Language, Interaction and Acquisition | Langage, Interaction et Acquisition

Editors
ORCiD logo with linkSandra Benazzo | Université Paris 8 | lia-sfl at cnrs.fr
Marion Blondel | CNRS - Université Paris 8
ORCiD logo with linkHelen Engemann | University of Mannheim
ORCiD logo with linkMarianne Gullberg | Lund University
ORCiD logo with linkHenriëtte Hendriks | University of Cambridge
Fabian Santiago | Université Paris 8
Anita Thomas | Université de Fribourg
ORCiD logo with linkGeorges Daniel Véronique | Université d'Aix-Marseille
Assistant Editor
Dana Cohen
Founding Editor
Maya Hickmann †

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LIA is a bilingual English-French journal that publishes original theoretical and empirical research of high scientific quality at the forefront of current debates concerning language acquisition. It covers all facets of language acquisition among different types of learners and in diverse learning situations, with particular attention to oral speech and/or to signed languages. Topics include the acquisition of one or more foreign languages, of one or more first languages, and of sign languages, as well as learners’ use of gestures during speech; the relationship between language and cognition during acquisition; bilingualism and situations of linguistic contact – for example pidginisation and creolisation. The bilingual nature of LIA aims at reaching readership in a wide international community, while simultaneously continuing to attract intellectual and linguistic resources stemming from multiple scientific traditions in Europe, thereby remaining faithful to its original French anchoring. LIA is the direct descendant of the French-speaking journal AILE.

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ISSN: 1879-7865 | E-ISSN: 1879‑7873
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Latest articles

17 February 2026

  • The complementary contributions of oral and written modalities to the development of verbal morphology: A longitudinal study of Syrian learners of L2 French
    Inès Saddour

    • 9 January 2026

  • The impact of L1 and L2 on the use of relative clauses in L3 English: Evidence from Persian, Sorani Kurdish, and Azerbaijani speakers
    Golpar Bahar & Gero Kunter | LIA 16:2 (2025) pp. 263–280

    • 6 January 2026

  • The road of second language discovery
    Søren W. Eskildsen | LIA 16:2 (2025) pp. 199–228

    • 5 January 2026

  • Passe ton bac LSF !  Attitudes des CODA (Children of Deaf Adults) dans l’option LSF (Langue des Signes Française) au lycée
    Stéphanie Papin & Rayco H. González-Montesino | LIA 16:2 (2025) pp. 281–321

    • 19 December 2025

  • L’expression tu sais dans la gestion de problèmes lexicaux en français langue seconde
    Melissa Juillet & Tiziana Kowalczuk | LIA 16:2 (2025) pp. 229–262

    • 9 October 2025

  • Becoming friends: Establishing social relations in L2 business calls
    Søren Wind Eskildsen & Johannes Wagner | LIA 16:1 (2025) pp. 39–64
  • Occasioning and re-occasioning learnables in a cooking class
    Tim Greer & Zachary Nanbu | LIA 16:1 (2025) pp. 132–167
  • Discussion paper: A critical appreciation of the special issue
    Numa Markee | LIA 16:1 (2025) pp. 168–191
  • Interactional competence development as task-oriented language socialization
    Hanh thi Nguyen & Taiane Malabarba | LIA 16:1 (2025) pp. 65–99
  • Compétence d’interaction en L2 et processus de socialisation : Une étude de cas longitudinale
    Klara Skogmyr Marian & Simona Pekarek Doehler | LIA 16:1 (2025) pp. 100–131
  • Hanh thi Nguyen & Taiane Malabarba. 2025. Developing interactional competence at the workplace: Learning English as a foreign language on the shop floor
    Reviewed by Melissa Juillet, Sophia Fiedler, Loanne Janin & Sam Schirm | LIA 16:1 (2025) pp. 192–198
  • Devenir membre de mondes sociaux : L’interface entre apprentissage et socialisation dans les interactions en L2
    Klara Skogmyr Marian & Simona Pekarek Doehler | LIA 16:1 (2025) pp. 19–38
  • Becoming a member in social worlds: The interface of learning and socialization in L2 interactions
    Klara Skogmyr Marian & Simona Pekarek Doehler | LIA 16:1 (2025) pp. 1–18

    • 20 March 2025

  • Effets des conditions d’interlocution sur la gestion de la concurrence des référents dans un récit
    Anne Salazar Orvig & Geneviève de Weck | LIA 15:2 (2024) pp. 278–314
  • A multi-dimensional analysis of backchannels in L1 German, L1 Italian and L2 German
    Simona Sbranna, Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice | LIA 15:2 (2024) pp. 243–277
  • Voluntary motion events in Uyghur child language
    Alimujiang Tusun | LIA 15:2 (2024) pp. 189–214
  • The development of CAF in the oral production of French L1 young learners of EFL: A longitudinal study
    Alexandra Vraciu & Agnès Leroux | LIA 15:2 (2024) pp. 215–242
    • IssuesOnline-first articles

