Research Projects

Current Research Projects


  • The ISPro project (Information Structure and Prosody in L1/L2 speech). This is an international research project for studying the role of prosody (with respect to other linguistic components) in signaling discours structure via a typological approach. This project is an extention of the 'Langacross-2' project (Link) and is supported (6k euros, 2 years) by the University of Paris 8 (AAP) and the CNRS (UMR 7023). Our goal is to investigate how the prosodic systems interact with syntax and semantics in the expression of additive particles in Romance vs Germanic languages. We try to shed light on the complexity of these interactions during the L2 learning process with experimental methods.

      • Main coordinators: S. Benazzo & F. Santiago (U. of Paris 8 and CNRS)

      • International Scientific Network: M. Watorek, M. Lambert, S. Atanasio (U. of Paris 8), A.-C. Demagny (CNRS), C. Dimroth, L. Dörre (U. of Munster), C. von Stutterheilm (U. of Heidelberg), M. Starren (Radboud University) and Cecilia Andorno (U. of Turin)

  • The ProSeg corpus (Prosody and Segmentals in L2 French). A comparable corpus of spoken L2 French. Data comes from learners with different L1 bakgrounds (Italians, Germans, Swedish). University of Turin, University of Constance, University of Lund & University of Paris 8.

  • The IPFC-espagnol ('Interphonologie du Français Contemporain'). This a corpus containing data from Mexican learners of L2 French. We focus on the pronunciation of segmentals, the assessement of L2 pronunciation with acoustic analyses (Linear Discriminant Analysis, Euclidean Distances), and the effects of foreing speech on intelligibility. University of Switzerland & University of Paris 8. Link.

  • DidaPhon : Plateform for learning and studyng the L2 pronunciation. Universiy of Paris 8. Link

  • The VILLA project. An European Project for studying the initial stages of the L2 learning under controlled conditions. Link

  • The COREIL corpus : A learner corpus designed for studying phrasal phonology and intonation. University of Paris 7 & University of Paris 8.


Past Research Projects

  • VERA: AdVanced ERror Analysis for speech recognition. 2014 – 2016, Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (CNRS) & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3). Link

  • REPER (Production and Perception of the French phoneme 'R'). 2015 – 2016, Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (CNRS) & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3)