Mariapaola D'Imperio (0000-0001-5122-4555)

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I obtained a PhD in Linguistics at the Ohio State University in 2000 and then joined the CNRS in 2001. After obtaining an "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" (HDR) at Paris III University in 2005, I have become Full Professor in 2006 . I am currently a Professor at the Department of Linguistics of the Aix Marseille University and the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (UMR 7309, CNRS) in Aix-en-Provence, and head of the Prosody Group since 2006.

I've also been Professor from 2019 to 2023 at Rutgers University and I have served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Phonetics (from 2016 to 2023). I've been vice-President and President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (2016-2020) and have also been partially funded by the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), from 2011 to 2016. I'm now on the Editorial Board of ISCA since 2021.

My main research interests span from intonational phonology to intonation production and perception in Italian and French, and have extended to phonetic convergence and imitation and Laboratory Phonology in general. More recently, my work has expanded to online measures of sentence comprehension through prosody (ERP, Eyetracking), to the the study of sarcasm in L1 and L2, the relation between musical skills and word learning and the the impact of individual cognitive differences in intonation processing. More recently, I've been investigating prosody and gesture acquisition in French and Italian pre-schoolers, as well as French adults.

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Aix-Marseille Université - Aixois Campus: Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azu, FR

2006-10-01 to present | Full Professor (Linguistique et Phonétique Générales)

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Aix-Marseille Université - Aixois Campus: Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azu, FR

Rutgers University: New Brunswick, NJ, US

CNRS Délégation Provence et Corse: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azu, FR

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Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, US

Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, US

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Institut Universitaire de France: Paris, Île-de-France, FR

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NSF Convergence Accelerator Track D: Data & AI Methods for Modeling Facial Expressions in Language with Applications to Privacy for the Deaf, ASL Education & Linguistic Res

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Co-speech head nods are used to enhance prosodic prominence at different levels of narrow focus in French

Intonational cues to speaker bias in questions and the role of language exposure

Pre-schoolers use head gestures rather than prosodic cues to highlight important information in speech

Similar use of intonation structure in early implanted children and hearing children: The case of Italian

Empathy influences how listeners interpret intonation and meaning when words are ambiguous

Individual empathy levels affect gradual intonation-meaning mapping: The case of biased questions in Salerno Italian

Rhythmic Abilities Correlate with L2 Prosody Imitation Abilities in Typologically Different Languages

Enhanced neural and behavioural processing of a nonnative phonemic contrast in professional musicians

Prosodic Focus Acquisition in French Early Cochlear Implanted Children

Dysarthria in individuals with Parkinson's disease: A protocol for a binational, cross-sectional, case-controlled study in French and European Portuguese (FraLusoPark)

Introducing advancing prosodic transcription

Professional Music Training and Novel Word Learning: From Faster Semantic Encoding to Longer-lasting Word Representations

The "Aix Prosody School" and tonal approaches of French intonation: an overview from the 70's

The Aix Prosody School and tonal approaches of French intonation: An overview from the 70's | École d'Aix et approches tonales de l'intonation du français: Un aperçu des recherches depuis les années 1970

The Status of the Initial Rise as a Marker of Focus in French

Prosodic boundary strength guides syntactic parsing of French utterances

Phonetic and phonological imitation of intonation in two varieties of Italian

Pitch scaling and the internal structuring of the intonation phrase in French

The interplay between prosodic phrasing and accentual prominence on articulatory lengthening in Italian

Length Matters: Informational Load in Ambiguity Resolution

Prosodic cues of sarcastic speech in French: slower, higher, wider

Prosodic cues of sarcastic speech in French: Slower, higher, wider

Tempo and the perception of sentence modality

Positional constraints on the initial rise in French

Positional Constraints on the Initial Rise in French

Prosodic Representations: Prosodic Structure, Constituents, and Their Implementation Segment-To-Tone Association Tonal Alignment

Specific contribution of tonal and duration cues to the syntactic parsing of French

Specific contribution of tonal and duration cues to the syntactic parsing of French

When syntax meets prosody: Tonal and duration variability in French Accentual Phrases

From Tones to Tunes: Effects of the f(0) Prenuclear Region in the Perception of Neapolitan Statements and Questions

Strategies for Intonation Labelling across Varieties of Italian

Is tonal alignment interpretation independent of methodology?

Modeling the intonation of topic structure: Two approaches

Modeling the Intonation of Topic Structure: Two Approaches

Tonal structure and constituency in Neapolitan Italian: Evidence for the accentual phrase in statements and questions

Editors' report for volume 50

Effects of tonal alignment on lexical identification in Italian

Editors' report for volume 49

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Preface

Intonational phrasing in Romance: The role of syntactic and prosodic structure

Pitch accent alignment in romance: Primary and secondary associations with metrical structure

Reconsidering a focal typology: Evidence from Spanish and Italian

Reconsidering a focal typology: Evidence from Spanish and Italian

Italian intonation: An overview and some questions

Focus and tonal structure in Neapolitan Italian

Tonal alignment, scaling and slope in Italian question and statement tunes

Auditory-visual integration of talker gender in vowel perception

Phonetics and phonology of main stress in Italian

Peer review (5 reviews for 3 publications/grants)