French: Results from a New Corpus. In Brujos, A., Clark-Cotton, M. R., and Ha, S. (eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 168-179). Boston, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Dye, C. (2002). Optional Infinitives or Silent Auxes? New Evidence from Romance. In Bok-Bennema, R., Hollebrandse, B., Kampers-Manhe, B., and Sleeman, P. (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected Papers from 'Going Romance' 2002, Groningen, 28-30 November (pp. 83-98). Amsterdam: Benjamins.