ELSA SPINELLI

PARCOURS PROFESSIONNEL
 
2012…             Professeure à l’UGA (Grenoble).
2010 / 2011      Visiting Scholar  au Linguistics Department, UC  Berkeley (USA).
2007 / 2012      Membre Junior de L’institut Universitaire de France.
2002                Maître de Conférences à l’Université Pierre Mendès France (Grenoble).
2000 / 2002      ATER en Psychologie à l'Université René Descartes (Paris 5).
1999 / 2000      Post-Doctorante au Max-Planck-Insitut fur Psycholinguistik (Pays-Bas, financé par une bourse de la fondation FYSSEN).
1999                Assistante de recherche au Medical Research Council – Cognitive and Brain Sciences Unit à Cambridge (Angleterre).
1997/98           Chargée de TD à l’Université René Descartes (Paris 5).
 
FORMATION
 
2010                  Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches : « Traitement de la variation et segmentation de la parole ». Université Pierre Mendès France (Grenoble 2).
1995 / 99          Thèse de Doctorat (mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury) : "Amorçage phonologique et reconnaissance des mots parlés". Université Paris 5, sous la direction de Juan SEGUI.     
1994 / 95          D.E.A. de Psychologie des processus cognitifs à Paris 5. (Mention bien) : sous la direction de Juan SEGUI et Jonathan GRAINGER.   
1993 / 94          Maîtrise de Psychologie Expérimentale à Paris 5.
1992 / 93          Testamur in Psychology (Exeter, Angleterre).                        
1991 / 92          Licence de Psychologie à Paris 5.     

Ouvrages
Spinelli, E., & Ferrand, L. (2009). Psicologia da linguagem [Psychology of language]. Brasil: Instituto Piaget Editora.
Spinelli E.  & Ferrand, L. (2005). Psychologie du langage : l’écrit et le parlé, du signal à la signification. Armand Colin, collection cursus.
Spinelli, E. (1999). Amorçage phonologique et reconnaissance des mots parlés. Thèse. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Lille.

Chapitres
Spinelli, E. (2015). Psychologie du langage oral. http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/psychologie-du-langage-oral/
Tremblay, A., & Spinelli, E. (2014). Utilisation d'indices acoustico-phonétiques dans la reconnaissance des mots en contexte de liaison. In C. Soum-Favaro, A. Coquillon, & J.-P. Chevrot (Eds.), La liaison : approches contemporaines, Bern, Peter Lang, pp 93-113.
Spinelli E., Kandel, S. & Soler, O. (2008). Explicit and automatic grammatical gender access in bilinguals. Neuropsychology and Cognition of Language Behavioural, Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Studies of Spoken and Written Language. Editor: Monica Baciu. Research Signpost, Kerala, India, pp 101-114.
Spinelli E.  & Radeau, M. (2004). La syllabe contraint-elle la cohorte initiale en Français ? in L. Ferrand & J. Grainger (Eds), Psycholinguistique Cognitive : Essais en l’honneur de Juan Segui, Bruxelles, DeBoeck ; pp 75-91.
 
Articles

Spinelli,E., Chevrot, J-P and Varnet, L. (2023). Neutral is not fair enough: testing the efficiency of different language gender-fair strategies. Frontiers in Psychology , 14 - 2023  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1256779 .

Osses, A., Spinelli,E., Meunier, F., Gaudrain, E., and Varnet, L. (2023).Prosodic cues to word boundaries in a segmentation task assessed using reverse correlation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Express Letters, 3, 095205. doi:10.1121/10.0021022.

Welby, P., Spinelli, E., Bürki, A. (2022). Spelling provides a precise (but sometimes misplaced) phonological target. Orthography and acoustic variability in second language word learning. Journal of Phonetics, Elsevier, 2022, 94, pp.101172. 10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101172
Do Carmo-Blanco, N., Hoen, M., Spinelli, E., Meunier, F. (2021). Theta activity and phase resetting during perception of French homophonous utterances. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1950786
El Bouzaïdi Tiali S, Spinelli E, Meunier F, Palluel-Germain R, Perrone-Bertolotti M (2021) Influence of homophone processing during auditory language comprehension on executive control processes: A dual-task paradigm. PLoS ONE 16(7): e0254237. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254237
Do Carmo-Blanco, N., Hoen, M., Pota, S., Spinelli, E., Meunier, F. (2019). Processing of non-contrastive subphonemic features in French homophonous utterances : An MMN study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, vol 52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.05.001
Bürki, A., Welby, P., Clément, M. & Spinelli, E (2019). Orthography and second language word learning : Moving beyond “friend or foe ?”. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Express Letters. 145, EL265 (2019) ; https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5094923
Tremblay, A., Spinelli, E., Coughlin, C. E., & Namjoshi, J. (2018). Syntactic Cues Take Precedence Over Distributional Cues in Native and Non-Native Speech Segmentation. Language and Speech. 61(4):615-631.https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830918801392
Bürki, A., Viebahn, M. C., Mabut, C., Racine, I., & Spinelli, E. (2018). Intrinsic advantage for canonical forms in spoken word recognition: Myth or reality? Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience. 33(4), 494-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1388412
Tremblay, A., Namjoshi, J., Spinelli, E., Broersma, M., Cho, T., Kim, S., Martínez-García, M. T., & Connell, K. (2017). Experience with a second language affects the use of fundamental frequency in speech segmentation. PLoS One, 12, e0181709.
Ferrand, L., Méot, A., Spinelli, E., New, B., Pallier, C., Bonin, P., & Grainger, J. (2017). MEGALEX: A megastudy of visual and auditory word recognition. Behavior Research Methods, 1-23.
Nalborczyk, L., Perrone-Bertolotti, M., Baeyens, C., Grandchamp, R., Polosan, M., Spinelli, E., Koster, E., & Lœvenbruck, H. (2017). Orofacial electromyographic correlates of induced verbal rumination. Biological Psychology, 127, 53-63.
Bellanger, C., Chevrot, J-P. & Spinelli, E. (2017). Gender Context effects in Noun Recognition: Grammatical Cues or Co-occurrence effects?  Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32(9),1204-1209. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1335876
Coughlin, C. E., Fiorentino, R., & Spinelli, E. (2015). Morphological Processing of Regular Verbs in Native French Speakers. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 36, p. 34-58. https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handl....
Racine, I., Bürki, A. & Spinelli, E. (2014). The implication of spelling and frequency in the recognition of phonological variants: evidence from pre-readers and readers. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29 (7), 893-898.
Tremblay, A., & Spinelli, E. (2014). English listeners' use of distributional and acoustic-phonetic cues to liaison in French: Evidence from eye movements. Language and Speech. Vol. 57(3) 310–337.
Chevrot, JP., Dugua, C.,  Harnois-Delpiano, M., Siccardi, A. & Spinelli, E. (2013). Liaison acquisition: debates, critical issues, future research. Language Sciences, 39 (2013) 83-94.
Tremblay, A., & Spinelli, E. (2013). Segmenting liaison-initial words: The role of predictive dependencies. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28, 1093-1113.
New, B. , & Spinelli, E. (2013). Diphones-fr: A French database of diphones positional frequency. Behavior Research Methods. 45(3):758-64. doi: 10.3758/s13428-012-0285-y.
Bürki, A., Spinelli, E., & Gaskell, G. (2012). A written word is worth a thousand spoken words: The influence of spelling on spoken-word production. Journal of Memory and Language, 64 (4), 449-467.
Fort, M., Kandel, S., Chipot, J., Savariaux, C., Granjon, L. & Spinelli, E. (2012). Seeing the initial articulatory gesture of a word triggers lexical access. Language and Cognitive Processes, iFirst , 1-17.
Kandel, S., Spinelli, E., Tremblay, A., Guerassimovitch, H., & Alvarez, C. (2012) Processing prefixes and suffixes in handwriting production. Acta Psychologica. 140 (2012) 187-195.
Fort, M., Spinelli, E., Savariaux, C. & Kandel, S. (2012). Audiovisual vowel monitoring and the word superiority effect in children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 36(6) 457-467.
Spinelli, E., Kandel, S., Guerassimovitch, H. & Ferrand, L. (2012). Graphemic cohesion effect in reading and writing complex graphemes. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 770-791.
Kandel, S. & Spinelli, E. (2010). Processing complex graphemes in handwriting production. Memory & Cognition, 38(6), 762-770.
Spinelli, E., Grimaud, N., Meunier, F. & Welby, P. (2010). An intonational cue to segmentation in phonemically identical sequences. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72(3),775-787.
Fort, M., Spinelli, E., Savariaux, C. & Kandel, S. (2010). The word superiority effect in audiovisual speech perception. Speech Communication, 52, 525-532..
Gallot, S., Spinelli, E., Chevrot, J.P. & Dugua, C. (2009). Le rattachement lexical de la liaison : une expérience d'amorçage chez des enfants pré-lecteurs. Psychologie Française, 54, 355-361.
Dugua, C., & Spinelli, E. (2009). La liaison : Effets de la fréquence et du rapport à l’écrit sur son acquisition et son usage. Cahier de l’infantile, 17-41.
Dugua, C., Spinelli, E., Chevrot, J.P. & Fayol, M. (2009). Usage-based account on the liaison acquisition : evidence from the sensitive to singular/plural exposition of nouns. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,102, 342-350.
Meunier, F., Seigneuric, A. & Spinelli, E. (2008). The morpheme gender effect. Journal of memory and language, 58, 88-99.
Seigneuric, A. Meunier, F., Zagar, D. & Spinelli, E. (2007). The relation between language and cognition in children aged 3 to 9: The acquisition of grammatical gender in French. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 96, 229-246.
Spinelli, E., Welby, P. & Schaegis, A.L. (2007). Fine-grained access to targets and competitors in phonemically ambiguous spoken sequences : the case of French Elision. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22(6), 828-859.
Spinelli, E. & Gros-Balthazard, F. (2007). Phonotactics constraints help to overcome effects of schwa deletion in French. Cognition, 104, 397-406.
Spinelli, E., Meunier, F., & Seigneuric, A. (2006). Spoken word recognition with gender-marked context. The Mental Lexicon, 1(2), 277-297.
Spinelli, E., & Meunier, F. (2005). Le traitement cognitif de la liaison dans la reconnaissance de la parole enchaînée. Langages, 158, 79-88.
Royer, C., Spinelli, E. & Ferrand, L. (2005). On the status of mute letters in French : simple graphemes or part of complex graphemes ? Current Psychology Letters, 16, vol.2.
Grainger, J., Diependaele, K., Spinelli, E., Ferrand, L., & Farioli, F. (2003). Masked repetition and phonological priming within and across modalities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29(6), 1256-1269.
Spinelli, E., McQueen, J. & Cutler, A. (2003). Processing Resyllabified Words in French. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 233-254.
Spinelli, E., McQueen, J. & Cutler, A. (2002). Resolution of liaison for lexical access in French. Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée, VII-1, (83-96).
Spinelli, E. &. Alario, F.X. (2002). Gender Context Effects on Homophone Words. Language and Cognitive Processes, 17, 457-469.
Gaskell, G., Spinelli, E. & Meunier, F. (2002). Perception of Resyllabification in French. Memory and Cognition, 30, 798-810.
Spinelli, E. Segui, J., & Radeau, M. (2001). Phonological Priming in Spoken Word recognition With Disyllabic Targets. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16, 367-392.
Grainger, J., Spinelli, E., & Ferrand, L. (2000). Effects of Baseword Frequency and Orthographic Neighborhood in Pseudohomophone Naming. Journal of Memory and Language, 42, 88-102.
 
