Presentations

(* invited speaker / ** presentation after anonymous review)

 

2023

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2022

*«Spanisch und Italienisch als Fremdsprachen im Kontrast. Die Herausforderungen des Intonationserwerbs (nicht nur) im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Linguistisches Kolloquium; Romanistik, University of Vienna; invited by Elissa Pustka, 21. November 2022.

**“How much does transfer matter? Non-neutral statements in L2 Italian and L2 Spanish produced by L1 Czech learners.” New Sounds, Barcelona, 20.–22. April 2022.

*«Melody» of language contact. The case of wh-questions in Paraguayan Spanish. University of the Basque Country; invited by Gorka Elordieta (HiTT Linguistic Group), 4. April 2022.

**“Nde, qué pio lo que querés? Wh-questions in Paraguayan Spanish.” The 25th Annual Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (Online), 25.–26. March 2022.

2021

** “L2 varieties in contrast and Developmental L2 Intonation Hypothesis.” 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021 “Tone and Intonation in a globalized, digital world” Sonderborg (Denmark), 6 – 9. December 2021

** “Teaching L2 Spanish and L2 Italian intonation to L1 Czech and L1 German learners”. Trends in pedagogical transmission of prosody. Universität Konstanz, 12. – 13. October 2021.

** “Tra l’italiano e lo spagnolo: Il caso degli italiani come parlanti ereditari in Argentina.” XXXVII. Romanistentag (Section: Neue theoretische Perspektiven Sprachkontakt-forschung), 04. – 07. October 2021.

** “Italian Heritage Speakers in Buenos Aires.” 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens (Griechenland), 31. August – 3. September 2021.

* “Gibt es melodische Konstruktionen? Erwerb von W-Fragen im L2-Italienischen und L2-Spanischen.” Universität Tübingen, (Einladung von Hans-Jörg Döhla), 30. June 2021.

** “Interlanguage varieties in contrast and Developmental L2 Intonation Hypothesis.” PaPE 2021. Universitat Barcelona, 21. – 23. June 2021.

2020

*  “Towards the Developmental L2 Intonation hypothesis: Evidence from L2 Italian and L2 Spanish.” Going Romance 34, Paris (France), 26. – 28. November 2020.

** “Do Paraguayans ask using Guarani intonation? Yes/no questions in Spanish-Guarani bilinguals.” ILCSF 2020: Intonation, Language Contact and Social Factors. University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). 2020-10-23/24.

** “Speech rhythm in Friulian-Italian asymmetric early bilinguals”. ILCSF 2020: Intonation, Language Contact and Social Factors. University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). With Paolo Roseano (Universitat de Barcelona), Christoph Gabriel (Universität Mainz), Lourdes Romera Barrios (Universitat de Barcelona). 2020-10-23/24.

* “Phonological and syntactic innovations in a language contact situation: The case of yes/no questions in Paraguayan Guarani-Spanish bilinguals”. Linguistic colloquium, University of Helsinki (Finnland), 2020-10-02.

** “Subject expression and position in formulaic sequences: the case of quotative decir ‘say’ in Peninsular and Ríoplatense Spanish”. Subjects in Romance, Stockholm (Sweden). With Pekka Posio (University of Helsinki)  (canceled due to the Covid-19), 2020-05-28/29.

* “Zweisprachigkeit: Vorteile, Nachteile und Vorurteile.” DeuCze e.V., Hamburg (Verein für Deutsch-Tschechische Verständigung in Kooperation mit dem Gymnasium Lerchenfeld, Hamburg). With Johanna Stahnke (Universität Wuppertal), 2020-02-07.

* “Probleme in der Annotation der Intonation im Spanischen und Italienischen als L2.” Prosody workshop at the University of Mainz (organizers: Christoph Gabriel & Jonas Grünke), 2020-01-11.

Hispanistischer Fachvortrag: Pešková & Benet – 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.

 
 

2019

* “Interrogativas absolutas en el español tico.” Linguistic conference, Universidad de Costa Rica (San José). With Jessica López (UCR), November 2019.

* “Melodía extranjera en español e italiano como segunda lengua.” Linguistic conference, Universidad de Costa Rica (San José). November 2019.

“Adquisición de preguntas parciales en el español y el italiano como L2.” 36. Romanistentag 2019 (Kassel); Sektion 15: Was Konstruktionsgrammatik alles (nicht) kann. Konstruktionen in den romanischen Sprachen (und im Deutschen), September-October 2019.

** “L2 Italian and L2 Spanish vocatives produced by L1 Czech learners: Transfer and prosodic overgeneralization.” ICPhS 2019, Melbourne (Australia), August 2019

* “The Intonational Phonology of Czech.” Satellite workshop of ICPhS 2019: Intonational Phonology of Typologically Rare or Understudied Languages. Melbourne (Australia), August 2019.

** “(Not only) L1 transfer in L2 Spanish and L2 Italian intonation”. Linguistic colloquium, University of Kiel, 18. Juni 2019.

** “Melodía “extranjera” en español como L2: ¿transferencia de categorías o construcciones?” XXII. Deutscher Hispanistentag (Berlin); Section LING_4: Konstruktionen im Spanischen: Kontakt, Variation, Wandel, 27. – 31. March 2019.
 

2018

** “Prenuclear and nuclear F0 patterns in L2 Spanish yes-no questions, produced by L1 Czech and L1 German learners.” With Laura Colantoni (University of Toronto). Tone and Intonation in Europe. Gothenburg (Sweden), 11.-13. October 2018.

** “Czech yes-no questions from a typological perspective.” With Laura Colantoni (University of Toronto) and Trudel Meisenburg (Osnabrück University). Tone and Intonation in Europe. Gothenburg (Sweden), 11.-13. October 2018.

** “Construccionalización de los marcadores cuotativos con el verbo decir: evidencia del español peninsular y argentino.” With Pekka Posio (University of Stockholm), Coloquio internacional sobre evidencialidad en la lengua organizada por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (Mexico), 23.-24. August 2018.

** “Quotative sequences in two varieties of Spanish: from constructionalization to grammaticalization”. With Pekka Posio (University of Stockholm), 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn (Estonia), 29. August. – 1. September 2018.

* “Forensische Phonetik: Sprachrhythmus unter Alkoholeinfluss am Beispiel von Bulgarisch, Deutsch, Katalanisch und Tschechisch.” With Elena Kireva (former University of Hamburg), Johanna Stahnke (University of Wuppertal), Jeanette Thulke (former University of Hamburg) and Jorge Vega (University of Hamburg). Linguistic colloquium, University of Hamburg, 03. Juli 2018.

* “¿Vamos a tomar una cerveza? Initial and final cues in L2 Spanish yes-no questions, produced by L1 Czech and L1 German learners.” Linguistic colloquium, University of Hamburg, 19. Juni 2018.

** “Initial and final intonation cues of Czech yes-no questions”. With Laura Colantoni (University of Toronto), Trudel Meisenburg (Osnabrück University). Speech Prosody Poznan (Polen), 13. – 16 June 2018.

“Differences and similarities in the intonation systems of Czech and Polish.” With Marzena Żygis (ZAS, Berlin) and Marek Jaskuła (Westpomeranian University of Technology). Speech Prosody Poznan (Polen). Special workshop: Usages and Advantages of Categorical Phonetic Transcription of Prosody: Toward the development of an IPrA (International Prosodic Alphabet, 2018-06-14.

* “Osnabrück – San José: Excursión lingüística a Costa Rica.” With Lisa Gerks, María Belén Viñas Fernández, Trudel Meisenburg (Osnabrück University). Presentation at the Universidad de Costa Rica. 21. März 2018.

** “Intonation and discourse status of Spanish subject pronoun yo (‘I’)” With Ingo Feldhausen (Goethe-University of Frankfurt). DGfS 2018 AG 2: The relation between prosodic and referential structure, 2018-03-07/09.

* “Spagnolo ed italiano come L2”. Masarykova univerzita, Brno (Czech Republic). 2018-02-27.
 

2017

* “La entonación del español como L2”. Universidad de Costa Rica, San José (Costa Rica), 2017-11-05.

** “The role of orthography on vowel lengthening in L2 Spanish produced by L1 Czech learners.” With Wendy Elvira-García (Universitat de Barcelona) and Trudel Meisenburg (Osnabrück University). VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Madrid (Spain), 2017-11-22/24.

* “Spanish L2 Intonation produced by L1 Czech & L1 German learners”. Linguistic colloquium, University of Toronto (Canada), 2017-09-22.

** “Czech ToBI”. PaPE 2017. University of Cologne (Germany), 2017-04-12/06. Find the presentation here.

“Español como L2 hablado con entonación checa y alemana”. 21. Hispanistentag, München. 2017-03-31.

