Dalila Ayoun

Dalila Ayoun

List of John Benjamins publications for which Dalila Ayoun plays a role.

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Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives

Edited by Dalila Ayoun, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 197] 2018. viii, 366 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

The Acquisition of the Present

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

[Not in series, 196] 2015. xvi, 347 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Studies in French Applied Linguistics

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 21] 2008. xiii, 400 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

French Applied Linguistics

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 16] 2007. xvi, 560 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Romance linguistics

Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives

Edited by Dalila Ayoun and M. Rafael Salaberry

[Studies in Bilingualism, 29] 2005. x, 318 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax

Articles

This cross-sectional empirical study tested the ability of Anglophone L2 learners of Italian (n = 87) to assign grammatical gender and number to a subset of isolated nouns drawn from a written corpus of current magazine and newspaper articles. Italian native speakers served as controls (n = 109).… read more | Chapter
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Ayoun, Dalila, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari. 2018. Chapter 1. Introduction: On the gradience of TAM-E categories. Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 1–18
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Ayoun, Dalila and Charlene Gilbert. 2017. The acquisition of modal auxiliaries in English by advanced Francophone learners. Tense-Aspect-Modality in a Second Language: Contemporary perspectives, Howard, Martin and Pascale Leclercq (eds.), pp. 183–212
This study investigates the acquisition of modal auxiliaries by advanced Francophone learners of English in two different settings: in the United States where the target language is their second language (ESL learners, n = 5) and in France where it is their foreign language (EFL learners, n = 4).… read more | Article
Ayoun, Dalila. 2015. Chapter 11. Conclusions and directions for future research. The Acquisition of the Present, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 335–340
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In-depth longitudinal case studies have the tremendous potential of answering the long-standing question of ultimate attainment in second language (L2) acquisition (Hyltenstam & Abrahamsson 2003). However, there are very few such studies, particularly focusing on tense, aspect, mood/modality (TAM)… read more | Article
Ayoun, Dalila. 2015. Preface. The Acquisition of the Present, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. vii–x
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Ayoun, Dalila. 2010. Corpus data: Shedding the light on French grammatical gender … or not. EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 10 (2010), Roberts, Leah, Martin Howard, Muiris Ó Laoire and David Singleton (eds.), pp. 119–141
The present corpus study analyzes 5,016 contextualized DPs drawn from 34 current newspaper and magazine articles to test the so-far unsubstantiated claim that the input provides abundant and clear evidence of the grammatical gender of French nouns. Findings show that 49.76% of noun tokens are not… read more | Article
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Ayoun, Dalila. 2005. Verb movement in the L2 acquisition of English by adult native speakers of French. EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 5 (2005), Foster-Cohen, Susan H., María del Pilar García Mayo and Jasone Cenoz (eds.), pp. 35–76
This study investigates the acquisition of English verb movement phenomena by two groups of adult French native speakers: a group of secondary school students and a group of university students. A group of English native speakers served as controls. Participants were administered a written… read more | Article
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Salaberry, M. Rafael and Dalila Ayoun. 2005. The development of L2 tense-aspect in the Romance languages. Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila and M. Rafael Salaberry (eds.), pp. 1–33
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