Dorotea Bevivino

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Présentation générale

Interests:

• Prosody
• Sentence processing
• First and second language acquisition
• Multilingualism 
• Psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience of language 

Education:

• MA(Res) in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) and University of the Basque Country, Spain
• CEDILS (Certificate in Teaching Italian as a Second Language), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
• MA(Res) in Linguistics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• BA(Hons) in Linguistic and Philological Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Research Stays:

• Visiting researcher at the Cognition, Attention, Perception, and Speech Lab (CAPSlab), Mount Holyoke College, MA, USA (April-June 2023; PI: Professor Mara Breen)

Projets de recherche

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Enseignement

• Language and Cognition (primary instructor) | BA introductory course - Spring 2023, Spring 2024 (Université Paris Cité, France)
• Prosodic Analyses (co-instructor) | MA course - Spring 2023, Spring 2024 (Université Paris Cité, France)
• Phonetics (TA) | BA advanced course - Fall 2023 (Université Paris Cité, France)
• General Linguistics (TA) | BA introductory course - Fall 2022 (Université Paris Cité, France)
• Italian Language and Culture (TA) | BA introductory and advance courses - Fall 2017; Spring, Summer 2018 (DePauw U, IN, USA)

Thèse

Titre : A cross-linguistic perspective on priming of prosodic boundaries

Date de soutenance : 2025-04-11

Inscription : 2021 à Université de Paris

Jury :

• Alice Turk, University of Edinburgh, reviewer
• Christoph Scheepers, University of Glasgow, reviewer
• Mara Breen, Mount Holyoke College, examiner
• Nino Grillo, University of York, examiner
• Thierry Nazzi, INCC, CRNS, Université Paris Cité, examiner
• Barbara Hemforth, LLF, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, supervisor
• Giuseppina Turco, LLF, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, supervisor

Résumé :

This work investigates the representation of prosodic structure and its role in sentence processing and production planning, adopting a psycholinguistic approach and a cross-linguistic perspective. Using different experimental paradigms, we aimed to address one general research question. Can intonational phrase structure (namely, boundary and phrasing) be primed? At what stage does it intervene in sentence processing and production planning? To explore this question, we used cross-modal priming paradigms in both production and perception studies, in English and French, to investigate how the prosodic structure (in terms of phrasing, boundary location, and internal modulation of durations) helps to guide sentence processing, the extent to which the prosodic structure representation is implicitly learned, and whether the effect persists enough to affect the production of overt prosody in new sentences (production studies), or the representation of implicit prosody in reading (perception study). First, we tested if and how far priming effects of intonational phrase boundaries found in perception in English generalize to production. Specifically, we looked at boundary location and the internal modulation of critical noun durations in the sentence. Next, we investigated the question of whether these priming effects of boundary location in production generalize to another language, French, characterized by a different way of organizing phrasing from English. Then, we tried to further disentangle the contribution of prosodic structure and syntactic structure in priming effects by trying to use the overt prosodic phrasing of delexicalized audios to prime the implicit prosody of target sentences, as estimated by reading measurements in an eye-tracking-while-reading task. We finally discuss implications for how prosodic information is represented, computed, and used in real-time in sentence processing.

Bibliographie

In Progress:

• Faytak, M., Š. Kadavá, O. Özsoy, C. Xu, […], Bevivino, D., […], & Buchanan, E.M. and Roettger, T.B. (accepted). Big Team Science for Language Science: Opportunities and Challenges [preprint at https://osf.io/3pkj6]
• Bevivino, D., Turco, G., & Hemforth, B. Intonational phrase boundaries can be primed in Production [pre-registered at doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Z24KE]
• Bevivino, D., Hemforth, B., & Turco, G. Priming effects of delexicalized prosodic phrasing on implicit prosody and sentence processing - An eye-tracking study in French [pre-registered at doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/SY5UW and at doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9QP6K]

Peer-Reviewed Publications/Proceedings:

• Bevivino, D., Huygevelde, M., Hemforth, B., & Turco, G. (2024). Priming boundaries in production: Data from French. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 1005-1009, https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-203
• Bevivino, D., Hemforth, B., & Turco, G. (2023). Data from online production experiments and challenges for collecting good-quality recordings for prosodic analyses. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3452–3456). Guarant International. https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/152.pdf
• Bevivino, D., Turco, G., & Hemforth, B. (2022). Priming prosodic boundaries across constructions. Linguistic Evidence Conference. Paris, France. https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-03924619/document

Conference Talks (with peer-reviewed abstract/paper):

• Bevivino, D., Huygevelde, M., Hemforth, B., & Turco, G. (2024, July 5). Priming boundaries in production: Data from French. 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody. Special Session on Advances in studies on prosodic planning. Leiden, The Netherlands. [Talk & Proceedings paper]
• Bevivino, D., Turco, G., & Hemforth, B. (2022, October 6). Priming prosodic boundaries across constructions. Linguistic Evidence Conference. Paris, France. [Talk & Conference paper]
• Kalashnikova, M., Bevivino, D., & Singh, L. (2022, July 9). Attention and labelling in monolingual and bilingual caregiver-infant interactions. International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS). Ottawa, Canada. [Talk delivered by MK]
• Bevivino, D., Singh, L., & Kalashnikova, M. (2021, December 4). Caregivers adjust their speech in response to bilingual infants’ attentional preferences. ABC'21 Conference: Language and cognition in typical and atypical development. The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Virtual.

Poster Presentations (with peer-reviewed abstract/paper):

• Bevivino, D., Turco, G., & Hemforth, B. (2023, Sept. 2). Does priming prosodic phrasing modulate reading times? Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 29) Conference. Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain. [Poster]
• Bevivino, D., Hemforth, B., & Turco, G. (2023, August 10). Data from online production experiments and challenges for collecting good-quality recordings for prosodic analyses.20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic. [Poster & Proceedings paper]
• Bevivino, D., Hemforth, B., & Turco, G. (2022, September 7). Priming prosodic boundaries in an online speech production experiment. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 28) Conference. York, UK. [Poster]

Invited/Internal Talks:

• Bevivino, D. (2023, September 8). Does priming prosodic phrase modulate sentence processing? An eye-tracking design. Experimental Linguistic Workshop. Paris, France.
• Bevivino, D., Turco, G., & Hemforth, B. (2022, June 16). Priming prosodic structure in production in English: A pilot study. Laboratory of Excellence Empirical Foundations of Linguistics; (LabEx EFL) Annual Symposium. Paris, France.
• Bevivino, D. (2022, January 17). A cross-linguistic and acquisitional perspective on prosodic priming. PhD's seminar SFL-LLF. Paris, France.

Summer School Poster Presentations:

• Bevivino, D., Turco, G., & Hemforth, B. (2024, June 18). Does priming prosodic phrasing modulate sentence processing? An Eye-Tracking Study. 2024 MEDAL Summer School in Experimental Linguistics. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [Poster]
• Bevivino, D., Turco, G., & Hemforth, B. (2023, July 12). Breaking the French accentual phrase: Does priming prosodic phrasing modulate sentence processing? 2023 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. UMass, Amherst (MA), USA. [Poster]