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
Mairano, P., Bouzon, C., Tortel, A. & Turcsan, G. (2024) The perception of English phonemic contrasts by L1 French students specialising in English. Poster presented at the 8th EPIP conference (English Pronunciation: Issues and Practices). Santander (Spain), 8-10 May 2024.
Mairano, P., Bouzon, C., Turscan, G., & Tortel, A. (2024) The perception of English phonemic contrasts by L1 French students specialising in English . Oral presentation at the 21st ALOES conference "Prominence in Spoken English", Villentaeuse (France), 29-30 March 2024.
De Iacovo, V., 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 V., 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).