Antonio Romano

Antonio Romano is Full Professor at the Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Turin and scientific director of the Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics "Arturo Genre". He is the coordinator of the Master in Translation for Cinema, TV and Multimedia. More information are available here.

Daniela Mereu

Daniela Mereu received her PhD in Linguistics from the Universities of Bergamo and Pavia. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Free University of Bolzano. She is currently a researcher at the University of Turin, where she teaches General Linguistics. Her research interests focus mainly on topics related to phonetics, sociolinguistics and dialectology, with a particular attention towards Sardinian and Italian. For more information, you can visit her personal page.

Valentina De Iacovo

Valentina De Iacovo is a Researcher in phonetics and language teaching. She has got a PhD in Digital Humanities (Universities of Genoa and Turin) and is responsible of the Sound DB of the International AMPER project (“Atlas Multimédia Prosodique de l’Espace Roman”); she is also organising the LFSAG speech archives and defining guidelines for the prosodic annotation. The list of her publications is available here.

Valentina Colonna

Valentina Colonna is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Granada. Her research is mainly focused on the music of poetry, combining interdisciplinary approaches and primarily using Experimental Phonetics. After her master in Linguistic Sciences, she completed her European Ph.D. (Doctor Europaeus) in Digital Humanities (Linguistics) at the Universities of Genoa and Turin (evaluation: excellent cum laude). Voices of Italian Poets (VIP), which she developed at the Lab. of Experimental Phonetics of the University of Turin, represents the first project for the phonetic study of Italian poetry reading and the first digital vocal archive dedicated to this, which is now continuing under her direction. Her Ph.D. Dissertation is the first history and phonetic of Italian poetry reading and won the award for publication in 2022 at the University of Turin. Her first academic monograph includes part of this and is entitled “Voices of Italian Poets”. Storia e analisi fonetica della lettura della poesia italiana del Novecento [“Voices of Italian Poets”. History and phonetic analysis of 20th century Italian poetry reading] (Edizioni Dell’Orso). Valentina is the Principal Investigator (PI) of her MSCA-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship dedicated to the project “Voices of Spanish Poets”: Vocal Archive and Experimental Study on Poetry Reading (VSP), the first experimental project for the experimental study of Spanish poetry reading through the instruments of Digital Humanities. She has also published three poetry books, her texts have been translated in sixteen countries and as a pianist composer (Master in Piano in 2011 and Master in Early Music at ESMUC and UAB of Barcelona in 2014), she has published 3 singles and her first album PianoPoetry. Resonances in 2023 (NCM/Egea/Machiavelli). Picture credits: Daniele Ferroni.

Bianca Maria De Paolis

Bianca Maria De Paolis graduated in 2018 from the University of Turin, with a work on the acquisition of phonetic traits of French by native Italian speakers. Since 2020, she has been a PhD candidate in Language Sciences at the School of Digital humanities, University of Genoa and University of Turin, co-tutoring with Université Paris 8. For her doctoral thesis, she has built a corpus of native and non-native Italian and French speech, which will serve as support for the analysis of syntactic and prosodic information-structure markers.

Anna Anastaseni

Anna Anastaseni graduated in 2020 from the University of Turin, with a dissertation on the impact of pronunciation on spelling and its effect on assessing children for dysorthography. In 2021 she undertook the doctoral studies course in linguistics at the School of Digital Humanities, University of Turin and University of Genoa. For her thesis, she is currently working on oral and written production, also with digital devices.

Federico Lo Iacono

Federico Lo Iacono holds a bachelor’s degree in Humanities with honors from the University of Bologna, where he successfully defended a thesis in Glottology titled “Ergo omnis versus est rhythmus et metrum: il ritmo tra fonologia e poetica”. Continuing his academic journey at the same institution, he earned a Master’s degree in Italianistics, European Literary Cultures, Linguistic Sciences (Curriculum: Linguistic Sciences). His experimental thesis – “«La musica comunque fa la sua parte»: analisi fonetica dello spazio metrico rosselliano attraverso la metodologia di Voices of Italian Poets” – received high distinction and a recommendation for publication. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the School of Digital Humanities, a joint program between the University of Genoa and the University of Turin, Federico is actively involved in the Voices of Italian Poets project. His research primarily explores the prosodic and intonational aspects of poetic speech, while also incorporating stylistic and metricological reflections on poetic language.

Bianca Abbà

Bianca Abbà graduated in 2021 in Modern Literature at the the University of Turin, with a thesis on Fosco Maraini's "Le Fanfole", an investigation on the role of intonation in poetry reading and its syntactic interpretation. She is currently attending the second year of the Master's degree program in Linguistic Sciences, pursuing an in-depth study of experimental phonetics. During her internship at LFSAG she is treating corpora of task-elicited speech, through automatic transcription and intonation analysis. Her master's thesis will focus on the phonetic description of the Xhosa language.

Francesca Luna Angelillo

Francesca Luna Angelillo earned a bachelor’s degree in Science of Linguistic Mediation at the University of Turin and she is currently enrolled in a master’s degree course in Foreign languages and literature at the University of Turin. She contributes to the LFSAG, where she is carrying out an internship. At the moment, she is dealing with the transcription of the regional Italian of the VINCA Voices project and the cataloguing of the scientific articles of the laboratory.

Elisa Buzzoni

Elisa Buzzoni completed her BA in Humanities from the Università degli Studi di Torino in 2020. She defended a thesis in Linguistics named “Hybrid nous and agreement strategies: a survey among Italian native speakers”. She is currently pursuing a MA in Linguistics in the same university and is working as a trainee in the LFSAG, where she is partecipating in the CALL project.

