Maria Grazia Busà - Professor

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  • 2022. Busà, M.G., Notaro, A. and Liotto, A., Non-verbal communication as a tool for inclusion and integration: results of a questionnaire, Italiano LinguaDue, 14(1), 242-272. DOI 10.54103/2037-3597/1
  • 2022. Feng, Q., Busà, M.G., Acquiring Italian stop consonants: A challenge for Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners, Second Language Research. DOI 10.1177/02676583221079147
  • 2022. Ienaga, N., Cravotta, A., Scotney, B., Saito, H., Busà, M.G., Semi-automation of Gesture Annotation by Machine Learning and Human Collaboration, Language Resources and Evaluations. online. DOI 10.1007/s10579-022-09586-4
  • 2021. Busà, M.G., Cenerentola entra a palazzo: il nuovo ruolo della pronuncia nell’insegnamento linguistico, EL.LE 10, 3, 435-455. e-ISSN 2280-6792.
  • 2021. Cravotta, A., Prieto, P., and Busà, M.G., Exploring the Effects of Encouraging the Use of Gestures on Speech, Speech Communication, 135, 25-36.
  • 2021. Notaro, A., Capraro, F., Pesavento, M., Milani, S., and Busà, M.G., Effectiveness of VR immersive applications for public speaking enhancement, Image Quality and System Performance Conference, IS&T Electronic Imaging 2021, 294-1-6.
  • 2021. Busà, M.G., Representing others: The role of non-verbal language. With special reference to Italian speakers of English. In: M. Teresa Musacchio - Marella Magris (a cura di), Representing and Mediating Otherness. Language, Translation, Media and Global-local Reception, 8-24, Berlin: Frank & Timme GmbH, ISBN: 978-3-7329-0070-1.
  • 2021. Busà, M.G., Voice pitch as a sign of a speaker’s identity. In: M. Teresa Musacchio - Marella Magris (a cura di), Representing and Mediating Otherness. Language, Translation, Media and Global-local Reception, 25-47, Berlin: Frank & Timme GmbH, ISBN: 978-3-7329-0070-1.
  • 2020. Busà, M.G., In Memoriam - John Ohala, Bollettino del Laboratorio di Fonetica Sperimentale “Arturo Genre”, 6, 63-68. ISSN: 2611-5689.
  • 2019. Busà, M.G., Il Public Speaking: Quale efficacia?, Rivista Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 2-3, 157-171. ISSN: 0033-9725.
  • 2019. Cravotta, A., Busà, M.G. , Prieto, P., Effects of Encouraging the Use of Gestures on Speech, Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 62, 9. ISSN: 3204-3219.
  • 2019. Cravotta, A., Prieto, P., Busà, M.G., Encouraging Gesture Use in a Narration Task Increases Speakers’ Gesture Rate, Gesture Salience and the Production of Representational Gestures, Proceedings of the 6th Gesture and Speech in Interaction Conference.
  • 2019. Polyanskaya, L., Busà, M.G., Ordin, M., Capturing cross-linguistic differences in macro-rhythm: the case of Italian and English, Language and Speech, ISSN: 0023-8309 | Online ISNN 1756-6053.
  • 2018. Ienaga, N., Scotney, B., Saito, H., Cravotta, A., Busà, M.G., Natural gesture extraction based on hand trajectory, Proceedings Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference.
  • 2018. Cravotta, A., Busà, M.G. , Prieto, P., Restraining and encouraging the use of hand gestures: Effects on speech, Proceedings 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018 Poznań, Poland, on 13-16 June 2018, 206-2010. ISSN: 2333-2042.
  • 2017. Busà, M.G. , Brugnerotto, S., Being communicative. Does it mean using wider pitch range and more gestures? In A. De Meo, F.M. Dovetto (a cura di), La Comunicazione Parlata/Spoken Communication, Roma: Aracne, 152-173. ISBN: 978-88-255-2064-4.
  • 2016. Polyanskaya, L., Ordin, M., and Busà, M.G., Relative Salience of Speech Rhythm and Speech Rate on Perceived Foreign Accent in a Second Language, Language and Speech , 1-23. eISSN: 17566053 | ISSN: 00238309.
  • 2016. Pettorino, M., Busà, M.G., Pellegrino, E., Speech Rhythm in Parkinson’s Disease: A Study on Italian, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2016), September 8–12, 2016, San Francisco, USA, 1958-1961. ISSN 2308-457X.
  • 2016. Busà, M.G. and Cravotta, A., Detecting Emotional Involvement in Professional News Reporters: An Analysis of Speech and Gestures, Proceedings of the LREC 2016 Workshop “EMOT: Emotions, Metaphors, Ontology and Terminology during Disasters”, Khurshid Ahmad, Stephen Kelly, Xiubo Zhang, 2-8. ISBN: 978-2-9517408-9-1.
