PhD research ProjectsCurrent PhD projects
The Relationship between Short-Term Memory and L2 Phonological Acquisition by Spanish/Catalan Learners of English. Cerviño Povedano, Eva Integrating L2 pronunciation in task-based language teaching: A focus on phonetic form. Ingrid Mora Plaza Multimodal input enhancement in L2 pronunciation teaching and learning. Valeria Galimberti The role of L2 speaking anxiety in L2 speech production Gisela Sosa López L2 vocabulary growth and its effect on L2 phonological development: an intervention study. Miren Adrián Improving L2 pronunciation through phonetic training: an aptitude-by-treatment intervention. Josh Frank Tarragano Previous PhD projects Individual differences in the development of oral fluency during a stay abroad. Sapna Rani Sehgal Pronunciation learning through captioned videos: gains in L2 speech perception and production. Natalia Wisniewska The effect of first language perception on the discrimination of a non-native vowel contrast: Investigating individual differences. Vita Kogan The Effect of Audiovisual and Articulatory Phonetic Training on the Perception and Production of L2 Sounds by Catalan/Spanish Learners of English. Cristina Aliaga Garcia Individual Differences in Cognitive Ability and L2 Vowel Perception and Production Elena Safronova Phonological Awareness and Pronunciation in a Second Language. Kivistö-de Souza, Hanna (2015) Complexity, Fluency and Accuracy Development Through Study Abroad Programmes Varying in Duration. Lara, Ann Rebecca (2014) (Co-supervised with Dr Carmen Pérez Vidal-UPF) Index of Idiolectal Similitude for the Phonological Module of English applied to Forensic Voice Comparison. Gavaldà Ferré, Núria (2013) (Co-supervised with Dr Maite Turell-UPF) L2 Phonological Development in Speech Production during Study Abroad. Avello Gómez, Pilar (2013) (Co-supervised with Dr Carmen Pérez Vidal-UPF) The Development of Oral Fluency and Rhythm during a Study Abroad Period. Valls Ferrer, Margalida (2011) (Co-supervised with Dr Carmen Pérez Vidal-UPF) |
MA research projectsCurrent MA Projects
Previous MA Projects Do you eat ‘pasta’ for dessert and ‘tender’ your clothes? A comparison of cross-language activation in Turkish and Spanish learners of English. Lara Kelly (2022) Was That a Bag or a Bug? Perceptual Measures, Euclidean Distance, Mahalanobis Distance, and Pillai Scores in the Assessment of L2 Pronunciation. James Waltz (2021) A Review of Linguistic Tone: Language Acquisition, Audio-Neurology, and Psychoacoustics. Michael Walczak (2021) Malleability of perviously-established and newly-established phono-lexical representations: A design. Miren Adrián (2020) The impact of auditory attention in L2 vowel perception and production by means of phonetic training. Josh Frank Tarragano (2020) L2 Learners' self-perception of L2 oral perfromance and speaking fluency. Valeria Retamal Garrido (2020) The impact of working memory on the processing of subject-operator inversion structures. Víctor Blanco Lebron (2020) Musical aptitude, phonetic coding ability, working memory and L2 Mandarin Chinese tone production. Zhifei Zhang (2019) Bilingualism effects on executive functioning: the case of Irish-English and Catalan-Spanish bilinguals. Elisa Gambicchia (2019) The role of anxiety in L2 speech production. Gisela Sosa López (2019) The effect of accentedness on judge's ratings of depth of thought in speech content: A case study of L2 Japanese. Ai Muto (2019) (MLTA-UPF Co-Supervised C. Pérez-Vidal) Perception of American English Open Vowels by Spanish-Catalan Bilinguals Brooklyn MacMahon (2019) (MLTA-UPF) The Effect of EFL learners' Attitudes towards Native English Accents on Listening Comprehension and Comprehensibility. Jarna van Gelder (2019) (MLTA-UPF Co-Supervised C. Pérez-Vidal) Influencing EFL Learner Attitudes Toward Native English Accents through Positive Exposure. Kristyn Johnson (2019) (MLTA-UPF Co-Supervised C. Pérez-Vidal) Musicality and lexical tone learning: Do working memory and attention control play a role? Quynh Trang Hoang (2018) Training L2 vowel perception and production thorugh communicative tasks in adverse listening conditions Richelle Dafoe (2018) Task complexity effects on the acquisition of an L2 vowel contrast: A task-based pronunciation teaching study. Ingrid Mora Plaza (2017) Beyond transfer: Re-attunement in L3 speech perception. Irina Stan (2017) Exploring the potential of reading aloud tasks in developing speech fluency in German as a foreign language Rosa Gallardo (2017) The role of language dominance and inhibitory control in L3 speech production: VOT asymmetries in language switching. Natalia Wisniewska (2016) The effects of task type (Focus on Form vs. Focus on Meaning) on perceptual ability, measured by auditory priming. James Venner (2016) Accent imitation on the L1 as a task to improve L2 pronunciation. Charlotte Everitt (2015) Hiring Non-Native Speakers in Barcelona: A Sociolinguistic Study on English-accented Spanish Speech. Britany Freitas (2015) (Co-supervised with Dr Isabelle Darcy, Indiana University) The Role of Inhibitory Control in Cross-Language Phonetic Interference. Allan Acho (2015) (Co-supervised with Dr Isabelle Darcy, Indiana University) The Hidden Effects within Catalan EFL Learners Perceptions and Attitudes to English Language Accents Barbour, Mark-Anthony (2014) The role of exposure to Spanish-accented Catalan in the perception of accentedness by Catalan-Spanish bilingual listeners. Vega, Renato (2014) Inhibitory control and degree of foreign accent in Russian learners of Spanish Barilova, Liza (2014) The role of inhibitory control in L2 speech production: cognate effects on L2 laryngeal timing. Alvarez, J. Lucas (2014) Interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for non-native listeners of English. Ludwig, Anja (2012) A study on the effects of nativeness and gender on phonetic convergence in a tape-mediated map task. Pisabarro, Silvia (2012) Effects of speech style on the use of temporal and spectral cues in the perception and production of non-native vowel contrasts Kivistö-de-Souza, Hanna (2011) Mimicry of non-distinctive phonetic properties of L2 sounds as evidence of category formation: VOT and spirantization in the production of oral stops. Rochdi, Youssef (2011) Individual differences in cognitive ability and L2 vowel perception Safronova, Elena (2011) Overcoming non-native over-reliance: a study on English vowel duration manipulation and neutralization Moya Galé, Gemma (2010) Research synthesis of phonological short-term memory and SLA Sugnomal Daswani, Clara (2010) Time of phonological and orthographical activation in natural silent reading. Tomkowiak, Natalia (2009) Investigating the effect of duration manipulation on Spanish/Catalan learners’ perception of English /iù/-/I/ and word-final /s/-/z/. Cerviño Povedano, Eva (2008) Perception and Production of Two Vowel Contrasts and Voice Onset Time by Catalan/Spanish Learners of English: A Phonetic Training Experiment. Aliaga García, Cristina (2006) |