Sandra Benazzo
Fabian Santiago
I. Monographs
De Paolis, B. M. 2025. “Focus-induced variations in prosody and word order in native and non-native Italian and French”. Collana Studi AISV, V. 13, Milano: Officinaventuno.
II. Edited volumes
Drouillet, L., De Paolis, B. M., Santiago, F. (in preparation). Experimental Approaches to L2 Phonetics-Prosody Interactions: Multimodality, Learning Paradigms and Pronunciation Instruction, Special Issue of Language, Interaction & Acquisition, 18(1).
De Iacovo, V., De Paolis, B. M., Mereu, D. (2024). Voci, media e nuove tecnologie. Atti del XX Convegno Nazionale AISV (Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce). Milano, Officinaventuno.
III. Papers in peer reviewed journals
De Paolis, B. M., Stroppiana, S. (in press). “L2FOC: a crosslinguistic corpus to study focus and contrast in French and Italian Second Language Acquisition”. Oral Archives Journal, vol. 2.
De Paolis, B. M., Andorno, C., Benazzo, S. (2024). “Accounting for asymmetries in narrow-focus cleft sentences: syntax, function and cross-linguistic influence in non-native Italian and French”. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 23, Special issue of Isogloss - Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, pp. 1-24.
De Paolis, B. M., Anastaseni, A., De Iacovo, V. (2022). “Che cosa significa cantare in cörsivoe? Uno studio pilota sull’ultima tendenza della Generazione Zeta”, Bollettino del Laboratorio di fonetica sperimentale ‘Arturo Genre’, 8, pp. 53-63.
Romano, A., De Paolis, B. M. (2021). “Usseglio cent’anni dopo Terracini: la fonetica di un patois ‘con caratteristiche speciali’”, Bollettino dell’Atlante Linguistico Italiano, III, 45, pp. 199-217. [Fascia A ANVUR]
De Paolis, B. M. (2019). “Acquisition de la consonne rhotique en français L2 par des adultes italophones résidant en France”, Bollettino del Laboratorio di fonetica sperimentale ‘Arturo Genre’, 3, pp. 5-33.
IV. Book chapters
De Paolis, B. M., Lo Iacono, F. (in press). “Glottalisation, prosodic boundaries and focus in Italian: a perception study”. Collana Studi AISV, vol. 14.
De Paolis, B. M. (2025). “Il contrasto come oggetto continuo: uno studio sulla realizzazione del focus da parte di parlanti nativi e non nativi di francese e italiano”. In Cerruti, M., Onesti, C., Regis, R., Ricca, D. (eds), Continuo e discreto nelle scienze del linguaggio: Atti del LVI Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana. Milano: Officinaventuno, 219-242.
De Iacovo, V., De Paolis, B. M., Mereu, D. (2024). “Prefazione”. In Voci, media e nuove tecnologie. Studi AISV 12, Milano: Officinaventuno.
De Paolis, B. M., Anastaseni, A., De Iacovo, V. (2023). “Cantare in corsivo: a phonetic study of a contemporary Italian singing style, two years after its initial wave”. In Bellone, L., Bonato, L., Madrussan, E. (eds). It’s (not) only rock ‘n’ roll. Linguaggi, culture, identità giovanili, QuadRi, v. 14, pp. 59-73.
De Paolis, B. M., Romano, A., Andorno, C. (2023). “Prosodic and syntactic markers of narrow focus in Italian L1 and L2 (French L1): an experimental study”. In Gili Fivela (ed.), Spoken language in the medical field: Linguistic analysis, technological applications and clinical. Milan: Officinaventuno.
Di Nuovo, E., De Paolis, B. M., Bosco, C. & Corino, E. (2024). Error identification, correction and tagging: Three inter- annotator agreement experiments in a picture-elicited learner corpus. In Katherine Ackerley & Erik Castello (eds.), Continuing Learner Corpus Research: Challenges and Opportunities. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 87-120.
