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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesPhonetics (Department of Linguistics)

Prof. Dr. Michelina Savino

Institut für Linguistik - Phonetik
Herbert-Lewin-Str. 6
D-50931 Köln

E-Mail: msavino1@uni-koeln.de

I am Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Education, Psychology, Communication at the University of Bari, Italy (michelina.savinoSpamProtectionuniba.it). My main research interests are centered around prosody, both in terms of theory and in how prosody is used in discourse, especially how speakers structure their utterances and whether intonation contours, when strategically placed, aid recall. I also work on prosody in conversation, including phenomena such as turn-taking, backchannelling and accommodation/entrainment to the interlocutor.

Selected Publications (last 15 years)

2023

  • Savino, M., Torreira, F., and Grice, M. (accepted). Prosodic convergence across varieties of Italian, Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023), Prague 7-11 August 2023.

2022

  • Roehr, C., Savino M. & Grice M. (2022). The effect of intonational rises on serial recall in German. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon 22-28 May 2022, 759–763.

  • Savino, M., Sbranna S., Ventura C., Albert A. and Grice M. (2022). Imitating intonation in a non-native variety: the influence of the native repertoire. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon 22-28 May 2022, 739–743.

  • Roehr, C., Savino M., Ellison M. and Grice M. (2022). The role of intonation in attention allocation in serial recall. International Conference on Prominence in Language, Cologne 2-3 June 2022 (abs).

2021

  • Savino, M., Ventura C., Sbranna S., Albert A. and Grice M. (2021). Native variety interference when imitating intonation in a non-native variety of Italian. 4th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference (PaPE 2021), Barcelona, 21-23 June 2021 (abs).

2020

  • Ventura, C., Grice, M., Savino, M., Kolev, D. Brilmayer, I. and Schumacher, P. B. (2020). Attention allocation in a language with post-focal prominences, NeuroReport 31 (8), 624-628.

  • Savino, M., Winter, B., Bosco, A., Grice, M. (2020). Intonation does aid serial recall after all, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27(2), 366-372.

2019

  • Ventura, C., Grice, M., Savino, M. Albert, A. & Schumacher, P. B. (2019). Perceptual evaluation of post-focal prominence by L1 and L2 naïve listeners. 3th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference (PaPE 2019), Lecce 17-19 June 2019 (abs).

  • Grice, M., Savino, M., Roettger, T. B. (2019). Tune-text negotiation: the effect of intonation on vowel duration. Proceedings of 19th International Congress on Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019), Melbourne, 5-9 August 2019, 562-566.

2018

  • Grice, M., Savino, M., Roettger, T. B. (2018). Word final schwa is driven by intonation – The case of Bari Italian, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143 (4), 2474-2486.

  • Ventura, C., Grice M., Savino M., Schumacher P. (2018). Task determines differential prosodic marking of focus in Italian, 2nd International Conference on Prominence, Cologne 11-13 July 2018 (abs).

  • Savino,M., Lapertosa L., Refice M. (2018). Seeing or Not Seeing Your Conversational Partner: The Influence of Interaction Modality on Prosodic Entrainment. In: Karpov A., Jokisch O., Potapova R. (eds), Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11096, 574-584, Springer Verlag.

2017

  • Caffò, A., Lopez, A., Spano, G., Serino, S., Cipresso, P., Stasolla, F., Savino, M., Lancioni, G. E., Riva, G. and Bosco, A. (2017). Spatial reorientation decline in aging: the combination of geometry and landmarks”, Aging & Mental Health, 1-12.

  • Savino, M. (2017). The dynamics of prosodic adaptation between Italian conversational partners. Proceedings of the 8th Tutorial & Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (Exling 2017), Hersonissos (Crete), 19-22 June 2017, 93-96.

  • Savino, M., Lapertosa, L. (2017). Struttura prosodica e disfluenze nella balbuzie, in P. Sorianello (a cura di), Il Linguaggio Disturbato: Modelli, Strumenti, Dati Empirici, Aracne editrice, 143-158.

2016

  • Savino, M., Lapertosa L. Caffò A., and M. Refice (2016). Measuring prosodic entrainment in Italian collaborative game-based dialogues. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Speech & Computer (SPECOM 2016), Budapest, 23-27 August 2016, LNCS Series n.9811, Springer Verlag, 476-483.

  • Savino,M., Lapertosa L. Caffò A., and M. Refice (2016). Exploring prosodic convergence in Italian game dialogues. Proceedings of the 7th Tutorial & Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (Exling 2016), S. Petersburg 1-2 July 2016, 151-154.

