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Publicación Evidencias sobre el impacto positivo de los programas de educación emocional(Ediciones Egregius, 2024) Cabello Sanz, Sandra; González Benito, Ana MaríaPublicación Importancia de las competencias socioemocionales en el alumnado con Trastorno por Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad (TDAH).(Ediciones Egregius, 2024) Cabello Sanz, Sandra; González Benito, Ana MaríaPublicación Phonetic and phonological phenomena: VOT(AEDEAN, 2020-01-01) Solé, María José; Estebas Vilaplana, EvaSpeech is known to be determined by universal phonetic constraints and by language-specific constraints (phonological and lexical). However, the assignment of pronunciation features of a given language to the phonetic, phonological or lexical level is not a straightforward task. This paper seeks to determine the phonetic or phonological status of pronunciation features on the basis of their behaviour across different speaking rates. Data on aspiration across different speaking rates in English and Catalan were obtained. The data show that phonological effects, such as aspiration in English, adjust to variations in speech rate so as to maintain a constant perceptual distance across rates, whereas phonetic effects, such as aspiration in the Romance languages, remain constant across rates or present rate-correlated changes which can be accounted for by the general principles of speech motor control. The results obtained provide empirical support for utilizing speech rate as a technique to differentiate between phonetic and phonological phenomena.Publicación Phonetic and phonological properties of the final pitch accent in Catalan declaratives(2003-03-27) Estebas Vilaplana, EvaThis paper examines the phonetic and phonological properties of the last pitch accent in Catalan single and multi-stressed neutral declaratives. Traditionally, the different F0 patterns observed in single stressed structures (clear F0 peak) and in multistressed structures (progressively falling slope or a strongly lowered F0 peak) have been subject to different phonological interpretations (H* and L* respectively). In this study, acoustic and perceptual evidence is provided to show that the different F0 patterns should be interpreted as realisational differences of the same phonological entity (H*).Publicación Connected speech processes: a cross-linguistic study(1995-09-18) Solé, M.J.; Estebas Vilaplana, EvaPublicación TL_ToBI: a new system for teaching and learning intonation(2013-08-08) Estebas Vilaplana, EvaThe goal of this paper is to present a new methodology for the teaching and learning of English intonation in a self-tuition environment based on a simplified version of the ToBI system. The new proposal aims at teaching students how to identify some of the most common tunes of English intonation and how to reproduce them in a distance learning setting. This is achieved with the help of audio and visual aids, as well as with an adaptation of the main tenets of the ToBI framework. Some of the differences between the new proposal and the original ToBI system include: 1) the presence of three tones (H, L, M), 2) the separation of metrical and tonal information, 3) the simplification of pre-nuclear accents, and 4) the incorporation of bitonal boundary tones.Publicación Teaching Phonetics through Singing and Reciting(2005-07-27) Barreiro Bilbao, Silvia Carmen; Estebas Vilaplana, Eva; Soto, IsabelPublicación The Learning of English Intonation by Spanish Speakers in a Distance Education Environment(2013-08-05) Estebas Vilaplana, EvaThis paper explores the advantages and disadvantages of using TL_ToBI to teach English intonation to Spanish native speakers in a distance learning environment. A study was carried out to compare the production of English intonation patterns by two groups of Spanish students of English phonetics, each of them trained with a different methodology: 1) the British School of intonation and 2) TL_ToBI. Each speaker recorded the following sentence types: declarative, yes-no question, wh-question, and imperative, produced both with neutral and marked readings. The results showed that those speakers trained with TL_ToBI produced more native-like intonation patterns than those instructed with the other model. These findings suggest that a system based on tonal targets and their association to the metrical structure has more benefits for the acquisition of the L2 prosody in a distance learning setting.Publicación How Imitation can Help the Acquisition of L2 Pronunciation(2017-08-09) Estebas Vilaplana, Eva; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. EspañaThe aim of this paper is to examine the production of English stress-timed rhythm and the weak vowel schwa by Spanish students of English when they speak L2 English and L1 Spanish with an imitated English accent. The hypothesis is that Spanish students of English have a better command of English rhythm and weak vowels in imitated speech than in L2 speech. The productions of four Spanish students of English in three reading conditions (L1 Spanish, imitated English and L2 English) were analysed and compared to those of English speakers. The results showed that the Spanish speakers’ productions of English rhythm and the schwa are closer to “real” English in the imitation scenario than in the L2 speech. These findings support the idea that a topdown approach to phonetics teaching (from rhythm to segments) may be more