Halima SAHRAOUI

  • Associate professor in Psycholinguistics (Maître de Conférences)
  • Discourse analysis, functional & usage-based approach, clinical linguistics, language therapy, aphasia across languages, foreign languages acquisition, learning and teaching
  • PhD in Language science, Psycholinguistics
    Laboratoire de NeuroPsychoLinguistique (LNPL)
    Département Études du français langue étrangère (Defle)

    • Contact details

    Address
    University of Toulouse, France Neuropsycholinguistics Research Unit - LNPL - URI 4156 Maison de la Recherche, bureau E 1.26 5 allées Antonio Machado 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 9
    Office
    E 1.26
    Phone
    (+0033) 05.61.50.24.72
    Email
    halima.sahraoui@univ-tlse2.fr

    Taught academic discipline(s)

    Linguistics, clinical linguistics and psycholinguistics, cognitive science
    Academic and methodological skills - research practices in humanities and social sciences
    Written French for advanced learners and academic purpose, spoken French for beginners
    Second language acquisition, learning & teaching
    Teaching French as a Foreign Language
     

    Research topics

    Research Interests :
    neuropsycholinguistics, discourse analysis, functional discourse grammar, usage-based approach, clinical linguistics, multi-level and multi-domain analyses, dysfluencies, variabilities, language production, language monitoring, adaptation theory, language therapy, aphasia across languages, second language acquisition, learning and teaching

    Activities / Resume

    Papers

    • Sahraoui, H., Martínez-Ferreiro, S & Soroli, E. (accepted, Aphasiology, Jul-2025). Theoretical and methodological challenges to define a cross-linguistic discourse core outcome set of measures for aphasia.

    • Fontan, L., Prince, T., Nowakowska, A., Sahraoui, H., Martínez-Ferreiro, S. (2023). Automatically measuring speech fluency in people with aphasia: First achievements using read-speech data. Aphasiology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2023.2244728

    • Ishkhanyan, B., Sahraoui, H., Harder, P., Mogensen, J., Boye, K (2017). Grammatical and lexical pronoun dissociation in French speakers with agrammatic aphasia: A usage-based account and REF-based hypothesis, Journal of Neurolinguistics, 44, 1-16.

    • Sahraoui, H. & Nespoulous, J‐L. (2013). Perspective neuropsycholinguistique sur l'aphasie agrammatique. L'Information Grammaticale, Études francophones en pathologie du langage, 138, 27-38.

    • Sahraoui, H. & Nespoulous, J‐L. (2012). Across‐task variability in agrammatic performance. Aphasiology, 26(6), 785‐810 [dx.doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2011.650625].

    • Soroli, E., Sahraoui, H. & Sacchett, C. (2012). Linguistic encoding of motion events in English and French: Typological constraints on second language acquisition and agrammatic aphasia. Language, Interaction and Acquisition 3(2), 261-328.

    Book sections

    • Baqué, L., Barbeau, E., Sahraoui, H. & Nespoulous, J-L. (2016). Les aphasies : pierres angulaires de la neuro(psycho)linguistique. In S. Pinto & M. Sato (éds.), Traité de Neurolinguistique (pp. 295-313). Louvain-la-Neuve : deBoeck Supérieur.

    • Sahraoui, H. (2015). Describing and interpreting variability in agrammatic speech production. In Astésano, C. et Jucla, M. (Eds.). Neuropsycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Cognition. Essays in Honor of Jean-Luc Nespoulous. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. Series: Explorations in Cognitive Psychology. New-York: Psychology Press, 131-143.

    Proceedings 

    • Sahraoui, H. (2023). Functional grammar and adaptation theory for agrammatic aphasia. Science of Aphasia International Conference Meeting, Sep 2023, Nice, France. ⟨hal-04839183⟩
    • Boye, K., Ishkhanyan, B., Theilgaard Brink, E. & Sahraoui, H. (2015). Pronouns and agrammatism in a functional theory of grammatical status. International conference - 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, SLE 2015, Leiden University Center for Linguistics, Leiden, 2-5 Sept 2015.

