Dalila Ayoun

Interests

Teaching

French language, theoretical and applied linguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, translation, interpretation

Research

French applied linguistics, second language acquisition of morpho-syntax (e.g., tense, aspect, mood/modality, grammatical gender) from a generative perspective

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Ayoun, D. (2022). The acquisition of gender. Crosslinguistic perspectives.. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Ayoun, D., Celle, A., & Lansari, L. (2018). Tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality: cross-linguistic perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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  Edited volume from a selection of the papers presented at the international conference we organized in Paris Diderot in the Fall 2016
• Ayoun, D. (2015). The Acquisition of Present Tense, Temporality and Aspect. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Ayoun, D. (2015). The acquisition of the present. Amsterdam: John Benjamin's.

Chapters

• Ayoun, D. (2024).

  Morphological variability in the L2 acquisition of French gender and number

  agreement: a longitudinal study. In The Oxford Handbook of the French Language(pp 658–684). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ayoun, D. (2022). Introduction. Gender, geslag, Geschlecht, γένος, ਲਿੰਗ, 性別.. In The Acquisition of Gender. Crosslinguistic perspectives(pp 1-12). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Ayoun, D. (2022). Introduction. Gender, geslag, Geschlecht, γένος, ਲਿੰਗ, 性別. In The Acquisition of Gender. Crosslinguistic perspectives(pp 1-12). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Ayoun, D., & Maranzana, S. (2022).

  The second language acquisition of grammatical gender and number in Italian

  . In The Acquisition of Gender. Crosslinguistic perspectives,(pp 97–126). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Maranzana, S. (2022).

  The second language acquisition of grammatical gender and

  number in Italian. In The Acquisition of Gender. Crosslinguistic perspectives(pp 97-126). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Ayoun, D. (2019). The L2 acquisition of French tense, aspect and modality: refocusing on the input.. In Grammatical Representations and Processing in L2 Acquisition(pp 47-67). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
• Ayoun, D. (2019). The L2 acquisition of French tense, aspect and modality: refocusing on the input. In Grammatical Representations and Processing in L2 Acquisition. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
• Ayoun, D., Celle, A., & Lansari, L. (2018). Introduction: gradients of TAM-E. In Tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality: cross-linguistic perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Ayoun, D., & Gilbert, C. (2017). The expression of modality in English by Advanced Francophone learners. In Tense-Aspect-Modality in a Second Language. Contemporary perspectives(pp 181-209). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Ayoun, D. (2015). Conclusion and directions for future research. In The Acquisition of the Present(pp 335-340). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Ayoun, D. (2015). There’s no time like the present: a longitudinal case study in L2 French acquisition. In The Acquisition of Present Tense, Temporality and Aspect. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Journals/Publications

• Ayoun, D. (2020). A longitudinal study in the L2 acquisition of the French TAM system.. Languages, 5(4), n/a.
• Ayoun, D., & Maranzana, S. (2020). Grammatical gender in Italian: a corpus study. Italica, 97(2), 306-333.
• Ayoun, D. (2017). Grammatical gender assignment in French: dispelling the native speaker myth. Journal of French Language Studies.

Presentations

• Ayoun, D. (2019, February). The L2 acquisition of French gender and agreement: a longitudinal study. GSO. Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
• Ayoun, D. (2019, March). Gender in French: understanding and misunderstanding galore...so, should we just agree to disagree?. GSO Conference. Indiana University, Bloomington.
• Ayoun, D. (2017, April). The expression of futurity by advanced Francophone EFL and ESL learners. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition. University of Southampton, UK.
• Ayoun, D. (2017, February). “How do Francophone EFL and ESL learners express the future?”. Departmental colloquium. Sciences du Languages, Université de Nantes.
• Ayoun, D. (2017, October). The development of a TAM system in the L2 acquisition of French: a longitudinal case study. Second Language Research Forum. Ohio State University.
• Ayoun, D. (2017, Spring). Le genre grammatical en français et en italien: transparence ou opacité?. Centre de recherches Octogone-Lordat at Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès. Toulouse, France: Centre de recherches Octogone-Lordat.
• Ayoun, D. (2018, June). Let’s agree to disagree: l’accord en genre chez les locuteurs natifs du français. Association of French Language Studies conference (international). Toulouse, France: AFLS.
• Ayoun, D. (2018, June). The acquisition of English modal auxiliaries by advanced Francophone learners. Chronos International Conference. Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Chronos.
• Ayoun, D. (2018, May). Back to basics: refocusing on the input in the L2 acquisition of French morphosyntax. Invited talk, Bilingualism Reading Group. University of Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh.
• Ayoun, D. (2018, May). The acquisition of English modal auxiliaries by advanced Francophone learners. Invited talk, Linguistic Circle, University of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh.
• Ayoun, D., & Maranzana, S. (2017, October). The L2 acquisition of Italian grammatical gender and number by Anglophone learners. Second Language Research Forum. Ohio State University.
• Ayoun, D. (2016, August). Looking back, looking forward: grammatical gender in L2 and NS French. EUROSLA conference. Jyväskylä, Finland: EUROSLA.
• Ayoun, D. (2016, June). A longitudinal study in the L2 acquisition of French morphosyntax by English NSs, Spanish and French heritage speakers. Chronos conference. Université de Caen: CRISCO Université de Caen.
• Ayoun, D. (2016, June). Le passé simple et le subjonctif font de la résistance…le PQP prend le maquis. Association of French Language Studies conference. University of Belfast: AFLS.
• Ayoun, D. (2016, March). Le genre grammatical en français: particularités et singularités. LingLunch Colloquium. Université Paris Diderot: Department of Linguistics.
• Ayoun, D. (2016, May). Recentrage sur les DLPS: étude longitudinale sur l’acquisition de la morphosyntaxe en français L2. Journée d'étude sur le bilinguisme. Université Paris Diderot: Université Paris Diderot.
• Ayoun, D. (2016, October). Shouldn’t the input matter? A longitudinal study in L2 morphosyntax. Invited talk. University of Reading.
• Ayoun, D. (2015, June). Refocusing on the input: a longitudinal study in the acquisition of morphosyntax in L2 French. Annual conference AFLS. Caen, France: AFLS.
• Ayoun, D. (2015, March). Le genre grammatical en français langue maternel: analyse diachronique. Annual AAAL conference. Toronto, Canada: AAAL.
• Ayoun, D. (2014, March). The L2 acquisition of French grammatical gender and agreement: a longitudinal study. American Association of Applied Linguistics. Portland: AAAL.
• Ayoun, D. (2014, Summer). The L2 acquisition of French morpho-syntax: a longitudinal study. Invited talk. York, England: University of York.
• Gilbert, C. (2014, March). The expression of modality by advanced francophone EFL and ESL learners. SLAT Roundtable. University of Arizona: SLAT.
• Gilbert, C. (2014, May). The expression of modality by advanced francophone EFL and ESL learners. Colloquium on the Expression of Temporality by L2 Learners of French and English. Montpellier, France: Université Montpellier 3.
• Maranzana, S. (2014, March). Grammatical gender and agreement in Italian: a corpus study. SLAT Roundtable. University of Arizona: SLAT.

Poster Presentations

• Ayoun, D. (2018, March). The L2 French acquisition of grammatical gender and phonology: a longitudinal study. American Association of Applied Linguistics international conference. Chicago: AAAL.
• Ayoun, D., & Maranzana, S. (2016, September). Grammatical gender and agreement in Italian: a corpus study. American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference. Iowa State University: Iowa State University.