* “Accento straniero in spagnolo ed italiano come L2”. Masarykova univerzita, Brno (Czech Republic). 2017-02-28.

* “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About ToBI“. Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. 2017-01-24.
 

2016

* “Intonation of L2 Spanish”. Romanska och klassiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet Stockholm (Sweden), 2016-11-28.

** “Romance vs. Slavic: How many categories of pro-drop languages do we need?”49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Naples Federico II, 2016-31.8.-03.09. (Accepted, but not attended).

** “Foreign Accent in Spanish Intonation.” With Trudel Meisenburg (Osnabrück University). The 7th conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe, the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK), 2016-01.09.-03.09.
 

2015

** “How much like Guaraní does Paraguayan Spanish sound?” With Tim Ewald and Christoph Gabriel (University of Hamburg). 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (Netherlands), 2015-02.09.-05.09.

** “Semantic Predictability, Ambiguities, and Interpretation of References.” 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (Netherlands), 2015-02.09.-05.09.

* “Romance vs. Slavic Pro-Drop.” The Summer School of Linguistics in Dačice (Czech Republic), 2015-15.08.-22.08.

** “The Role of Prosody in the Study of the Use of Pronominal Subjects in Spanish.” XXXIV. Romanistentag, University of Mannheim, 2015-26.07.-29.07.

** “Paraguayan Spanish in contact with Guaraní: Pronunciation of ll and y.” With Tim Ewald and Christoph Gabriel (University of Hamburg). Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2015, University of Cambridge, (UK), 2015-29.06-30.06.

** “Le dije yo, digo: El verbo decir como marcador cuotativo en el español peninsular y argentino.” With Pekka Posio (University of Cologne). 4th International Symposium: Discourse Markers in Romance Languages. University of Heidelberg, 2015-06.05.-09.05.

** “Variación lingüística: la pronunciación de ll e y en el español paraguayo.” With Tim Ewald and Christoph Gabriel (University of Hamburg). The 25th Conference on Spanish in the United States/ 10th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. City College New York (USA), 2015-26.03.-28.03.
 

2014

* “Prosodische Eigenschaften realisierter Subjektpronomina in einer Pro-drop-Sprache.” Workshop zur Prosodie romanischer Sprachen. Osnabrück University, 2014-05-16.

** “The Use of Subject Pronouns in a Consistent Pro-drop Language.” Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco). University of Olomouc (Czech Republic), 2014-05.06.-07.06.

** “The Use of Pronominal Subjects in Spanish: Grammar or Usage of Grammar?” 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 47), Poznan (Poland). 2014-11.09.-14.09.
 

2013

** “The Sound of Subject Pronouns in Spanish.“ The 10th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP 10), Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (Turkey), 2013-01-18.

“Del subestándar urbano a la variedad prestigiosa: El inevitable ascenso del ritmo italiano en el español argentino.” With Christoph Gabriel and Elena Kireva (University of Hamburg). Deutscher Hispanistentag, Münster, 2013-03-22.

** “Information structure and the use of pronominal subjects in Spanish.” Methodological Issues in the Study of Information Structure
 (Graz Workshop on Information Structure, GWIS 2), Graz, 2013-05-24.

** “Rhythmischer Transfer in unterschiedlichen Kontaktsituationen: Porteño (Buenos Aires), Judezmo (Sofia) und Olivenza-Spanisch (Extremadura)”. With Christoph Gabriel and Elena Kireva (University of Hamburg). XXXIII. Romanistentag, Würzburg, 2013-09-23.
 

2012

**  “Prosodic transfer in contact and learner varieties: Rhythmic properties of Buenos Aires Spanish and L2 Peninsular Spanish spoken by Italian natives.” With Ariadna Benet, Christoph Gabriel and Elena Kireva (University of Hamburg). International Conference on ‘Bilingual and Multilingual Interaction’. Bangor (Wales), ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory & Practice, 2012-04-01.

**  “Prosodic transfer from Italian to Spanish: Rhythmic Properties of L2 Speech and Argentinean Porteño.” With Ariadna Benet, Christoph Gabriel and Elena Kireva (University of Hamburg). Speech Prosody 2012, Shanghai, 2012-05-23.

**  “The overt subject pronouns on syntax-discourse-prosodic interface in Spanish.“ Tone and Intonation (TIE) 5, University of Oxford (UK), 2012-09-08.

