September 30, 2018

Ali Idrissi Curriculum Vitae

1 Education

2001 Ph.D. in Linguistics University of Quebec in Montreal (Montreal, Canada) Thesis title: Towards a Root-and-Template Approach to Shape-Invariant Morphology.

1992 M.A. in Linguistics (Diplôme d’études supérieures Es-Lettres) Mohamed V University (Rabat, Morocco) Thesis title: Syllabicity and Syllabification in Berber

1989 Certificat d’études complémentaires Mohamed V University (Rabat, Morocco)

1987 B.A. in English Language and Literature Linguistics and Translation, Mohamed ben Abdellah University (Fes, Morocco)

2 Employment History

January 2015-Present

Associate Professor and Department Chair Department of English Literature and Linguistics College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University (Doha, Qatar)

2013-2015 Department Chair Department of Translation Studies College of Humanities and Social Sciences United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) (Al-Ain, UAE)

2012- 2015 and 2008-2010

Department Chair Department of Linguistics/TESOL College of Humanities and Social Sciences United Arab Emirates University (Al-Ain, UAE)

2010-2011 Visiting Professor School of Speech/Language Pathology and Audiology Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal (Montreal, Canada)

2007-2015 Associate Professor Department of Linguistics/TESOL College of Humanities and Social Sciences United Arab Emirates University (Al-Ain, UAE)

2005-2007 Assistant Professor Program of General Linguistics

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College of Humanities and Social Sciences United Arab Emirates University (Al-Ain, UAE)

2004-2005 Assistant Professor Centre for Academic Development Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane (Ifrane, Morocco)

2004 Assistant Professor (Limited-term appointment) Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics Faculty of Arts and Science Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)

2003 Assistant Professor Department of English Language and Literature College of Arts and Social Sciences Sultan Qaboos University (Muscat, Oman)

3 Research

3.1 Research Experience

2010-2017 Affiliated Researcher The Neuroscience of Language Lab New York University – Abu Dhabi (UAE)

2010-2011 Research Associate Cognitive Neuroscience and Electrophysiology Research Laboratory Hôpital Rivières-des-Prairies (Montreal, Canada)

2004 Visiting Researcher The Artificial Intelligence Group, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield (Huddersfield, Great Britain)

2003 Research Associate The Major Collaborative Research Initiatives and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Project* (MCRI-SSHRC) The Department of Linguistics and the School of Occupational Therapy, McGill University (Montreal, Canada) *Title of the project: Words in the Mind, Words in the Brain

2001-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow The Mental Lexicon Project The Department of Linguistics and the School of Occupational Therapy, McGill University and the Montreal Rehabilitation Interdisciplinary Research Center (Montreal, Canada)

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1997-1998 Expert Linguist Arabic phonology and automatic speech recognition King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia) and the University of Huddersfield (Great Britain)

3.2 Grants

3.2.1 External grants

2014-2017 NPRP Grant Project: Neurophysiological Investigations of Arabic Lead Principal Investigator PIs: Tariq Khwaileh and Eiman Mustafawi, Qatar University. Amount: US$ 887,634.00. Period: 2015-2018

2012-2014 Project: Linguistic Representations and Units in Brain-Damaged Arabic-Speaking Patients: Implications for Linguistic Theory, Language Deficit Assessment, and Speech-Language Therapy Principal Investigator Miklós Szólics, Tawam Hospital and UAE University (Co-PI) Meera Al-Kaabi, New York University (Co-PI) Granted by the UAE National Research Foundation Amount: AED 160,000.00 (≃US$ 43,478.00)

2012-2014 Project: The Sounds of Emirati Arabic Co-Principal Investigator Andrew Gargett, Department of Linguistics, UAE University (PI) Dimitrios Ntelitheos, Department of Linguistics, UAE University (Co-PI) Granted by to the UAE National Research Foundation Amount: AED 140,000.00 (≃US$ 38,000.00)

3.2.2 Internal grants

2017-2019 Project: Ultrasound Investigation of Qatari Arabic Co-PI Dr. Mark Scott (LPI) Amount: US$ 41,000.00

2013-2014 Project: An Investigation of the McGurk Effect in Arabic Co-PI Mark Scott (PI), Department of Linguistics, UAE University Granted by the UAE College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund Amount: AED 13,900.00 (≃US$ 3,800.00)

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2013-2014 Project: An Empirical Study of Early Language Development in Emirati Arabic Co-PI Dimitrios Ntelitheos (PI), Department of Linguistics, UAE University Lydia Barza (College of Education, Zayed University) (Co-PI) David M. Palfreyman (Department of Languages, Zayed University) (Co-PI) Granted by the UAE College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund Amount: AED 28,000.00 (≃US$ 7,600.00)

2012-2013 Project: An EEG Study of the Processing of Resumptive Pronouns in Modern Standard Arabic Principal Investigator Tommi Leung, Department of Linguistics, UAE University (Co-PI) R. Muralikrishnan, New York University – Abu Dhabi (External collaborator) Granted by the UAE College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund Amount: AED 15,000.00 (≃CAD$ 4,100.00)

2007-2011 Project: Emirati Arabic Language Acquisition Corpus (EMALAC) Co-investigator PI: Dimitrios Ntelitheos, Department of Linguistics, UAEU Granted by the UAE College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund Amount: AED 50,500.00 (≃CAD$ 13,835.62)