  • 2015. Busà, M.G., Teaching learners to communicate effectively in the L2: Integrating body language in the students’ syllabus, Lingue e Linguaggi, 15, 83-98. ISSN 2239-0367, e-ISSN 2239-0359.
  • 2015. Busà, M.G., Comunicare in inglese? Un nuovo approccio all’insegnamento delle abilità orali. In: F. Dalziel, G. Henrot (a cura di), L’innovazione nell’Apprendimento Linguistico all’Università di Padova, Padova, Padova University Press, 167-183. ISBN: 978-88-6938-047-1.
  • 2015. Busà, M.G., From aerodynamically constrained sequences to sound change: a study of sibilant and rhotic sequences in Italian. In: M. G. Busà, S. Gesuato (a cura di), Lingue e Contesti. Studi in Onore di Alberto M. Mioni Padova: Cleup, 223-237. ISBN: 9788867870806
  • 2015. Busà, M.G., and Brugnerotto, S., The relation between pitch and gestures in a story-telling task, Proceedings Gesture and Speech in Interaction (Gespin), 4th edition, Nantes 2-4 Sept. 2015, 61-65. hal-01195646.
  • 2015. Busà, M.G., and Sella, A., The acquisition of English L2 prosody by Italian native speakers: experimental data and pedagogical implications, Proceedings of the 6th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT) Conference, Santa Barbara, California, Sept. 2014, 15-26. ISSN 2380-9566.
  • 2015. Busà, M.G., Musacchio, M.T., Finan, S., Fennel, C., Trust-Building through Social Media Communications in Disaster Management, Proceedings of The 3rd International Workshop on Social Web for Disaster Management (SWDM’ 15), at WWW 2015, Florence, May 18, 2015.
  • 2014. Busà, M.G. and Stella, A., English L2 intonation by native Italian speakers, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Summer 2014, volume 18, Issue 2, 138-143. ISSN 1096-1453.
  • 2014. Busà, M.G. and Brugnerotto, S., Italian doctor-patient interactions: A study of verbal and non-verbal behavior leading to miscommunication, LREC 2014 DIMPLE (DIsaster Management and Principled Large-scale information Extraction) Proceedings, Reykjavik, Iceland May 31, 2014, 22-25. ISBN 978-2-9517408-8-4.
  • 2014. Le Page, A. and Busà, M.G., Intelligibility of English L2: The effects of lack of vowel reduction and incorrect word stress placement in the speech of French and Italian learners, Concordia Papers in Applied Linguistics (COPAL), Volume 5, March 2014, 387-400. ISSN 2292-4248.
  • 2014. Rognoni, L. and Busà, M.G., Testing the effects of segmental and suprasegmental phonetic cues in foreign accent rating. An experiment using prosody transplantation, Concordia Papers in Applied Linguistics (COPAL), Volume 5, March 2014, 547-560. ISSN 2292-4248.
  • 2014. Busà, M.G., Introducing the Language of the News: A student’s guide, London: Routledge, ISBN: 0415637295.
  • 2013. Busà, M.G., Aspects of consonant cluster mutations: the case of /sr/ clusters in Italian. In: F. Sanchez-Miret and D. Recasens, Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change in Romance, München: Lincom Europa, 23-42. ISBN 9783862884452.
  • 2013. Busà, M.G., Teaching effective communication in the English classroom: The importance of non-verbal language. In: Oleg Semeniuk et al. (eds), Languages of the world: Research and teaching. Scientific Proceedings. Series: Philology (Linguistics) Issue 116. KHIROVOHRAD: Publishing Center of KSPU. 228-232, ISBN: 966-8089-24-3.
  • 2013. Stella, A., and Busà, M.G., Transfer intonativo in inglese L2: analisi fonetico-fonologica delle produzioni di parlanti padovani. In: Vincenzo Galatà (a cura di), Multimodalità e Multilingualità. La sfida più avanzata della comunicazione orale. Saggi dal IX Convegno Nazionale AISV - Associazione Italiana Scienza della Voce. Roma: Bulzoni, 395-410. ISBN: 978-88-7870-901-0.
  • 2012. Busà, M.G., The role of prosody in pronunciation teaching: A growing appreciation?, In: M.G. Busà, and A. Stella (eds.), Methodological Perspectives on L2 Prosody, Papers from ML2P 2012. Padova: Cleup, 101-106. ISBN: 978 88 6129 937 5.
  • 2012. Busà, M.G., Writing sounds: The controversial issue of English spelling reform. In: A. Oboe e A. Scacchi (a cura di), A Garland of True Plain Words: Saggi in Onore di Paola Bottalla. Padova: Unipress, 115-137. ISBN. 9788880983064.
