Enseignant chercheur
M. Philippe Prevost
Full ProfessorCoordonnées
Discipline(s)
Discipline(s) enseignée(s)
• BA level: L1 Acquisition, Syntax, L2 acquisition, Clinical analysis of language (via use of CLAN), Grammatical aspects of spoken French, Critical reading of scientific articles, Language pathologies, Language and the brain
• MA level:
- MA in neuroscience and cognition: Introduction to linguistics, Typical and atypical language development
- MA in linguistics: Theoretical syntax and language development, L2 acquisition, Advanced syntax
• School of language and communication disorders: Bilingualism, Syntax, Typical language development, How to read scientific articles, Statistics
• University of Lisbon, Portugal, Summer school 2018: Language development in children with ASD
Thèmes de recherche
My research interests spans across several domains of language development, including bilingualism and language development in the context of a neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD), such as Developmental Language Disorder and autism, in children and adults, and more recently in minors in conflict with the law. I'm particularly interested in exploring the impact of morphosyntactic complexity in language development, in studying the relationship between language skills and extra-linguistic cognition, and in identifying profiles of language abilities in NDDs,
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Martin P, Manenti M, Schweitzer E, Tamiatto Z, Prévost P & Zebib R. in press. Early literacy profiles and written language outcomes in children with and without language disorder. Reading & Writing.
Prévost P, De Cat C, Gusnanto A, Kašćelan D, Serratrice L, Tuller L, Unsworth S 2026 Predicting individual differences in LITMUS Sentence Repetition performance using Q-BEx
De Cat C, Tuller L, Gusnanto A, Kašćelan D, Prévost P, Serratrice L, Unsworth S 2026 Using Q-BEx to identify risk for language impairment in bilingual children. J of Speech Lang & Hear Res
Schaeffer J, Novogrodsky R, Perovic A, Prévost P & Tuller L (eds) 2025. Language in autism. Wiley
Manenti M & Prévost P 2025. Language in autistic adults and elderly. In Language in autism. Wiley
Tuller L, Silleresi S & Prévost P 2025. Autism and language modularity. In Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell. J Benjamins
Unsworth S, Gusnanto A, Kašćelan D, Prévost P, Serratrice L, Tuller L, De Cat C 2025 Unpacking the richness of language experience as a predictor of bilingual children’s language proficiency. J of Child Lang
De Cat C, Gusnanto A, Kašćelan D, Prévost P, Serratrice L, Tuller L, Unsworth S 2025 How detailed do measures of bilingual language experience need to be? A cost-benefit analysis using the Q-BEx questionnaire. Biling: Lang & Cog
Bessé M, Morel-Kohlmeyer S, Capdeville J, Prévost P, Tuller L et al 2025 Autistic traits and cognitive functions: A cross-sectional study from younger to older adulthood. Acta Psych
Manenti M, Prévost P, Houy-Durand E, Bonnet-Brilhault F, Ferré S 2025 Facing phonological complexity as an autistic adult: Skills and difficulties. Aut & Dev Lang Impair
Bessé M, Morel-Kohlmeyer S, Houy-Durand E, Prévost P, Tuller L, Bouazzaoui B, Taconnat L, Capdeville J,Angel L & Gomot M 2025. Cognitive and cerebral aging research in autism: A systematic review on an emerging topic. Aut Res
Pourquié M, Etxeberria U, Lacroix H, Prévost P 2024 HEGA: The Basque version of the PaBiQ parental questionnaire, for clinicians and educators working in the Basque multilingual environment. Frontiers
Manenti M, Ferré S, Tuller L, Houy-Durand E, Bonnet-Brilhault F, Prévost P 2024 Profiles of structural language and nonverbal intellectual abilities in verbal autistic adults. Res in ASD
Manenti M, Tuller L, Houy-Durand E, Bonnet-Brilhault F, Prévost P 2023 Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition. Lingua
Schaeffer J ... Prévost P, Tuller L 2023 Language in autism: domains, profiles and co-occurring conditions. J of Neural Transmission
Prévost P & Tuller L 2022 Bilingual language development in autism. Ling Appr to Biling
De Cat C, Kašćelan D, Prévost P, Serratrice L, Tuller L, Unsworth S 2022 How to quantify bilingual experience? Findings from a Delphi consensus survey. Biling: Lang & Cog
Fiani R, Henry G, Prévost P 2022 Macrostructure in narratives produced by Lebanese Arabic/French bilingual children. Ling Appr to Biling
Kašćelan D, Prévost P, Serratrice L, Tuller L, Unsworth S, De Cat C 2022 A Review of questionnaires quantifying bilingual experience in children: Do we document the same constructs? Biling: Lang & Cog
Activités / CV
Scheidnes M, Tuller L, Prévost P 2021 Object clitic production in French-speaking L2 children and children with SLI: A longitudinal comparison of elicited and spontaneous language. Ling Appr to Biling