3.3 Publications and Conference Presentations

3.3.1 Publications

3.3.1.1 Peer Reviewed Articles

Tucker, Matthew, Idrissi, Ali, Sprouse, Jon, & Almeida, Diogo. (to appear). Resumption Ameliorates Different Islands Differentially: Acceptability Data from Modern Standard Arabic. In M. Tucker (Ed.), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 30. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Scott, Mark & Ali Idrissi. (2018). Audiovisual Perception of Gemination and Pharyngealization in Arabic. Speech Communication 98:17-27. (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.769) Idrissi, Ali. (2018). Experimental Data and Arabic Morphology. In E. Benmamoun & R. Bassiouney (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics (pp. 282-298). London: Taylor & Francis. Idrissi, A. (2018). The Neurolinguistic Approach to L2 Learning and Teaching. In The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (First Edition. Edited by John I. Liontas (Project Editor: Margo DelliCarpini; Volume Editor: Ali Shehadeh), pp. 716–721). Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Ntelitheos, Dimitrios, & Idrissi, Ali. (2017). Language growth in child Emirati Arabic. In H. Ouali (Ed.), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 29 (pp. 229–248). John Benjamins Publishing Company. Tucker, Matthew, Ali Idrissi & Diogo Almeida. (2015). Representing Number in the Real-Time Processing of Agreement: Self-Paced Reading Evidence from Arabic. Frontiers in Psychology 6:347. Jean-François, Prunet & Ali Idrissi. (2015). “Overlapping morphologies in Arabic hypocoristics.” in Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi, & Nicola Lampitelli (eds.) The form of structure, the structure of form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm. John Benjamin’s, p.177-192. Idrissi, Ali, Jean-François Prunet & Renée Béland. (2008). “On the abstractness of Arabic roots.” Linguistic Inquiry 39, 2:221-259. Idrissi, Ali & Eva Kehayia. (2004). “Morphological units in the Arabic mental lexicon: Evidence from an individual with deep dyslexia.” Brain and Language 90:183-197. Idrissi, Ali, Jean-François Prunet & Renée Béland. (2002). “Metathesis errors in aphasic speech: Implications for the status of abstract roots in Arabic.” Brain and Language 83, 1:90-92. Prunet, Jean-François, Renée Béland & Ali Idrissi. (2000). “The mental representation of Semitic words.” Linguistic Inquiry 31, 4:609-648. Idrissi, Ali. (2000). “On Berber plurals.” In Jacqueline Lecarme, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky (eds.) Research in Afroasiatic Grammar, 101-124, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Prunet, Jean-François, Renée Béland & Ali Idrissi. (1998). “Arabic consonantal root extraction in a deep dyslexic patient.” Brain and Language 65:241-243. Idrissi, Ali. (1997). “Plural formation in Arabic.” In Mushira Eid and Robert Ratcliffe (eds.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics X, 123-145, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Mimouni, Zohra, Renée Béland, Ali Idrissi & Susanne Danault. (1995). “Similar language disorders in Arabic and French in an early bilingual aphasic patient.” Brain and Language 51, 1:132-134.

3.3.1.2 Articles in Conference Proceedings

Idrissi, Ali, Meera Al-Kaabi & Johann S. Braun. (2009). “Two patterns of grammar deficit in an Arabic-speaking fluent agrammatic.” Proceeding of the 10th Annual UAE University Research Conference, 1207-1216. Idrissi, Ali, Dimitrios Ntelitheos & Othaiba Tamimi. (2009). “Decomposition to the root in Arabic: Evidence from child speech.” Proceeding of the 10th Annual UAE University Research Conference, 1253-1257.

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Ntelitheos, Dimitrios, Ali Idrissi & Othaiba Tamimi. (2009). “Acquisition of definiteness in Emirati Arabic.” Proceeding of the 10th Annual UAE University Research Conference, 1235-1243. Al-Kaabi, Meera, Ali Idrissi & Alan Kaye. (2008). “The semantic load of Arabic roots.” Proceedings of the 8th Annual UAE University Research Conference. Idrissi, Ali. (2007). “The content of Arabic consonantal roots.” Proceedings of the 8th Annual UAE University Research Conference, 75-79. Azra, Ali, Ashraf Hassan-Haj, Michael Ingleby & Ali Idrissi. (2005). “McGurk fusion effects in Arabic words.” Auditory-Visual Speech Processing Workshop (AVSP 2005), 1-6. Idrissi, Ali. (1996). “Representation and derivation in morphology.” Proceedings of the 10th Annual Linguistics Meeting, International Center for Research on Language Planning, Laval University, Quebec City, 103-107. Idrissi, Ali. (1996). “Nasal assimilation in Berber.” Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, The University of Calgary, Alberta, 133-144. Idrissi, Ali. (1995). “On Arabic plural formation.” Proceedings of the 1995 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, University of Toronto, 237-249. Idrissi, Ali. (1995). “Nasalization in Inor: An acoustic study.” Proceedings of the 9th Annual Linguistics Meeting, International Center for Research on Language Planning, Laval University, Quebec City, 61-66.

