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What impact do head nods have on prosodic prominence?

We are pleased to announce the latest publication by Mariapaola d'Imperio - AMU professor and member of the LPL - in collaboration with Christopher Carignan, Núria Esteve-Gibert, Hélène Lœvenbruck and Marion Dohen in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America:

Reference: Carignan, C., Esteve-Gibert, N., Lœvenbruck, H., Dohen, M., D'Imperio, M. (2024). Co-speech head nods are used to enhance prosodic prominence at different levels of narrow focus in French. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Access to the full text of the article (via AMU): https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/156/3/1720/3312732/Co-speech-head-nods-are-used-to-enhance-prosodic

 

 

Credits: Authors

How is your feedback perceived?

We are pleased to announce the latest article by Auriane Boudin (LPL doctoral student and first author of the study), Stéphane Rauzy, Roxane Bertrand and Philippe Blache from the LPL and Magali Ochs from LIS Marseille.

Auriane will also be defending her doctoral thesis on 20 November which aims to describe the behaviour of listeners and their production of feedback through an interdisciplinary approach.

Reference: Auriane Boudin, Stéphane Rauzy, Roxane Bertrand, Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache. How is your feedback perceived? An experimental study of anticipated and delayed conversational feedback. JASA Express Letters, 2024, 4 (7), ⟨10.1121/10.0026448⟩. ⟨hal-04687738⟩

Link to the journal: https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/article/4/7/075201/3302959
Link to the abstract & full text in HAL: https://hal.science/hal-04687738

 

 Credits: Authors (figures), JASA EL (cover)

What impact can unilateral laryngeal paralysis have on the expression of emotions?

Several members of the Phoniatry team at Marseille's La Conception University Hospital and the LPL have published this month a new scientific article studying the impact of laryngeal paralysis on the speaker's vocal transmission of emotions.

Reference: Ralph Haddad, Alexia Mattei, Caterina Petrone, Marie Cachi-Pouyenne, Estelle Bogdanski, Camille Galant, Antoine Giovanni (2024). Alterations in Emotional Expression Through Speech in Patients With Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis: A Preliminary Study. Journal of Voice (online 2024/08/08)

⟨https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2024.07.010⟩.

 

Link to the full text article: Alterations in Emotional Expression Through Speech in Patients With Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis: A Preliminary Study - ScienceDirect (univ-amu.fr)

 

A: Equal distribution of sentences produced by patients with laryngeal paralysis in neutral, anger and sadness.
B: Uneven perception of emotions by the jury, who consider the sentences heard to be mainly neutral in emotion.

Credits: Elsevier (1st ill.) / the authors (2nd ill.)

Half a century of speech prosody research in Aix-en-Provence

In its "Bookshop" section, CNRS SHS highlights the latest book by Daniel Hirst, Emeritus Research Director at the LPL, published last June by Springer: "Speech Prosody: From Acoustics to Interpretation".

Co-founder of SProSIG in 2000, an international group for the study of speech prosody under the umbrella of ISCA and IPA, and organizer of the first international congress on prosody in 2002 (which became "Speech Prosody"), the author presents a personal vision of speech prosody in general, and more specifically of the various themes in which he has been interested for several decades. Topics covered include the acoustic description of prosody, its transcription, the relationship between lexical and non-lexical prosody, the nature of prosodic structure, the phonology of prosody, the modeling of speech rhythm and melody, and the central question of the varied and sometimes rather mysterious ways in which prosody contributes to the interpretation of utterances. In his final chapter, Daniel Hirst outlines the directions he believes will be most productive and fruitful for future research into speech prosody.

Reference: Daniel Hirst. Speech Prosody: From Acoustics to Interpretation. Springer Verlag, Berlin. Juin 2024. https://link.springer.com/book/9783642407710

 

Credits: Springer Verlag

Difficulties in learning specialty vocabulary at school: the case of opaque verbs

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest article by Núria Gala and Marie-Noëlle Roubaud, two AMU senior lecturers at the LPL, in collaboration with Ludivine Javourey-Drevet of the SCALab (Villeneuve d'Ascq) in the journal “Lexique”:

Reference: Núria Gala, Marie-Noëlle Roubaud, Ludivine Javourey-Drevet. La difficulté d'apprentissage du vocabulaire de spécialité à l'école: le cas des verbes opaques. Lexique, July 2024, 34. ⟨hal-04580153⟩

Full-text article (in French): https://www.peren-revues.fr/lexique/1727

Abstract:
This work has been carried out with the aim of shedding light on the lexical knowledge of middle-school learners regarding vocabulary from domain-specific texts. We analyse a series of opaque verbs (polysemous, frequent in history and science textbooks) and we draw up an assessment of the lexical knowledge of 219 children from grades 4 and 5 (aged 9 to 11) in different schools in France. We also show the strategies used by learners to respond to the proposed task of writing a sentence with a given verb out of context.