V. Conference proceedings
De Paolis, B. M. (under review). “Glottalisation et focus en français: perception et production”.
De Paolis, B. M., Lorenzen, J., Baumann, S. (2026). “Focus marking in L2 German: How Italian learners adjust their use of prosody and syntax”. Speech Prosody 2026, Philadelphia, USA, 26-29 May 2026, pp. 1-5.
De Paolis, B. M. (2024). “Allongement vocalique en italien L2 et en français L2 : une marque de focalisation ?”, 35èmes Journées d’Études sur la Parole (JEP 2024), July 2024, Toulouse, France. pp. 242-251.
De Paolis, B. M., Lo Iacono, F., De Iacovo, V. (2024). “Vowel lengthening in L2 Italian and L2 French: a cue for focus marking?”, Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, Netherlands, 2-5 July 2024, 78, pp. 1-5.
De Paolis, B. M., Abbà, B., Romano, A. (2023). “On the role of glottal stop: from boundary marker to correlate of focus. A study on Italian and French”, Proc. of ICPhS 2023 - 20th Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, August 2023, 821, pp. 1-5.
De Paolis, B. M., Santiago, F., Andorno, C. (2022). “Syntaxe ou prosodie? Une étude préliminaire sur l'expression de la focalisation étroite par les apprenants italophones de français L2”, Actes de la XXXIVe Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole (Île de Noirmoutier), June 2022, pp. 850-860.
De Paolis, B. M., Andorno, C. (2022). “Constructions clivées en Français L1 et L2 (Italien L1). Premiers résultats d'une étude expérimentale”, 8ème Congrès mondial de linguistique française (Orléans), July 2022, SHS Web of Conferences 138, 09001, pp. 1-14.
Santiago, F., Mairano, P., De Paolis, B. M. (2022). “The effects of prosodic prominence on the acquisition of L2 phonological features”, Proceedings of XI Speech Prosody (Lisbon), May 2022, 77, pp. 1-5.
VI. Reviews
De Paolis, B. M. (2024). Review of Introducing Valico-UD. A Parallel, Learner Italian Treebank for Language Learning Research, by Elisa Di Nuovo, 2023, Bologna: Pàtron. RiCOGNIZIONI, 11, 21, pp. 105-107.
VII. Other research outcomes
De Paolis, B. M. (2025). L2FOC: a crosslinguistic speech corpus for French and Italian Second Language Acquisition [Corpus]. ORTOLANG (Open Resources and TOols for LANGuage) - www.ortolang.fr, https://hdl.handle.net/11403/bianca-maria-de-paolis/v1.
De Paolis, B. M., Romano, A. (2021). Archivio di parlato dialettale ALiR per la parlata francoprovenzale di Usseglio, Torino: LFSAG [online].
I. Invited talks
De Paolis, B. M. (2025). “Mapping focus across European languages: syntactic and prosodic strategies in native and non-native speech”, Research Colloquium of the Institute of Linguistics - Phonetics, University of Cologne, May 2025.
De Paolis, B. M. (2025). “Exploring focus-contrast mapping in Romance languages through native and non-native speech”, Online lecture series on Information Structure – LISTEN network, KU Leuven, January 2025.
De Paolis, B. M. (2024). “Esprimere la struttura informativa in italiano e francese L2: tra influenza interlinguistica e strategie universali”, Seminario di Linguistica interdipartimentale dell’Università di Torino, January 2024.
De Paolis, B. M., Santiago, F. (2023). “Ma … che cos’è Polytonia? Transcrire la prosodie en L2 avec des outils automatiques”, Outiller l’acquisition des langues secondes pour la phonologie, Université de Grenoble, October 2023.
De Paolis, B. M. (2022). "Marqueurs syntaxiques et prosodiques de la focalisation étroite en italien et français L2", Séminaire des doctorants - Laboratoire SFL (CNRS & Paris), November 2022.
De Paolis, B. M. (2022). “Marqueurs prosodiques de la focalisation étroite en français et italien L1 et L2”, SRPP - Séminaires de Recherches en Phonétique et Phonologie, Laboratoire LPP (CNRS & Paris 3), October 2022.