Proceedings
Spinelli, E., Meunier, F, & Seigneuric, A. (2005). Does gender information influence early phases of spoken word recognition? 27th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society July 21-23, 2005, Stresa (Italy).
Schaegis, A.L., Spinelli, E. & Welby, P. (2005). Perception of phonemically ambiguous spoken sequences in French. 27th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society July 21-23, 2005, Stresa (Italy).
Meunier, F.,  Seigneuric, A. & Spinelli, E. (2005).The morpheme gender effect : an evidence for morphological decomposition. 27th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society July 21-23, 2005, Stresa (Italy). 
Spinelli, E., Gaskell, G. & Meunier, F. (2000). Perception du langage parlé en Français : le problème posé par la resyllabation due à l’enchaînement et la liaison. Actes des  XXIII èmes Journées d’études sur la parole, Aussois, 19-23 Juin 2000, pp 193-196.
Spinelli, E. & Segui, J. (1998). Facilitation Initiale en Amorçage Phonologique : Effet syllabique ou effet phonémique ? Actes des XXII èmes Journées d’études sur la parole, 15-19 juin, Martigny, Suisse, pp 53-56.
Spinelli, E. Segui, J. & Grainger, J. (1996). Effet de répétition intermodal avec amorçage masqué. Actes des XXI èmes Journées d’études sur la parole, 10-14 juin, Technopôle Régional de l’Agroparc d’Avignon-Monfavet, pp 15-18.