Halima SAHRAOUI

Halima SAHRAOUI is an Associate Professor in French as a Foreign Language (FLE) and a researcher in neuropsycholinguistics at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès. She holds a PhD in Language Sciences (2009) and leads the NeuroPsychoLinguistics Laboratory (LNPL). Her work focuses on aphasia, speech production mechanisms, and clinical applications of neurolinguistic research. She teaches courses in cognitive science, psycholinguistics, and FLE methodology across undergraduate and graduate programs.

• PhD: Contribution to the study of compensatory strategies in agrammatism (2009)
• Current roles: LNPL Lab Head (2019-2022), Director of DEFLE Department (2015-2018)

Research interests include morpho-syntactic encoding, discourse variability in aphasia, and adaptive strategies in language disorders. Her recent work develops automated speech analysis tools for clinical diagnosis (AADI project). Key contributions include contributions to the international AphasiaBank database and co-organized conferences like the 2023 Journées de Phonetique Clinique.

Her publications analyze speech fluency metrics, pronoun dissociation in agrammatism, and discourse patterns in neurologically impaired populations. She supervises postdoctoral research (Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro) and co-advises doctoral candidates (e.g., Anne-Flore Gindre’s 2024 thesis on rhythmic priming in speech initiation).

Labs/teams: LNPL (Neurocognition, Clinical Linguistics), collaborating with institutions like Praxiling (Montpellier) and Talkbank. Current projects include AADI (Aphasia & Discourse Analysis) and Aphasiabank corpus development.