Papers

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Recent Publications

 

In Press/Preparation

• D’Imperio, M., Zanchi, P., Zampini, L. & Fasolo, M. (in press). “L’intonazione delle narrazioni di bambini ed adulti italiani: un’analisi all’interno dell’approccio autosegmentale metrico”. In Savy, R., De Meo, A. and Alfano, I. (Eds.), Collana Studi AISV.
• Esteve-Gibert, N., Lœvenbruck, H., Dohen, M. & D’Imperio, M. (submitted). “Pre-schoolers use head gestures (and not prosody yet) to highlight important information in speech”. Developmental Science.

2021

• Zanchi, P., Zampini, L., Pancani, L., Berici, R. & D’Imperio, M. (2021). “Similar use of intonation structure in early implanted children and hearing children: the case of Italian”. First Language. January 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0142723720986052

2020

• Carignan, C., Esteve-Gibert, N., Lœvenbruck, H, Dohen, M. & D’Imperio, M. (2020). ‘Alignment of head nods in French focus: an EMA study’. ISSP 2020, New Providence, USA, 14-18 Dec. 2020.
• Mamadou Y., T. & D’Imperio, M. (2020). “Global and local pitch level in Caabe is not predicted by the Frequency Code”. Proceedings of the 179 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 7-11 December 2020.
• Orrico, R., Cataldo, V. & D’Imperio, M. (2020). ‘The effect of early dialect exposure in Salerno Italian question intonation’. AISV 2020, University of Calabria, Jan. 29-31 2020.
• Orrico, R. & D’Imperio, M. (in revision). The interaction of intonation cues and cognitive pragmatic skills in the perception of epistemic bias in Salerno Italian questions. Journal of Laboratory Phonology.
• Orrico, R., Savy, R. & D’Imperio, M. (2020). Salerno Italian: Intonational phonology and dimensions of variation. In Calamai, S., Piccardi, D. & Ardolino, F. (Eds.). Studi AISV 6.
• Esteve-Gibert, N., Schafer, A., Hemforth, B., Portes, C., Pozniak, C. & D’Imperio, M. (2020). “Intonation and empathy in the online processing of contrastive meaning in French”. Memory & Cognition, 48(4), 566-580. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00990-w
• Orrico, R. & D’Imperio, M. (2020). “Tonal specification of speaker commitment in Salerno Italian wh-questions”. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan, May 25-28 2020.
• Orrico, R. & D’Imperio, M. (2020). “Individual empathy levels affect gradual intonation-meaning mapping: The case of biased questions in Salerno Italian”. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 11(1): 12, pp. 1–39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.238

2019

• Cason, N., Marmursztejn, M., D’Imperio M. & Schön, D. (2019). “Rhythmic abilities predict L2 prosody imitation in typologically different languages”. Language and Speech. Published online, 13 Feb 2019, https:// doi.org/10.1177/0023830919826334
• Nia Cason, Muriel Marmursztejn, Mariapaola d’Imperio, Daniele Schön. Language and Speech Rhythmic Abilities Correlate with L2 Prosody Imitation Abilities in Typologically Different Languages. Language and Speech, SAGE Publications (UK and US), In press. ⟨hal-02349384⟩
• Esteve-Gibert, N., Loevenbruck,  H., Dohen, M., Legou, T. & D’Imperio, M. (2019). “Pre-schoolers use head gestures but not prosodic cues to signal narrow focus in French”. Proceedings of ICPhS 2019, Aug. 5-9 2019, Melbourne, Australia.
• Zanchi, P., Zampini, L., Pancani, L., Berici, R. & D’Imperio, M. (2019). “Competenza narrativa ed intonazione in bambini con impianto cocleare precoce”. Proceedings of CLASTA 2019, University of Verona, 11-12 May 2019.
• Orrico, R., Savy, R. & D’Imperio, M. (2019). “The perception of speaker certainty in Salerno Italian question intonation.” Proceedings of ICPhS 2019, Aug. 5-9 2019, Melbourne, Australia.

2018

• D’Imperio, M., Zanchi, P., Zampini, L. & Fasolo, M. (2018). “L’intonazione delle narrazioni di bambini ed adulti italiani: un’analisi all’interno dell’approccio autosegmentale metrico”. In Savy, R. & Alfano, I. (Eds.), La Fonetica nell’Apprendimento delle Lingue, Collana Studi AISV (vol. 2), pp. 179-189.
• Farah, C., Roman S. & D’Imperio, M. (2018). “Prosodic Focus Acquisition in French Early Cochlear Implanted Children”. Proceedings of Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India, September 2-6 2018 (oral presentation)
• Chikulaeva, A. & D’Imperio, M. (2018). “The expression of politeness and pitch height in Russian imperatives”. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, Poznan, Poland, June 13-16 2018.
• Dittinger, E. D’Imperio, M. & Besson, M. (2018). “Enhanced neural and behavioral processing of a non-native phonemic contrast in professional musicians”. European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 47(12): 1504-1516. DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13939 (published online May 8 2018).

