Talks

Keynote talks

• • Mairano, P. (2021) L'évaluation de la prononciation dans une L2 : peut-on ne pas se référer à un modèle de L1 ? Journées d'études du GIS RéAL2, De l'acquisition à la didactique (et vice-versa). Paris, 4 - 5 décembre 2021.

  • Mairano, P. (2020) Extrinsic and intrinsic evaluation of L2 vowel pronunciation. 2020 CLA (Canadian Linguistic Association) meeting. University of Western Ontario (videoconference), 30 May - 1 June 2020.

Invited talks

• • Mairano, P. (2022) Effetti dell’ortografia sulla percezione di una lingua seconda: gli apprendenti italofoni si aspettano consonanti geminate in francese L2? Scrivere e descrivere il parlato. Prospettive interdisciplinari dall’antichità ai giorni nostri. Urbino, 20-21 ottobre 2022.

  • Mairano, P. & Santiago, F. (2019) Towards the automatic evaluation of L2 pronunciation using Pillai and LDA classification scores. UZH-UNIGE Workshop on Computers in L2 Learning and Assessment. University of Zurich (Switzerland), 3 May 2019.

  • Santiago, F & Mairano, P. (2018) Effets du renforcement prosodique sur les voyelles en français L2 : enjeux méthodologiques. Dépasser l’évanescence du parler. Méthodes et techniques de transcription et d’annotation de données orales, Bergame (Italie), 8-10 novembre 2018.

  • Mairano, P., Cerni, T., Sokolovic-Perovic, M. & Bassetti, B. (2016) Unlearning gemination and adjusting VOT: the case of Italian learners of English. Methodology and language assessment: Heritage speakers and beyond, 23 September 2016, University of Konstanz (Germany).

Seminars and round tables

• • Mairano, P. (2022) Les effets de l'orthographe sur la longueur consonantique en anglais L2 et français L2 d'apprenants italophones. Séminaire de NeuroPsychoLinguistique du laboratoire LNPL, Université de Toulouse, 25 novembre 2022.

  • Mairano, P. (2022) L’évaluation de la prononciation dans une L2 : peut-on ne pas se référer à un modèle de L1 ? Séminaire de Phonétique et Phonologie (SRPP), Université de Paris 3, 28 janvier 2022.

  • Mairano, P. & Vandici, I. (2021) Studying phonetic variants in political speech. Colloque international Les sciences du langage face à la crise du débat publique contemporain. 17 december 2021, University of Lille.

  • Mairano, P. & Santiago F. (2020) Do vocabulary tests tell us anything about L2 pronunciation? A corpus-based study on the interaction between L2 phonology and L2 vocabulary. Séminaire STL (visioconférence), 20 November 2020, University of Lille.

  • Contreras Roa, L., Mairano, P., Capliez, M. & Bouzon, C. (2020) Voice assimilation in the inflectional -s suffix in the L2 English of L1 French, L1 Spanish and L1 Italian learners. Séminaire STL (visioconférence), 20 November 2020, University of Lille.

  • Mairano, P. (2018) Disentangling effects of L1 phonology and written input on L2 pronunciation and phonological awareness. Séminaire LeCSeL, 3 April 2018, University of Paris 8.

  • Mairano, P. (2017) Using PsychoPy to test perception patterns of L2 speakers. Experiments in Language, Gestures, and Speech, 5-6 May 2017, University of Padova (Italy).

  • Mairano, P. (2017) Ascoltando le Voci di VINCA e degli apprendenti non italofoni. Tavola rotonda Corpora di italiano L2 come classi virtuali per docenti di oggi e di domani. 10 maggio 2017, Università di Torino (Italia).

  • Mairano, P. (2017) Fabbricare la voce. Presentazione al World Voice Day, 7 aprile 2017, Università di Torino (Italia).

  • Mairano, P., Bassetti, B., Sokolovic-Perovic, M. & Cerni, T. (2017) The interference of orthography on the pronunciation of Italian learners of English. Presentation at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics Seminar Series, 8 February 2017, University of Western England (UK).

  • Mairano, P., Cerni, T., Masterson, J. & Bassetti, B. (2016) L’interférence de l’orthographe en production et perception chez les locuteurs italophones d’anglais L2, présentation à GIPSA-Lab, 24 juin 2016, Grenoble (France).

  • Mairano, P. (2015) Praat e Easyalign per l'etichettatura di corpora vocali: principi di base ed esempi concreti. Software e protocolli per la segmentazione, l'annotazione e la consultazione dei dati linguistici presenti negli archivi di parlato, 22 maggio 2015, Torino (Italia).

• • Mairano, P. (2014) Les corrélats du rythme: quelques analyses et quelques outils, Journée d’études sur le rythme de la parole, 21 novembre 2014, Université de Paris 7 Diderot (France).

  • Lai, J-P. & Mairano, P. (2012) La marche d'AMPER. Contact de langues : traitement cérébral, variation linguistique et variation sociale, 16 mars 2012, Aix-en-Provence (France).

  • Mairano, P. (2009) Scienza Multilingue per ispanofoni. Presentazione orale al workshop "Scienza Multilingue" organizzato dall'Università di Torino e la Regione Piemonte, 30 novembre 2009, Torino (Italia).

Unpublished conference presentations and posters

• • De Iacovo, Mairano, P. (2023) Effetti della variazione intonativa regionale sulla percezione di apprendenti di italiano L2. Oral presentation at the L2 Accent and Pronunciation Research (L2APR) conference, Venice (Italy), 15-16 November 2023.

  • Ding Y., Casalis, S., & Mairano, P. (2023) Towards a quantifiable measure of othographic congruence between 2 languages. 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Sep 2023, Porto, Portugal. 

  • Mairano, P. & Bouzon, C. (2023) La perception des contrastes phonologiques de l’anglais par les apprenants francophones vs. italophones. Oral presentation at the Association for French Language Studies (AFLS) conference, Lille (France), 7-9 September 2023.

  • De Iacovo, Mairano, P., & Hajek, J. (2023) Does gemination resist linguistic attrition? A pilot study on Italian migrant speech in Melbourne Australia. Oral presentation at "Exploring the relation between duration and length across languages: Typology, variation, and contact", 23-24 June 2023, Berlin (Germany).

  • De Iacovo, V., Mairano, P., De Paolis, B.M., & Anastaseni, A. (2023) Hiatus as phonetically re-articulated vowels in Italian. Poster presented at the Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PAPE) conference, Neijmegen (Netherlands), 2-4 June 2023.

  • Contreras Roa, L., Mairano, P., Moreau, C., & Basirat, A. (2023) A bimodal methodology for the analysis of rhythmic priming in speech performance. Poster presented at the AISV Conference (Associazione Scienze della Voce), 15-17 February 2023, Lecce (Italy).

  • Contreras Roa, L., Mairano, P., Lacroix, J., Riegler, R., Moreau, C., & Basirat, A. (2022) Does listening to non-linguistic rhythm impact speech production? Poster presented at the ESCoP conference (European Society for Cogniive Psychology), 29 Aug ust - 1 September 2022, Lille (France).

  • Mouquet, M., & Mairano, P. (2022) Effects of silent letters on the L2 English pronunciation of L1 French learners. Poster presented at EPIP7 (English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices), 18-20 May 2022, Grenoble.

  • Mairano, P., & De Iacovo, V. (2022) The perception of consonantal quantity by speakers of northern vs central and southern varieties of Italian. Oral presentation at the AISV-AItLA conference, 4-6 May 2022, Naples (Italy).

  • Mairano, P., & Bouzon, C. (2022) A perception test for spoken L2 English learner corpora. Oral presentation at New Sounds, 20-22 April 2022, Barcelona (Spain).

  • Santiago, F., & Mairano, P. (2022) The effects of the prosodic prominence on the acquisition of L2 phonological features. Oral presentation at New Sounds, 20-22 April 2022, Barcelona (Spain).

  • Baills, F., Mairano, P., & Santiago, F. (2022) Does prosodic training with phrasal-level hand gestures and logatomes help improve L2 segmental accuracy? Oral presentation at New Sounds, 20-22 April 2022, Barcelona (Spain).

  • Mairano, P., Contreras-Roa, L., Bouzon., C., & Capliez, M. (2022) Expected patterns and divergence in the acquisition of the /s/ ~ /z/ contrast in L2 English. Oral presentation at PhonLim2022, University of Limoges (France), 18-19 March 2022.

  • Vandici, I. & Mairano, P. (2021) The influence of gender on prosody in American presidential debates. Oral presentation (videoconference) at Languaging Diversity, Lille, 13 - 15 October 2021.

  • Mairano, P. & Bouzon, C. (2021) Implementing an L2 perception module for IPCE-IPAC. PAC 2021 conference (Phonologie de l'Anglais Contemporain), Toulouse, 1 - 3 September 2021.

  • Ezzahid, S. & Mairano, P. (2021) Perceiving masked faces: experimental evidence from English. PAC 2021 conference (Phonologie de l'Anglais Contemporain), Toulouse, 1 - 3 September 2021.

  • Bassetti, B, Masterson, J., Cerni, T. & Mairano, P. (2021) Orthographic forms affect speech perception in a second language: Consonant and vowel length in EnglishL2. Oral presentation at EuroSLA30, Barcelona, 30 June - 3 July 2021.

  • Santiago, F. & Mairano, P. (2021) Does final accent facilitate the acquisition of rounded vs unrounded contrast in L2 French oral vowels? Poster to be presented online at PAPE2021 (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe), Barcelona - online, 21 - 23 June 2021.

  • Contreras-Roa, L., Mairano, P., Bouzon, C. & Capliez, M. (2021) Voice assimilation of the morphemic -s in the L2 English of L1 French, L1 Spanish and L1 Italian learners. Poster to be presented online at PAPE2021 (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe), Barcelona - online, 21 - 23 June 2021.

  • Mairano. P., Contreras-Roa, L., Capliez, M. & Bouzon, C. (2021) The acquisition of the English /s/ ~ /z/ voice contrast by learners of three L1s. Poster to be presented online at PAPE2021 (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe), Barcelona - online, 21 - 23 June 2021.

  • Mairano, P. & De Iacovo, V. (2021) La perception de la quantité consonantique par locuteurs de variétés septentrionales vs centrales et méridionales d’italien. II Congresso Internacional em Variação Linguística nas Línguas Românicas, Aveiro (Portgal), 22 - 24 junho 2021.

  • Contreras-Roa, L., Mairano, P., Bouzon, C. & Capliez, M. (2021) The acquisition of /s/ - /z/ in a phonemic vs neutralised context: comparing FrenchL1, ItalianL1 and SpanishL1 learners of L2 English. Oral presentation at the XVII AISV Conference, 4-5 February 2021, Zurich (Switzerland).

  • De Iacovo, V., Mairano, P. & Hajek, J. (2020) Studio sul grado di geminazione in un corpus di emigrati italiani in Australia. Presentazione orale al XVI Convegno AISV, Rende CS (Italia), 29-31 gennaio 2020. 

  • Santiago, F. & Mairano, P. (2019) Les effets du renforcement prosodique sur les voyelles en français L2. Journées FLORAL-(I)PFC 2019: Les français dans le monde, 4-6 décembre 2019, Paris (France).

  • Santiago, F. & Mairano, P. (2019) Prosodic effects on L2 French vowels: a corpus-based investigation. Oral presentation at the PaPE (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe) conference, 17-19 June 2019, Lecce (Italy).

  • Mairano, P. & Santiago, F. (2019) Do Italian native learners expect geminate consonants in L2 French? Poster presented at the PaPE (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe) conference, 17-19 June 2019, Lecce (Italy).

  • Mairano, P., Bouzon, C. & Capliez, M. (2019) L2 vowel category overlap as a metric of L2 pronunciation. Oral presentation at the PAC AIX 2019 conference (Phonetic and phonological variation in contemporary English: Xperience - Xperimentation), 4-5 June, Aix-en-Provence (France).

  • Mairano, P., Zovato, E., Quinci, V. (2019) Do sentiment analysis scores correlate with acoustic features of emotional speech? Oral presentation at the XV AISV Conference, 14-16 February 2019, Arezzo (Italy).

  • Mairano, P., De Iacovo, V & Romano, A. (2018) Online tools for phonetic transcription training. Oral presentation at Data-driven learning: a scaffolding methodology for foreign languages and CLIL classes,  27-28 September 2018, Turin (Italy).

  • Mairano, P., Santiago, F. & Delais-Roussarie, E. (2018) Effects of L1 orthography rules on L2 and L3 pronunciation: evidence from Italian learners of French and English. Oral presentation at Competing Languages, 26-29 September 2018, Osnabrück (Germany).

  • Mairano, P. & De Iacovo, V. (2018) La geminazione nell'italiano regionale del Piemonte. Presentazione orale al workshop La variazione fonetica e fonological dell'italiano: dati, metodi e modelli, 7 settembre 2018, Berna (Svizzera).

  • Delais Roussarie E., Kupisch, T., Mairano, P., Santiago, F., Splendido, F. (2018) ProSeg: a comparable corpus of spoken L2 French. Poster presented at EuroSLA, 5-8 September 2018, Münster (Germany).

  • Mairano, P. & Santiago, F. (2018) Comparing vocabulary size and pronunciation accuracy: which metrics? Research methodology in the field of second language acquisition and learning, 30 May - 1 June 2018, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (France).

  • Mairano, P. & De Iacovo, V. (2018) La variazione della geminazione in varietà regionali di italiano. Poster no Congresso Internacional em Variação Linguística nas Línguas Românicas, 2-4 maio 2018, Aveiro (Portugal).

  • Mairano, P. (2018) Do sentiment analysis scores correlate with acoustic features of emotional speech? 19th Conference on Spoken English, 6-7 April 2018, Université Paris 13 (France).

  • Mairano, P. & Zovato, E. (2018) Phonetically-balanced vs phonetically-rich: clarifying common misunderstandings and evaluating texts. Oral presentation at the XIV AISV Conference, 25-27 January 2018, Free University of Bozen (Italy).