Fiani R, Henry G, Prévost P 2020 Narrative comprehension in Lebanese Arabic/French bilingual children. In Developing narrative comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives. J Benjamins
Silleresi S, Prévost P, Zebib R, Bonnet-Brilhaut F, Conte D, Tuller L 2020 Identifying structural language/nonverbal ability profiles in children with ASD: methodological considerations. Aut Res
Zebib R, Tuller L, Hamann C, Abed Ibrahim L, Prévost P 2020 Syntactic complexity and verbal working memory in bilingual children with and without DLD. First Lang
Prévost P, Tuller L, Zebib, R, Malvy, J, Bonnet-Brilhault, F 2018 Pragmatic versus structural difficulties in the production of pronominal clitics in French-speaking children with ASD. Aut & Dev Lang Impair
Tuller L, Hamann C, Prévost P, Chilla S, Ferré, S, dos Santos, C, Zebib, R, Abed Ibrahim, L 2018 Identifying language impairment in bilingual children in France and in Germany. Intl J of Lang & Comm Dis
Durrlemann S, Delage H, Prévost P, Tuller L 2018 The comprehension of passives in ASD. Glossa
Fleckstein A, Prévost P, Tuller L, Sizaret E, Zebib R 2018 How to identify SLI in bilingual children? A study on sentence repetition in French. Lang Acq
Silleresi S, Tuller L, Delage H, Durrleman S, Bonnet-Brilhault F, Malvy J, Prévost P 2018 Sentence repetition and language impairment in French-speaking children with ASD. In A Gavarro The acquisition of Romance. J Benjamins
Tuller L, Ferré S, Prévost P, Barthez MA, Malvy J, Bonnet-Brilhault F 2017 The effect of computational complexity on the acquisition of French by children with ASD. In Innovative investigations of language in ASD. de Gruyter
Prévost P, Tuller L, Galloux, A, Barthez, MA 2017 Complexity and production/comprehension asymmetries in the acquisition of wh-questions in French: Comparing second language acquisition and language impairment in children. In Crosslinguistic influence in bilingualism. J Benjamins
Prévost P, Tuller L, Barthez MA, Malvy J, Bonnet-Brilhault F 2017 Production and comprehension of French wh-questions by children with ASD. Appl Psycholing
De Almeida L, Ferré S, Morin E, Prévost P, dos Santos C, Tuller L, Zebib R 2017 Identification of bilingual children with SLI in France. Ling Appr to Biling
Bonnet-Brilhault F, Tuller L, Prévost P, Malvy J, Zebib R, Ferré S, dos Santos C et al (2017). A strategic plan to identify key neurophysiological mechanisms and brain circuits in autism. J of Chem Neuroanat
Borgonovo C, Bruhn de Garavito J, P Prévost 2015 Mood selection in relative clauses: interfaces and variability. Stud in Sec Lang Acq
Léger E, Prévost P, Tuller L 2015 The development of object clitics in French: A comparative study between production and real-time interpretation via eye-tracking while listening. In Language acquisition and development. Cambridge Scholars
Prévost P, Strik N, Tuller L 2014 Wh-questions in child L2 French: Interaction between derivational complexity, L1 properties, length of exposure, age of exposure and the input. Sec Lang Res
Androutsopoulou A, Español-Echevarría M, Prévost P 2010 The syntax/ morphology interface in Spanish L2 acquisition: Focus on quantified DPs. Can J of Ling
Prévost P 2009 The acquisition of French: The development of inflectional morphology and syntax in L1 acquisition, bilingualism and L2 acquisition. J Benjamins
Prévost P 2006 The phenomenon of object omission in child L2 French. Biling: Lang & Cog
Prévost P 2003 Truncation and Missing Inflection in child second language acquisition. Stud in Sec Lang Acq
Prévost P & White L 2000 Missing surface Inflection or impairment in second language acquisition? Evidence from tense and agreement. Sec Lang Res
Informations complémentaires
RESEARCH GRANTS (since 2009)
• 2023-2027: Member, ANR grant, Predictors of REading and Spelling Acquisition and Disorders in children with or without developmental language disorder (PRESAD) (529 400 €). PI: R. Zebib (UMR 1253 iBraiN)
. 2023-2027: Member (representing France), Steering Committee, and WG leader, COST Action CA22139, Justice to youth language needs: human rights undermined by an invisible disadvantage. PI: M. Arche (University of Greenwich, UK)
• 2023-2027: PI, ANR grant, Language Abilities of Bilingual Children with ASD (LABA) (369 440€). Partner: UMR 5478 IKER, CNRS
• 2022-2026: Member, ANR grant, Individual neurophysiological SENSoRY profiles in AUtism (SensAUry) (529 400€). PI: C. Wadack (UMR 1253 iBraiN)
• 2022-2024: Member, Centre Val de Loire regional grant, Ageing in ASD (202 072€). PI: L. Angel (UMR 7296 CERCA)
• 2019-2022: Co-PI, Economic & Social Research Council (UK) grant, Quantifying bilingual experience (Q-BEx): optimising tools for educators, clinicians and researchers (507 898€). PI: C. De Cat (Univ of Leeds)