3.3.1.3 Publication of General Interest

Idrissi, Ali. (1996). “Entretien avec Noam Chomsky.” (Interview with Noam Chomsky). Les Raisons de l’Ire, No. 7. Paris. (Summary of an interview I conducted with the MIT linguist, Noam Chomsky)

3.3.2 Conference Presentations

3.3.2.1 Refereed Conference Presentations

“An ERP study of noun-adjective agreement in Arabic: The role of animacy and the impact of diglossia.” (accepted). The Second Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics International Conference. The Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes and the Université de Nantes, France. November 14-16, 2018. (With R. Muralikrishnan, Tariq Khwaileh and Eiman Mustafawi) Ali Idrissi1, R. Muralikrishnan2, Tariq Khwaileh1 and Eiman Mustafawi1 “Vowel diacritics and orthographic ambiguity in Arabic word reading." (2018). The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 36. University of California, Los Angles. April 20-22, 2018. (With Leen Alsayed Hasso, Sarah Al-Alami and Michael Grosvald)

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“An ERP study on the interaction of humanness and adjective agreement in Arabic.” (2018) The 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. UC Davis, California. March 15-17, 2018. (With R. Muralikrishnan, Hagar Hussain, Aya Mohamed, Tariq Khwaileh and Eiman Mustafawi) “Resumptives and gaps in the Arabic diglossic brain: An ERP study.” The 30th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL 30). Stony Brook University, New York. March 31 – April 3, 2016. (With Tommi Leung and R. Muralikrishnan) “Does grammaticalized resumption repair islands? Acceptability data from Standard Arabic reading.” The 30th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL 30). Stony Brook University, New York. March 31 – April 3, 2016. (With Matthew Tucker and Diogo Almeida) “Look before your leap: Careful incremental processing of idiosyncratic grammaticalised partial-agreement: ERP and self-paced reading evidence from Arabic.” The Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2015 Annual Meeting. The Drake Hotel, Chicago. 15-17 October, 2015. (With R. Muralikrishnan) “Attraction Errors for Gender in Modern Standard Arabic Reading.” Poster Presented the 2015 Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference. Valletta, Malta. September 5, 2015. (With Matthew Tucker and Diogo Almeida) “Grammaticalized Resumption Helps a Little with Islands and d-Linking Helps a Lot: Evidence from Modern Standard Arabic Acceptability.” Poster Presented the 2015 Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference. Valletta, Malta. September 5, 2015. (With Matthew Tucker, Jon Sprouse, and Diogo Almeida) “Audiovisual processing of pharyngealization and length in Emirati Arabic.” The 6th Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2015). Athens, Greece. 26-27 June, 2015. (With Mark Scott) “Representing Templates, Number, and Gender: Self-Paced Reading Evidence from Modern Standard Arabic.” 29th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Milwaukee, WI. April 9-11, 2015. (With Matthew Tucker and Diogo Almeida) “Language Growth in Child Emirati Arabic.” 29th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Milwaukee, WI. April 9-11, 2015. (Dimitrios Ntelitheos) “Plural Type Matters for On-Line Processing: Self-Paced Reading Evidence from Arabic.” Poster Presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, CA. March 20, 2015. (With Matthew Tucker and Diogo Almeida) “Resumption Ameliorates but Does Not Repair Island Violations: Evidence from Modern Standard Arabic Acceptability.” Poster presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, CA. March 21, 2015. (With Matthew Tucker, Jon Sprouse, and Diogo Almeida)

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“Deducing Grammar from Parsing: Self-Paced Reading and Modeling Evidence from Arabic.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Portland, OR. January 10, 2015. (With Matthew Tucker and Diogo Almeida) “The cost of processing vowel diacritics in Arabic: Evidence from Masked-Priming.” Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference (ERP). Madrid, Spain, October 1-3, 2014. (With Diogo Almeida, Kevin Schluter and Matthew Tucker) “Agreement Attraction in Modern Standard Arabic Comprehension.” Poster presented at the 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference. Edinburgh. September 4, 2014. (With Matthew Tucker and Diogo Almeida) "Overlapping affixes in Arabic hypocoristics." 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, August 25-29, 2014. (With Jean-Francois Prunet) “Bad, or just less good? ERPs of processing Arabic agreement violations for plural subjects.” The 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, March 13-15, 2014. (With R. Muralikrishnan) “Verb-initial structures in Arabic: Qualitative ERP differences between singular and plural subjects.” The 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, March 13-15, 2014. (With R. Muralikrishnan) “An ERP study of subject-verb agreement in Arabic.” The International Conference on Linguistics (ICL): Petra I, Al- Hussein Bin Talal University, Petra – Ma’an, Jordan, November 19-21, 2013. (With Alec Marantz and R. Muralikrishnan) “On the ERP correlates of processing Arabic subject-verb agreement violations.” The First International Conference on Experimental Arabic Linguistics (EXAL-2013), United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE, November 6-7, 2013. (With Alec Marantz and R. Muralikrishnan) “A morphophonological explanation of subject-verb agreement asymmetry in Arabic: Insight from ERPs.” The 6th International Arabic Linguistic Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, June 26-28 , 2013. (With R. Muralikrishnan and Meera Al-Kaabi) “Qualitative differences between singular and plural subjects: An ERP study on subject-verb agreement violations in Arabic.” The 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, March 21-23, 2013. (With R. Muralikrishnan)  “Similarity avoidance in consonant metathesis errors in Arabic.” Linguistics in the Gulf IV Conference, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, March 17-18, 2013. (With Othaiba Al Tamimi, Renée Béland and Dimitrios Ntelitheos)