    Volume 16 (2025)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1

    Becoming a Member in Social Worlds

    : The interface of learning and socialization in L2 interactions

    Volume 15 (2024)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1
    Interactions and Language Acquisition in Non-Family Settings

    Volume 14 (2023)

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    Issue 1
    Conceptual transfer, (re)conceptualisation and other cognitive aspects of crosslinguistic influence in L2 acquisition

    Volume 13 (2022)

    Issue 2
    Second Language Acquisition of Sign Languages: Acquisition d'une langue des signes comme langue seconde
    Issue 1

    Volume 12 (2021)

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    Language, Plasticity and Learning: Developmental Issues: Langage, Plasticité et Apprentissage : enjeux développementaux

    Volume 11 (2020)

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    A cross-theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective on the L2 acquisition of case systems / L'acquisition de systèmes casuels en L2 : des études à travers plusieurs théories et langues

    Volume 10 (2019)

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    French liaison in second language acquisition / La liaison en français langue étrangère: Issues, methods and perspectives / Thèmes, méthodes et perspectives

    Volume 9 (2018)

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    Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events / L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments / nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements linguistiques

    Volume 8 (2017)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1
    The gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage

    Volume 7 (2016)

    Issue 2
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    Discourse Markers in Second Language Acquisition / Les marqueurs discursifs dans l’acquisition d’une langue étrangère: Studies on Italian and French as L2 / Études en italien et en français langues étrangères

    Volume 6 (2015)

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    The Morphological Expression of Temporality on the Verb in French as a Second Language / L’expression morphologique de la temporalité sur le verbe en français langue seconde

    Volume 5 (2014)

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    The role of input on early first language morphosyntactic development: Le rôle de l’input sur le développement morphosyntaxique précoce en langue maternelle

    Volume 4 (2013)

    Issue 2
    Issue 1

    Volume 3 (2012)

    Issue 2
    Typological perspectives on second language acquisition: ‘Thinking for Speaking’ in L2: Perspectives typologiques sur l’acquisition d’une langue seconde: ‘Penser pour Parler’ en L2
    Issue 1
    The acquisition of French as a second language: New developmental perspectives: L’acquisition du français langue seconde : nouvelles perspectives développementales

    Volume 2 (2011)

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    First language attrition/L'attrition de la langue première
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    Grammaticalization and first language acquisition – Crosslinguistic perspectives/Grammaticalisation et acquisition des langues premières - Perspectives interlangues

    Volume 1 (2010)

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    The Processing of Input in Second Language Acquisition / Le traitement de l'input dans l'acquisition des langues étrangères
    Issue 1
    Acquiring Sign Language as a First Language / Acquisition d’une langue des signes comme langue première
    Editorial info
    Editors
    ORCiD logo with linkSandra Benazzo | Université Paris 8 | lia-sfl at cnrs.fr
    Marion Blondel | CNRS - Université Paris 8
    ORCiD logo with linkHelen Engemann | University of Mannheim
    ORCiD logo with linkMarianne Gullberg | Lund University
    ORCiD logo with linkHenriëtte Hendriks | University of Cambridge
    Fabian Santiago | Université Paris 8
    Anita Thomas | Université de Fribourg
    ORCiD logo with linkGeorges Daniel Véronique | Université d'Aix-Marseille
    Assistant Editor
    Dana Cohen
    Founding Editor
    Maya Hickmann †
    Editorial Board
    Dominique Bassano-Bonhommo
    Eve V. Clark
    ORCiD logo with linkChristine Dimroth
    Jonas Granfeldt
    Cyrille Granget
    Maria Graziano
    Monique Lambert
    ORCiD logo with linkGary Morgan
    Aliyah Morgenstern
    Aslı Özyürek
    Rebekah Rast
    ORCiD logo with linkLudovica Serratrice
    Krister Schönström
    ORCiD logo with linkKlara Skogmyr Marian
    Gale Stam
    Elin Thordardottir
    Marzena Watorek
    Sophie Wauquier
    Elizabeth Zetterholm
    Advisory Board
    Inge Bartning
    Ruth A. Berman
    Giuliano Bernini
    David Birdsong
    Geneviève Calbris
    ORCiD logo with linkDeborah Chen Pichler
    ORCiD logo with linkSoonja Choi
    Jacques Cosnier
    Christian Cuxac
    ORCiD logo with linkWolfgang U. Dressler
    Michel Fayol
    Paul van Geert
    ORCiD logo with linkSusan Goldin-Meadow
    ORCiD logo with linkHarriet Jisa
    Michèle Kail
    Wolfgang Klein
    David McNeill
    Brian MacWhinney
    Rachel I. Mayberry
    ORCiD logo with linkRichard P. Meier
    ORCiD logo with linkCarmen Muñoz
    ORCiD logo with linkElena Nicoladis
    Colette Noyau
    ORCiD logo with linkSimona Pekarek Doehler
    Judy Reilly
    ORCiD logo with linkDavid Singleton
    Dan I. Slobin
    Christiane von Stutterheim
    Laurice Tuller
    ORCiD logo with linkVirginia Volterra
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