Mauro Uberti

Mauro Uberti has a degree in Biological Sciences and is self-taught in his musical studies. After teaching Mathematics and Scientific Observations in secondary school, he was a teacher at the Conservatories of Pesaro, Parma and Turin. At the Parma Conservatory, he held the experimental Pre-singing course for twelve years. At the same time he coordinated the Phonetics laboratory of the Anthropology Chair of the degree course in Biological Sciences at the University of Turin. More information is available here. A close collaborator for several years now, he is responsible for the publication of the LFSAG Bulletin.

Mikka Petris

Mikka Petris has a bachelor’s degree in Literature obtained at the University of Udine and is currently studying at the University of Turin. He is now conducting an apprenticeship at the LFSAG where he is providing data about Friulian speech and, since fall 2018, he is also working with Valentina Colonna on the data collection, processing and insertion for the platform “Voices of Italian Poets”.

Elisa Di Nuovo

After graduating in Mediazione linguistica at the Università degli Studi di Palermo, Elisa Di Nuovo obtained her Master’s degree in Translation Studies at the Università degli Studi di Torino, where she is currently a PhD student in Digital Humanities. Her project is based on the development and annotation of an Italian learner treebank. For her master's thesis, she realised the Pro(so)Praat tutorials as guidelines for orthographic and prosodic annotation of spoken Italian.

Van Anh Phan Thi

Student of Lingue e Culture per il Turismo, she is involved in the activities of the laboratory as part of her apprenticeship. Her first memory about the Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics “Arturo Genre” is the recording of the Vietnamese version of “la Tramontana e il Sole”. Not sure about her future job yet, she is looking for inspiration from the LFSAG’s team.

Paolo Mairano

Paolo Mairano completed his PhD at LFSAG between January 2008 and December 2010. His PhD thesis, "Rhythm typology: acoustic and perceptive studies", has been defended at the University of Turin in March 2011 and has been evaluated as excellent. Subsequently, Paolo has been post-doc research fellow at GIPSA-Lab (Grenoble, France) and at the University of Warwick (UK), as well as R&D Scientist at Nuance Communications Inc. For futher details, refer to his personal page.

Giulia Bertolotto

Giulia Bertolotto completed her PhD in June 2015. She has taught Arabic language in the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics in the Audiometric Techniques and Hearing Aids Techniques department of the University of Turin. She currently works as Italian lecturer in the Department of Italian studies of the University of Zagreb.

Lidia Calabrò

Lidia Calabrò graduated in Modern Languages with a dissertation on the teaching of Italian L2 phonetics to native English and Spanish speakers. She got a Master Degree and a Specialization on the teaching of Italian L2. Currently she is taking a PhD in Public Ethics at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Since 2005 she teaches English and Spanish languages at Secondary High School. Since 2007 she cooperates with different universities by teaching Italian L2. She currently teaches Italian L2 at Sapienza University of Rome and CLA (University Language Lab) of Roma Tre University and her main reasarches concern the teaching of Phonetics in Italian L2 and ICTs within the teaching practices.

Riccardo Mura

Riccardo Mura has obtained the Magisterial Degree (Laurea Specialistica) in Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Turin in 2009, by defending a thesis titled "Toward a First Pronunciation Dictionary of Portuguese. Problems, Inquiries, and Proposals." He has then taken part in various research projects in the fields of phonetics, (toponimia) and concerning text-to-speech systems in the Portuguese, Galician, Sardinian, and Gallurese (for more details see the webpages on Academia.edu and Riccardo Mura).

Claudio Russo

After working at an English-Italian prosodic comparison, Claudio enrolled a PhD program in Corpus and Computational linguistics at the University of Turin and started training a fine-grained model to PoS-tag the NUNC corpus, a repository of Italian computer-mediated communication data. Simultaneously, he has been working as linguistic project manager at Google while (unsuccesfully) trying to play a Hang drum.

Tarik Salah Eddine

Francesca Tini Brunozzi has worked for 10 years in Loquendo S.p.A. TTS Group (then Nuance Inc.Turin, 2002-2012), collaborated with the DISI Sislab of the University of Trento (Prof. G. Riccardi, 2013-2014). She has completed additional teaching in Linguistics for Audiometric Techniques and Hearing Aids Techniques at the University of Turin (Prof. A. Romano, 2013-2015). She completed a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Turin between January 2012 and December 2015. Her PhD thesis, “Dare voce alle emozioni: fenomeni linguistici e variazione prosodica in un corpus di dialoghi telefonici in italiano“, has been defended at the University of Turin on 23rd May 2016 and has been evaluated as good. Currently she collaborates with “Gruppo Consiliare del Partito Democratico” at the Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte (Turin).

Francesca Tini Brunozzi

Francesca Tini Brunozzi ha lavorato 10 anni nel gruppo TTS di Loquendo S.p.A. (poi Nuance Inc..Torino, 2002-2012), ha collaborato con il Sislab del DISI dell’Università di Trento (Prof. G. Riccardi, 2013-2014). Ha svolto didattica complementare per il corso di Linguistica per Tecniche Audiometriche e Tecniche Audioprotesiche dell’Università di Torino (Prof. A. Romano, 2013-2015). Ha conseguito un dottorato di ricerca in Linguistica presso l'Università di Torino dal gennaio 2012 al dicembre 2015. La sua tesi di dottorato "Dare voce alle emozioni: fenomeni linguistici e variazione prosodica in un corpus di dialoghi telefonici in italiano" è stata discussa presso l'Università di Torino il 23 maggio 2016 ed è stata valutata come "buono". Attualmente collabora con il "Gruppo Consiliare del Partito Democratico" presso il Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte (Torino).