Research Overview

I am basically interested in language variability, but I have a special interest for the variation of language sounds: their internal articulatory and acoustic characteristics, their distributional properties, and how they are used to convey social information.

My research interests include sociophonetics, laboratory phonology, Ultrasound Tongue Imaging, bilingualism, sociolinguistics, allophony of rhotics, acoustic correlates of fortis/lenis contrast, Italian, German dialects.

My current research activity focuses on the phonetics of bilingual speakers, investigated by using Ultrasound Tongue imaging (UTI).