    • Sahraoui, H., Mauclair, J., Baqué, L. & Nespoulous J.-L. (2015). What do pause patterns in non-fluent aphasia tell us about monitoring speech? A study of morpho-syntactic complexity, accuracy and fluency in agrammatic sentence and connected discourse production. International Conference - 53rd Academy of Aphasia Conference Proceedings, Tucson, 18-20 Oct., Frontiers in Psychology, doi:10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2015.65.00060.

    • Boye, K., Ishkhanyan, B., Theilgaard Brink, E. & Sahraoui, H. (2015). Pronouns and agrammatism in a functional theory of grammatical status. International conference - 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, SLE 2015, Leiden University Center for Linguistics, Leiden, 2-5 Sept 2015.

    Conferences

    • Fontan, L., Prince, T., Nowakowska, A., Sahraoui, H., Martínez-Ferreiro, S. (2023). Prédiction de la fluence à partir de mesures temporelles automatiques : vers une application clinique pour améliorer le diagnostic et le suivi des patients aphasiques. Colloque International 9èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, Université de Toulouse, 15-17 Juin 2023.

    • Soroli, E., Sahraoui, H. & Sacchett, C. (2011). Encoding motion events across languages: typological constraints in bilingual agrammatism. 12th International Science of Aphasia Conference, Barcelona, 1er-5 Sept.

    • Soroli, E., Sahraoui, H. (2011). Does language constrain the way we think and speak about space? Evidence from English and French agrammatic aphasia. New Trends in Experimental Psycholinguistics, Madrid, 29-30 Sept .

    Posters

    • Sahraoui, H., Martínez-Ferreiro, S., (2023). Réflexions autour des pauses : quels types de « disfluencèmes » dans l'aphasie pour quelles mesures en discours en continu ? Communication affichée. Colloque International 9èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, Université de Toulouse, 15-17 Juin 2023.

    • Fontan, L., Prince, T., Nowakowska, A., Sahraoui, H., Martínez-Ferreiro, S. (2023). Prédiction de la fluence à partir de mesures temporelles automatiques : vers une application clinique pour améliorer le diagnostic et le suivi des patients aphasiques. Communication orale. Colloque International 9èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, Université de Toulouse, 15-17 Juin 2023.

    • Sahraoui, H. (2014). Trade-offs between fluency and grammatical complexity in language disorder: are agrammatic speakers “monitor over-users” ?  International Workshop on Language Production, Genève, 16-18 Jul.

    • Soroli, E., Sahraoui, H. & Sacchett, C. (2011). Space and language in English and French agrammatism: linking eye-fixations and linguistic encoding. The British Aphasiology Society Biennial International Conference, Reading (RU), 6-8 Sept.

    Conference, workshop, seminars (organizer)
    -Journées de Phonétique Clinique, International conference, 15-17 June 2023 https://www.irit.fr/jpc2023/
    -Octogone-Lordat's Seminars :
    Executive functions and strategies in aphasia (May 2015)
    Séminaires Octogone-Lordat 2013-2014
    -International conference :
    NeuroPsychoLinguistic Perspectives on Apasia, Toulouse 2012

    Additional information

    Knowledge dissemination
    • Sahraoui, H. (2022). Le langage, le cerveau et leurs troubles : enjeux de la neuropsycholinguistique. In Le langage : nature, structure, apprentissage, usages, Collectif Editions Sciences Humaines.
    • Sahraoui, H. (2014). « L’enseignement des langues peut-il aider à faire vivre les langues ? », Intervention et débat pour le Forom des langues du monde, Carrefour Culturel Arnaud-Bernard, Toulouse, 18 Mai 2014.
    • Sahraoui, H. (2013). L'aphasie : objet et moyen de la neurolinguistique. Communication invitée pour le Cercle des Etudiants Pour l'Etude du Langage (CEPEL).
    Ph.D. Thesis
    Sahraoui, H. (2009). Contribution to the study of compensatory strategies in agrammatism. Neuropsycholinguistic and functional approach of agrammatic speech production and variabaility. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. University of Toulouse.