Scholarly Presentations at Conferences (most recent)
| 2013 | "Back to the future in the acquisition of L2 French by instructed learners", accepted for presentation at AAAL 2013 Conference in Dallas, TX, March 16-19. |
| 2012 | “The acquisition of the indicative-subjunctive contrast in L2 French”, accepted for presentation at AAAL 2012 conference in Boston, MA, March 24-27. |
| 2010 | “Revisiting French grammatical gender in light of corpus data”. CLUB (Brussels French Linguistics Society), Vrije University Brussels, October 15, 2010. Invited talk. |
| 2010 | “The second language acquisition of TAM in English from a minimalist perspective”. Guest lecture in graduate seminar taught by Dr. Housen, Vrije University Brussels, October 15, 2010. |
| 2010 | “Grammatical gender: theoretical approaches and language acquisition”. Atelier sur l’Acquisition du Langage directed by Dr. Morgenstern, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, October 11, 2010. Invited talk. |
| 2010 | “Generative/minimalist assumptions and language acquisition research”. Guest lecture in graduate seminar (LIN 532) taught by Dr. Bever, University of Arizona, Spring. |
| 2010 | “A corpus analysis of French grammatical gender in context”, accepted for presentation at the AAAL 2010 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, March 6-9, 2010. |
| 2009 | “Corpus data: shedding the light on French grammatical gender…or not”. Second Language Studies departmental colloquium, University of Hawaii at Manoa. October 29. Invited Talk. |
| 2009 | “French grammatical gender: against all odds?”. French Department of Birkbeck College, University of London, October 14. Invited talk. |
| 2009 | “Les données de corpus éclairent-elles le genre grammatical en français?” Université François-Rabelais de Tours, October 6. Invited talk. |
| 2009 | “A corpus analysis of French grammatical gender in context”. EuroSLA, Cork, September 2-5. Accepted submission. |
| 2009 | “The (in)stability of gender assignment and agreement among French native speakers”. AAAL 2009 Conference in Denver, Colorado, March 21-24. 52% acceptance rate. |
| 2008 | “The (in)stability of grammatical gender assignment and agreement by French native speakers”. Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Spring 2008. Invited talk. |
| 2007 | “The development of future in L2 French”. Second Language Acquisition Studies Colloquium Series, University of Arizona. Fall 2007. Invited talk. |
| 2007 | “The acquisition of English tense-aspect morphology by advanced French instructed learners”. Second Language Acquisition Studies Colloquium Series, University of Arizona. Fall 2007. Invited talk. |
| 2006 | “The L2 acquisition of French grammatical gender by instructed learners: A minimalist approach”. Second Language Studies Colloquium Series, University of Hawai’i, November 30. Invited talk. |
| 2006 | “The acquisition of future expression by L2 French instructed learners”. Romance Turn Workshop II, University of Utrecht, September 7-9. Accepted submission. |
| 2006 | “Grammatical gender and agreement in L2 French: A minimalist approach”. PacSLRF Conference, Brisbane, Australia, July 4-6. Accepted submission. |
| 2006 | “The acquisition of tense/aspect systems from a minimalist perspective”. SLAT Colloquium, University of Arizona. Invited talk. |
| 2005 | The development of the future in L2 French”. Second Language Research Forum, Teachers College, Columbia University, October, 2005. Accepted submission. |
| 2005 | “The acquisition of L2/L3 tense and aspect systems in Romance languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives”. Organizer of colloquium presented at GURT (Georgetown University Round Table), Washington, D.C., March 10-13. Accepted submission. - Ayoun, D.: “The acquisition of L2 French tense/aspect from a UG/Minimalist perspective” - Salaberry, R. :“Evidence for transfer of knowledge of aspect from L2 Spanish to L3 Portuguese - Comajoan, L.: “The acquisition of perfective and imperfective morphology in L3 Catalan and the marking of discourse grounding - Ayoun, D. & Salaberry, R.: “Toward a comprehensive theoretical and pedagogical mode of tense and aspect” |
| 2004 | “Ultimate attainment and empirical data: the acquisition of verb movement phenomena in L2 English , EuroSLA, San Sebastian, Spain, September 8-11. Accepted submission. |
| 2004 | “Minimalist perspective into the L2 French acquisition of past tense and aspect, Romance Turn Workshop, Madrid, Spain, September 16-18. Accepted submission. |
| 2004 | “A follow-up study in the acquisition of the passé composé and the imparfait”. American Association of Applied Linguistics, Portland, Oregon, May 1-4. Accepted submission. |
| 2003 | “Verb movement phenomena in Spanish: “mixed” languages and bilingualism”, International Bilingualism Symposium, Arizona State University, April 30-May 3. Accepted submission. |
| 2003 | “Tense-aspect morphology in the English interlanguage of French native speakers”, American Association of Applied Linguistics, Arlington, Virgina, March 22-25. Accepted submission. |
| 2002 | “Verb movement phenomena in Spanish as a second language: learnability in a mixed language”, AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée) 13th World Congress, Singapore, December 16-21. Accepted submission. |
| 2002 | “Verb movement in the acquisition of English by adult native speakers of French”, Second Language Research Forum, Toronto, October 3-6. Accepted submission. |
| 2002 | “The acquisition of verb movement phenomena in English by French native speakers: clustering at last”. Second Language Studies Colloquium Series, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, September. Invited speaker. |