The staff of the Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics Arturo Genre works in various domains within the fields of acoustic and articulatory phonetics.
Our chief interest concerns the suprasegmental aspects of speech, mainly intonation and rhythm. This is the cause of our participation in the AMPER project and of our numerous works on the acoustic correlates of natural languages' rhythm (see for instance Correlatore).
The phonetic transcription is another domain in which we are particularly active. Antonio Romano has taken part in the labelling of some corpora of spoken Italian (within the CLIPS project) and has recently published the results of an evaluation of the materials contained in AVIP and C-ORAL-ROM (Rivista Italiana di Linguistica 19/2). Since 2002 he has directed a workshop of Applied Phonetics at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Turin, where he is currently testing a multi-level annotation model to be used by students of foreign languages.
Many of our contributions concern Romance dialectology (such as the phonetic characteristics of some Piedmontese, Salentinian and Lucan varieties, as well as socio-linguistic aspects of griko).
Moreover, we have contributed to the study of some languages that still lack a comprehensive and easily available scientific description (such as Ditammari and Kirundi).
Although our Laboratory can boast a solid tradition of acoustic phonetics, we are getting more and more interested in instrumental articulatory phonetics; in particular, we are currently making use of MRI.