With a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Geneva, my research spans a variety of topics including language acquisition (Creole and Romance), the grammar-cognition interface, the phenotype of language disorders, bilingualism, syntactic cartography as well as syntactic locality. This work links linguistic theory with empirical investigations (both experimental and corpus studies), and also aims to yield concrete applications, such as fine-tuning language policies and therapeutic interventions for atypical language development.