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Roberta D'Alessandro
@robertadal.bsky.social
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Chair professor of Linguistics / Syntax and Language Variation at Utrecht University || EiC of Isogloss || Editor of #OGS, LangSciPress || #OA advocate || Science advice || Academic mentor ||
Abruzzese in Olanda || Not very patient indeed
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The Romance Inter-Views no. 4 on theory and experimental evidence is online on #Isogloss!
Six linguists talk about the integration of experimental and theoretical linguistics, when experiments challenged theory and when they confirmed it, and share ideas for new research directions in Romance ling!
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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New on #Isogloss: Antonio Fábregas and Mike Putnam: The role of gender suffixes in number suppletion: Exponent shapes and left branches.

Enjoy!
revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index
September 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Do you ever feel like no matter how much you work, you never get to the bottom of it? Like you're not really being productive?
The Done! list will help you realize just how much you actually accomplish without even noticing 🙂
#timemanagement
#AcademicAchievements
youtu.be/TECRexTWlJc?...
July 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Hot off the press: Li, Lobo & Teixeira, #Subject-#object asymmetries in the processing of #EuropeanPortuguese cleft structures: Assessing the role of #animacy
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June 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Third factors in language design: the view from hashtag#heritage languages, INALCO Paris (and Zoom), next Friday (6 June)!
Join us (in person or online) to discuss the latest findings on heritage language grammars and cognition.

sites.google.com/view/thirdfa...
June 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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#OA textbooks in #Linguistics! These #textbooks are free to download and use in class 🙂
Enjoy, share, and long live #OA!
www.robertadalessandro.it/oa-textbooks
May 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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The Academic Auntie playlist!

Tips and tricks and FAQ for junior scholars!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-eQ....
If you have questions, or wish to discuss issues or strategies, feel free to contact me at www.robertadalessandro.it/mentoring
May 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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NEW! #Ethics in #Linguistics, ed by Marina Terkourafi, in full #OA! Enjoy!
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
April 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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#Isogloss is #Q1!
So proud!
April 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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- Brenda Laca, Imran Hossain, Leticia López, Sequence of Tense violations in subjunctive clauses.
revistes.uab.cat/.../view/v11...
- Bart Jacobs, Review of Castillo, A description of Papiamentu
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March 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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New on @Isogloss! Masullo, Casado, Leivada, Sorace, Register variation and linguistic background modulate accuracy in detecting morphosyntactic errors,
with #opendata, #openreview, #openreply
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March 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Dear all, a quick reminder that I'm available for informal #academic #mentoring for #ECRs in case you need it. [Not for helping you find jobs - I can't do that, sorry]
robertadalessandro.it/mentoring
March 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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I reorganized my publications page by topic, added some old papers that I had forgotten and are quite interesting. Here it is (if you're interested!):
robertadalessandro.it/publications...
(All I could find is downloadable, for some papers I don't have the copy)
March 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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A brand-new special issue on #Isogloss: Romance minority languages: A challenge for linguistic theory, edited by Michela Russo and Shanti Ulfsbjorninn.
This is a really cool collection, as usual in full Open Access.
A great read for your weekend, enjoy!
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March 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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If you're interested in discussing the "principles not specific to the faculty of language" that have an impact on the way #heritage speakers acquire their languages, come to Paris in June!
Abstract deadline: March 31. Info here: sites.google.com/view/thirdfa...
March 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Hot off the press! An entire issue of Romanica Cracoviensia on the grammar of Romance #heritagelanguages, featuring 7 short articles including one by Gigi Andriani and myself.
All in #OA! ejournals.eu/en/journal/r...
March 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 has just appeared on Isogloss, edited by Katrin Schmitz & Tim Diaubalick. As usual, in ful #OA.

Happy reading! revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index
February 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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More marvels from #AI: @fonolog.bsky.social asked NotebookLM to create a podcast out of Polinsky and @syntaxpunk.bsky.social 's "Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars".
Listen for yourself! shorturl.at/XmSLd
And in case you're interested: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
January 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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And here is the most read paper on #Isogloss every year: the 2024 list of reviewers!
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December 20, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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New on #Isogloss: #Romance scholars off the beaten track, short interviews with Romance scholars who work outside the traditional regions where Romance linguistics is commonly studied. revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index
December 19, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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RLLT23, Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 53 in Paris, is out!
This is a truly impressive volume, edited by Lisa Brunetti, Ioana Chitoran, and Alexandru Mardale, with papers by great senior and junior Romance linguists: revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index
December 14, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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#Ethical concerns for #theoretical research in #linguistics: issues and best practices. In full #OA for you. Enjoy!
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
December 10, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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New publication: The use of agarrar ‘grab, take’ verb constructions in #Belizean #Spanish: An intergenerational analysis, by Balam, Ross & Bravo.
Enjoy!
revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index
November 28, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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Are you stuck, do you have some issues in your academic life and need some feedback, or just a chat with an experienced person? Contact your Academic Auntie!
www.robertadalessandro.it/mentoring

#academic #mentoring
November 19, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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WELCOME!

Just getting used to bsky: who's around? Here's a present for you: some lemons from my home in Italy. Happy Sunday!
November 17, 2024 at 8:15 AM