Johanne Paradis

Paradis studied linguistics at the University of British Columbia, where she completed her BA in 1986 and her MA in 1988. She continued her education at McGill University, where she obtained her doctorate in psychology in 1997 under the supervision of Fred Genesee. Her dissertation was titled Functional Categories and the Grammatical Development of Bilingual and Second Language Children. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship, supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Paradis joined the Faculty of Linguistics at the University of Alberta in 2000 and was promoted to full professor in 2011. the Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research, the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. == Research ==

Paradis's research program explores theoretical and applied aspects of bilingualism, second language acquisition, and heritage language acquisition in children and pre-teens. bilingual development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from immigrant families, and language and literacy development of Syrian Refugee children. Her work at the Child English Second Language Center focuses on acquisition of English as a second or foreign language with the aim of aiding and providing resources for clinicians and educators. Some of the children had SLI and some had TD; the subgroups were compared to monolingual English-speaking peers with SLI or TD. The researchers found similarities among the bilingual and monolingual children with SLI with respect to their errors with English morphology, and also found similarities among the bilingual and monolingual children with TD. == Representative publications ==

• Genesee, F., Nicoladis, E., & Paradis, J. (1995). Language differentiation in early bilingual development. Journal of Child Language, 22(3), 611–631. doi:10.1017/S0305000900009971 • Paradis, J. (2001). Do bilingual two-year-olds have separate phonological systems? International Journal of Bilingualism, 5(1), 19–38. doi:10.1177/13670069010050010201 • Paradis, J. (2010). The interface between bilingual development and specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics, 31(2), 227–252. doi:10.1017/S0142716409990373 • Paradis, J. (2011). Individual differences in child English second language acquisition: Comparing child-internal and child-external factors. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 1(3), 213–237. doi:10.1075/lab.1.3.01par • Paradis, J., & Genesee, F. (1996). Syntactic acquisition in bilingual children: Autonomous or interdependent? Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 18(1), 1-25. doi:10.1017/S0272263100014662 • Paradis, J., & Navarro, S. (2003). Subject realization and crosslinguistic interference in the bilingual acquisition of Spanish and English: What is the role of the input? Journal of Child Language, 30(2), 371–393. doi:10.1017/S0305000903005609 ==References==