Selected Proceedings of the Romance Turn IV Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages

Philippe Prévost is a Professor of Linguistics at François Rabelais University in Tours, France, and a member of the INSERM Unit “Brain and Imaging”. His research interests include L2 acquisition and language impairment. He recently published a book on the acquisition of French in different contexts (The Acquisition of French: The Development of Inflectional Morphology and Syntax in L1 Acquisition, Bilingualism and L2 Acquisition, John Benjamins, 2009).

Laurice Tuller is a Professor of Linguistics at François Rabelais University in Tours, France. Her current research focuses on comparison of the acquisition of the morphosyntax of French in different atypical contexts: autism, child L2, epilepsy, hearing loss, and SLI. Her recent publications have appeared in journals such as Applied Psycholinguistics and Lingua, as well as in collective volumes.

Rasha Zebib is an Adjunct Research and Teaching Associate at François Rabelais University in Tours, France. She completed her thesis on the relation between working memory and reading in 2009. Her current research interests concern language acquisition in typically and atypically developing children as well as language acquisition in multilingual contexts.