Francesca Moro

Francesca R. Moro is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Napoli L’Orientale, Italy.

In 2016 she completed her PhD in Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen on Ambon Malay spoken as heritage language in the Netherlands. She investigated contact-induced changes in the heritage variety spoken by Dutch-Ambon Malay bilinguals. To investigate patterns of divergence and convergence, she systematically compared heritage Ambon Malay to its homeland variety, to Dutch, and to the language of first generation Ambon Malay speakers.

From 2015 to 2019 she joined the NWO Vici Research Project Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: the Lesser Sunda Islands at Leiden University, where she investigated contact-induced language change in Alorese, an Austronesian language of eastern Indonesia, which is surrounded by Papuan languages.

From 2019 to 2022, she taught Acquisitional linguistics and heritage linguistics at the University of Insubria, at Como, Italy.

Currently she teaches Indonesian language at the BA and MA level, and does research on Filipino as heritage language in Italy.