“Null and overt pronominal subjects in Spanish on syntactic-pragmatic interface.“ Internationale Konferenz Gramatika a Korpus (4), Prag (Czech Republic), 2012-11-28.
 

2011

** “Intonation in a diachronic perspective: Evidence from spontaneous speech in Argentinean porteño Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). OCP 8, Marrakech (Morocco), 2011-01-21.

** “Romance languages in contact: a diachronic perspective on the intonation of Buenos Aires Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). ISB 8, Oslo (Norway), 2011-06-15.

“Categorical perception of Porteño nuclear accents.” With Ingo Feldhausen, Christoph Gabriel and Elena Kireva (University of Hamburg). ICPhS XVII, Hong Kong (China), 2011-17.08.-21.08.

** “Overt and null subject pronouns in experimental data: The case of Porteño Spanish”. International Conference Variation and typology: New trends in syntactic research. University of Helsinki (Finnland), 2011-08-25.

“Expressivität, Sprachkontakt und prosodischer Wandel: Der tritonale Akzentton L+H*+L des Porteño-Spanischen.” With Ingo Feldhausen and Christoph Gabriel (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). XXXII Romanistentag, Berlin, 2011-25.09.-28.09.

“Wie aussagekräftig sind dauerbasierte Rhythmusmaße? L1 und L2 im Vergleich.” With Ariadna Benet, Christoph Gabriel, Elena Kireva and Jeanette Thulke (University Hamburg). P&P 7 Osnabrück (Germany), 2011-07.10.-08.10.

** “Transferencia prosódica del italiano al español: el ritmo en el español de Buenos Aires y en el español como L2 de hablantes nativos de italiano.“ With Ariadna Benet, Christoph Gabriel, and Elena Kireva (University of Hamburg). V Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental (CFEX). Cáceres (Spanien), 2011-25.10-28.10.
 

2010

** “Prosodic phrasing and language contact: Evidence from two varieties of Argentinean Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Humboldt University zu Berlin, 2010-02-25.

** “Prosodic Phrasing in Argentinean Spanish: Buenos Aires and Neuquén.” With Ingo Feldhausen and Christoph Gabriel (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, IL,  2010-05-11.

** “Español en contacto con otras lenguas: la influencia del italiano en el sistema prosódico del español porteño.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). XXVI CILFR Valencia (Spain), 2010-06-07.

** “A diachronic perspective on porteño Spanish: Evidence from spontaneous speech.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). International Conference on Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies (MIMS). SFB 538; University Hamburg, 2010-10-08.
 

2009

“Prosodic Phrasing in porteño Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). Workshop on «Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic». SFB 538, University Hamburg, 2009-01-23.

** “Contrastive and neutral focus in porteño Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University Hamburg; SFB 538). 31. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Osnabrück University, 2009-03-04. http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart. de/focus/index.html .

“Entonación y contacto lingüístico: El ejemplo de la marcación tonal del foco en el español porteño.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). 17. Deutscher Hispanistentag. University Tübingen, 2009-03-18.

* “Carácter del sujeto pronominal vos en el español porteño.” Symposium «River Plate Spanish». Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), 2009-03-27.

* “Fraseo prosódico en castellano porteño.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). Symposium «River Plate Spanish». Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Freiburg, 2009-03-27.

** “Prosodic phrasing in different focus constructions: The Case of porteño Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). PaPI 2009. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), 2009-06-17.

** “Argentinean Spanish.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538), Laura Colantoni (University of Toronto), Su Ar Lee-Ko (Ohio State University) and Leopoldo Labastía (University of Comahue, Escuela Superior de Idiomas, Gral. Roca, Argentina). IV. Workshop on Sp_ToBI: Transcription of Intonation of the Spanish language; PaPI 2009. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), 2009-06-19.

* “Intonation im Sprachkontakt. Porteño-Spanisch.” Osnabrück University, 2009-07-06.

* “Subjekte und Nullsubjekte im argentinischen Spanisch: Das Beispiel des starken Pronomens vos.” Osnabrück University, 2009-07-07.

* “Wie italienisch ist Porteño? Intonatorische Aspekte des Spanischen in Buenos Aires.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). Freie Universität Berlin, 2009-07-09.

* “Fraseo prosódico en el español argentino: Las variedades bonaerense y neuquina.” With Christoph Gabriel and Ingo Feldhausen (University of Hamburg; SFB 538). Guest presentation at «Coloquio de sintaxis, prosodia y estructura de la información». University of Comahue, Neuquén (Argentina), 2009-12-02.