CV

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Education

• Ph.D in Linguistics, University of Toronto, (2024-)
• M.A. in Italian Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024
• B.A., in Modern Languages, University of Bologna, 2019

Presentations

• [upcoming] Standardization in homeland and heritage Italian: loss of regional markedness in possessives. Paper to be presented at the 53rd meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, November 5-7, 2025.
• “Mamma mia” or “Mia mamma”?: Parallel trajectories of morphosyntactic variation in heritage and homeland Italian possessives - The 14th Change and Variation in Canada workshop (CVC 14), University of Alberta, June 10-12, 2025.
• When Italian languages go abroad: from Calabrian villages to metropolitan Toronto. The 2nd New Issues in Language Contact Studies (NILCS 2025) [poster], University of L’Aquila, May 28-30, 2025.
• Linguistics practices and attitudes of Italian-Calabrese heritage speakers in Toronto, The 16th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS16), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• “Sorry if I use the tu”: Negotiating address forms in online Italian. The 3rd Language, Communication, and Culture Graduate Conference (LCC), University of Alberta.

Research experience

• Research Assistant for a project on Yorùbá. University of Toronto. [Starting in 2025]. PIs: Professors Samuel Akinbo and Suzi Oliveira de Lima
• Research Assistant for the Heritage Language Variation and Change Project. University of Toronto. [Started in 2024]. PI: Professor Naomi Nagy.
• Research assistant for the International Corpus of English: Malta & Puerto Rico.University of Bamberg. [2021]. PI: Professor Manfred Krug.