CV of Sami Boudelaa

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EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 1979 - 1986 Tataouine High School Tunisia.
• 1986 - 1990 University of Mannouba, Tunis, Tunisia.
• 1990-1992 Université Denis-Diderot Paris 7, Jussieu, D.E.A. Phonetics (with honours)
• 1992-1996 Université Denis-Diderot Paris 7, Jussieu, PhD., (cum laude).

MEMBER OF

• Cognitive Science Society
• Arabic Linguistic Society

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

• 2003-present:Senior Research Associate; Medical Research Council-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK.
• 1998-2003: Post-doctoral Scientist, Medical Research Council-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, U.K.
• 1996-1998: Post-doctoral Scientist, at Paris 8, France.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2002-2003: Lecturer, Introduction to Cognitive Science, Anglia Polytehnic Univeristy Cambridge.
• 2000-2001: Joint supervisor for undergraduate projects, Cambridge University.

  HIGH SCHOOL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 1991-1993: English Teacher at Lycée Polyvalent Fernand Léger, Argenteuil, Paris, France.
  • 1993-1994: English Teacher at Lycée Technique Eugène Ronceray, Bezons Paris, France.
  • 1994-1995: English Teacher at Centre de Cure , Fontainebleau Avon, Paris, France.

  EXPERT REVIEWER FOR

  • Language and Cognitive Processes.
  • Al-Arabiyya
  • Psychological Review
  • Journal of Memory and Language
  • Journal of Linguistics
    
  • Cognition
  • National Foundation of Science
  • Brain Research
  • Behaviour Research Methods
    

  PUBLICATIONS

  Journal articles

  • Boudelaa, S., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). Morphologicalunits in the Arabic mental lexicon, Cognition, 81, 65-92.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Gaskell, G. M. (2002). A re-examination of the default system for Arabic plurals. Language and Cognitive Processes, 17, 321-343.
  • Boudelaa, S., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2004). Abstract morphemes and lexical representation: The CV-Skeleton in Arabic. Cognition, 92, 271–303
  • Boudelaa, S., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2004).Allomorphic variation in Arabic: implications for lexical processing and representation. Brain and Language, 90, 106-116.
  • Boudelaa, S., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D.(2005).Discontinuous morphology in time: Incremental masked priming in Arabic. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20, 207-260.
  • Boudelaa, S., Marslen-Wilson, W. D., Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O. & Shtyrov, Y. (2010).Arabic morphology in the neural language system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 998-1010.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2010). ARALEX: A lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic. Behavior Research Methods, 42:481-487.
  • Boudelaa, S., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2011). Structure, form, and meaning in the mental lexicon: Evidence from Arabic. Journal of Memory and Language under review.
  • Boudelaa, S., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (in preparation). Productivity and decomposability: Roots and nominal word patterns in Arabic.
  • Boudelaa, S. (in preparation). Continuous and discontinuous speech processing mechanisms in Arabic.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (in preparation). Extracting morphological structure in Standard and dialectal Arabic.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (in preparation). The morphological family size for Arabic roots and word patterns: Insights from visual and auditory lexical decision.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (in preparation). Semantic opacity and homophonic roots in Arabic.

  Invited Talks

  • Boudelaa, S. (2010). Towards a cognitive neuroscience of Arabic. Invited talk at the Fourth International Arabic Linguistics Symposium: Uneversity of Alexandria, December 11^th-12^th, Egypt. (Hosted by Dr Sameh Al-Ansary)
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2008). Semantic opacity, decompositionality and full form storage in Arabic. Invited talk at the Morphology Workshop: To store or not to store: Handling morphological complexity. University of Konstanz, October 1st-03, Germany. (Hosted by Dr Eva Smolka & Mathias Scharinger)
  • Boudelaa, S. (2006). When will morphology be special? Centre for Developmental Language Disorders & Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London. (Hosted by Professor Heather Vander Lely)
  • Boudelaa, S. (2006). The structure of information in Standard and dialectal Arabic: A cognitive perspective. University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language. (Hosted by Professor Jonathan Owens).
  • Boudelaa, S. (2006). The Semitic morphemic lexicon: Insights from Arabic behavioral and imaging research. Department of Language and Linguistics, University bof Essex, Clochester, UK. (Hosted by: Professor Harald Clahsen).
  • Boudelaa, S. (2005). Introduction to Arabic Psycholinguistics. United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain .(Hosted by Professor Jean-François Prunet)
  • Boudelaa, S. (2005). The Arabic lexicon: Cognitive and computational perspectives. Faculty of Arts Alexandria University, Egypt (Hosted by: Professor Gamal Hagar).
  • Boudelaa, S. (2004). Lexical processing and representation in Semitic morphology: The Case of Arabic. University of Aix, France (Hosted by Professor Jonathan Grainger).