De Paolis, B. M. (2022). “Syntaxe ou prosodie ? Une étude préliminaire sur l'expression de la focalisation étroite par les apprenants italophones de français L2”, Séminaire Acquisition & Psycholinguistique, Laboratoire SFL (CNRS & Paris 8), March 2022.
II. Talks at peer-reviewed conferences
Baills, F., De Paolis, B. M., Baumann, S. (2026). The contribution of head gesture prominence in the multimodal marking of information structure in French and Italian. DGfS 2026 - 48. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, 24-27 February 2026, Universität Trier.
De Paolis, B. M., Masla, A. (2025). Contrast and focus sub-types across European languages: an experimental study, SLE2025 - 58th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 26-29 August 2025, Bordeaux (France).
De Paolis, B. M. (2025). Intonational Marking of Focus in L2 Italian and French and the Markedness Differential Hypothesis. 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, 25-27 June 2025, Universitat de les Illes Baleares.
Baills, F., De Paolis, B. M., Baumann, S. (2025). The interplay between prosody, gesture, and syntax to signal information structure in French. 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, 25-27 June 2025, Universitat de les Illes Baleares.
De Paolis, B. M., Romano, A. (2025). Phonetic variation in rhotic realizations in L2 French by Italian speakers. 'ratics 8, 22-23 May 2025, University of Malta.
De Paolis, B. M., Lo Iacono, F. (2025). Glottalization, prosodic boundaries and focus in Italian: a perception study. XXI convegno annuale AISV, Urbino, February 2025.
De Paolis, B. M., Romano, A. (2025). Glottalisation, frontières prosodiques et focus en italien et français : une étude perceptive. XXXI CILFR, Congresso internazionale di linguistica e di filologia romanza, Lecce, 30 giugno – 5 luglio 2025.
De Paolis, B. M., Andorno, C., Benazzo, S. (2024). “Exploring focus-contrast mapping mismatch in Romance languages: a comparative study of cleft structures and contrastive prosodic patterns in Italian and French”, 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Helsinki, 21-24 August 2024.
De Paolis, B. M. (2024). “Impact of cross-linguistic divergences on the acquisition of it-cleft sentences in L2 Italian and L2 French: an experimental study”, EuroSLA33: The 33rd Conference of the European Second Language Association, 3-6 July 2024, Montpellier (France).
De Paolis, B. M., Lo Iacono, F. (2024). “Stress, intonation or phrasing? Focus marking and cross-linguistic influence in L2 French and L2 Italian”, LabPhon19: The 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, June 27-29, 2024.
De Paolis B. M., & Santiago, F. (2023). Le marquage de la structure informationnelle en italien et français L2 : une fenêtre sur les interactions syntaxe-prosodie. Grammaire(S) et Acquisition des L2 : Approches, Trajectoires, Interfaces (JE du RéAL2), Université Grenoble-Alpes, 19-20 octobre 2023.
De Paolis, B. M. (2023). “Il contrasto come oggetto continuo: uno studio sulla realizzazione del focus da parte di parlanti nativi e non nativi di francese e italiano”, LVI Congresso internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana, Torino, September 2023.
De Paolis, B. M., Andorno, C., Benazzo, S. (2023). “Asymmetries in narrow-focus cleft sentences: a study on spoken L2 Italian and French”, 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Paris, June 2023.
De Paolis, B. M., Abbà, B., De Iacovo, V. (2023). “On the role of glottal stop: from boundary marker to correlate of focus. An experimental study on native and non-native Italian and French”, PaPE2023, 2-4 June 2023, Nijmegen.
De Iacovo, V., Mairano, P., De Paolis, B. M., Anastaseni, A. (2023). “Hiatus as phonetically re-articulated vowels in Italian”, PaPE2023, 2-4 June 2023, Nijmegen.
