Tenured full professors | language acquisition, neurolinguistics
Rita Franceschini
Short bio
– 1980-87 Studies in Romance and Germanic Languages,
U Zurich, Trieste, Bielefeld;
— PhD 1992 U Zurich
— assistant then deputy Prof. and 'professore a contratto' in U Zurich, U Basel and U Bergamo
– research grant 1995-99, Swiss national Foundation
— 1999 Habilitation U Basel
— 2000-0 full Prof. U Saarland
— since 2004 full Prof. of Linguistics (L-LIN/01), Free University of Bozen
— guest prof.: Middlebury (USA), Mannheim, "Michel Clyne-Chair" Munich (LMU), Göttingen, Erlangen, Regensburg
— Rector 2004-08 and Director Language Study Unit 2004-16
– Editor VOX ROMANICA (2001-2016), since 2017 President of the Curatorium
– Editor of LiLi (2001-17)
Research interests: sociolinguistics, language contact, code-switching, language acquisition, neurobiology of multilingualism, conversational analysis
Courses
Comparative Grammar of German and Italian
11415C · L-FIL-LET/12 · LM-85 bis Education Italian section · IT
First-Language Acquisition and Teaching
12405C · L-LIN/14 · LM-85 bis Education German section · DE
Introduction to Italian as an L2
11415A · L-FIL-LET/12 · LM-85 bis Education Italian section · IT
Language Acquisition
54111A · L-LIN/02 · LM-39 Applied Linguistics · DE
Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism
54105A · L-LIN/01 · LM-39 Applied Linguistics · IT
Main Research Areas
Languages and multilingualism in South Tyrol
- textual competences
- multilingualism in elderly
- language biographies
https://www.unibz.it/de/home/research/competence-centre-language-studies/
Info
more thna 200 publications,
for the total list see plattform BORIS at unibz