Programme

24 May 2012

9:00 - 10:00
Registration

10:00 - 10:10
Welcome

Chair: Maria Grazia Busà

INVITED SPEAKER

10:10 - 11:00
Anna De Meo
How credible is a non-native speaker? Prosody and surroundings

11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

ORAL SESSION

11:30 - 12:00
Andrée Lepage
The contribution of word stress and vowel reduction to the intelligibility of the speech of French Canadian second language learners of English

12:00 - 12:30
Elisa Pellegrino, Luisa Salvati, Marilisa Vitale, Margaret Rasulo
The role of exposure to the second language on the development of prosodic competence. The case of English

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

Chair: Cinzia Avesani

INVITED SPEAKER

14:00 - 14:50
Ineke Mennen
The realisation of F0 range in L2 speech: phonetic routines and linguistic structure

ORAL SESSION

14:50 - 15:20
Maria Grazia Busà
The implementation of pitch in L2 English intonation by speakers of North-East Italian

15:20 - 15:50
Vandana Puri
Pitch Accents in Hindi-English Late and Simultaneous Bilinguals

15:50 - 16:20 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Massimo Pettorino

16:20 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION

ORAL SESSION

17:30 - 18:00
Charlotte Alazard, Corine Astésano, Michel Billières
From prosodic skills to L2 reading proficiency. An experimental approach to L2 phonetics teaching methods

18:00 - 18:30
Maria Chiara Felloni, Daniele Avesani
Visibilità e invisibilità di migranti romeni nella città di Parma dal punto di vista intonativo

19:30 SOCIAL DINNER


25 May 2012

Chair: Ineke Mennen

INVITED SPEAKER

9:00 - 9:50
Barbara Gili Fivela
The perception of intonation in L1 and L2: on phonetic variation and function interpretation

ORAL SESSION

9:50 - 10:20
Antonio Stella
Articulatory differences in L2 German intonation produced by speakers from Lecce

10:20 - 10:50
Rossana Cavone, Mariapaola D'Imperio
Prosodic interference in L2 French spoken by Italians: The role of tonal alignment and rhythmic structure

10:50 - 11:20 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Anna De Meo

INVITED SPEAKER

11:20 - 12:10
Massimo Pettorino
Transplanting native prosody into second language speech

ORAL SESSION

12:10 - 12:40
Cinzia Avesani, Giuliano Bocci, Mario Vayra, A. Zappoli
Prosodic marking of information status in L2 intonation

12:40 - 13:10
Anne Gwinner,Sascha Gaglia, Janet Grijzenhout
The effect of prosody on the acquisition of morphology: An experimental study with Italian, German, and Italian-German children

13:10 - 13:20 CLOSING REMARKS


Posters

Magali Boureux
French prosody of Italian speakers: Characteristics and didactic inputs

Bernard Hurch
Second Language Prosody and Language Change

Francis Picavet
L2 English oral competence: the Language-and-Music Match

Domenico Russo, Domenico Di Russo
Some epistemological suggestions from L2 prosodies

Luca Rognoni
The role of non-segmental factors in the detection of foreign accent

Martina Urbani
Pitch range variation in L1/L2 English. An analysis of F0 using LTD and linguistic measures

Giulia Brigato
A preliminary description of German intonation by North-East Italian speakers

Renata Savy, Iolanda Alfano, Andrea Tarasi
Prosodic transfer phenomena in the realization of pragmatic meaning of L2 Italian by Spanish speakers