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My study on “Identification of Consonant Length in L2 Italian: The Role of Cross-Linguistic Influence” (Front. Lang. Sci. 5:1911194; 2026) has been discovered by the British journalist and amazing language influencer Sophia Smith Galer (watch her video):
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcjKEGStcWU/
She summarizes the research and transfers my research findings excellently!
KUDOS stories (storytelling to science)
“Learning to Speak with a New Melody”
https://link.growkudos.com/1pqfo75beo0
“Corpus Phonology: Learning Italian Long Sounds”
https://link.growkudos.com/1es9atycveo
“Do We All Hear a New Language in the Same Way?”
https://link.growkudos.com/1etbaszhszk
“How Spanish shapes Heritage Italian in Buenos Aires”
https://link.growkudos.com/1f7owcojz0g
“When Two Languages Meet: The Melody of Paraguayan Spanish”
https://link.growkudos.com/1pmhx8tvcw0
Language on the Move, 2025–2026
“Tuning in to the melody of another language.” Language on the Move (ed. by Ingrid Piller), peer-reviewed sociolinguistics research site, 9 September 2026; text here
“How I worked as a foreign accent coach.” Language on the Move (ed. by Ingrid Piller), peer-reviewed sociolinguistics research site, 17 February 2026; text here
“Native listening and learning new sounds.” Language on the Move (ed. by Ingrid Piller), peer-reviewed sociolinguistics research site, 5 Nov 2025; text here.
Sylby 2022
for Sylby; THE AI-POWERED PRONUNCIATION AND LANGUAGE LEARNING APP. 5 Tips for Native Czech Speakers. TEXT here.
ELE 2017–2020
with Ariadna Benet: “Cómo reducir el “acento extranjero” en el ELE.” Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Spanisch 58, 16–20. Audio / Texto / Ejercicios
Hispanistischer Fachvortrag: Pešková & Benet 2020– Interferencias fonético/fonológicas del alemán en el ELE (Dieser linguistische Fachvortrag ist Teil der Initiative Hispanistik im digitalen öffentlichen Raum des Deutschen Hispanistenverbands, des Instituto Cervantes Berlín und der Kulturabteilung der Botschaft von Spanien in Deutschland: