My research interests include Acoustic and Articulatory Phonetics,
Phonetics and Phonology, Neurolinguistics, Italian Dialectology, and
Linguistic Variation. I am particularly interested in how linguistic
structures—especially phonological and morphophonological
patterns—are represented and processed in the brain.
My current research focuses on the metaphony phenomenon in the
Salento area, analyzed from acoustic-articulatory, phonological, and
neurophysiological perspectives. My work aims to reveal the acoustic
and articulatory nature of the parameters involved in the assimilation
process and to investigate the allophonic discrimination mechanisms
underlying the phenomenon.