Language, Interaction and Acquisition | Langage, Interaction et Acquisition
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LIA
is a bilingual English-French journal that publishes original theoretical and empirical research of high scientific quality at the forefront of current debates concerning language acquisition. It covers all facets of language acquisition among different types of learners and in diverse learning situations, with particular attention to oral speech and/or to signed languages. Topics include the acquisition of one or more foreign languages, of one or more first languages, and of sign languages, as well as learners’ use of gestures during speech; the relationship between language and cognition during acquisition; bilingualism and situations of linguistic contact – for example pidginisation and creolisation. The bilingual nature of LIA aims at reaching readership in a wide international community, while simultaneously continuing to attract intellectual and linguistic resources stemming from multiple scientific traditions in Europe, thereby remaining faithful to its original French anchoring. LIA is the direct descendant of the French-speaking journal AILE.
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Latest articles
14 November 2024
Children’s multimodal participation in interactions and dialogues across different activities in an early
childhood education and care setting
Stéphanie Caët, Marine Le Mené & Caroline Masson | LIA 15:1 (2024) pp. 57–94
Child activity contexts and language environments: Perspective from daylong audio recordings of American English-speaking children
Ludivine Glas, Kiana Chubey & Melanie Soderstrom | LIA 15:1 (2024) pp. 24–56
Engaging children in activities and interactions: What strategies do educators use in early childhood education and
care?
Caroline Masson, Tiphanie Bertin, Karine Martel, Anne Salazar Orvig, Christine da Silva-Genest & Eloïse Chartier | LIA 15:1 (2024) p. 95
Conversations in early childhood education and care centres: The role of recasts in the co-construction of meaning and the acquisition of language features
Naomi Yamaguchi, Tiphanie Bertin & Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel | LIA 15:1 (2024) pp. 158–188
La participation des enfants lors des interactions entre parents et
professionnel·le·s dans les structures d’accueil de la petite
enfance : Les phénomènes d’adressage
Marianne Zogmal & Stéphanie Garcia | LIA 15:1 (2024) pp. 130–157
Interaction and language acquisition in non-family settings
Caroline Masson | LIA 15:1 (2024) pp. 13–23
Interactions et acquisition du langage en milieu extrafamilial
Caroline Masson | LIA 15:1 (2024) pp. 1–12
22 March 2024
Lending a hand to speech: Gestures help fluency and increase pitch in second language speakers
Federica Cavicchio & Maria Grazia Busà | LIA 14:2 (2023) pp. 218–246
Another voice for another language? The impact of language on vocal register
Lucie Drouillet, Corine Astésano & Charlotte Alazard-Guiu | LIA 14:2 (2023) pp. 247–279
Fluctuations des émotions éprouvées par des apprenants débutants dans cinq cours de Français Langue
Etrangère : Une étude de cas multiples
Delphine Guedat-Bittighoffer & Jean-Marc Dewaele | LIA 14:2 (2023) pp. 280–306
Effets du feedback correctif écrit direct et indirect sur la réécriture du texte et les subséquentes
productions d’apprenants de l’italien LV3 au lycée
Francesca La Russa | LIA 14:2 (2023) pp. 191–217
Joint actions affect infants’ cognitive word–object processing
Eugenia Wildt | LIA 14:2 (2023) pp. 167–190
27 October 2023
Conceptual transfer: Roots, assumptions, and current scope
Scott Jarvis | LIA 14:1 (2023) pp. 14–40
Crosslinguistic differences in initial word
recognition: A comparative study of French learners of Polish and Arabic
Hedi Majdoub, Marzena Watorek, Rebekah Rast & Pascale Trévisiol | LIA 14:1 (2023) p. 75
The impact of the cognitive effects of L1 orthographic depth and
morphological complexity on L2 French morphographic processing
Vera Serrau, Cecilia Gunnarsson-Largy & Pierre Largy | LIA 14:1 (2023) pp. 127–166
Language-specific principles of discourse conceptualization in L2
English
Marianne Starren | LIA 14:1 (2023) pp. 106–126
Always trust your gut? A case study on the differential impact of French as L1/L2 on Italian L3 tense-aspect judgments
Francesco Vallerossa & Camilla Bardel | LIA 14:1 (2023) pp. 41–74
Conceptual transfer, (re)conceptualisation and other cognitive aspects of crosslinguistic influence in L2
acquisition
Cecilia Gunnarsson-Largy | LIA 14:1 (2023) pp. 1–6
Transfert conceptuel, (re)conceptualisation et quelques autres aspects cognitifs de l’influence translinguistique dans
l’acquisition d’une L2
Cecilia Gunnarsson-Largy | LIA 14:1 (2023) p. 7
23 February 2023
Why Second Language Acquisition of sign languages matters to general SLA research
Marianne Gullberg | LIA 13:2 (2022) pp. 231–253
Measuring language dominance in bilinguals with two sign languages
Dag Johan Lindeberg | LIA 13:2 (2022) pp. 175–198
Second language acquisition of depicting signs: A corpus-based account
Krister Schönström & Johanna Mesch | LIA 13:2 (2022) pp. 199–230
SLA2
: Linking the domains of Second Language Acquisition and Sign Language Acquisition
Krister Schönström & Chloë Marshall | LIA 13:2 (2022) pp. 145–158
« SLA2 » : Ou comment relier acquisition des langues secondes et acquisition des langues des signes
Krister Schönström & Chloë Marshall | LIA 13:2 (2022) pp. 159–174
24 August 2022
Numeral form selection and accommodation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
Wafi Fhaid Alshammari | LIA 13:1 (2022) pp. 29–62
Word order in the input to Argentinian Spanish-learning children: How reliable as a cue to clause transitivity?
Cynthia Pamela Audisio, Macarena Sol Quiroga, María Laura Ramírez & Celia Renata Rosemberg | LIA 13:1 (2022) p. 93
L’acquisition des objets directs et indirects en français L1
Sophia Bello & Mihaela Pirvulescu | LIA 13:1 (2022) pp. 63–92
Under the surface: A survey of principles of language use in advanced L2 speakers
Monique Lambert, Christiane von Stutterheim, Mary Carroll & Johannes Gerwien | LIA 13:1 (2022) pp. 1–28
Audiovisual input in L2 learning
Carmen Muñoz | LIA 13:1 (2022) pp. 125–143
31 January 2022
Second language acquisition of evidentiality in French and English in a narrative task
Pascale Leclercq & Eric Mélac | LIA 12:2 (2021) pp. 251–283
The /s/ ~ /z/ voice contrast in L1 French, L1 Spanish and L1 Italian learners of L2 English
Paolo Mairano, Leonardo Contreras Roa, Marc Capliez & Caroline Bouzon | LIA 12:2 (2021) pp. 210–250
The development of morpho-syntactic productivity in Italian-speaking children
Luca Miorelli & Ewa Dąbrowska | LIA 12:2 (2021) pp. 185–209
Language aptitude, language interaction and age of language learning: One researcher’s recent perspective
David Singleton & Colin J. Flynn | LIA 12:2 (2021) pp. 284–305
27 July 2021
Analyzing variability in L2 ultimate attainment
David Birdsong | LIA 12:1 (2021) pp. 133–156
Neuroplasticity of second language vocabulary acquisition: The role of linguistic experience in individual learning
Frédéric Isel | LIA 12:1 (2021) pp. 54–81
Adaptive functions of neurobehavioral plasticity in language learning and processing: A life span perspective
Michèle Kail | LIA 12:1 (2021) pp. 20–53
Capturing the variation in language experience to understand language processing and learning
Judith F. Kroll, Andrea Takahesu Tabori & Christian Navarro-Torres | LIA 12:1 (2021) p. 82
Language attrition: A matter of brain plasticity? Some preliminary thoughts
Barbara Köpke | LIA 12:1 (2021) pp. 110–132
Parameter setting and acceleration: Subject omissions in a trilingual child with special reference to French
Elena Scalise, Johanna Stahnke & Natascha Müller | LIA 12:1 (2021) pp. 157–184
Thèmes à la pointe du domaine « Langage, Plasticité, et Apprentissage »
Michèle Kail & Frédéric Isel | LIA 12:1 (2021) pp. 10–19
Language, plasticity, and learning: Challenges at the forefront of research
Michèle Kail & Frédéric Isel | LIA 12:1 (2021) pp. 1–9
