I am a PhD student working at the Institut für Linguistik/Romanistik at the University of Stuttgart. I am currently employed within the Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change (SILPAC, FOR5157) Research Unit in project H1 (PI: Dr. Thomas Rainsford), which focuses on the development of motion-lexicalization constructions in French and Italian and the role of language contact and bilingual speakers as driver of change. 

Previously, I have worked as Student Research Assistant in the Project P10 within the Research Unit Questions at the Interfaces (FOR2111) at the University of Konstanz. The project aimed at investigating the acquisition of Rhetorical Questions by monolingual and bilingual children and adults in Italian and German. I wrote my MA thesis within this project focusing on language dominance in bilingual children examined by means of a Narrative task.