About me…

Hello and welcome! I am thrilled to embark on this exciting doctoral journey and share my academic pursuits on prosody and acoustic phonetics with you!

Self Introduction

I am Zhou Ziqi, a first-year Ph.D. student from Université Paris Cité.

Advisors: Prof. Chitoran and Prof. Al-Tamimi

I am very fortunate to be under guidance of two distinguished supervisors, Prof. Ioana Chitoran and Prof. Jalal Al-Tamimi.

Affiliation with CLILLAC-ARP and LLF

I am proud to be affiliated with CLILLAC-ARP and LLF.

Doctoral Research

My research project, “Phonological Transfer in L3 Acquisition of Ironic Tone of Voice,” explores the processes of acquiring the ironic tone of voice in a third language (L3) among Mandarin-English bilinguals learning French. This study incorporates acoustic and perceptual analyses to delve into the fascinating world of phonological transfer, with a specific focus on key components:

Emotional prosodic variation, Speech production and perception in Learner Varieties and Language-specific prosodic cues in online sentence comprehension

You can find my CV here: Zhou Ziqi’s Curriculum Vitae.