De Paolis, B. M. (2023). “On the role of glottal stop: from boundary marker to correlate of focus. An experimental study on Italian and French”, Speech Units Workshop, 17-19 April 2023, University of Zürich.
De Paolis, B. M., Romano, A., Andorno, C. (2023). “Prosodic markers of narrow focus in Italian L1 and L2 (French L1): an experimental study”, XIX convegno AISV, Lecce, February 2022.
De Paolis, B. M., Anastaseni, A., De Iacovo, V. (2022). "Cosa significa cantare in cörsivœ? Uno studio pilota sull’ultima tendenza della Generazione Zeta", It’s (not) only rock ‘n’ roll. Linguaggi, culture, identità giovanili, Torino, December 2022.
Andorno, C., De Paolis, B. M. (2022). "Similar syntax, different prosody: Divergent effects of crosslinguistic influence in Italian and French L2", Intercomprehension-based L2 learning and teaching, Gdańsk, December 2022.
De Paolis, B. M. (2022) "Focalisation et ordres marqués en italien et français: parole spontanée et lue", Tra scritto e parlato: due sistemi a confronto nelle lingue romanze, Grenoble, November 2022.
Di Nuovo, E., De Paolis, B. M., Bosco, C., Corino, E. (2022) “Error identification, normalization and tagging: three inter-annotator agreement case studies in a picture elicited learner corpus”, 6th Learner Corpus Conference, Padua, September 2022.
De Paolis, B. M. (2022). “Cleft structures in native and non-native discourse: first results from a study on Italian and French”, SLE2022 - 55th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bucharest, August 2022.
De Paolis, B. M., Santiago, F. (2022). “La réalisation du focus par les français natifs et les apprenants italophones de français L2: une étude exploratoire”, XXX Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes, La Laguna, July 2022.
De Paolis, B. M. (2022). “Acquisition de la consonne rhotique par des apprenants italophones résidant en France : une étude exploratoire”, Phonétique du FLE à visée didactique, quelles perspectives? Toulouse, June 2022.
De Paolis, B. M. (2022). "Cleft structures in native and non-native discourse: first results from a study on Italian and French", IMPRS Conference 2022, Max Planck Institute, 1-3 June 2022.
Santiago, F., Mairano, P., De Paolis, B. M. (2022). “The effects of prosodic prominence on the acquisition of L2 phonological features”, XI Speech Prosody (Lisbon), May 2022.
Lecturer
General Linguistics (36 hours, 6 CFU)
a.a. 2025/2026 - University of Turin, Dep. of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures
c.d.l. L-11 Lingue e letterature moderne
General Linguistics (36 hours, 6 CFU)
a.a. 2024/2025 - University of Turin, Dep. of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures
c.d.l. L-11 Lingue e letterature moderne
General and applied linguistics (36 hours, 6 CFU)
a.a. 2023/2024 - SSML (Scuola Superiore di Mediazione Linguistica), Torino
c.d.l. L-12 Scienze della mediazione linguistica
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General Linguistics (6 hours)
a.a. 2024/2025 - University of Turin, Department of Medicine
c.d.s Logopedia
General Linguistics (4 hours)
a.a. 2024/2025 - University of Turin, Dep. of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures
c.d.l. L-12 Scienze della mediazione linguistica
General Linguistics (2 hours)
a.a. 2024/2025 - University of Turin, Dep. of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures
c.d.l. LM-94 Traduzione
Introduction to Linguistics (40 hours)
a.a. 2023/2024 - University of Turin, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society
c.d.s. Comunicazione Interculturale
General Linguistics (10 hours)
a.a. 2023/2024 - University of Turin, Department of Medicine
c.d.s Logopedia
Tools for speech processing (6 hours)
a.a. 2022/2023 - University of Turin, Department of Humanities
c.d.s. Language Technologies and Digital Humanities
Supervision & Mentorship
2022 - present
BA Dissertations: 3 (seconda relatrice)
MA Dissertations: 2 (prima relatrice)
Internships: 3
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