25 November 2020
The processing of passive sentences in German: Evidence from an eye-tracking study with seven- and ten-year-olds and adults
Valentina Cristante & Sarah Schimke | LIA 11:2 (2020) pp. 163–195
L’Hypothèse d’Isochronie Syllabique Initiale appliquée au français L2 : Une comparaison des caractéristiques rythmiques du français L2, du français L1 et du suédois L1
Hugues Engel | LIA 11:2 (2020) pp. 268–297
Word formation in the earliest stages of L2 Polish: The use of derivational morphology in reference to human entities
Jacopo Saturno | LIA 11:2 (2020) pp. 232–267
« Et le chien aussi i’ regarde » : Particule additive aussi et structure informationnelle en français L2
Britta Thörle | LIA 11:2 (2020) pp. 298–324
L’émergence du figement dans la production langagière précoce : Une comparaison français – arabe tunisien
Sameh Yaiche, Isabelle Maillochon & Dominique Bassano | LIA 11:2 (2020) pp. 196–231
4 June 2020
A processability approach to the development of case in L2 Icelandic
María Garðarsdóttir & Sigríður Þorvaldsdóttir | LIA 11:1 (2020) pp. 68–98
L2 Spanish clitic pronouns: A dynamic system
Meghann M. Peace | LIA 11:1 (2020) p. 99
The emergence of functional case marking in initial varieties of Polish L2
Jacopo Saturno & Marzena Watorek | LIA 11:1 (2020) pp. 32–67
The acquisition of German declension in additive and concept-based approaches to instruction via computer-based
cognitive tutors
Daniel R. Walter | LIA 11:1 (2020) pp. 130–162
L’acquisition de systèmes casuels en L2 : des études à travers plusieurs théories et langues
Kristof Baten & Saartje Verbeke | LIA 11:1 (2020) pp. 19–31
A cross-theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective on the L2 acquisition of case systems
Kristof Baten & Saartje Verbeke | LIA 11:1 (2020) p. 7
In Memoriam Maya Hickmann: Founding editor of LIA May 19, 1953 – September 26, 2019
LIA 11:1 (2020) pp. 1–3
A short note on Maya Hickmann’s contribution to the psycholinguistic approach to Language and Spatial Cognition
Michèle Kail | LIA 11:1 (2020) pp. 4–6
4 November 2019
L’expression du déplacement en italien L2 : Perspectives typologiques et psycholinguistiques
Simona Anastasio | LIA 10:2 (2019) pp. 204–228
Réseaux sociaux et développement linguistique : Une étude de cas en français L2
Klara Arvidsson, Fanny Forsberg Lundell & Inge Bartning | LIA 10:2 (2019) pp. 255–288
Syntax and working memory in typically-developing children: Focus on syntactic complexity
Hélène Delage & Ulrich Hans Frauenfelder | LIA 10:2 (2019) pp. 141–176
Le développement de l’expression du genre grammatical en français L2 : Les cas de chose, famille, maison, nourriture et vie
Amanda Edmonds | LIA 10:2 (2019) pp. 229–254
The production of geminates in Italian-dominant bilinguals and heritage speakers of Italian
Marieke Einfeldt, Joost van de Weijer & Tanja Kupisch | LIA 10:2 (2019) pp. 177–203
16 May 2019
Learning to read liaison in French as a Foreign Language: A longitudinal study of beginner Japanese learners in Japan
Sylvain Detey & Isabelle Racine | LIA 10:1 (2019) p. 96
Comparing French liaison acquisition in L1 children and L2 adults: Methodological issues in exploring differences and similarities
Mylène Harnois-Delpiano, Cristelle Cavalla & Jean-Pierre Chevrot | LIA 10:1 (2019) pp. 45–70
The emergence of speech segmentation in adult L2 learners of French
Ellenor Shoemaker & Sophie Wauquier | LIA 10:1 (2019) pp. 22–44
The development of obligatory liaison in early L2 learners of French
Frida Splendido | LIA 10:1 (2019) pp. 71–95
The production of preverbal liaison in Swedish learners of L2 French
Malin Ågren & Joost van de Weijer | LIA 10:1 (2019) pp. 117–139
Introduction : La liaison en français langue étrangère
Martin Howard & Malin Ågren | LIA 10:1 (2019) pp. 11–21
Introduction: French liaison in second language acquisition
Martin Howard & Malin Ågren | LIA 10:1 (2019) pp. 1–10
21 January 2019
L’expression des procès spatiaux causatifs chez les apprenants francophones du chinois : Pousser ou entrer ?
