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How to optimize the assessment of the intelligibility of people with speech disorders?

Anna Marczyk (LPL) is the first author of the article "Optimizing linguistic materials for feature-based intelligibility assessment in speech impairments" which has just appeared in the journal Behavior Research Methods. Produced among others in collaboration with Alain Ghio, Muriel Lalain and Marie Rebourg from the laboratory, it is based on the research work carried out within the framework of the RUGBI project.

Reference:
Marczyk, A., Ghio, A., Lalain, M. et al. Optimizing linguistic materials for feature-based intelligibility assessment in speech impairments. Behav Res (2021). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01610-9

 Open access to the article: https://rdcu.be/cl65E

Do you want /ʃoloka/ on a /bistɔk/?

Sophie Dufour, CNRS research director at LPL, has just published two articles with Jonathan Grainger (LPC) and Jonathan Mirault (LPC) on the perception of non-words. The first study seeks to understand whether non-words created by the transposition of two phonemes (/ʃoloka/) are perceived as being more similar compared to their base words (/ʃokola/) [chocolate] than non-words created by substituting two phonemes (/ʃoropa/). Then, in the second article, the authors continue their research by positioning the phonemes differently within the non-word.

  • Sophie Dufour, Jonathan Grainger. When you hear /baksɛt/ do you think /baskɛt/? Evidence for transposed-phoneme effect with multisyllabic words.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, American Psychological Association, In press, ⟨1037/xlm0000978⟩. ⟨hal-03141336⟩
  • Sophie Dufour, Jonathan Mirault, Jonathan Grainger. Do you want /ʃoloka/ on a /bistɔk/? On the scope of transposed-phoneme effects with non-adjacent phonemes. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Psychonomic Society, 2021, ⟨3758/s13423-021-01926-9⟩. ⟨hal-03225295⟩

These gestures that matter for language learning

"The Conversation" publishes a new article by Marion Tellier (LPL / AMU) which discusses here the positive effects of gestures and body techniques in the learning of foreign languages!

Link to article (in French): Ces gestes qui comptent pour l’apprentissage des langues (theconversation.com)

Link to her last article about the role of the body in distance learning (April 2021, in French): Le corps a-t-il encore sa place dans l’enseignement à distance ? (theconversation.com)

 

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Oral corpora: New methodological and regulatory considerations

The CORPUS journal published in its last thematic issue "From collection to tooling of oral corpora: how to access variation?” Two articles (co-) written by several members of the LPL:

The 1st article was born from a federating initiative of several national actors around the corpus of pathological speech in a clinical phonetics framework. Seven centers are represented: Aix, Marseille, Toulouse, Montpellier, Paris, Strasbourg, Avignon. The objective is to lay the foundations for the constitution of databases relating to voice and speech disorders to facilitate research on these topics. The collection of this type of corpus must be important to take into account the significant variations in symptoms in patients:

Alain Ghio, Gilles Pouchoulin, François Viallet, Antoine Giovanni, Virginie Woisard, Lise Crevier-Buchman, Fabrice Hirsch, Camille Fauth et Corinne Fredouille, « Du recueil à l’exploitation des corpus de parole « pathologique » : comment accéder à la variation physiopathologique ? », Corpus [En ligne], 22 | 2021. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/corpus/5677

The 2nd article is the result of work carried out by the laboratory's Ethics Commission concerning the new regulations for corpora (RGPD and the Jardé Law):

Muriel Lalain, Gilles Pouchoulin, Béatrice Priego-Valverde et Serge Pinto, « De la protection des données à la protection de la personne : Réflexions sur l’impact des nouvelles réglementations sur la collecte des corpus », Corpus [En ligne], 22 | 2021. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/corpus/5895


Link to the issue 22 (2021) of the CORPUS journal


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Referential communication in dogs through the prism of acoustic analysis

The 50th Colloquium of the French Society for the Study of Animal Behavior (SFECA) will take place on May 31 and June 1 in Marseille (online). It is organized by local research laboratories, including the LPL.

On this occasion, Thierry Legou, CNRS research engineer at the LPL, will present an oral communication within the framework of the “Social Cognition” section entitled “Do dog vocalize differently towards their owner and food in an unsolvable task? An exploratory study ”.

Summary of the intervention:
The dog is an interesting study model in terms of comparative cognition with humans and referential or interspecies communication - especially dog-human communication - since he has lived with us for over 30,000 years. Our study consists of evaluating the dog's referential communication in the presence of a human (their master) and a target (food). The types of vocalizations of the dog during the experiment as well as their acoustic characteristics were analyzed to determine if these vocalizations are different when they are produced to the master or to the target.

