Presentations at conferences and seminars 2016-2019

2019

17-19 June

Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE2019)

University of Salento, Lecce (IT)

Rhythmic Convergence and Divergence in two Swiss German dialects (poster: E. Pellegrino, H. Ruch, T. Kathiresan, V. Dellwo)

17-18 May

6th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues and Practices (EPIP6)

Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, R. Macedonia

Learning English as a Foreign Language: The effect of the amount of exposure to English on the production of vowels by University Learners from different levels (A.C. Pesantez, E. Pellegrino, V. Dellwo)

Workshop on Accommodation in Speech Communication 

URPP Language and Space, University of Zurich

• Corpus, Methods and Measures of Accommodation at Zurich URPP Language and Space (E. Pellegrino, H. Ruch, T. Kathiresan, V. Dellwo)
• Accommodation strategies used by hearing speakers in spoken interactions with deaf people. A preliminary investigation (poster V. Caruso, E. Pellegrino)

International Conference on Laboratory Phonetics and Phonology 

Alzahra University, Teheran, Iran (video conference)

• The Effect of Aging on Within Speaker Rhythmic Variability (E. Pellegrino)

Journée de Linguistique Suisse 2018

Bern University

• Rhythmic Accommodation in a Dialect Contact Situation. Acoustic and Perception Studies in Grison and Zurich German (E. Pellegrino, H. Ruch, V. Dellwo)

Interspeech 2018

Hyderabad, India

• Influences of fundamental oscillation on speaker identification in vocalic utterances by humans and computers (V. Dellwo, T. Kathiresan, E. Pellegrino, L. He, S. Schwab, D. Maurer)

Speech Prosody 2018

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

• The effect of ageing on Speech Rhythm: A study on Zurich German (E. Pellegrino, L. He, V. Dellwo)

5th International Conference of the Italian Society for Language Teaching and Educational Linguistics (DILLE),

Siena University for Foreigners, Italy

• Poesia e percezione ritmica tra oralità e scrittura (V. Caruso, E. Pellegrino, M. di Palma)

3 November

Workshop on Speaker Individuality in Voice: Human and Machine Processing,

University of Zurich, Switzerland

• Ageing effect on between and within speaker rhythmic variability

28-30 September

Workshop on Speech Rhythm in L1, L2 and Learner Varieties of English - 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English,

Vigo, Spain

• Longitudinal study on speech rhythm: an investigation on Noam Chomsky (E. Pellegrino, L. He, V. Dellwo)

9-12 July

XXVI International Conference of International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, (IAFPA)

Split, Croatia

• The effect of aging on between-speaker rhythmic variability (poster E. Pellegrino, L. He, V. Dellwo)
• Between-Speaker rhythmic variability in Persian (poster H. Asadi, L. He, E. Pellegrino, V. Dellwo)

25–29 June

16th Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop (RPPW 2017)

Birmingham University, Birmingham, Great Britain.

• Age-related rhythmic variations: An investigation on Zurich German (E. Pellegrino, L. He, N. Giroud, M. Meyer, V. Dellwo)

26-27 April

Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the lifespan

University College London, London, Great Britain.

• Speech rhythm and aging (E. Pellegrino, L. He, N. Giroud, M. Meyer, V. Dellwo)

15-17 March

28th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV, 2017)

Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

• Computation of L2 speech rhythm based on duration and fundamental frequency (poster E. Pellegrino, L. He, V. Dellwo)

23-25 February

XVII International Congress of the Italian Association of Applied Linguistics (AItLA 2017)

Univ. of Naples L’Orientale and Second University of Naples, Naples, S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy

• LV come LS? Alcuni problemi nella definizione delle competenze linguistiche dei sordi (V. Caruso, E. Pellegrino)

8-12 September

Interspeech 2016

San Francisco

• Speech Rhythm in Parkinson’s Disease: A Study on Italian (poster presentation M. Pettorino, M.G. Busà, E. Pellegrino)

24-27 July

XXV International Conference of International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA 2016)

University of York's Department of Language and Linguistic Science – J. P. French Associates, Forensic Speech and Acoustics Laboratory

• A hybrid measure of speech rhythm: possible implications for LADO (poster presentation E. Pellegrino, L. He, V. Dellwo)

22-25 June

International Conference of the American Association for Teachers of Italian

(AATI 2016)

Universities of Naples L’Orientale and Federico II, Naples, Italy

• The effects of cross-lingual CALP abilities on school success: a comparative study of Generations 1.5 and Second-Generation immigrants (G. Vitale, E. Pellegrino)

13-15 June

Spoken Communication 2016/ La Comunicazione Parlata 2016

Universities of Naples L’Orientale and Federico II, Naples, Italy

• Strategie di riparazione nell’interazione conversazionale tra sordi e udenti (E. Pellegrino, V. Caruso, A. De Meo)

10 March

言語処理学会第22回年次大会/22° Annual Meeting of the Natural Language Processing Society (NLP 2016)

Università di Tohoku, Sendai, Japan

• A self-imitation technique for the improvement of prosody in L2 Italian (D. Vigliano, K. Yoshimoto, E. Pellegrino)

18-20 February

XVI Conference of the Italian Association of Applied Linguistics (AItLA)

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

• L’interazione verbale tra sordi e udenti: analisi di alcuni meccanismi conversazionali (E. Pellegrino, V. Caruso, A. De Meo)

27-29 January

XII National Conference of Italian Association for Speech Science (AISV)

Fisciano University, Salerno, Italy

• L’apprendimento della prosodia in contesto LS: uno studio su apprendenti giapponesi (D. Vigliano, M. Pettorino, E. Pellegrino)