Current projects

Mapping Prosody Convergence in the Eastern Mediterranean
Project funded by UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and based at the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford (PI: Elinor Payne).
My focus is on prosodic/intonational convergence between Venetan and coastal Croatian varieties.
Consonantal length (gemination) and strength in Italian → Read more
Ongoing line from my PhD: acoustic and articulatory correlates of the long–short contrast across regional varieties; includes work on preaspiration and voice quality.
The “evanescent /l/” in Venetan
New articulatory + acoustic studies on the realization/weakening of /l/ in central Venetan (with F. Burroni).

Selected past & parallel lines

Saliba-Logea (Illustration of the IPA) — JIPA, forthcoming (second author - with J. Hajek et al.).
Glottalised consonants in Waima’a (incl. ejectives) — typological & phonetic review (submitted as second author, with J. Hajek).
Gemination in Modern Standard Arabic — preliminary acoustic study on word-medial position (second author - with A. Aldossary, J. Hajek, J. Fletcher).
Australian English rhotics (UTI) — collaboration on articulatory analysis using ultrasound tongue imaging (Macquarie University, Sydney).