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Doctoral researcher-teacher in the Phonetics, Acquisition and Phonology team.
Research areas
- Experimental neuro- and psycholinguistics
- L2 acquisition and processing
- L2 phonetics and phonology
Projects
2025 — ANR SARA (Sound Articulation Reinforces Acquisition) project, led by Emmanuel Ferragne
2025 — GLAM (Gestures in Language Acquisition Models) led by Maud Pélissier
2024 — BArBeR (Better Articulation, Better Representations) led by Hannah King
Education
Octobre 2024 — PhD candidate in English Linguistics, Université Paris Cité, ALTAE, ED660
Supervised by Emmanuel Ferragne and Maud Pélissier
2024 Master Sciences du Langage (Language Sciences): Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, Université Paris Cité
2021 BAHons Applied Language Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Teaching
2025/26 LCA1E025 Oral 1, Phonetics and Phonology
2025/26 LCA2E025 Oral 2, Phonetics and Phonology
2025/26 LCA2E155 Workshop, Articulatory Phonetics
2024/25 LCA2Y010 Linguistics 1.2. Phrasal Structures
Conference presentations
Black, T., Pélissier, M., & Ferragne, E. (2026). That’s “wot” I heard: The perception of vowel contrasts by francophone learners of English [Poster]. COM2026: Conference on Multilingualism, Toulouse, France.
Black, T., Ferragne, E., & Pélissier, M. (2025). An exploration of francophones’ production of English diphthongs using Discrete Cosine Transform [Poster]. Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole, Paris, France.
Black, T., Ferragne, E., & Pélissier, M. (2025). It ain’t over ’til it’s /əʊ/ver: An exploration of francophones’ production of the English /əʊ/ [Poster]. Real2Phon2025: Methods and tools in L2 phonology-phonetics interfaces, Paris, France.
Black, T., & Pélissier, M. (2023). Better explicit knowledge of target structure does not entail better implicit knowledge in bilinguals [Poster]. Journées d’études “Grammaire(s) et acquisition des L2 : approches, trajectoires, interfaces”, Grenoble, France.
Dissertations
Black, T. (2024). Did you *processed that correctly?: Implicit and explicit knowledge of L2 morphosyntax in francophone learners of English [Master’s dissertation, Université Paris Cité].
Black, T. (2023). The relationship between implicit and explicit knowledge in L2 use: The case in French learners of English [Master’s dissertation, Université Paris Cité].
Black, T. (2021). The influence of the mother tongue in language learning: A comparative study of the German learning experiences of Afrikaans and isiZulu native speakers [Honours dissertation, University of Pretoria].