Paolo Mairano
maître de conférences - English phonetics and phonology
CNU : SECTION 11 - LANGUES ET LITTERATURES ANGLAISES ET ANGLO-SAXONNES
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Keywords
Acquisition of L2 English phonetics and phonology, L1 and L2 speech corpora, rhythmic typology of languages, TTS, prosody, linguistic tools and software

Paolo Mairano
maître de conférences - English phonetics and phonology
Presentation
I am currently Associate Professor in English Phonetics at the University of Lille (France). I have a PhD in linguistics, applied linguistics and linguistic engineering with a research focus on phonetics and speech, and I worked in several academic and industrial institutions. I am becoming more and more interested in statistical methods for modelling linguistic phenomena, and my research adopts a data-focused approach spanning the following topics:
- the progression of phonetic competence during L2 English acquisition;
- the effects of orthography in the production, perception et phonological awareness of L2 English speakers;
- software and tools for L2 pronunciation training and testing;
- gemination in varieties of Italian;
- emotional speech and text-to-speech synthesis;
- rhythmic typology of languages.