Mariapaola D’Imperio
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5886407 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mariapaola D’Imperio |
| PRENOMES | Mariapaola |
| SOBRENOME | D’Imperio |
| ASSINATURA | D’IMPERIO M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5122-4555 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century
Overview of main tenets of the autosegmental-metrical (AM) theory of intonational phonology. • Critical discussion of traditional methods for the study of intonation production within AM. • Presentation of newer methods for the investigation of intonation production and perception. • Suggestions for future research. Intonation, the linguistic use of voice pitch, is critical for acquisition, phonetic organisation at the phrasal level and subsequen…
The Perception of Lexical Pitch Accent in South Kyungsang Korean
In this study, we tested whether the perception of pitch contours within a lexical pitch accent can be better understood through tonal targets in the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) model or as an entire tonal configuration identification. Specifically, a categorization experiment was conducted to see how South Kyungsang Korean (SKK) listeners perceive their high (H) and rising (LH) lexical pitch accents. Auditory stimuli were manipulated depending o…
Intonational cues to speaker bias in questions and the role of language exposure
Similar use of intonation structure in early implanted children and hearing children
This work presents an analysis of the intonation competence in a group of Italian children with cochlear implant (CI). Early cochlear implantation plays a crucial role in language development for children who were born deaf in that it favours the acquisition of complex aspects of language, such as the intonation structure. A story-generation task, the Narrative Competence Task, was used to elicit children’s stories. Narrations produced by 8 early…
Southern Europe
This chapter reviews the prosodic systems and intonational phonology of a group of Southern European languages: Italian, French, Greek, and Maltese. It describes their stress, phrasing, rhythm, and intonational phonology, with particular attention to phonologically informed experimental work. In the case of Italian, given the lack of a spoken standard (which is only used by professional speakers) and the descriptions of quite a number of varietie…
Rhythmic Abilities Correlate with L2 Prosody Imitation Abilities in Typologically Different Languages
While many studies have demonstrated the relationship between musical rhythm and speech prosody, this has been rarely addressed in the context of second language (L2) acquisition. Here, we investigated whether musical rhythmic skills and the production of L2 speech prosody are predictive of one another. We tested both musical and linguistic rhythmic competences of 23 native French speakers of L2 English. Participants completed perception and prod…
The Status of the Initial Rise as a Marker of Focus in French
This study addresses the relationship between information structure and intonation in French. Using an interactive speech production experiment, it tests the hypothesis that the French initial rise (LHi) is used to mark the left edge of a contrastively focused constituent. Since the occurrence of the initial rise is also known to be sensitive to the length of an Accentual Phrase (AP), AP length was manipulated within the same experiment in a 2 × …
Pitch scaling and the internal structuring of the Intonation Phrase in French
Within the autosegmental-metrical approach to French intonation, the existence of an intermediate phrase or ip is controversial. Our study provides strong evidence for its existence, by uncovering systematic pitch-scaling effects within this constituent. We first show that the presence of an ip break is responsible for blocking recursive downstep of subsequent AP-final LH* rises in declarative utterances, causing the return of the final H target …
When syntax meets prosody
Pitch Accent Alignment in Romance
The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The Romance languages analyzed in this article provide crucial evidence that small differences in alignment in rising accents should be encoded phonologically. To account for such facts within the AM model, the article develops the notion of “phonological anchoring” as an exten…
Phonetics and phonology of main stress in Italian
Vowel duration is not contrastive in standard and regional varieties of Italian. However, vowels in stressed open syllables are longer than unstressed vowels or vowels in closed syllables. The increased duration is not equal in all positions. Most notably, the increased duration of a stressed open penultimate syllable is much greater than the duration of a stressed open antepenultimate syllable or a stressed final syllable, which has no noticeabl…
Auditory-visual integration of talker gender in vowel perception
Auditory-visual integration of talker gender in vowel perception
Pitch Accent Alignment in Romance
The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The Romance languages analyzed in this article provide crucial evidence that small differences in alignment in rising accents should be encoded phonologically. To account for such facts within the AM model, the article develops the notion of “phonological anchoring” as an exten…
When syntax meets prosody
The Status of the Initial Rise as a Marker of Focus in French
This study addresses the relationship between information structure and intonation in French. Using an interactive speech production experiment, it tests the hypothesis that the French initial rise (LHi) is used to mark the left edge of a contrastively focused constituent. Since the occurrence of the initial rise is also known to be sensitive to the length of an Accentual Phrase (AP), AP length was manipulated within the same experiment in a 2 × …
