Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Author "Gili Fivela, Barbara"
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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 ... -
Intonation in Liguria and Tuscany: checking for similarities across a traditional isogloss boundary
Gili Fivela, Barbara; Nicora, Francesca (Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce (AISV) and Officinaventuno, 2018)The present work investigates the intonation systems of two varieties of Italian spoken in Liguria, namely in La Spezia and Imperia, with the aims of 1) extending the existing knowledge on the intonation systems of ... -
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 ...