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Ayoun, Dalila
ayoun@arizona.edu
Phone
(520) 621-3720
Office
582 Modern Languages
Ayoun, Dalila
Professor

Ph.D. Florida. Professor of French Linguistics. Member of the faculty for the PhD program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. Research interests: Second language acquisition of morphosyntax, French linguistics. Teaching: French language, theoretical and applied linguistics. Publications: see website. 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: 

Ayoun, D. (2025). The Second Langage Acquisition of English Tense, Aspect and Modality. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ayoun, D. (2024). Morphological variability in the L2 acquisition of French gender and number agreement: a longitudinal study. In Oxford Handbook of French Language, M. McLaughlin & W. Ayres-Bennett (eds), pp. 658–684. Oxford University Press. Invited submission.

Ayoun, D. (2022)(Ed.). The Acquisition of GenderCross-linguistic perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ayoun, D. (2022). Indeterminacy in French L1 grammars: the case of gender and number agreement. Journal of French Language Studies, 1-33

Ayoun, D. and Maranzana, S. (2022). The second language acquisition of grammatical gender and number in Italian. In The Acquisition of GenderCross-linguistic perspectives, D. Ayoun (ed.), pp. 97-126. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Currently Teaching

FREN 280 – Introduction to French Language, Linguistics and Culture

Introductory course to key concepts in French language, linguistics and culture through a variety of media (textbook, comics, films, Web). This course is taught in English and requires no knowledge of French. Does not count toward fulfillment of language requirement, of the major or minor in French.

Introductory course to key concepts in French language, linguistics and culture through a variety of media (textbook, comics, films, Web). This course is taught in English and requires no knowledge of French. Does not count toward fulfillment of language requirement, of the major or minor in French.