News & Phonetic Events
2021
After 1 year, our paper has been accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Linguistics
Our paper "Production of vowel reduction by Mexican learners of English as L2 and Russian as L3" has been accepted after 2 rounds in the Canadian Journal of Linguistics. After many zoom sessions and calls, we submitted a new version with major/minor changes. The three reviewers and the main Editor agreed with these changes and the paper will be published very soon. This study examines the cross-linguistic influences in the production of unstressed vowels of L2 English and L3 Russian by Mexican learners. See my publications for more information.
Our poster at the 4th Phonetics & Phonology in Europe 2021, Barcelona (Spain)
I presented at the PaPE's 2021 our first exploratory study examining the positive effects of the prosodic structure on the acquisition of [±rounded] contrast in L2 French vowels. This is one of the first studies examining the interaction between prosody and phonetics in Second Language Acquisition. We presented a virtual poster (a recording of 3 minutes) for the first time in these pandemic times. Sorry for my accent : I was so stressed ! My first paper reporting these results has been accepted in the journal Etudes de Linguistique Appliquée (in press, 2021). See my publications for more information.
2020
Two of our papers have been accepted this year !
In one of them, we show that Madrilenian speakers articulate faster than Mexican talkers: Spaniards articulate 10% faster than Mexicans, producing 0,61 syllables more per second in fluent chunks. The paper will be published very soon in SICON (Spanish in Context) by John Benjamins
In the other one, we analyze the relashionship between vocabulary size and L2 pronunciation by Italian learners of L2 French. Globally speaking, we found a week correlation in intermediate/advanced learners suggesting that pronunciation and vocabulary size follo different paths. We will try to replicate this with beginners. The paper will be published this year in JFLS by Cambridge Core.
2019
Information structure in L1/L2 speech: typological approaches, Paris 2019
The program of this 'journée d'étude' is here : link
2018
The annual workshop of 'ReAL2 (Réseau Français d'Acquisition de L2)' Nantes 2018
We organized a workshop devoted to the L2 phonetics and phonology research in France. All papers and presentations are here : link
Special issue on L2 Phonetics 2018
La Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée
I coordinated the special issue on L2 phonetics for the French Review of Applied Linguistics (June, 2018). The papers are available from the CAIRN website.
The L2PHROL workshop 2017
Our workshop "The L2 Phonetics and Phonology by Romance L1 learners" was organized in Turin, 16-17 November 2017. We hope a new edition for this worhshop. Link: