Fabián Santiago
Associate Professor HDR at Paris 8 University
Associated to the SFL (CNRS) lab.
Current research domains:
L2 Prosody
L2 Intonation
L2 Pronunciation Teaching & Learning
Corpus Linguistics & Second Language Acquisition
Associate Professor HDR at Paris 8 University
Associated to the SFL (CNRS) lab.
I am an Associate Professor HDR (Habilitation to Supervise Research) in Phonetics and Phonology, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching at Paris 8 University. I received my PhD in Descriptive, Theoretical and Automatic Linguistics (Phonetics and Phonology) from the Sorbonne University Paris Cité (formerly the University of Paris Cité) in 2014. I then joined the Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology (CNRS & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) as a postdoctoral research fellow until 2016.
My main research interests range from the acquisition of prosody in L2 (intonation, prosodic phrasing, accentuation patterns and rhythm) to the teaching and learning of pronunciation in L2. I study the production and perception of intonation and prosodic prominence patterns in the acquisition of L2 French. I also study phonetics-prosody interfaces and syntax-prosody interactions, as well as the relationship between phonology and other linguistic levels, such as orthography and vocabulary, in L2 French, Italian and English. More recently, I have expanded my work to examine the role of previously learned languages in the acquisition of additional L2 phonologies. I have also been investigating prosody and gestures in L2 French pronunciation among Spanish-speaking adults.
I have gained experience in speech annotation in both native and non-native speech; acoustic analysis of prosodic phenomena in Romance languages; analysis of physiological data (ultrasound); and methods for studying native and non-native perception of intonation, speech manipulation, and statistical analysis.