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DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nThis study addresses the challenge of teaching theore
 tical prosody concepts (i.e.\, studies about stress\,\nrhythm\, intonation
 \, voice quality\, and other suprasegmental aspects of human pattern of pr
 onunciation)\nin undergraduate courses. Our main aim was to develop a dida
 ctic approach to promote active and\nreflective learning about prosody and
  its suprasegmental characteristics. We hypothesize that creating an\nacad
 emic podcast can serve as an effective scholarly research tool for communi
 ty development and\nfostering an inclusive educational environment in phon
 etics and phonology. For Methodology\, a set of\ndidactic activities was d
 esigned to guide students in recording podcast episodes. The theoretical\n
 framework employed was the Collaborative Online International Learning (CO
 IL) methodological\napproach. A total of 58 undergraduate students from Ph
 onetics and Phonology courses at the State\nUniversity of Paraíba (UEPB) 
 and São Paulo State University (UNESP) were grouped. Nine student\ngroups
  performed seven weeks of academic exchange activities. They collaborative
 ly addressed topics on\nthe phonetic- phonological characteristics of Braz
 ilian Portuguese regional varieties (Paraíba and São\nPaulo inland) and 
 their potential effects on foreign language production/perception. Insight
 s were\nsummarized into a script\, and two students from each cross-univer
 sity group recorded an episode\, which\nwas subsequently edited and publis
 hed. Acoustic processing was based on the podcast samples produced\nby the
  students from both Paraíba and São Paulo. It involved forced-alignment 
 via Munich Automatic\nSegmentation (MAUS)\, manual correction\, re-alignme
 nt into prosodic-level units\, and automatic feature\nextraction using a P
 raat script. Statistical analysis was carried out through Mann- Whitney U 
 test to\ncompare the independent effect of each dialectical group on the p
 rosodic-acoustic features. Results\nrevealed that features of speech\, suc
 h as pause duration\, f0 centrality\, variability and dynamics\, as well a
 s\nlong-term spectral intensity showed significant differences between the
 se dialects. This academic\npodcasting experience enabled us to teach the 
 relevance of studying prosody\, and this was positively\nevaluated by the 
 participating students. The project also enabled students to identify with
  their own\nlinguistic diversity\, including regional accents expressed th
 rough prosodic features\, by hearing their own\nand others’ voices. The 
 findings support that the academic podcast project can be successfully\nim
 plemented as a scholarly research tool.\n\nKeywords: Prosody. Academic pod
 casting. Acoustic phonetics. Brazilian regional dialects. Virtual exchange
 .
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LOCATION:Online Session
SUMMARY:Academic Podcasting for Prosody Education - Leonidas Silva Jr. | Lu
 ciani Tenani
URL:https://conference-hub.linguistic-society.com/athens-2026/talk/BKKUBM/
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