beneficial for languages with a syllable-timed rhythmic pattern, such as Spanish.Publicación Catalan pre-nuclear accents: evidence for word edge tones(2003-08-03) Estebas Vilaplana, EvaThe phonological interpretation of pre-nuclear rising accents in Catalan declaratives is examined within the Autosegmental-Metrical framework. Former studies have shown that pre-nuclear rises can neither be described as L*+H (the H is not located at a fixed distance from L* as expected in bitonality) nor as H* with peak delay (there is no correlation between syllable duration and location of the peak). In this paper, a third option is investigated, namely, a pitch accent (L*) and a word edge tone (H). Words with different stress distributions (oxytones, paroxytones and proparoxytones) are analysed to examine the effects of a word boundary on the alignment of the F0 peak. 180 sentences were recorded by two Catalan speakers. The results show that the F0 peak is consistently anchored at the end of the word no matter the number of post-accented syllables. Thus, pre-nuclear rises are interpreted as the combination of L* and H.Publicación Visualizing tool for evaluating inter-label similarity in prosodic labeling experiments(2012-09-09) Escudero-Mancebo, D; Estebas Vilaplana, Eva; Ministerio de Ciencia e InnovaciónThis paper presents a technique that allows us to detect similarities among prosodic labels used to describe pitch accents within the ToBI framework. The inter-label proximity is determined empirically as a result of the evidence obtained in contingency tables of inter-transcriber agreement tests and in the confusion matrices used in automatic prosodic labeling experiments. This tool may be useful to decide which labels can be grouped together when a simplified representation is required.Publicación Multiclass Pitch Accent Classification for Assisting Manual Prosodic Labeling(2012-11-21) Escudero-Mancebo, D.; Vizcaíno-Ortega, F; González-Ferreras, C.; Vivaracho-Pascual, C.; Cabrera-Abreu, M.; Estebas Vilaplana, Eva; Cardeñoso-Payo, V.; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de EspañaIn this paper, we present an experiment on computer assisted prosodic labeling in which a labeler team validates or corrects ToBI pitch accents automatically predicted by a classifier. The innovative aspect of this automatic system is that it is not a deterministic prediction model, it o ers the human transcriber more than one label per word (multiclass classification) and it is the transcriber who must decide on their appropriateness. The results make it evident that the procedure is indeed e ective, since it not only reduces manual transcription time, but also improves global inter-transcriber consistency.Publicación Central Catalan declaratives: the relationship between focus and downstep(1999-08-01) Estebas Vilaplana, Eva; Maidment, JohnIn this paper we analyze the relationship between focus and downstep in Central Catalan declaratives produced with two peaks. In particular, we examine the hypothesis that broad focus is associated to a downstepped second peak whereas narrow focus blocks the downstep movement. Both broad and narrow focus structures have been analyzed. In utterances produced with narrow focus two variables have been taken into account, namely, the position of the focused material within the sentence (medial or final) and the triggering question (narrow focus triggered by contrast or by new information). The results seem to indicate that in Central Catalan broad focus is always associated with downstep but the link between narrow focus and non-downstep is not so categorical, but shows a continuum of downstep degrees. Overall, non-downstepped peaks are more likely to occur in contrast rather than in new information contexts and in final rather than in medial position.Publicación Diseño de una batería de pruebas para la evaluación de la prosodia del español en el marco del proyecto PROA(Servei de Publicacions. Universitat de Girona, 2022-03-01) Garrido Almiñana, Juan María; Estebas Vilaplana, Eva; Machuca, María J.; Elvira-García, Wendy; Escandell-Vidal, VictoriaEl objetivo de este trabajo es presentar los criterios generales de diseño y las principales características de la batería de pruebas desarrolladas para la evaluación de la prosodia en español en el marco del proyecto ProA (Prosody Assessment). Las pruebas están organizadas en tres niveles de dificultad, según la complejidad de la función comunicativa evaluada, e incluyen tareas de lectura de enunciados cortos, de lectura de textos y de producción de enunciados no leídos. El objetivo final del proyecto es desarrollar una herramienta automatizada para la evaluación de la prosodia que implemente las pruebas desarrolladas.Publicación Boundary tones in Spanish declaratives: modelling sustained pitch(2015-08-10) Estebas Vilaplana, Eva; Gutiérrez, Yurena M.; Vizcaíno, Francisco; Cabrera, MercedesThe aim of this paper is to present a phonological description of the boundary tones in final and nonfinal declarative sentences in Spanish, drawn from a read news corpus and a dialogue corpus. The final clauses tend to finish with L*L% and sometimes L+H*L%. Four different pitch configurations can be found for non-final patterns: a rise (L*H%), a fallto-mid (H*!H%), a fall-rise (H*LH%) and a sustained tone, which presents different phonetic manifestations depending on the pitch level of the previous accent (H*, !H* or L*). These findings question the validity of the traditional