  • 2012. Busà, M.G. and Dalziel, F., Online news: exploring features of narrative journalism. In: F. Dalziel, S. Gesuato, M.T. Musacchio (eds), A Lifetime of English Studies. Essays in Honour of Carol Taylor Torsello, Padova: Il Poligrafo. ISBN: 978-88-7115-767-2. 159-170.
  • 2012. Busà, M.G. and Rognoni, L., Italians speaking English: the contribution of verbal and non-verbal behavior. In: H. Mello, M. Pettorino, T. Raso (eds.), Proceedings VII GSCP International Conference: Speech and Corpora, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 29 Feb-3 March, 2012. Firenze: Firenze University Press. ISBN 978-88-6655-351-9 (online). 313-317.
  • 2012. Busà, M.G. and Stella, A. (eds), Methodological Perspectives on L2 Prosody, Papers from ML2P 2012. Padova: Cleup. ISBN: 978 88 6129 937 5.
  • 2012. Busà, M.G. and Stella, A., Intonational variations in focus marking in the English spoken by North-East Italian speakers. In: M.G. Busà, and A. Stella (eds.), Methodological Perspectives on L2 Prosody, Papers from ML2P 2012. Padova: Cleup. ISBN: 978 88 6129 937 5. 31-35.
  • 2011. Busà, M.G., Teaching English pronunciation: New tools and methods. In: A., Yuschenko (ed), Languages of the world: Research and teaching. Scientific Proceedings. Series: Philology (Linguistics). KHIROVOHRAD: Publishing Center of KSPU. ISBN/ISSN: 966-8089-24-3. 228-233.
  • 2011. Busà, M.G. and Urbani, M., A Cross linguistic analysis of pitch range in English L1 and L2, Proceedings ICPhS 2011(17th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences), Honk Kong, 17-21 August 2011, 380-83.
  • 2010. Busà, M.G., Effects of L1 on L2 pronunciation: Italian prosody in English. In: C. Gagliardi and A. Maley (eds), EIL, ELF, Global English: Teaching and Learning Processes. Bern: Peter Lang, 207-228. ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-0343-0010-0.
  • 2010. Busà, M.G., Sounding natural: Improving oral presentation skills, Language Value, 2, 1, 51-67. ISSN: 1989-7103.
  • 2008. Busà, M.G., Teaching prosody to Italian learners of English: Working towards a new approach. In: Taylor, C., Ecolingua: The Role of E-corpora in Translation, Language Learning and Testing. 113-126, Trieste: EUT - Edizioni Università di Trieste, ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-8303-252-3.
  • 2007. Busà, M.G., Coarticulatory nasalization and phonological developments: data from Italian and English nasal-fricative sequences. In M.-J. Sole’, P.S. Beddor, M. Ohala (eds), Experimental Approaches to Phonology , Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 155-174, ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-19-926982.
  • 2007. Busà, M.G., New Perspectives in Teaching Pronunciation. In: A. Baldry, M. Pavesi, C. Taylor Torsello, C. Taylor (eds.), From DIDACTAS to eCoLingua: an ongoing research project on translation and corpus linguistics, Trieste: EUT, 171-188, ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-8303-224-0.
  • 2007. Busà, M.G., Review of Corpora: Seminar and Workshops, A seminar in memory of John Sinclair, Padova, 29-31 marzo, 2007, p. 9-14, AICLU Newsletter, n. 10, Giugno 2007.
  • 2006. Busà, M.G., La verifica dell’abilità di lettura con QuestionMark Perception. In: M.G., Lo Duca, F., Dalziel, D., Griggio, (a cura di), Il C.L.A. verso l'Europa: e-learning, testing, portfolio delle lingue, Padova, Cleup, 233-245.
  • 2005. Busà, M.G., The use of metadiscourse in abstracts: a comparison between economics and psychological abstracts. In: J. Bamford and M. Bondi (eds.), Dialogue within Discourse Communities, Tübingen, Niemeyer, 31-47.
  • 2004. Busà, M.G., Will the New Media Tell a New Story?. In: C. Taylor, M.G. Busà, S. Gesuato (a cura di) Lingua inglese e mediazione interlinguistica. Ricerca e didattica con supporto telematico, Padova, Unipress, 523-546.
  • 2004. Taylor, C., Busà, M.G. and Gesuato, S., Lingua inglese e mediazione interlinguistica. Ricerca e didattica con supporto telematico, Padova, Unipress.
  • 2003. Busà, M.G., Vowel nasalization and nasal loss in Italian, in Proceedings ICPhS 20072007 (15th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences), Barcelona (Spain) 3-9 August, 1, 711-714.