2017

• Esteve-Gibert, N., Lœvenbruck, H., Dohen, M., D’Imperio, M. (2017). “The use of prosody and gestures for the production of contrastive focus in French speaking 4 and 5 year olds”. Oral presentation at the IPS Workshop ‘Abstraction, Diversity and Speech Dynamics’, Herrsching am Ammersee, 3-5 May, 2017.
• Farah, C., Esteve-Gibert, N., Roman, S. & D’Imperio, M. (2017) “Prosodic Focus Acquisition in French Early Cochlear Implanted Children”. Poster presented at SPPL 2017 (Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan), April 26, UCL, London.
• Esteve-Gibert, N., Loevenbruck, H., Dohen, M., Legou, T. & D’Imperio, M. (2017). “Adults’ and children’s use of prosody and head gestures to mark contrastive focus in French”, oral presentation at the XIII Convegno Nazionale AISV, Sources and functions of speech variation. Disentangling the role of biological and social factors, January 25-27 2017, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.
• Esteve-Gibert, N., Lœvenbruck, H., Dohen, M., Legou, T., D’Imperio, M. (2017). “Adults’ and children’s use of prosody and head gestures to mark contrastive focus in French”. Oral presentation presented at iGesto’17, International Conference on Gesture and Multimodality. Porto (Portugal), February, 2-3.

2016

• Cavone, R. & D’Imperio, M. (2016). “L1 use predicts imitation of metrical features in a typologically different L2”. Poster presented at LabPhon 15, July 13-16 2016, Cornell University, USA.
• D’Imperio, M., Grice, M. & Cangemi, F. (2016). Introducing Advancing Prosodic Transcription. Laboratory Phonology (special issue).
• Mariapaola D’Imperio, Amandine Michelas, Cristel Portes. École d’Aix et approches tonales de l’intonation du français : un aperçu des recherches depuis les années 1970. Langue française, Armand Colin, 2016, 191 (3), ⟨10.3917/lf.191.0031⟩. ⟨hal-01726434⟩
• D’Imperio, M., Zanchi, P., Zampini, L. & Fasolo, M. (2016). “L’intonazione delle narrazioni di bambini prescolari ed adulti italiani”. Poster presented at Giornate Clasta – VII Edizione, 29-30 aprile 2016, Fondazione IRCCS Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy.
• D’Imperio, M., Zanchi, P., Zampini, L. & Fasolo, M. (2016). “Preplanning strategies in narrative intonation: A comparison between Italian pre-schoolers and adults”. Poster presented at Exploring Speech Planning and Production in Children, Satellite Workshop of LabPhon 15, July 13 2016, Cornell University, USA.
• Dittinger, E., Barbaroux, M., D’Imperio, M., Jäncke, L., Elmer, S. & Besson, M. (2016). “Professional music training and novel word learning: from faster semantic encoding to longer-lasting word representations”. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 28(10): 1584-1602
• Eva Dittinger, Mylène Barbaroux, Mariapaola d’Imperio, Lutz Jänke, Stefan Elmer, et al.. Professional music training and word meaning acquisition: from faster semantic encoding to longer-lasting word representations. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Sep 2016, Bilbao, Portugal. non paginé. ⟨hal-01462165⟩
• Esteve-Gibert, N., Portes, C., Schafer, A., Hemforth, B., & D’Imperio, M. (2016). “The role of individual empathic skills on the online processing of intonational meaning”. Poster presented at AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Bilbao (Spain), September 1-3.⟨hal-01470259⟩
• James German, Mariapaola d’Imperio. The Status of the Initial Rise as a marker of Focus in French. Language and Speech, SAGE Publications (UK and US), 2016, pp.165-195. ⟨10.1177/0023830915583082⟩. ⟨hal-01460054⟩
• Mariapaola d’Imperio, Francesco Cangemi, Martine Grice. The Status of the Initial Rise as a marker of Focus in French. Language and Speech, SAGE Publications (UK and US), 2016, pp.165-195. ⟨10.1177/0023830915583082⟩. ⟨hal-01460039⟩
• Mariapaola D ‘Imperio, James Sneed German. Like a Square Peg in a Round Hole: Why Contour Shape Matters for Learning New Intonation Patterns. Laboratory Phonology 15, Jul 2016, Ithaca, New York, United States. ⟨hal-01703271⟩ ⟨hal-01468792⟩
• Zanchi, P., D’Imperio, M., Zampini, L. & Fasolo, M. (2016). « L’intonazione delle narrazioni di bambini ed adulti italiani: un’analisi all’interno dell’approccio AM », Poster presented at the International Conference on Spoken Communication 2016, 13-16 June, 2016, Univ. “Federico II” of Naples, Italy.
• Zanchi, P., D’Imperio, M., Zampini, L. & Fasolo, M. (2016). L’intonazione delle narrazioni di bambini ed adulti italiani: un’analisi all’interno dell’approccio Autosegmentale-Metrico, Poster presented at the XII Convegno Nazionale AISV, January 27-29 2016, Salerno, Italie.
• Pinto, S., Cardoso, R., Sadat, J., Guimarães, I., Mercier, C., Santos, H., Atkinson-Clement, C., Carvalho, J., Welby, P., Oliveira, P., D’Imperio, M., Frota, S., Letanneux, A., Vigario, M., Cruz, M., Pavão Martins, I., Viallet, F. & Ferreira, J. J. (2016). “Dysarthria in individuals with Parkinson’s disease: protocol for a binational, cross-sectional, case-controlled study in French and European Portuguese (FraLusoPark)”. BMJ Open 2016, doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012885. ⟨10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012885⟩. ⟨hal-01943040⟩
• Esteve-Gibert, N., Portes, C., Schafer, A., Hemforth, B. D’Imperio M. (2016). “Intonation in the processing of contrast meaning in French: an eye-tracking study”. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, May 31-June 3 2016, Boston, USA. ⟨halshs-01428268⟩
• Mariapaola D’Imperio. Acquisition of L2 prosody features and individual differences: the role of L1 use and musical training. Convegno Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce (AISV 2016), Jan 2016, Salerno, Italy. non paginé. ⟨hal-01462237⟩
• German, J. & D’Imperio, M. (2016). “The Status of the Initial Rise as a Marker of Focus in French”, Language and Speech, vol. 59(2): 165-195. Cit. 6
• D’Imperio, M., Cangemi, F. & M. Grice (2016). “Introducing Advancing Prosodic Transcription”. Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 7(1): 4, 1-3. Special Collection. London, United Kingdom. Ubiquity Press, 2016. ⟨hal-01473953⟩

2015

• Michelas, A. & D’Imperio, M. (2015). “Prosodic boundary strength guides syntactic parsing of French utterances”. Laboratory Phonology, vol. 6 (1): 119-146.

 

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Book Chapters

2020

• D’Imperio, M., Gili Fivela, B., Baltazani, M., Post, B. & Vella, A. (2020). “Prosodic Systems – areal groupings: Southern Europe” (chapter 15). In Gussenhoven, C. & Chen, A. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on Prosody, Oxford University Press.

2019

• Orrico, R., Savy, R. & D’Imperio, M. (2019). Salerno Italian: Intonational phonology and dimensions of variation. In Calamai, S., Piccardi, D. & Ardolino, F. (Eds.). Studi AISV 6. https://www.aisv.it/it/studiaisv.html

2018

• D’Imperio, M., Zanchi, P., Zampini, L. & Fasolo, M. (2018). “L’intonazione delle narrazioni di bambini ed adulti italiani: un’analisi all’interno dell’approccio autosegmentale metrico”. In Savy, R. & Alfano, I. (Eds.), La Fonetica nell’Apprendimento delle Lingue, Collana Studi AISV (vol. 2), pp. 179-189.

2016

• D’Imperio, M., Dittinger, E. & Besson, M. (2016). “Prosodie et intonation : notions de base et données neuropsycholinguistiques.”. In Pinto, S. and Sato, M. (Eds.) Traité de neurolinguistique, De Boeck, pp. 133145.

2015

• Cangemi, F. & D’Imperio, M. (2015). “Sentence Modality and Tempo in Neapolitan Italian”. In J. Romero & M. Riera (eds.) The Phonetics-Phonology Interface. Representations and methodologies. Selected Papers from 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia Conference: John Benjamins. 2015, pp. 109-123.
• Gili Fivela, B., Avesani, C., Barone, M., Bocci, G., Crocco, C., D’Imperio, M., Giordano, R., Marotta, G., Savino & Sorianello,, P. (2015). “Varieties of Italian and their Intonational Phonology”. In S. Frota and P. Prieto (eds) Intonational variation in Romance, Oxford University Press