 

Crédits d’image : Drazen Zigic sur Freepik

 

New article published in “Language, Cognition and Neuroscience”

Thanks to an electroencephalographic study, two CNRS researchers at LPL have shown that, in native French speakers, an accentual difference on the isolated word has no impact on its recognition. This result suggests that, for these speakers, acoustic cues related to accentuation are treated as noise and are swept out of the speech signal during the word recognition process.

Reference: Dufour, Sophie & Michelas, Amandine (2024). Does a mismatch on the accentual pattern of French words affect the magnitude of the repetition priming effect? An ERP investigation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-8.

The article on HAL: https://hal.science/hal-04601476
(Currently embargoed)

 

 

Crédits : Pixabay / GDJ

 

A neuro-cognitive model of comprehension based on prediction and unification

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest article by Philippe Blache, a CNRS researcher at the LPL, in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, dedicated to the language model also discussed at the conference held at the Collège de France last February:

Reference: Philippe Blache. A neuro-cognitive model of comprehension based on prediction and unification. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2024, 18.  

Full text article: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1356541

 

Credits: Ph. Blache

Phonological Decoding and Morpho-Orthographic Decomposition: Complementary Routes During Learning to Read

We are pleased to announce the publication by Brice Brossette - as first author in collaboration with other researchers - of a new article in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology:

Reference: Brice Brossette, Élise Lefèvre, Elisabeth Beyersmann, Eddy Cavalli, Jonathan Grainger, Bernard Lété. Phonological Decoding and Morpho-Orthographic Decomposition: Complementary Routes During Learning to Read. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2024, 242, ⟨10.31234/osf.io/qeynj⟩. ⟨hal-04421017v2⟩

Full text article: https://hal.science/hal-04421017v2

Brice is a post-doctoral fellow at the LPL within the framework of the AMPIRIC-funded DREAM project, which aims to gain a better understanding of the factors involved in children's exposure to the written word in the first year of primary school, in order to develop a programme of personalised recommendations for learning to read. He coordinates this project together with Stéphanie Ducrot (LPL/CNRS).

 

Photo de Michał Parzuchowski sur Unsplash

What role does neurofibromatosis type 1 play in learning to read?

We are pleased to announce the recent publication of the latest article produced by Marie Vernet (neuropsychologist and former doctoral student at LPL), Stéphanie Ducrot (CNRS researcher at LPL) and Yves Chaix (Tonic, CHU Toulouse) which includes a systematic review on visual processing deficits in neurofibromatosis type 1 and the impact on learning to read.

It follows the study “The determinants of saccade targeting strategy in neurodevelopmental disorders: The influence of suboptimal reading experience” published in 2023 in the journal Vision Research.

Reference: Marie Vernet, Stéphanie Ducrot, Yves Chaix. A systematic review on visual-processing deficits in Neurofibromatosis type 1: what possible impact on learning to read?. Developmental Neuropsychology, 2024

Editors Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/87565641.2024.2326151

Full text article: https://hal.science/hal-04504105

 

Credits: The authors

Music as a therapeutic tool in early childhood

Clément François (CNRS researcher, LPL) and Solène Pichon (nursery nurse, Dijon University Hospital) have just co-authored a chapter in the book "Musique, sciences et santé", part of the Nouveaux chemins de santé collection published by DUNOD and edited by Gérard Mick (neurologist, Voiron Hospital) and Emanuel Bigand (professor of cognitive psychology, LEAD, Dijon):

Clément François, Solène Pichon. Music as a therapeutic tool in early childhood. E. Bigand; G. Mick. Musique, sciences et santé, Dunod, To be published, Nouveaux chemins de la santé, 9782100800261. ⟨hal-04367008⟩

Link to the full text (in French) :https://amu.hal.science/LPL-AIX/hal-04367008v1

A more detailed version of this text will be included in an Oxford Handbook that Giulia Danielou and Clément François are currently preparing for publication in 2025.

 

Credits:
Photo: jasmin82 by Pixabay / Illustration: C. François and S. Pichon