Registration deadline for the conference: May 10, 2021

The role of cognitive neuroscience in speech production and bilingualism

In its May 2021 volume, the Journal of Neurolinguistics publishes a special issue on speech production and bilingualism, edited by Kristof Strijkers (LPL) and Arturo Hernandez (University of Houston). It is dedicated to the memory of Albert Costa, renowned specialist in cognitive science and bilingualism and co-editor of the same issue before suddenly passing away at the age of 48 in December 2018.

 Link to the full text version of the special issue via AMU ressources (connection to ENT requested):
Special Issue on Language Production and bilingualism. In memoriam of Albert Costa. - ScienceDirect (univ-amu.fr)

Reference:
Kristof Strijkers, Arturo Hernandez, Albert Costa. Special Issue on Language Production and bilingualism. In memoriam of Albert Costa.. Journal of Neurolinguistics, Elsevier, 2021, 58, pp.100966. ⟨10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100966⟩. ⟨hal-03084927⟩

Can we predict reading difficulties from the visual skills assessed in kindergarten?

Marie Vernet, doctoral student at the LPL and at the Toulouse NeuroImaging Center (ToNIC), is the first author of an article published in the journal Applied Neuropsychology: Child entitled "Predicting future poor readers from pre-reading visual skills". She carried out the study in collaboration with Stéphanie Ducrot (LPL) and Yves Chaix (ToNIC) as well as Stéphanie Bellocchi (EPSYLON Montpellier) and Laurie Leibnitz (CMPP Fort-de-France), two former members of the LPL. 

Links
Open archive HAL: https://hal.uca.fr/LPL-AIX/hal-03102987
Journal: https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2021.1895790

Reference
Marie Vernet, Stéphanie Bellocchi, Laurie Leibnitz, Yves Chaix, Stéphanie Ducrot. Predicting Future Poor Readers from Pre-reading Visual Skills: A Longitudinal Study. Applied Neuropsychology: Child, Taylor & Francis, 2021. ⟨hal-03102987⟩

Abstract in English: https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2021.1895790

 

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Release of the last issue of the Études Créoles journal

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the Études Créoles journal:

Etudes Créoles vol. XXXVII n ° 1 & 2 - Studies of comparative constructions [All articles in French language]
Under the direction of Paula Prescod & Béatrice Jeannot-Fourcaud

This issue is dedicated to the memory of Robert Chaudenson, who died last April, swept away by COVID 19. Founder of the journal in 1978, he was successively its editor and director of publication until 2010.

Finally, we are pleased to announce that the application for Études Créoles has been accepted by OpenEdition. The journal - created in 1978 - will be available on the OpenEdition Journals platform shortly.

We hope you enjoy reading it.

Regards, Editorial team

Building a multimodal discursive ethos by developing digital literacy

Christelle Combe and Marco Cappellini, two associate professors affiliated with the LPL, have just published an article in the latest issue of the journal "Le français dans le monde: Recherches & applications" about digital practice in the field of teaching French as a foreign language (FFL).

For those interested in the article, the LPL library subscribes to the journal and issue number 69 is now available! 😉

Abstract: How do future teachers of EFL build their pre-professional ethos by developing digital literacy? In a project of telecollaboration between future teachers and learners of EFL, this is done in three steps: first of all when sending a self presentation video, then during the writing of online instructions on an asynchronous platform and finally during videoconference sessions. By revisiting the notion of ethos, this article redefines the tutorial ethos through the analysis of three tutorial discursive genres in a digital environment.

Dyslexic (or not), how do we activate phonological codes when reading?

Phonological codes play a key role in learning to read. In this article, published in July in the journal Annals of Dyslexia, Ambre Denis-Noël (PhD) and Chotiga Pattamadilok (CNRS researcher) - in collaboration with two colleagues from the LPC Marseille - study the activation of these codes in typical readers and dyslexic readers, by tracing their eye movements when reading.

Reference:
Ambre Denis-Noel, Chotiga Pattamadilok, Eric Castet, Pascale Colé (2020). Activation time-course of phonological code in silent word recognition in adult readers with and without dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, Springer Verlag. ⟨hal-02616440⟩

Link to the full article: https://rdcu.be/b5Qvw
Link to open archive HAL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02616440

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Last update: July 27, 2020