Juliette THUILIER

Juliette THUILIER is a Lecturer in the Department of Language Sciences at Toulouse Jean Jaurès University (UT2J), where she maintains offices at both the CLLE-ERSS Research House (B505) and the UFR LLCE (LA375). She is an active member of the LL (Languages and Language) team within the CLLE Laboratory (Cognition, Languages, Ergonomics).

Her research focuses on syntax and morphosyntax, with particular attention to syntactic variations, phenomena of syntactic alternation, and corpus data in syntax (especially oral corpora). THUILIER employs quantitative and experimental approaches to investigate linguistic phenomena, frequently examining word order patterns in French including adjective placement and postverbal complement ordering.

Her recent publications reveal a strong methodological trend combining corpus analysis with experimental techniques such as acceptability judgment tasks and sentence production experiments. Her work spans theoretical syntax, experimental linguistics, and quantitative approaches, often investigating how factors like animacy, semantic roles, prototypicality, and dependency length influence syntactic choices. While primarily focused on French, her research also includes cross-linguistic comparisons, such as her work comparing French and Serbian adjective placement.

THUILIER teaches across multiple academic levels: L1 Diversity of languages, L2 Syntax of the simple sentence, L3 Syntax of the complex sentence, L3 Theoretical syntax, L3 Lexical morphology, Master Experimental syntax, and Master Prosody and syntax/prosody interface.

She is deeply integrated with the CLLE Laboratory, contributing to research on language cognition and ergonomics through numerous collaborations with researchers across various institutions. Her work demonstrates a commitment to bridging theoretical syntax with empirical data collection methods, providing valuable insights into syntactic variation and the cognitive processes underlying language production.