  • 2001. Busà, M.G. and Ohala, J.J., Perceptual influence of vowel on vowel: Data from English, Italian and Punjabi. In: A. Abbi, R.S. Gupta, A. Kidwai (eds), Linguistic Structure and Language Dynamics in South AsiaPapers from the Proceedings of the SALA (South Asian Language Analysis) XVIII Roundtable, New Delhi, India, 6-8 gennaio, 1997, 89-96.
  • 1999. Busà, M.G., The Italian accent in English. Results from an experimental study and implications for language teaching, Atti XVIII Congresso dell’Associazione Italiana di Anglistica, Genova 30.09-02.10.1996 - Terza sezione (Lingue a confronto), 57-73.
  • 1999. Busà, M.G.and Ohala, J.J., In search of the perceptual correlates of Vowel Harmony, Proceedings ICPhS 99(14th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences), San Francisco, USA, 1-7 August, 1, 357-360.
  • 1999 Busà, M.G., Quantifying the range of vowel reduction in Italian, Proceedings ICPhS 99(14th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences), San Francisco, USA, 1-7 August, 1, 491-494.
  • 1999. Ohala, J.J., Bronstein, A.J., Busà, M.G., Lewis, J.A., and Weigel, W.F. (Eds.), A Guide to the History of the Phonetic Sciences in the United States. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, 134.
  • 1997. Busà, M.G., On the history of English spelling reform, Linguistic change in English: A socio-cultural overviewTextus (special issue), X, 243-268.
  • 1997. Busà, M.G., L’insegnamento della fonetica a studenti della Facoltà di Economia. Risultati di un questionario somministrato a conclusione di un’esperienza didattica, Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, Anno XXIX, n. 3, 115-138.
  • 1995. Busà, M.G., L’Inglese degli Italiani. L’acquisizione delle vocali. Padova: Unipress, pp. 184.
  • 1995. Busà, M.G., Differenze ritmiche dell’Italiano e dell’Inglese. Implicazioni per l’acquisizione dell'Inglese come L2, Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e ApplicataAnno XXIV, n. 2, 365-379.
  • 1995. Ohala, J.J. and Busà, M.G., Nasal loss before voiceless fricatives: A perceptually-based sound change, Rivista di Linguistica, 7.1, 125-144.
  • 1995. Uguzzoni, A. and Busà, M.G., Acoustic correlates of vowel quantity contrasts in an Italian dialect, Proceedings ICPhS 95, (XIIIth International Conference of Phonetic Sciences), Stockholm, Sweden, 13-19 August, 3, 390-393.
  • 1995. Uguzzoni, A. and Busà, M.G., Correlati acustici della opposizione di quantità vocalica in area emiliana, Rivista Italiana di Dialettologia, 19, 7-39.
  • 1994. Busà, M.G., Problemi di apprendimento delle vocali in una lingua seconda: alcuni dati sull’acquisizione delle vocali inglesi da parte di parlanti di madrelingua italiana, in Le vocali: Dati Sperimentali, Problemi Linguistici, applicazioni Tecnologiche. Atti delle IIIe Giornate del Gruppo di Fonetica Sperimentale (A.I.A.), Padova, 19-20 novembre, 1992, 137-151.
  • 1994. Farnetani, E. and Busà, M.G., Consonant-to-consonant interactions in clusters: Categorical or continuous processes?, Quaderni del Centro di Studi per le Ricerche di Fonetica del CNR, Vol. XIII, 219-245.
  • 1993. Busà, M.G., Pronuncia e ascolto. In: M. Bondi, M.G. Busà, G. Del Lungo, and F. Poppi, L’Inglese per studenti della Facoltà di Economia, Bologna Pitagora Editrice, Vol. 3., pp. 112.
  • 1993. Farnetani, E. and Busà, M.G., Italian clusters in continuous speech, Proceedings ICSLP 94, Yokohama, Japan, 18-22 September, 359-362.
  • 1992. Busà, M.G., On the production of English vowels by Italian speakers with different degrees of accent, in Proceedings of New Sounds ‘92, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13-16 April, 47-63.
  • 1992. Ohala, J.J., Busà, M.G. and Harrison, K., Phonological and psychological evidence that listeners normalize the speech signal, Proceedings ICSLP(International Conference on Spoken Language Processing) ‘92, Banff, Canada, 12-16 October, 1303-1306.
  • 1992. Magno Caldognetto, E., Vagges, K., Ferrigno, G. and Busà, M.G., Lip rounding coarticulation in Italian, Proceedings ICSLP ‘92, Banff, Canada, 12-16 October, 61-64.
  • 1989. Busà, M.G., The issue of Black English, Le Lingue del Mondo, Firenze, Valmartina Ed., Anno LVI - n. 2 (Nuova Serie), 67-74.
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