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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 461A – French Linguistics

This course will introduce the study of French from a linguistic point of view. The area to be covered will be chosen from: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialect and social variation, pragmatics, discourse analysis.

FREN 561A – French Linguistics

This course will introduce the study of French from a linguistic point of view. The area to be covered will be chosen from: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialect and social variation, pragmatics, discourse analysis.

FREN 432 – French Translation

Advanced course in translation and stylistics designed to expand students' range and appreciation of written styles in a variety of texts and registers with grammar reviews and vocabulary work. Written translations to and from French.

FREN 532 – French Translation

Advanced course in translation and stylistics designed to expand students' range and appreciation of written styles in a variety of texts and registers with grammar reviews and vocabulary work. Written translations to and from French. Graduate-level requirements include two-page translations. The grading criteria will be stricter for the graduate students in that no more than three minor errors in all the categories combined (i.e., agreement, tense/aspect, vocabulary, register/style) will be allowed for an A, no more than four for a B, no more than five for a C and so on. Undergraduate students will be allowed up to five minor errors for an A, etc.