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ERC Project The Mysterious Bang: A Language and Population Isolate Unlocks the Secrets of Interior West Africa’s Lost Ethnolinguistic Diversity The Kindige variety of Bondu So (Dogon, Mali), displays [+/–ATR] vowel harmony patterns that interact with root-final consonants.

A growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to rhythmic auditory patterns can modulate the processing of subsequently heard …

Nous présentons une réflexion méthodologique à la suite d’ une expérimentation réalisée dans le cadre d’un projet interdisciplinaire où nous avons voulu tester l’impact de la gestualité corrective sur l’acquisition du segmental et du suprasegmental.

In this contribution, we present the results of a pilot study on the impact of rhythmic priming, i.e. listening to rhythmic auditory stimuli, on speech production in Parkinson’s disease. We were interested in prosody, which is one of the aspects often reported to be strongly impaired in Parkinson’s disease.

This paper addresses the issue of using Nakala, a dynamic database technology, for the management of language corpora. We present our …

In this paper we argue that the verb reče ‘say.PFV.PRES.3SG’ in Macedonian (South Slavic) is grammaticalizing into a quotative marker, i.e., a particle that signals reported speech. This quotative shows up in narratives in informal settings.

1. Introduction English is characterized by presenting vowel reduction in unstressed vowels, usually represented phonologically as /ə/. This phonological phenomenon has been proven to be difficult to reproduce by learners of L1s that do not present this spectral cue to word stress (Flege & Bohn, 1989; Lee et al.

Introduction This study investigates the pronunciation of morphemic -s in L2 English by L1 French, L1 Italian and L1 Spanish learners. Morphemic -s can be a flectional suffix expressing plurality, 3rd person, genitive, or clitic forms of is and has.

Introduction English has a high functional load voice contrast between /s/ and /z/, which is active word-initially (sing /s/ - zing /z/), word-medially (fussy /s/ - fuzzy /z/) and word-finally (rice /s/ - rise /z/).

We investigate the acquisition of /s/ - /z/ in L2 English by comparing contexts in which these sounds have a phonemic value vs contexts in which they are determined by a voice assimilation rule. We observe English L2 productions by French L1, Northern Italian L1 and Southern American Spanish L1 learners, on the assumption that the three groups will show different patterns depending on the status of [s] and [z] in their L1s.

The Corpus InterLangue project: storing language learner data in a Huma-Num Nakala1 database for automatic online retrieval Project definition The Corpus InterLangue (CIL) project is a collection of spoken and written productions from learners of English and French as second languages (L2).

Atelier d’initiation à Prat dirigé à des étudiants de licence de l’Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. Sujets traités: …

Nous avons appliqué l’algorithme Momel (Hirst & Espesser, 1993) et l’étiquetage automatique Intsint à un corpus d’énoncés produits …

Workshop given as part of the Lundis de LIDILE seminars on the basics of multimodal annotation software ELAN. Topics covered include: …

Introductory workshop to the use of Praat, aimed at doctoral students and faculty members of the University of Rennes 2. Topics covered …

Cette étude propose une méthode de conversion entre les systèmes de transcription ToBI spécifiques pour l’espagnol (Sp_ToBI) et le …

Exploratory study dealing with the phonetic realization (f0, dur) of focused lexical elements produced by native speakers of English …

La présente étude propose une méthodologie d’analyse phonétique exploratoire de la prosodie de l’interlangue (IL) des apprenants …