On March 22, the final intra-university My Thesis in 180 seconds ! 14 candidates will compete in front of a panel of judges and the public for the “Prix du Public”. On this occasion, Juliette Millet, doctoral student at’FIRE doctoral school “Frontiers of Innovation in Research and Education”will present his thesis entitled“Models for foreign language perception“.
ÉCOLE DOCTORALE FIRE REPRESENTED AT THE FINAL BY JULIETTE MILLET
Ma Thèse en 180 secondes (My Thesis in 180 seconds) enables doctoral students to present their research topic to a lay audience: a delicate exercise in scientific mediation! Each doctoral student is given three minutes to give a brief, clear and often entertaining presentation of his or her thesis. After Camille Gaulon last year, another representative of the Learning Planet Institute will rise to the challenge: Juliette Millet!
Competing with 14 other candidates, she will present her work at this final to earn her place in the national semi-final, under the colors of the’Sorbonne-Paris-Cité Alliance.
UNDERSTANDING SPEECH
“Learning a new language is a daunting task. Before you even consider confronting a new grammar or vocabulary, differentiating the sounds that make up this new language is already an ordeal in itself.”
Juliette Millet's thesis deals with the biases in sound perception that complicate language learning: we are sometimes unable to distinguish non-native sounds: “Native Japanese, for example, when learning English, have difficulty differentiating between the /r/ sound (in ‘right’) and the /l/ sound (in ‘light’)..”
“Successfully predicting these biases, and understanding their origin, tells us about the rules that govern our speech comprehension process.”
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March 22, 2022 at 6:30 p.m.
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Video of “Ma Thèse en 180 secondes” by Camille Gaulon, 2021