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“When neuropsychological and neurophysiological data converge with linguistic theory: The case of tense and agreement in Arabic.” Linguistics in the Gulf IV Conference, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, March 17-18, 2013. (With R. Muralikrishnan and Meera Al-Kaabi) “The Validity of MLUm as a Measure of Morphosyntactic Development in Emirati Arabic.” Linguistics in the Gulf IV Conference, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, March 17-18, 2013. (With Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Fatima Al Eissaee) “An ERP study of tense and agreement violations in Arabic.” The 8th Mental Lexicon Conference, Montreal, Canada. October 24-26, 2012. (With Meera Al-Kaabi and R. Muralikrishnan) “La dissociation entre racine consonantique et vocalisme chez les aphasiques arabophone.” The Société marocaine de neuropsychologie Meeting, Rabat, Morocco. March 23-24, 2012. “Un cas d’agrammatisme chez un aphasique fluent arabophone : description, explication et implications.” The Société marocaine de neuropsychologie Meeting, Rabat, Morocco. March 23-24, 2012. “Dissociating roots and word patterns in Arabic: Evidence from aphasia.” 18th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, CA. April 2-5, 2011. (With Sami Boudelaa, Renée Béland and William D. Marslen-Wilson) “The nature of tense and agreement in Arabic: Evidence from brain damage.” Colloque international sur les approches cognitives du traitement du langage (International Workshop on the Cognitive Approaches Towards Language Processing). University Mohamed ben Abdellah, Fes, Morocco. March 4-5, 2010. “Double dissociation between tense and agreement in an Arabic-speaking fluent agrammatic patient.” The Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting. Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. October 18-20, 2009. (With Meera Al-Kaabi and Renée Béland) “Whence meaning in Arabic names?” The 2009 Malaysian International Conference on Languages, Literatures and Cultures. University of Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia. April 28-30, 2009. (With Jean-François Prunet and Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi) “Two patterns of grammar deficit in an Arabic-speaking fluent agrammatic.” The 10th UAE University Annual Research Conference. United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. April 13, 2009. (With Meera Al-Kaabi and Johann Sebastian Braun) (Paper presented by Meera Al-Kaabi) “Decomposition to the root in Arabic: Evidence from child speech.” The 10th UAE University Annual Research Conference. United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. April 13, 2009. (With Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Othaiba Tamimi) (Paper presented by Othaiba Tamimi)

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“Acquisition of definiteness in Emirati Arabic.” The 10th UAE University Annual Research Conference. United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. April 13, 2009. (With Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Othaiba Tamimi) (Paper presented by Othaiba Tamimi) “Form and meaning in Arabic names.” Linguistics in the Gulf II. Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. March11-12, 2009. (With Jean-François Prunet & Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi and Jean-François Prunet) “The interaction of templatic morphology and syntax in agrammatism.” Linguistics in the Gulf II. Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. March11-12, 2009. (With Meera Al-Kaabi and Johann Braun) (Paper presented by Meera Al-Kaabi) “Acquisition of definiteness in Emirati Arabic.” Linguistics in the Gulf II. Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. March11-12, 2009. (With Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Othaiba Tamimi) (Paper presented by Dimitrios Ntelitheos) “Decomposition to the root in Arabic: Evidence from child speech.” Linguistics in the Gulf II. Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. March11-12, 2009. (With Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Othaiba Tamimi) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi and Othaiba Tamimi) “Comprehension deficit in an Arabic-speaking fluent agrammatic.” The New York University-Abu Dhabi Neurolinguistics Workshop. December 4-15, 2008. (With Meera Al-Kaabi and Johann Braun) (Paper presented by Meera Al-Kaabi) “The Arabic consonantal root: Evidence from child language.” The New York University-Abu Dhabi Neurolinguistics Workshop. December 4-15, 2008. (With Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Othaiba Tamimi) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi) “Structure and meaning in Arabic names.” Nomina 2007: Proper Names in Spoken Language. University of Basle, Switzerland. November 22-23, 2007. (With Jean-François Prunet and Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Jean-François Prunet) “Arabic morphology within a cognitive neuroscientific approach: What and how can we learn from behavioral data?” International Workshop on Arabic Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Mohamed Ben Abdullah University, Fes, Morocco. November 21-22, 2007. “Morphology without meaning: the case of Arabic names.” International Workshop on Arabic Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Mohamed Ben Abdullah University, Fes, Morocco. November 21-22, 2007. (With Jean-François Prunet and Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi) “The content of Arabic consonantal roots.” The 8th Annual Research Conference. United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE. April 24-25, 2007.