  Conference Presentations and Proceedings

  • Sami Boudelaa, Ali Idrissi, Renee Beland & William Marslen-Wilons (2011). Dissociating roots and word patterns in Arabic: Evidence from aphasia. Paper  presented  at the 18^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. I21, p 222.
  • Sami Boudelaa, Bozic, Mirjana, & William Marslen-Wilson (2010). Neuro-cognitive complexity of Semitic morphology: an fMRI investigation of derivational morphology in Arabic. Paper  presented  at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nov 13^th-17^th, San Diego, California, USA.
  • Sami Boudelaa, Alexandra, Woolgar & William Marslen-Wilson (2010). Segregating nouns and verbs in the language neural system: Classifying Arabic nouns and nouns by the brain Paper  presented  at the Second Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, Nov 11^th-12^th, San Diego, California, USA.
  • Sami Boudelaa, Bozic, Mirjana, & William Marslen-Wilson (2010). Engaging fronto-temporal brain systems with derivational morphemes: An fMRI study of Arabic Paper  presented  at the 17^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 18^th-20^th, Montreal, Canada.
  • Khamis-Dakwar, R., Froud, K., & Boudelaa, S. (2009). Lexical processing in diglossic code switching between Modern Standard Arabic and Palestinian Colloquial Arabic: An Event Related Brain Potential Study of Arabic Native Speakers. Paper Presented at the 16^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 21^st – 24^th, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Sami Boudelaa, & William Marslen-Wilson (2009). Do morphological family members inhibit each other? Family size effects in Arabic. Paper presented at the Sixth Workshop on Morphological Processing, University of Turku, June 14^th-17^th, Finland.
  • Sami Boudelaa, & William Marslen-Wilson (2007). Semantic opacity and homophonic roots in Arabic, Paper presented at the Fifth Workshop on Morphological Processing,Marseilles University, France.
  • Boudelaa, S. Marslen-Wilson,W. D., Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O., & Shtyrov, Y. (2005).The neural correlates of Arabic morphology: A mismatch negativity study with roots and word patterns. Paper Presented at the International Neuroscience Conference, Al-Ain, UAE.
  • Boudelaa, S., Marslen-Wilson, W. D., Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O. & Shtyrov, Y. (2005). Arabic roots and word patterns in the brain: A mismatch negativity study. Paper to presented at the fourth International Workshop on Morphology, University of Cambridge, UK.
  • Boudelaa, S., Marslen-Wilson, W. D., Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O. & Shtyrov, Y. (2005). Morpheme specific cortical activity: Evidence from Mismatch negativity with Arabic roots and word patterns Paper to presented at the Nineteebth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics University of Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, USA.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2004). How continuous is the uptake of discontinuous morphemes? Cross-modal priming with fragments of roots and word patterns in Arabic. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2004). Limits on Abstractness: Insights from masked and cross-modal priming in Arabic. Paper presented at the 11th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2003). Productivity and decomposability: Roots and nominal word patterns in Arabic. Paper presented at the Third Workshop on Morphological University of Aix, France.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2003). What underlies word pattern priming in Arabic deverbal nouns? Paper presented at the Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics University of Alexandria, Egypt
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2002). Word Pattern and Root allomorphy in Arabic lexical processing. The Third International Conference on The Mental Lexicon, Banff, Canada.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). Morphemic units in the Arabic mental lexicon: Roots, word patterns, and skeletons. Paper presented at the Conference on the Syntax and Semantics of Semitic Languages, May 3-6, University of Southern California, LA, USA.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). Are word patterns parsed into vocalic and skeletal morphemes during the processing of Modern Standard Arabic? Paper presented at the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001 June). Fractionating Arabic morphology: Differential time-course of word pattern and root processing. Paper presented at The Morphology Workshop, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). The time-course of morphological, phonological and semantic processes in reading Modern Standard Arabic. Proceedings of the Twenty Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Edinburgh, Scotland (August, 1st-4th).
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2000). Cognitive processing and representation of morphological structure in Modern Standard Arabic: Beyond the three-consonantal root. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics University of Berkeley, San Francisco.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2000). On the use of word pattern morphemes in Modern Standard Arabic. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics University of Berkeley, San Francisco.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Gaskell, G. (2000). In search of the minority default: the case of Arabic plurals. Proceedings of the Twenty Second Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 48-53. Philadelphia, USA.
  • Boudelaa, S. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2000). Non-concatenative morphemes in Language Processing: Evidence from Modern Standard Arabic Proceedings of Spoken Word Access Processes, 23-26, Max Planck Institute, Netherlands.
  • Boudelaa, S. (1999). How functionally monolingual can a bilingual be? Evidence from gating. Paper presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Bilingualism Department of Speech, University of New Castle upon Tyne, UK (14-18 Avril).
  • Boudelaa, S. & Meftah, M. (1996). Cross-language effects of lexical stress in word recognition: the case of Arabic English bilinguals. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol I, 121-124, Philadelphia, USA.
  • Meftah, M., & Boudelaa, S. (1996). How facilitatory can lexical information be during word recognition: The case of Moroccan Arabic. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol I, 74-77, Philadelphia, USA.
  • Boudelaa, S. (1995). The use of prosodic information in word recognition in Modern Standard Arabic: Proceedings of the XIIIth Intrnational Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Vol. IV, 340-343. Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Boudelaa, S. (1994). Le rôle des similarités acoustico-phonétiques dans l'accès au lexique chez le bilingue arabe-anglais: Preuves à partir du "gating". Actes des 20ème Journées d'Etudes de La Parole, 355-360.
  • Znagui, I. & Boudelaa, S. (1993). Towards a classification of Modern Standard Arabic vowels. Third Conference on Speech Communication & Technology, Berlin, Germany 21-23 September Proceedings of Eurospeech, Vol 1, pp. 425-427
  • Znagui, I. & Boudelaa, S. (1993). La Corrélation acoustico-articulatoire des voyelles de l'arabe moderne standard Colloque de Phonologie/Phonétique de York, Canada.

  Edited Books and Book Chapters

  • Boudelaa, S. (Eds.) (2005). Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XVI. John Benjamin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Boudelaa, S. (2006). Cognitive Linguistics and Arabic. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics.