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Johanne Catherine Paradis (born YEAR if info is available, also YEAR of death if applicable) is a scientist known for .... (write a sentence that indicates the scientist's area of research and key contributions). He/she holds the position of (indicate title and institutional affiliation; if deceased or retired, indicate former affiliation).

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Editor of: Input and Experience in Bilingual Development (Trends in Language Acquisition Research)

The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on Functional Categories

Dual Language Development & Disorders : A Handbook on Bilingualism & Second Language Learning

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The lab focuses on both the theoretical and applied aspects of second language acquisition, bilingualism, and heritage language acquisition in pre-teens and children both with and without developmental disorders. Some of the most recent ongoing projects taking place in the language acquisition lab are: Age Effects in Child Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder from Newcomer Families, and Successes and Challenges of Syrian Refugee Children: Language, Literacy, and Wellbeing.

The most notable result of the research that has been conducted in the language acquisition lab, is the Child English Second Language (CHESL) Center. The center's purpose is to measure ESL children's language performance and development by aiding and providing resources for clinicians and educators with a way to gauge the needs of the children. The CHESL Center is funded by: Alberta Innovates Health Solutions, the Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research , the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Paradis is also the current editor of Journal of Child Language, she began her 5 year term position in 2016.

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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., & 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
 * Paradis, J. (2001). Do bilingual two-year-olds have separate phonological systems? International Journal of Bilingualism, 5(1), 19–38. https://doi.org/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., Nicoladis, E., & Genesee, F. (2000). Early emergence of structural constraints on code-mixing: Evidence from French–English bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 3(3), 245-261.