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“External And Internal Evidence For The Abstractness of Semitic Morphemes.” Linguistics in the Gulf I Conference. Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. March 14-15, 2007. (With Jean-François Prunet and Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi and Jean-François Prunet) “Experimental Linguistics and Arabic Morphology.” The International Tutorial and Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, organized by the International Speech Communication Association, Athens, Greece. August 28-30, 2006. “Aphasic evidence for the morphological content of Arabic words.” The 7th Annual Research Conference. United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE. April 22-24, 2006. “On the abstractness of Arabic roots.” Old World Conference on Phonology 3 (OCP3), Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. January 17-19, 2006. (With Jean-François Prunet and Renée Béland) (Poster presentation by Ali Idrissi and Jean-François Prunet) “McGurk fusion effects in Arabic words.“ The Auditory-Visual Speech Processing Conference, Parkesville, British Columbia, Canada. July 24-27, 2005. (With Azra Ali, Hassan-Haj and Michael Ingleby) (Paper presented by Azra Ali) “What’s in a Semitic root?” The 11th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria. February 14-17, 2004. (With Eva Kehayia) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi) “On the necessity of the distinction between morpheme- and word based morphology: Internal and external evidence.” The 4th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting: Morphology and Linguistic Typology, Catania, Sicily, Italy. September 21-23, 2003. (With Eva Kehayia) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi) “Psychological reality and linguistic theory: The case of roots and etymons in Arabic.” The Canadian Linguistic Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 1-4, 2003. (With Eva Kehayia) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi) “Metathesis errors in aphasic speech: Implications for the status of abstract roots in Arabic.” The Academy of Aphasia 40th Annual Meeting, New York, New York. October 20-22, 2002. (With Jean-François Prunet and Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi) “Morphological units in the Arabic mental lexicon: Evidence from an individual with deep dyslexia.” The Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, Alberta. October 6-8, 2002. (With Eva Kehayia) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi) “Morphological units in templatic morphology.” The Third International Forum of Morphology: Morphological Units, University of Lille 3, Lille, France. September 19-21, 2002.

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“On the status of templates in templatic morphology.” The Fourth International Phonology Meeting of the GDR, Grenoble, France. June 6-8, 2002. “Word formation and transfer in templatic morphology.” The Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Formal Linguistics Research Center, URA 1028 CNRS and University of Paris 7, Paris, France. June 28-30, 2000. “Rethinking quantitative transfer in root-and-pattern morphology.” Poster presented at The First North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University. April 28-30, 2000. “Phonological transfer in root-and-pattern morphology.” The 31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Boston University, Boston. March 2-5, 2000. “External evidence for morpheme-based morphology.” Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, York University, Ontario. February 4-6, 2000. (With Jean-François Prunet & Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi and Jean-François Prunet) “Root consonant reversals in aphasia, ludlings and slips of the tongue.” Conference on Phonological Encoding and Monitoring in Normal and Disturbed Language Production, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland. June 18, 1999. (With Jean-François Prunet and Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Renée Béland) “Semitic roots as lexical units.” Semitic Morphology Workshop held during The Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. July 14, 1999. (With Jean-François Prunet & Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Ali Idrissi) “Arabic consonantal root extraction in a deep dyslexic patient.” The Academy of Aphasia 36th Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico. November 1-4, 1998. (With Jean-François Prunet & Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Renée Béland) “Semitic root extraction in a deep dyslexic patient.” Round Table on Neurolinguistics and Phonology (plenary session), Current Trends in Phonology II: Models and Methods, Royaumont Abbey, France. June 22-24, 1998. (With Jean-François Prunet & Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Jean-François Prunet) “Correspondence in Arabic morphology.” The 12th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. March 6-8, 1998. “Deep dyslexia in an Arabic/French bilingual patient.” International Association of Applied Linguistics, Jyväskylä, Finland. August 4-9, 1996. (With Zohra Mimouni, Renée Béland and Geneviève Duchesne) (Paper presented by Renée Béland)

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“Deep dyslexia in an Arabic/French bilingual patient: A case study.” The University of Montreal Workshop on Research in Speech Pathology, University of Montreal, Montreal. May 10, 1996. (With Renée Béland, Zohra Mimouni and Geneviève Duchesne) (Paper presented by Renée Béland) “Licensing and underspecification in Berber nasal assimilation.” Workshop on Berber, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September 14, 1996. “On Berber plurals.” The 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis (France). June 1996. “Variation as optimality in Berber.” The Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Brock University, Saint-Catherines, Ontario. May 25-28, 1996. “Representation and derivation in morphology.” The 10th Annual Linguistics Meeting, Laval University, Quebec City. April 2-4, 1996. “Plural formation in Arabic.” The 10th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. March 3, 1996. “Similar language disorders in Arabic and French in an early bilingual aphasic patient.” The Academy of Aphasia 33rd Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. November 4-7, 1995. (With Zohra Mimouni, Renée Béland and Susanne Danault) (Paper presented by Renée Béland) “On plural formation in Arabic.” The Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal. June 2-5, 1995. “Nasalization in Inor: An acoustic analysis.” The 9th Annual Linguistics Meeting, Laval University, Quebec City. March 9-10, 1995. “On the sequence vowel-r in Berber.” Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Ottawa, Ottawa. February 2-4, 1995. “An acoustic study of nasalization in Inor.” The Canadian Acoustical Association 1994 Acoustic Week in Canada, Ottawa. October 19-20, 1994.

3.3.2.2 Papers Presented as an Invited Speaker

“What language teachers can learn from neurolinguistics.” Talk delivered at the Workshop on Educational Linguistics held at the Department of Arabic, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University. May 14, 2018. “The neurolinguistic approach to L2 learning and teaching.” Delivered at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Sciences Lab, Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco. December 18-19, 2017. “Neurophysiological correlates of processing Arabic resumptive pronouns and gaps.” Delivered at the Département de Sciences du Langage and the Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLing UMR6310 CNRS), France. October 26, 2016.

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“Experimental Data and Arabic Morphology: Insights and Oversights.” Plenary talk delivered at the Experimental Approaches to Arabic and other understudied Languages (EXAL+) Conference. New York University – Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE. January 16, 2016. “Effects of morphological decomposition in Arabic: A pilot MEG study.” Université Paris Diderot, France. February 9, 2012. “Research on the structure of Arabic: Beyond classical distributional data.” Keynote Speaker, Linguistics in the Gulf III, Doha, Qatar. March 6, 2011. “Neuroscience cognitive du langage.” (Cognitive Neuroscience of Language). Laboratoire des sciences cognitives (Cognitive Sciences Lab), University Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fes, Morocco, December 24, 2010. “Théorie linguistique et aphasie.” (Linguistic Theory and Aphasia). Laboratoire des sciences cognitives (Cognitive Sciences Lab), University Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fes, Morocco, December 24, 2010. “Selective Tense and Agreement Impairment in Arabic.” UMR 7023 CNRS-University Paris 8, Structures Formelles du Langage (Formal Structures of Language), France. December 6, 2010. “Linguistique expérimentale et compétence linguistique. Possibilités et limites: le cas de l’arabe.” (Experimental Linguistics and Linguistic Competence: the case of Arabic). Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Mohamed Ben Abdullah University, Fes, Morocco. November 20, 2007. “The mental representation of Arabic words.” Department of English Language and Literature, Kuwait University, Kuwait. October 22, 2007. “Arabic morphology and its representation in the mind/brain.” Zayed Centre for Culture and Heritage, Al-Ain, UAE. March 26, 2006. “What do aphasic speech errors tell us about mental representations? Cases from Arabic.” Laboratoire de psychologie expérimentale (Experimental Psychology Lab), University René Descartes, Paris, France. June 26, 2002. “Le transfert phonologique en morphologie afro-asiatique.” (Phonological Transfer in Afro-asiatic Morphology). Département de linguistique et de didactique des langues (Department of Linguistics), University of Quebec in Montreal. February 18, 2000. “The mental representation of Semitic words.” Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. March 29 – 31, 1999. (With Jean-François Prunet and Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Jean-François Prunet)

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“Extraction de racines sémitiques dans un cas de dyslexie profonde.” (Semitic root extraction in a case of deep dyslexia). Département de linguistique et de didactique des langues (Department of Linguistics), University of Quebec in Montreal. May 21, 1998. (With Jean-François Prunet and Renée Béland) (Paper presented by Jean-François Prunet and Renée Béland)

3.3.2.3 Department and General Public Seminars

“The Neuropsychology of Language.” The UAEU Cognitive Science Day, March 20, 2013.

“Morphological decomposition in Arabic: follow-up MEG studies.” 1st NYU – UAE University Research Meeting, NYU – Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE. April 22, 2012.

“ERP effects of tense and agreement violations in Arabic.” 1st NYU – UAE University Research Meeting, NYU – Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE. April 22, 2012.

“What’s in a name?” Department of Linguistics Seminars. United Arab Emirates University. March 31, 2008.

“Linguistics and cognitive science,” College of Information Technology, UAEU, March 5, 2008. (With Dimitrios Ntelitheos)

“What’s so language-specific about Arabic, and can it be learned?” Multaqa, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates University. June 6, 2007.

“Linguistic units in the mind/brain.” United Arab Emirate University, the Division of Language and Communication Research Symposium. November 14, 2005.

“Roots and etymons in Arabic morphology: Old questions and new perspectives.” The Mental Lexicon Project Meeting, held at McGill University, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy. November 8, 2002.

“On language acquisition and language impairment.” Abdullatif Jameel Centre for Rehabilitation and Health Care, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. June 6, 2001.

4 Academic and Community Service

4.1 Service to the Profession

4.1.1 Editorial board membership

Editorial board member for Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics. (since 2017)

4.1.2 Expert reviewer for

Journal Date/Period - Journal of Neurolinguistics Since 2016 - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics Since 2016 - The Mental Lexicon Since 2013 - Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental

Linguistics 2012

- Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal Since 2010 - Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics Since 2010

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- University of Sharjah Journal 2010 - Lingua Since 2009 - Journal of Memory and Language 2012, 2008 - Language Sciences 2007 - Revue québécoise de linguistique Since 1997 - Canadian Journal of Linguistics Since 1995

4.1.3 Manuscript review

Syllables in Tashlhiyt Berber and in Moroccan Arabic By François Dell and Mohamed Elmedlaoui Submitted to Kluwer Academic Publishers

1 2001

4.1.4 Research Proposals Review

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Canada) - reviewed a research proposal in neurolinguistics and

language rehabilitation

1 2013

National Science Foundation (USA) - Reviewed a research proposal on the learnability of Arabic

morphology. 1 2017

- reviewed a research proposal in the field of Arabic syntax 1 2007

- reviewed a research proposal in the field of psycholinguistics

1 2005

Hamdan Award Committee of Applied Educational Research. - Title of the proposal: The role of phonological awareness

in the development of reading skills.

1 2008

4.1.5 Promotion/Habilitation Committees

2015 External examiner/member of the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) Candidate: Dr. Mohamed Lahrouchi UMR 7023 “Structures Formelles du Langage”. Université Paris 8 / CNRS, France.

2012 External examiner/member of the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) Candidate: Dr. Sabrina Bendjaballah Centre national de recherche scientifique, Université de Paris Diderot, France.

4.1.6 Conference Organization

2013 Organizing Committee. The First International Conference on Experimental Arabic Linguistics (EXAL-2013). November 6-7, 2013.

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2008 Organizing Committee. The New York University – Abu Dhabi Workshop on Neurolinguistics. December 14-15. (With Dr. Alec Marantz, New York University)

2008 Organizing Committee. Workshop on Cognitive Sciences. The Workshop is a special event during the Innovation ’08 Conference held in Al-Ain on 16-17 December. (With Dr. Nickolaos Mavridis, College of Information Technology, UAE University)

2004 Organizing Committee. A special session on Semitic Morphology at the 11th

International Morphology Meeting. February 14-17, 2004. (With Dr. Wolfgang Dressler, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Vienna, Austria)

4.2 University, College, and Department Service

4.2.1 University

2014-2015 Chair of the University Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee. United Arab Emirates University.

2014-2015 Member of the University Research Ethics Committee. United Arab Emirates University.

4.2.2 College

2018-May Member of the College Research Day Graduate Poster Competition Assessment Jury.

2018 Member of the College New Program Proposals Task Force. Task: Develop a mechanism to guide future curriculum proposals within the proposed structure of the College.

2018 Chair of the Language and Communication Stream Committee. Tasks: Identify possible areas of interdisciplinary academic and research collaboration (creating interdepartmental research units and joint programs).

2017 Member of the College Complaints Committee. Task: Develop a procedure for dealing with faculty and staff complaints.

2016-Present

Member of the College Council.

2015 Member of the CAS Administrative Excellence Award Committee. College of Arts and Sciences. Qatar University. (Ad-hoc committee)

2013-2014 Member of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Exam Committee. United Arab Emirates University.

2013-2014 Member of the Graduate Programs Committee. Tasks: (i) review proposals for new graduate programs and (ii) review proposals for revisions of existing graduate programs. United Arab Emirates University.

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Member of the Research Advisory Committee. Tasks: (i) review proposals for externally and internally funded projects and (ii) evaluate the interim and final outcomes of funded research undertaken by College members. United Arab Emirates University.

2012-2013 Member of the College Research Committee. Task: review proposals for internally funded research projects. United Arab Emirates University.

Member of the College Promotion Committee. Task: review applications for promotion. United Arab Emirates University.

2011-2012 Coordinator for International Studies and Cooperation. Tasks: (i) develop international collaborations; (ii) oversee memoranda of understanding between UAE University and universities overseas; and (iii) follow-up with international exchange students visiting UAE University. United Arab Emirates University.

Member of the Peer Teaching Evaluation Subcommittee. Task: observe and evaluate the performance of a teacher teaching French as a foreign language. United Arab Emirates University.

2009-2010

Member of the Faculty Promotion Committee. Task: review applications for promotion. United Arab Emirates University.

2009-2010

Member of the Faculty Ph.D. Program Committee. Task: design the multidisciplinary PhD program “Technology, Language and Society”. United Arab Emirates University.

Member of the Liberal Studies Decanal Committee. Task: create a BA program in Liberal Studies. United Arab Emirates University.

Member and Chair of the Search Sub-Committee for Cognitive Science Cluster Hire. Task: lead the process of hiring an expert to run the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab. United Arab Emirates University.

Member of the Cognitive Science Core Group. Tasks: define the major areas of the Cognitive Sciences Group and create a neuroimaging lab. United Arab Emirates University.

2007-2010

Member of the Humanities Curriculum Committee. Task: evaluate proposals for new courses and programs and/or modifications of existing ones. United Arab Emirates University.

2007-2008

Member of the Social Sciences Curriculum Committee. Tasks: (i) oversee and report on the activities and decisions of the Committee to the Faculty, and (ii) ensure coordination with the Humanities Curriculum Committee. United Arab Emirates University.

Member of the Peer Evaluation of Teaching Committee. Task: evaluate the teaching of faculty applying for promotion. United Arab Emirates University.

Member of the Committee on Effective Teaching. United Arab Emirates University. Tasks: (i) evaluate faculty teaching methods, (ii) reflect on ways to attain higher standards of teaching in the College, and (iii) organize professional development workshops. The workshops organized on:

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- Educational Technologies for Effective Teaching (Fall 2008)

- Program Accreditation (Fall 2008)

- Critical thinking (Spring 2008)

- Solving students’ language difficulties (Spring 2008)

- Student motivation and class-room participation (Fall 2007)

2005-2006

Member of the Backboard Committee. United Arab Emirates University. Task: assist faculty of the Language and Communication Division in using the Backboard e-learning platform.

4.2.3 Departmental Committees

4.2.3.1 Qatar University

2018 Member of the Department Recruitment Committee.

2015-Present

Chair of the Department Faculty Evaluation Committee.

2015-present

Chair of the Department Academic Council

2015-2016 Chair of the Program External Review Task Force Chair of the Department Faculty Evaluation Committee Chair of the Department Recruitment Committee Chair of the Department Budget Committee Member of the Department Research Committee Member of the Department Qatarization Committee

2014-2015 Chair of the Department Recruitment Committee Chair of the Faculty Annual Performance Committee Chair of the Department Budget Committee Member of the Department Research Committee

4.2.3.2 United Arab Emirates University

2013-2014 Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Steering Committee. Task: merge the programs of Linguistics, TESOL and Translation into a new department which will also include a program in communication disorders.

Chair of the Department Educational Outcomes Assessment. Tasks: Assess how the Department courses meet the program educational objectives.

Chair of the Department of Linguistics Search Committee. Chair of the Department of Translation Search Committee. Member of the Department of Linguistics Promotion Committee.

Task: evaluate 3 applications for promotion to the rank of Associate Professor.

Member of the Department of Linguistics Faculty Performance Committee. Task: Review faculty members’ bi-annual performance.

Member of the Department of Translation Faculty Performance Committee. Task: Review faculty members’ bi-annual performance.

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2012-2013 Chair of the Department Accreditation Committee. Tasks: (i) develop curriculum benchmarks and (ii) produce a department self-study in view of seeking accreditation.

Chair of the Department Search Committee. Task: review applications for a two positions in linguistics (phonology/phonetics and computational linguistics).

Member of the Department of Linguistics PhD Committee. Task: review applications and interview candidates for admission to the PhD program in TESOL.

Chair of the Department of Linguistics Promotion Committee. Task: oversee the review of one application for promotion to the rank of Associate Professor.

2011-2015 Member of the Department of Linguistics EEG Lab Executive

Committee. Task: Oversee the functioning of the lab and coordinate collaboration with the NYU-AD Neuroscience of Language Lab.

2008-2010 Member of the Department of Linguistics Curriculum Committee.

Tasks: (i) review existing curriculum and (ii) design new courses and minors. Achievements include:

- 2 General Education courses - 6 major courses in the General Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

majors - 2 interdisciplinary Minors: Computational Linguistics and

Educational Linguistics

2007-2010 Member of the Department of Linguistics Study Plan Committee. Task: revise the General Linguistics curriculum, including the redistribution and renumbering of the courses and the fine-tuning of the prerequisites.

2007-2008 Member of the Department of Linguistics Program Review and Accreditation Committee. Task: benchmark the curriculum and assess the performance of the Department of Linguistics.

Member of the Language and Communication Curriculum Committee and the Heritage and Culture Curriculum Committee. Task: review and evaluate the existing curricula in the Humanities and Social Sciences Divisions and make recommendations concerning:

- the Mission Statement of the New Vision of the College, - the quality and adequacy of the learning outcome goals for existing

programs, - the need to terminate, revise or introduce programs to ensure a

current and relevant curriculum, - the Introductory Thematic Course offered by the Humanities

Division, with a view to ensuring that it is achieving its purpose and of high quality in content and delivery.

2006-2007 Member of the General Linguistics Evaluation Committee. Task: (i) evaluate courses outcomes and student learning outcomes, and (ii) follow up with alumni to assess their employability.

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Member of the Department Search Committee. Review applications for three positions in linguistics.

Member of the Department of Translation Studies Search Committee. Review applications for one position in translation.

Member of the Teaching Assistant Search Committee. Task: (i) review applications and (ii) interview candidates for PhD scholarships.

2005-2010 Member of the Thematic Application Committee. Tasks: (i) develop courses and course syllabi for the Aphasia interdisciplinary minor, and (ii) place students in internship sites in local hospitals and rehabilitation centers.

4.2.3.3 Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane (Morocco)

2004-2005 Member of the Listening Unit. Tasks: (i) collect student feedback on their expectations from teachers and programs and (ii) report to the Vice President for Academic Affairs.

2004-2005 Writing Center consultant. Center for Academic Development. Task:

Assist students in organizing and editing their academic papers.

4.3 Student Advising

2008 and 2011 Academic and professional adviser for two Teaching Assistants at the Department of linguistics (UAE University): Tasks: (i) define the student’s PhD research, (ii) assist her in applying for admission to PhD programs in American and/or Canadian universities

2007 Co-supervising a student in conducting a research on phonological development in an Emirati Arabic-speaking child.

2004-2005 Academic Advisor (CADvisor) for 11 students, Center for Academic Development, Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane.

4.4 Other Community Service

2010 Developed collaboration between UAE University and the United Arab Emirates Deaf Association in order to build a dictionary/lexicon of UAE sign language(s), and recruit hearing impaired students to study linguistics.

1995 Co-founded of the Arab Youth Center in Montreal, Canada. The Center’s mission:

- present cultural aspects of the Arab world to non-Arab Canadians by means of conferences, art expositions and shows,

- facilitate the integration of Arab immigrants into their new environment by providing them with language classes and helping them finding jobs and writing their CVs.

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1995 Organized the first cultural and youth integration-oriented activity of the Arab Youth Center in Montreal.

1995 Organized a seminar on integration problems facing Arab immigrants in Canada. The activity was organized in collaboration with the Quebec Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities.

5 Professional Affiliations

2006-2007 International Speech Communication Association 1998-2008 Academy of Aphasia 1995-2000 Canadian Linguistic Association