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DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Intonation\, rhythm\, and the melody of language are
  among the first aspects of speech that infants attend to and produce them
 selves. What is more\, in order to grasp the full literal and social meani
 ng of an utterance\, syntactic and semantic information is not enough - in
 tonation and prosodic modulations must be taken into account. Yet\, prosod
 ic features are among the last to be mastered by both L1 and (adult) L2 le
 arners both in utterance production and comprehension. This is because\, d
 espite being very useful in everyday communication\, the actual use of int
 onational and prosodic cues itself appears to be highly variable (both at 
 the phonological and phonetic level\, and both within and between speakers
  of the same variety)\, probabilistic\, and dependent on the presence vs. 
 absence of various contextual cues. Moreover\, we still do not know how hi
 gh-level linguistic knowledge rapidly combines with prosodic information\,
  or how and when low-level acoustic suprasegmental information (pitch\, du
 ration\, voice quality\, loudness) integrates with syntactic and contextua
 l cues.  In the first part of this talk I will first briefly review some s
 tudies on the variable production of intonational features in Italian (ton
 al alignment) and French (focus and sarcasm)\, and I will go on to present
  some recent results on the effect of acoustic-prosodic cues on syntactic 
 parsing and pragmatic interpretation in French offline perception studies.
  Finally\, I will present an ongoing ERP study on the timecourse of the in
 tegration of intonational cues and linguistic context in sarcastic speech.
  This is joint work with Francesco Cangemi\, Maud Champagne-Lavau\, James 
 German\, Amandine Michelas\, Oliver Niebuhr and Caterina Petrone.    Bio: 
  Mariapaola D'Imperio is Professor of Phonetics and Phonology and and Dire
 ctor of the “Groupe Transversal Prosodie” (GTP) at the Laboratoire Parole 
 et Langage (CNRS)\, Aix-Marseille Université. She is also Director of the 
 Master’s Program in Linguistics at Aix-Marseille. Her main research intere
 sts include: intonational phonology\, prosody and sentence comprehension i
 n Romance Languages\, and intonation production and perception.
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LOCATION:1160 av des Pins ouest\, CA\, Goodman Cancer Research Centre\, Roo
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SUMMARY:Syntactic and pragmatic use of intonational and prosodic variation 
 in French 
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