Arnaud Arslangul, Henriëtte Hendriks, Maya Hickmann & Annie-Claude Demagny | LIA 9:2 (2018) pp. 256–292
Types syntaxiques des énoncés de jeunes enfants en dialogue avec le père ou la mère : Influence de l’interlocuteur et du type d’activité
Julien Heurdier | LIA 9:2 (2018) pp. 137–182
L’imparfait dans le langage de l’enfant : Une forme pour sortir de l’ici et maintenant
Christophe Parisse, Sophie de Pontonx & Aliyah Morgenstern | LIA 9:2 (2018) pp. 183–225
Les structures verbales chez deux jeunes enfants francophones sourds profonds avec implant cochléaire : Emergence et développement à 36 mois post-implant
Laurence Vincent-Durroux, Karine Martel, André Guiheneuf & Adrienne Vieu | LIA 9:2 (2018) pp. 226–255
Michele M. Kennedy. 2017. What do Jamaican Children Speak? A language resource
Reviewed by Georges Daniel Véronique | LIA 9:2 (2018) pp. 293–297
9 May 2018
Children’s use of gesture and action with static and dynamic verbs
Mats Andrén & Johan Blomberg | LIA 9:1 (2018) pp. 22–39
The impact of language on gesture in descriptions of voluntary motion in Czech and French adults and
children
Katerina Fibigerova & Michèle Guidetti | LIA 9:1 (2018) pp. 101–136
French-English bilingual children’s motion event communication shows crosslinguistic influence in speech but not gesture
Nadia Miller, Reyhan Furman & Elena Nicoladis | LIA 9:1 (2018) p. 69
Gestural depiction of motion events in narrative increases symbolic distance with age
Kazuki Sekine, Catharine Wood & Sotaro Kita | LIA 9:1 (2018) pp. 40–68
Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments
Katerina Fibigerova, Jean-Marc Colletta & Michèle Guidetti | LIA 9:1 (2018) pp. 1–10
L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace : Nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements
linguistiques
Katerina Fibigerova, Jean-Marc Colletta & Michèle Guidetti | LIA 9:1 (2018) pp. 11–21
2 March 2018
On the direction of cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of
object clitics in French and Italian
Petra Bernardini & Joost van de Weijer | LIA 8:2 (2017) pp. 204–233
Topic-shift discourse markers in L2 Italian: Paths of acquisition by Spanish speakers
Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga | LIA 8:2 (2017) pp. 173–203
The dual origin of gesture: Semiotic preconditions for the emergence of two kinds of symbolic
gestures
Dominique Boutet | LIA 8:2 (2017) pp. 288–310
Military L2 immersion: Language learning motivations among Finnish-speaking conscripts in a Swedish language garrison
Laszlo Vincze, Nick Joyce & Kimmo Vehkalahti | LIA 8:2 (2017) pp. 273–287
Towards the use of phonological markedness and extraprosodicity in
accounting for morphological errors in Specific Language
Impairment
Öner Özçelik | LIA 8:2 (2017) pp. 234–272
Mehmet Yavaʂ, Margaret Kehoe & Walcir Cardoso (eds.). 2017. Romance-Germanic Bilingual Phonology
Reviewed by Fabian Santiago | LIA 8:2 (2017) pp. 311–315
16 October 2017
Developing communicative postures: The emergence of shrugging in child communication
Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel & Camille Debras | LIA 8:1 (2017) p. 89
La négation chez les enfants signeurs et non signeurs : Des patrons gestuels communs
Marion Blondel, Dominique Boutet, Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel & Aliyah Morgenstern | LIA 8:1 (2017) pp. 141–171
The development of iconicity in children’s co-speech gesture and homesign
Erica A. Cartmill, Lilia Rissman, Miriam A. Novack & Susan Goldin-Meadow | LIA 8:1 (2017) pp. 42–68
A functional approach to self-points and self-reference in a deaf signing child and the (dis)continuity issue in child language