Rhythmic Abilities Correlate with L2 Prosody Imitation Abilities in Typologically Different Languages
While many studies have demonstrated the relationship between musical rhythm and speech prosody, this has been rarely addressed in the context of second language (L2) acquisition. Here, we investigated whether musical rhythmic skills and the production of L2 speech prosody are predictive of one another. We tested both musical and linguistic rhythmic competences of 23 native French speakers of L2 English. Participants completed perception and prod…
Phonetics and phonology of main stress in Italian
Vowel duration is not contrastive in standard and regional varieties of Italian. However, vowels in stressed open syllables are longer than unstressed vowels or vowels in closed syllables. The increased duration is not equal in all positions. Most notably, the increased duration of a stressed open penultimate syllable is much greater than the duration of a stressed open antepenultimate syllable or a stressed final syllable, which has no noticeabl…
Auditory-visual integration of talker gender in vowel perception
Pitch Accent Alignment in Romance
The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The Romance languages analyzed in this article provide crucial evidence that small differences in alignment in rising accents should be encoded phonologically. To account for such facts within the AM model, the article develops the notion of “phonological anchoring” as an exten…
When syntax meets prosody
Pitch scaling and the internal structuring of the Intonation Phrase in French
Within the autosegmental-metrical approach to French intonation, the existence of an intermediate phrase or ip is controversial. Our study provides strong evidence for its existence, by uncovering systematic pitch-scaling effects within this constituent. We first show that the presence of an ip break is responsible for blocking recursive downstep of subsequent AP-final LH* rises in declarative utterances, causing the return of the final H target …
The Status of the Initial Rise as a Marker of Focus in French
This study addresses the relationship between information structure and intonation in French. Using an interactive speech production experiment, it tests the hypothesis that the French initial rise (LHi) is used to mark the left edge of a contrastively focused constituent. Since the occurrence of the initial rise is also known to be sensitive to the length of an Accentual Phrase (AP), AP length was manipulated within the same experiment in a 2 × …
Southern Europe
This chapter reviews the prosodic systems and intonational phonology of a group of Southern European languages: Italian, French, Greek, and Maltese. It describes their stress, phrasing, rhythm, and intonational phonology, with particular attention to phonologically informed experimental work. In the case of Italian, given the lack of a spoken standard (which is only used by professional speakers) and the descriptions of quite a number of varietie…
Rhythmic Abilities Correlate with L2 Prosody Imitation Abilities in Typologically Different Languages
While many studies have demonstrated the relationship between musical rhythm and speech prosody, this has been rarely addressed in the context of second language (L2) acquisition. Here, we investigated whether musical rhythmic skills and the production of L2 speech prosody are predictive of one another. We tested both musical and linguistic rhythmic competences of 23 native French speakers of L2 English. Participants completed perception and prod…
Similar use of intonation structure in early implanted children and hearing children
This work presents an analysis of the intonation competence in a group of Italian children with cochlear implant (CI). Early cochlear implantation plays a crucial role in language development for children who were born deaf in that it favours the acquisition of complex aspects of language, such as the intonation structure. A story-generation task, the Narrative Competence Task, was used to elicit children’s stories. Narrations produced by 8 early…
Intonational cues to speaker bias in questions and the role of language exposure
The Perception of Lexical Pitch Accent in South Kyungsang Korean
In this study, we tested whether the perception of pitch contours within a lexical pitch accent can be better understood through tonal targets in the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) model or as an entire tonal configuration identification. Specifically, a categorization experiment was conducted to see how South Kyungsang Korean (SKK) listeners perceive their high (H) and rising (LH) lexical pitch accents. Auditory stimuli were manipulated depending o…
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century
Overview of main tenets of the autosegmental-metrical (AM) theory of intonational phonology. • Critical discussion of traditional methods for the study of intonation production within AM. • Presentation of newer methods for the investigation of intonation production and perception. • Suggestions for future research. Intonation, the linguistic use of voice pitch, is critical for acquisition, phonetic organisation at the phrasal level and subsequen…
Phonetics and Phonology Research (12 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 obras) · Linguistics (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Prosody (6 obras) · Mathematics (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Perception (4 obras) · Pitch accent (4 obras)