Browsing School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures by Author "McLoughlin, Laura"

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Impact of prosodic training on Italian as L2 by Hiberno-English speakers: the case of polar questions

Nicora, Francesca; McLoughlin, Laura; Gili Fivela, Barbara (International Speech Communication Association, 2018-06-13)

This paper aims at investigating the efficacy of a perceptionproduction training on the production of Italian-L2 yes/no questions by Hiberno-English learners. Our hypotheses are that an intensive prosodic training improves ...
La resistenza dei tratti intonativi nell acquisizione dell italiano da parte di parlanti anglo celti

Nicora, Francesca; McLoughlin, Laura; Gili Fivela, Barbara (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA) and Officinaventuno, 2019)

Although research on intonational phonology plays a crucial role in second language acquisition, scientific contributions investigating prosodic features in a contrastive perspective are scarce. This study aims at ...