  • Mairano, P. & De Iacovo, V. (2018) Gemination in the regional Italian of Piedmont. Oral presentation at the XIV AISV Conference, 25-27 January 2018, Free University of Bozen (Italy).

  • Mairano, P., Sokolovic-Perovic, M., Cerni, T. & Bassetti, B. (2017) How resistant are orthographic effects on L2 pronunciation? Oral presentation at The Phonology of Contemporary English (PAC), 28-30 September 2017, Université Paris Nanterre (France).

  • Mairano, P. & Santiago, F. (2017) Does vocabulary size correlate with pronunciation skills? Oral presentation at EuroSLA, 30 August - 2 September 2017, Reading (UK).

  • Bassetti, B., Sokolovic-Perovic, M., Mairano, P. & Cerni, T. (2017) Orthography-induced length contrasts in the L2 phonological systems of Italian speakers of English. Oral presentation at EuroSLA, 30 August - 2 September 2017, Reading (UK).

  • Bassetti, B., Cerni, T., Mairano, P. & Masterson, J. (2017) Effects of orthography on bilinguals' second language phonology: number of letters and sound duration in speech production and awareness. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, 15-17 June 2017, Limerick (Ireland).

  • Santiago, F. & Mairano, P. (2017) Do Spaniards speak faster than Mexicans? Poster presented at the PAPE Conference (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe), 12-14 June 2017, Cologne (Germany).

  • Mairano, P., Cerni, T., Sokolovic-Perovic, M. & Bassetti, B. (2017) Italians acquiring the timing of English plosives: gemination and VOT. Oral presentation at the XIII AISV Conference, 25-27 January 2017, Pisa (Italy).

  • Santiago, F. & Mairano, P. (2017) Do Spaniards speak faster than Mexicans? Studying Spanish rhythm in natural speech. Oral presentation at the XIII AISV Conference, 25-27 January 2017, Pisa (Italy).

  • Bassetti, B., Mairano, P., Cerni, T. & Masterson, J. (2016) Orthographic effects on second language pronunciation and phonological awareness. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the SSSR (Society for the Scientific Study of Reading), 13-16 July 2016, Porto (Portugal).

  • Bassetti, B., Cerni, T., Mairano, P. & Masterson, J. (2016) Effects of native orthography on the perception of second language spoken words. Oral presentation at the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) meeting. 8-10 July 2016, Oxford (UK).

  • Bassetti, B., Cerni, T., Mairano, P. & Masterson, J. (2016) Effects of first language orthography-phonology correspondences on second language phonological awareness. Poster presented at the UK Orthography Annual Meeting. 7 July 2016, St John's College, Oxford (UK).

  • Mairano, P. & Cerni, T. (2016) Acquiring the timing of plosives: VOT and gemination in Italian EFL speakers. Poster presented at New Sounds 2016, 10-12 June 2016, Aarhus (Denmark).

  • Bassetti, B., Mairano, P., Sokolovic-Perovic, M., Cerni, T. (2016) The phonological status of gemination in Italian speakers of L2 English. Oral presentation at New Sounds 2016, 10-12 June 2016, Aarhus (Denmark).

  • Bassetti, B., Mairano, P., Cerni, T. & Masterson, J. (2016) Number of consonant and vowel letters affects the perception of homophonic word pairs in L2 English. Oral presentation at Sound to Word in Bilingual and Second Language Speech Perception, 1-2 April 2016, Iowa City, IA (US).

  • Mairano, P. & Calabrò, L. (2016) Minimal Pair Finder: a resource for research and teaching. Poster presentato al XII Congresso AISV (La fonetica sperimentale nell’insegnamento e nell’apprendimento delle lingue straniere), 27-29 gennaio 2016, Salerno (Italia).

• • Santiago, F. & Mairano, P. (2013) Variation in French and Spanish Interrogative Intonation and L2 Perception. Oral presentation at the PAPI2013 conference (Phonetics And Phonology in Iberia), 25-26 June 2013, Lisbon (Portugal).

  • Romano, A. & Mairano, P. (2012) Testing rhythmic and timing patterns of Italian. Poster presented at the conference Perspectives on Rhythm and Timing, 19-21 July 2012, Glasgow (UK).

  • Mairano, P. (2011) A preliminary phonetic exploration of the voice contrast in Icelandic r sounds. Poster presented at Ratics3, 2-3 December 2011, Bolzano (Italy).

  • Boula de Mareüil, Ph., Mairano, P., Rilliard, A. & Lai, J-P. (2011) Enquête corse: premières hypothèses sur un transfer prosodique, présentation orale aux Journées PFC (Phonologie du Français Contemporain), 8-10 décembre 2011, Paris (France).

  • Mairano, P. & Romano, A. (2008) A comparison of four rhythm metrics for six languages. Poster presented at EASR 2008 (Empirical Approaches to Speech Rhythm), 28 March 2008, University College London (UK).