• 2017-2018: PI, Hubert Curien Program (HCP) grant, Linguistic and cognitive abilities of French- and Dutch-acquiring children with autism spectrum disorder (4 500€). Co-PI: J. Schaeffer (Univ of Amsterdam)
• 2016-2019: Member, International network, Dutch NWO grant, Language Abilities in Children with Autism (LACA) (75 000 €). PI: J. Schaeffer (Univ of Amsterdam)
• 2013-2016: Member, ANR/DFG grant, Bilingual language development: Typically developing children and children with language impairment (BilAD) (176 877€). PIs: L. Tuller (UMR 1253 iBrain) & C. Hamann (Univ. of Oldenburg)
• 2011-2012: Member, HCP grant (France-Lebanon Cooperation Program), Identification of specific language impairment in multilingual contexts (20 000€). PIs: L. Tuller (UMR 1253 iBrain) & C. Messara (St Joseph Univ., Beirut)
• 2009-2013: Member (representing France), Management Committee, and WG leader, COST Action IS0804 Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment. PI: S. Armon-Lotem (Bar Ilan Univ., Israël)
• 2009-2012: Member, ANR grant, Complexity and compensation in atypical language acquisition: A comparative approach (CAAL) (115 000 €). PI: L. Tuller (UMR 1253 iBrain)
OTHER RESEARCH INVOLVEMENTS
• Since 2022: Coordinator, Language Axis, UMR 1253 iBraiN, team 1 Neurofunctional Psychiatry
RECENT ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Bidart K, Etxeberria U, Manenti M & Prévost P 2026. Using LITMUS-Sentence Repetition to measure morphosyntactic skills in Basque bilingual children. Child Language Symposium 2026. University College London, UK
Prévost P 2026 Language capacities in autistic individuals with Intellectual Developmental Disorder. First Mediterranean Workshop on Clinical Linguistics, Palma, Spain
Prévost P, Manenti M, El Akiki C, Ferré S & Zebib R. 2025 Standardization of LITMUS tools in France: Preliminary data and some questions'. LITMUS - Norming studies across Europe Workshop, Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany
Bataillon C, Tuller L, Foucart A & Prévost P 2025 Using a truth value judgment task as a screening tool for syntactic comprehension’. GALA 2025, Tours, France
Manenti M, El Akiki C, Ferré F, Macchi L, Prévost P, dos Santos C, Tamiatto T, Tuller L & Zebib R 2025 Using LITMUS-SR and LITMUS-NWR as screening tools: A large-scale population study. GALA 2025. Tours, France
Prévost P, Etxeberria U & Manenti M 2025 Exploring predictors of LITMUS-Sentence Repetition in Basque. ISB15, San Sebastian, Spain
Prévost P 2024 Identifying conversational ability profiles in autistic adults. Linguistic and social pragmatic abilities workshop, Syracuse, Italy
Prévost P 2024 Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical issues and methodological challenges. GALA 2024, Lisbon, Portugal
De Cat C, Tuller L, Kašćelan D, Prévost P, Serratrice L & Unsworth S 2024. Using Q-BEx as a Triage Tool. BI-SLI 2024, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Martin P, Prévost P, Schweitzer E & Zebib R 2023 Early predictors of written language skills in children with DLD. International Workshop on Reading and Developmental Dyslexia, San Sebastian, Spain
Prévost P, Tuller L, dos Santos C, Ferré S, Zebib R & Silleresi S 2022 The effect of bilingualism on language development in autistic children. GASLA 2022. Trondheim, Norway
Prévost P, Ferré S, dos Santos C, Schoeny C, Gillet C, Tuller L & Zebib R 2020 Developing and piloting reduced versions of LITMUS-SR-French and LITMUS-NWR-French. BISLI 2020, Galway, Ireland
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS (since 2010)
• 2024-2025: Co-organizer, 17th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA), Tours, 11-13 Sept. 2025
• 2018-2019: Co-organizer, Language Acquisition in Children with Autism (LACA) international meeting, Univ. of Tours, 1-2 April 2019
• 2014-2015: Co-organizer, Bilingualism and SLI (Bi-SLI) 2015 international conference, Univ. of Tours, 2-3 July 2015
• 2012-2013: Co-organizer, ‘Language and mind in autism’ workshop, International Congress of Linguists, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland, 25-27 July 2013
• 2012: Co-organizer, Innovative Research in Autism 2012 international conference, Tours, 30 May-1 June 2012
• 2010: Co-organizer, The Romance Turn IV, Univ. of Tours, France, 25-27 August 2010
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSABILITIES
• Since 2020 (and 2016): Appointed member, National University Council (for linguistics), France
• Since 2011: Elected member, Faculty of Letters and Languages Council, Univ. of Tours
• 2022-2024 (& 2017-2019, 2008-2011): Co-chair, Department of Linguistics, Univ. of Tours
• 2016-2020: Elected member, Academic Board, Univ. of Tours
• 2016-2021: Member, Commission for International Relations, Univ. of Tours