Analysis of productions of English speaking learners of Italian as L2

Authors

  • Paolo Mairano University of Turin
  • Marta Mois University of Turin
  • Valentina De Iacovo University of Turin
  • Antonio Romano University of Turin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8987/2675

Keywords:

Italian, rhythm, prosody, acquisition

Abstract

ANALISI DI PRODUZIONI DI APPRENDENTI ANGLOFONI DI ITALIANO L2

Author Biographies

Paolo Mairano, University of Turin

Paolo Mairano is currently teaching fellow at the Universities of Turin (Italy) and Rouen (France), and speech scientist at Nuance Communications Inc. After obtaining a PhD in linguistics from the University of Turin, he worked as post-doctoral research fellow at the Universities of Grenoble 3 (France) and Warwick (UK). His research interests range from phonetic and phonological aspects of L2 acquisition to language typology and speech technologies.

Marta Mois, University of Turin

Marta Mois studies English and Russian at the University of Turin. In 2015 she got a Bachelor's degree in Modern Languages with a thesis in Linguistics with the title "A corpus-based study of syntactic transfer by Italian learners of English". During her Master years she took part to the Erasmus Traineeship project and worked as language assistant at the department of Italian studies of the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), where she started her researches for the Master degree.

Valentina De Iacovo, University of Turin

Valentina De Iacovo is finishing a PhD in Digital Humanities in collaboration with the Universities of Genoa and Turin, working specifically on the Italian section of the International AMPER “Atlas Multimédia Prosodique de l’Espace Roman” project; she is also organising the LFSAG speech archives and defining a guidelines definition for the prosodic annotation.

Antonio Romano, University of Turin

Antonio Romano is Professor (habil. as Full Professor) at the Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Turin and scientific director of the Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics "Arturo Genre" and Director of the Master in Translation for Cinema, TV and Multimedia. He is also co-ordinator of AMPER Atlas Multimédia Prosodique de l'Espace Roman (with M. Contini) and director of the Italian committee (AMPER-ITA).

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Published

2018-12-30

How to Cite

Mairano, P., Mois, M., De Iacovo, V., & Romano, A. (2018). Analysis of productions of English speaking learners of Italian as L2. RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista Di Lingue E Letterature Straniere E Culture Moderne, 5(10), 121–136. https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8987/2675

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 10 (2018)

Section

CrOCEVIA

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