Sp_ToBI convention (HL%) to describe a sustained tone since it cannot account for a level pitch after !H* or L*. A new boundary tone, =%, is proposed whose feature for pitch height is underspecified. For this reason, it can adopt the values of H, !H or L, according to the pitch height of the last accent.Publicación Analysis of bias introduced in label assignment by computer assisted prosodic labeling(2013-01-01) Escudero, David; Vizcaino, Francisco; Cabrera, Mercedes; Estebas Vilaplana, EvaPublicación Teaching English pronunciation in a MOOC: a complement to official regulated subjects(EADTU, 2019-12-01) Estebas Vilaplana, Eva; Soláns García, MariángelOver the last few years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as a new model of online teaching which coexists with other forms of distance learning (Baker, 2012; Castrillo, 2014). This paper examines how MOOCs can offer alternative ways of instruction that can complement the curricula of official regulated subjects in higher education. In particular, we analyse the effects of the MOOC “The Acquisition of English Pronunciation through Songs and Literary Texts” on the proficiency rates of English pronunciation performed by a group of Spanish speakers. The MOOC, designed by a team of teachers from the Distance Learning University in Spain (UNED), was offered as additional voluntary work for four weeks to the 640 students registered in the subject English Pronunciation, a compulsory course in the second year of the Degree in English Studies (UNED). The MOOC followed a new approach to phonetics teaching based on the stress and rhythmic patterns of literary and music forms, which differs from the traditional models of English phonetics tuition mainly based on vowel and consonant contrasts. The pronunciation competences of the students were measured as part of a final oral exam which assesses a variety of pronunciation phenomena, including both segmental and prosodic features. The students that followed the MOOC showed better results in English pronunciation than those that only worked with the materials and the methodology offered in the course. These results enhance the benefits of using MOOCs as extracurricular input to official regulated higher education programs.Publicación Plataforma interactiva para el autoaprendizaje de la pronunciación inglesa: la enseñanza de la entonación(Universidad de Málaga, 2019-07-29) Estebas Vilaplana, EvaEl principal objetivo de este trabajo es presentar la plataforma interactiva Teach Yourself English Pronunciation diseñada para el autoaprendizaje de la pronunciación inglesa en un contexto de enseñanza a distancia. La herramienta va dirigida a estudiantes hispanohablantes de inglés que aprenden fonética de manera autónoma. La plataforma contiene ocho espacios que cubren los principales temas de la fonética inglesa, desde aspectos segmentales (vocales, consonantes, combinación de sonidos y procesos de habla secuenciada) hasta rasgos prosódicos (acentos, ritmo, entonación y focalización). Los contenidos se presentan a través de microtemas que incluyen ejemplos auditivos de pares mínimos y una batería de ejercicios con feedback inmediato. El diseño de la plataforma supuso una revisión de los principales modelos de análisis entonativo del inglés y de su efectividad a la hora de enseñar la entonación inglesa a distancia. Se incorporó una nueva metodología, denominada TL_ToBI (ToBI for Teaching and Learning), que combina parte de las premisas del sistema de anotación prosódica ToBI con el análisis de las curvas melódicas del modelo británico.Publicación Categorización de errores prosódicos en la enseñanza de la pronunciación L2 asistida por ordenador(Universitat de Girona = Universidad de Gerona, Servei de Publicacions, 2022-03-01) Aguilar, Lourdes; Estebas Vilaplana, EvaEl objetivo del estudio es avanzar en la definición del concepto de “buena formación prosódica” a partir de la identificación de las principales dificultades de categorización de los errores prosódicos en un sistema automático CAPT (Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training), con el fin último de mejorar la enseñanza y aprendizaje de la entonación en L2. Los datos proceden de la revisión manual de un corpus transcrito con segmentos de habla identificados como errores prosódicos y el correspondiente mensaje de retroalimentación. Los resultados de coherencia entre los transcriptores demuestran la complejidad de la tarea de identificar errores en el componente prosódico: el valor de consistencia Kappa=0.432 señala un acuerdo moderado. El análisis de las divergencias a la luz del modelo de la fonología de la entonación permite identificar las principales fuentes de desacuerdo y proponer mejoras en el método de evaluación automática.Publicación Industry 4.0 in Large Pharma Companies(Springer, 2023-03-25) Morcillo Bellido, Jesús; Merino Fuentes Ramón; Morcillo García, JesúsThe term Industry 4.0 (I4.0) refers to an innovative industrial model based on the widespread application of digitalization and monitoring of different operational processes. The aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding I4.0 impact on a sample of large companies in the pharma sector. From the analyses carried out, it could be inferred that the adoption of the new industrial model could enable and facilitate an increase on company´s customer responsiveness, through efficiency improvement along their supply chains and their level of innovation and service.
