Performative Vocal Synthesis for Foreign Language Intonation Practice

X **ao, B Kuhnert, N Audibert, G Locqueville… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Typical foreign language (L2) pronunciation training focuses mainly on individual sounds.
Intonation, the patterns of pitch change across words or phrases is often neglected, despite …

Is intonation learnable in the classroom? Evidence from Turkish learners of English

S Sonsaat-Hegelheimer, J Levis - Language Teaching …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
For language learners, intonation is widely considered to be important in communicating
meaning in context, but intonation is also considered by teachers to be difficult to teach, and …

Lending a hand to speech: Gestures help fluency and increase pitch in second language speakers

F Cavicchio, M Grazia Busà - Language, Interaction and …, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
This study examines the effect of gestures on second language (L2) pitch measures and
fluency in storytelling tasks. It is well documented that L2 learners commonly use gestures in …

La prosodie au Laboratoire Parole et Langage: histoire, recherches actuelles et perspectives

R Bertrand, J German, S Herment… - … sur la parole et le …, 2022 - journals.openedition.org
1/Question (s) posée (s) et problématiqueCet article se donne pour objectif de rendre
compte de la façon dont les recherches au Laboratoire Parole et Langage contribuent …

From research to teaching: The case of English rising contours

S Herment - … English Pronunciation: Issues and Practices (EPIP 7), 2022 - hal.science
It is quite common to hear incongruous rises in the speech of EFL learners, and yet, native
English speakers produce rising contours in the same contexts. To understand where this …