Stéphanie Caët, Fanny Limousin & Aliyah Morgenstern | LIA 8:1 (2017) pp. 117–140
Deaf and hearing children’s picture naming: Impact of age of acquisition and language modality on representational gesture
Robin L. Thompson, Rachel England, Bencie Woll, Jenny Lu, Katherine Mumford & Gary Morgan | LIA 8:1 (2017) pp. 69–88
Developmental evidence for continuity from action to gesture to sign/word
Virginia Volterra, Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli, Pasquale Rinaldi & Laura Sparaci | LIA 8:1 (2017) pp. 13–41
The gesture-sign interface in language acquisition
Michèle Guidetti & Aliyah Morgenstern | LIA 8:1 (2017) pp. 1–12
2 October 2017
L’interface geste-signe dans l’acquisition du langage
Michèle Guidetti & Aliyah Morgenstern | LIA 8:1 (2017) p. 8
21 February 2017
Prosody- vs. segment-based teaching: Impact on the perceptual skills of French learners of English
Marc Capliez | LIA 7:2 (2016) pp. 212–237
Explanatory content and visibility effects on the young child’s verbal and gestural behavior in free dialogues
Audrey Mazur-Palandre & Kristine Lund | LIA 7:2 (2016) pp. 180–211
Mélanges interpropositionnels chez les enfants bilingues franco-allemands : Est-ce vraiment du code-switching ?
Anika Schmeißer, Nadine Eichler, Laia Arnaus Gil & Natascha Müller | LIA 7:2 (2016) pp. 238–274
A comparison of maternal and child language in normally-hearing and hearing-impaired children with cochlear
implants
Liesbeth Vanormelingen, Sven De Maeyer & Steven Gillis | LIA 7:2 (2016) pp. 145–179
Fanny Forsberg-Lundell & Inge Bartning (eds.). 2015. Cultural Migrants and Optimal Language Acquisition
Reviewed by Heather E. Hilton | LIA 7:2 (2016) pp. 275–278
30 August 2016
Confirming or asserting? Conflicting values and cross-linguistic influence in the use of yes/no particles in L2 Italian
Cecilia Andorno & Fabiana Rosi | LIA 7:1 (2016) pp. 17–43
Discourse Markers in Second Language Acquisition : Studies on Italian and French as L2
Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga & Britta Thörle | LIA 7:1 (2016) pp. 1–16
Learners and reformulative discourse markers: A case study of the use of cioè by students of Italian as a foreign language
Elisa Corino | LIA 7:1 (2016) pp. 44–66
The use of discourse markers in L2 Italian: A preliminary investigation of acoustic cues
Anna De Marco | LIA 7:1 (2016) pp. 67–88
Pointing backward and forward:
Be’-prefaced responsive turns in Italian L1 and L2
Franco Pauletto & Camilla Bardel | LIA 7:1 (2016) p. 89
Turn openings in L2 French: An interactional approach to discourse marker acquisition
Britta Thörle | LIA 7:1 (2016) pp. 117–144
21 January 2016
Complexity at the phrasal level in spoken L1 and very advanced L2 French
Inge Bartning, Klara Arvidsson & Fanny Forsberg Lundell | LIA 6:2 (2015) pp. 181–201
Interrelationships between Time and Space in English and French discourse: Implications for second language acquisition
Annie-Claude Demagny | LIA 6:2 (2015) pp. 202–236
Interactions verbales et résolution de malentendus en français L2 entre locuteurs de L1 commune et différente : Une étude de cas
Danielle Guénette, Sara Kennedy, Suzanne Allard & Jacinthe Murphy | LIA 6:2 (2015) pp. 237–269
Orthographic bias in L3 lexical knowledge: Learner-related and lexical factors
Outi Veivo, Eija Suomela-Salmi & Juhani Järvikivi | LIA 6:2 (2015) pp. 270–293
Fossard & Béguelin (eds.). 2014. Nouvelles perspectives sur l’anaphore : points de vue linguistique, psycholinguistique et acquisitionnel. Sciences pour la communication
Reviewed by Sarah Schimke & Saveria Colonna | LIA 6:2 (2015) pp. 294–302
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