Nuria Gavalda Ferre

Lecturer Professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-1041-6467

Knowledge area: Filologia Anglesa

Academic training

Filologia Anglesa . Universitat de Barcelona . 2006 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Phonetics . University College London . 2007 . (Official Master)

Lingüística Forense . Universitat Pompeu Fabra . 2012 . (Official Master)

Communicació Lingüística i Mediació Multilingüe . Universitat Pompeu Fabra . 2013 . (Ph.D.)

Teaching imparted

Producció Textual en Llengua Anglesa (Bachelor's degree) - Estudios Ingleses - Universidad de Barcelona.

Anglès per als Negocis (Bachelor's degree) - Administración y Dirección de Empresas(1) - Universidad de Barcelona.

English grammar (Bachelor's degree) - Grado de maestro de eduación Primaria - Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR).

Lines of Activity (Teaching and Research)

Adquisició de la fonètica de l'anglès com a segona llengua

Fonètica Forense

Sociofonètica

Relevant publications

Cebrian, J.; Gorba, C.; Gavaldà N (2021). When the Easy Becomes Difficult: Factors Affecting the Acquisition of the English /iː/-/ɪ/ Contrast. Frontiers in Communication, 6, pp. 1 - 17 . ISSN: 2297-900X

Gavaldà, N. and Queralt, S. (2020). Determining the level of a language test with English Profile. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 42(2), pp. 1 - 21 . ISSN: 0210-6124

Cebrian, J.; Carlet, A.; Gorba, C.; Gavaldà, N (2019). Perceptual training affects L2 perception but not cross-linguistic similarity . In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences . (pp. 929 - 933) . International Congress of Phonetic Sciences .

Carlet, A; Rallo Fabra, L.; Gavaldà, N.; De Witte, W. (2022). New Sounds 2022. Book of Abstracts .

Conferences and Participations in Congresses

Cebrian, J., Gorba, C., Gavaldà, N., Carlet, A. (2022). Phonetic v. phonological perceptual mappings: contrasting naïve, experienced, and trained listeners. (Presentation of communication) . New sounds 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech . Barcelona . SPAIN

Cortés, S., Cebrian, J., Gavaldà, N., Gorba, C. (2022). Assessing the effect of cognate status on L2 learners' ability to recognize words and detect segmental accent. (Presentation of communication) . New sounds 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech . Barcelona . SPAIN

Gavaldà, N., Cebrian, J., Cortés, S., Gorba, C. (2021). Are mispronunciations more common and less detectable in cognate than in non-cognate words?. (Presentation of communication) . 30th Annual Meeting of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA) . Barcelona . SPAIN

Gorba, C., Cortés, S., Cebrian, J., Gavaldà, N. (2021). Investigating the role of cognate status in L2 production and perception. (Presentation of communication) . 8th International Conference of Experimental Phonetics (CIFE) . Girona . SPAIN

Gavaldà, Núria; Queralt, Sheila (2019). Assessing English Profile as a tool to determine the level of a language test in forensic contexts. (Presentation of communication) . 43rd AEDEAN conference . Alicante . SPAIN