2015

  • Grice, M. Savino M., Caffò A., Roettger T. (2015). The tune drives the text – Schwa in consonant-final loan words in Italian. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Glasgow. 10-14 August, 1-5, Paper number 381, retrieved from https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0381.pdf

  • Savino, M., Grice, M., Caffò A. (2015). The influence of prominence in the production of plosives in Italian. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Glasgow, 10-14 August, 1-5, Paper number 464, retrieved from https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs- proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0464.pdf

  • Gili Fivela B., C. Avesani, M. Barone, G. Bocci, C. Crocco, M. D’Imperio, R. Giordano, G. Marotta, M. Savino, P. Sorianello (2015). Varieties of Italian and their intonational phonology. In S. Frota & P. Prieto (eds), Intonation in Romance, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.140-197.

2014

  • Savino, M. (2014). The intonation of backchannel tokens in Italian collaborative dialogues, in Z. Vetulani and J. Mariani (Eds.), Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, Springer LNAI Series n. 8387, 17-28.

  • Savino, M. (2014). Degrees of (un)certainty in Bari Italian yes-no question intonation: perceptual evidence, in A. Zuczkowski, R. Bongelli, I. Riccioni, C. Canestrari (eds.), The Communication of Certainty and Uncertainty: Linguistic, Psychological, Philosophical Aspects, IADA online series, vol. 1/12, p.52-67.

  • Savino, M., A. Bosco, M. Grice (2014). Intonational cues to item position in lists: evidence from a serial recall task. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Dublin, 20-23 May 2014, 708-712.

  • Savino,M. (2014). Prosodic adaptation in game interaction between speakers of two Italian varieties. In Proceedings of the 10th International Seminar on Speech Production, Cologne 5-8 May 2014, 375-378.

2013

  • Savino, M., Refice M. (2013). Acknowledgement or reply? Prosodic features for disambiguating pragmatic functions of the Italian token ‘sì’. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Interaction (SpeD 2013), Cluj-Napoca, 16-19 October 2013, 117-122.

  • Savino, M. (2013). Exploring regional variation in Italian question intonation: A corpus-based study. In Julia Bamford, Silvana Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani (eds), Variation and change in spoken and written discourse: perspectives from corpus linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p.79-108.

  • Savino,M., A. Bosco, M. Grice (2013). Intonation and positional effects in spoken serial recall. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin July 31- August 3, 2013, 3360-3365.

2012

  • Savino, M. (2012). The intonation of polar questions in Italian: Where is the rise? Journal of the International Phonetic Association 42(1), 23-48.

  • Savino,M. & R. Fiore (2012). The contribution of instrumental phonetic analysis in assessing the efficacy of stuttering treatments, in G. Mininni & A. Manuti (eds), Applied Psycholinguistics. Positive effects and ethical perspectives, Milano: Franco Angeli, vol.II, p.419-426.

2011

  • Savino, M. (2011). The intonation of backchannels in Italian task-oriented dialogues: cues to turn-taking dynamics, information status and speaker’s attitude. In Proceedings of the 5th Language and Technology Conference: “Human Language Technology as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan (Poland) 25-27 November 2011, 370-374.

  • Refice, M., Savino, M., Adduci, M., Caccia, M. (2011). Automatic classification of gestures: a context-dependent approach. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing - Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Stettin (Poland), 18-21 Sept. 2011, 753-760.

  • Savino, M. & Grice, M.  (2011). The perception of negative bias in Bari Italian questions. In S. Frota, G. Elodierta, P. Prieto (eds), Prosodic categories: production, perception and comprehension, Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 187-206.

2010

  • Savino, M. (2010). Prosodic strategies for backchanneling in Italian Map Task dialogues. In Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (Exling 2010). Athens, 25-27 August 2010, 157-160.

2009

  • Savino, M. (2009). Intonational features for identifying regional accents of Italian. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2009 (10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association), Brighton 6-10 Oct. 2009, 2423-2426.

2008

  • Savino, M., L. Scivetti, & Refice, M. (2008). Integrating audio and visual information for modelling communicative behaviours perceived as different. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008), Marrakesh, 28-30 May 2008, paper n.448 (ELRA Pub., on CD-ROM).

2007

  • Savino, M. & Grice, M. (2007). The role of pitch range in realising pragmatic contrasts – The case of two question types in Italian. In Proceedings of the XVI International Conference of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2007), Saarbruecken 6-10 August 2007, 1037-1040.

  • Savino, M. (2007). Intonation, accent and personal traits. In A. Esposito, M. Bratanic, E- Keller, M. Marinaro (Eds.), Fundamentals of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and the Biometric Issue, Amsterdam: IOS Press, NATO Security through Science Series, 149-160.

  • Esposito, A., Esposito, D. Refice, M. Savino, M. & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2007). A preliminary investigation of the relationship between gesture and prosody in Italian. In A. Esposito, M. Bratanic, E- Keller, M. Marinaro (eds), Fundamentals of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and the Biometric Issue, Amsterdam: IOS Press, NATO Security through Science Series, pp.65-74.

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