Staff

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.

Valentina De Iacovo

Valentina De Iacovo is doing a PhD in Digital Humanities in collaboration with the Universities of Genoa and Turin, working specifically on the Italian section of the International AMPER “Atlas Multimédia Prosodique de l’Espace Roman” project; she is also organising the LFSAG speech archives and defining a guidelines definition for the prosodic annotation.

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.

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 on 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

Tarik Salah Eddine completed a PhD (co-supervision between University of Turin and Grenoble) on May 2016: "Langue italienne en bouche marocaine: la prononciation des voyelles italiennes par des étudiants arabophones". He currently works at the University of Casablanca as professor of General Linguistics.

Francesca Tini Brunozzi

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).