Chiara Celata / Professoressa Associata

Short bio
PhD in Linguistics, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy (2006)

Post-doc research experience at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Laboratoire MoDyCo CNRS & Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre, Acoustic Research Institute -Austrian Academy of Sciences, GIPSA-Lab CNRS & Université de Grenoble-Alpes

Research Fellow (rtdA), Linguistics and Speech Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2013-18)

Contract Professor of Educational Linguistics, Università degli Studi di Siena (2015-17)

Tenure-track Research Fellow (rtdB), Linguistics, Università di Urbino (2019-22)

Visiting Scholar at MoDyCo-UMR7114, CNRS & Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre (funding EU-COST LITHME “Language in the Human-Machine Era”) (2021)

Visiting Scholar at School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2023)

Director of the Master's degree course in Classical and Modern Literature (LM-14/LM-15 Lettere Classiche e Moderne), Scuola di Lettere Arti e Filosofia, Università di Urbino (2022-)

Member of the Executive Council of Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce (AISV) (2019-21 and 2022-24)

Member of the Executive committee of Tavolo Permanente per le Fonti Orali (2021-23)

Current research interests

Laboratory approaches to phonological variation: the social vs physiological bases of sound change. How lexical and morphological variables affect speech production.

Sound change across the lifespan: cross-generational transmission of sociolinguistic features in heritage Italian. Native speech perception in the context of bilingualism. 

Articulatory techniques for speech research; multi-level and 3D phonetic data for speech research and biofeedback.

Celata C., Isel, F. (2023), The Relationship between Production and Cognitive Processing of Liaison. Langue Française 219, 79-92. https://doi.org/10.3917/lf.219.0079

Dmitrieva O., Celata C., de Leeuw E., Kartushina N. (in prep.), Native speech perception in the context of multilingualism and language learning. Special issue of Languages (MDPI).

Esling J.H., Benner A., Calamai S., Celata C., Crevier-Buchman L., Hejná M., Moisik S. R. (2023), The pedagogy of the Laryngeal Articulator Model. In R. Skarnitzl & J.Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Guarant International. 1701-1705.

Celata C. (2023), I suoni delle lingue: Fonetica e fonologia. In G.F. Arcodia & A. Panunzi (Eds.), Linguistica. Introduzione alle scienze del linguaggio, Milano: Pearson Italia.

Celata C., Meluzzi C, Bertini C. (2022), Acoustic and Kinematic Correlates of Heterosyllabicity in Different Phonological Contexts. Language and Speech, January 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309211065789

Celata C., Nagy N. (2022), Sociophonetic variation and change in heritage languages: Lexical effects in Heritage Italian aspiration of voiceless stops. Language and Speech (online first), https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309221126483

Celata C., Bissiri M.P., Schmid C. (2022), Does morphology impact the pronunciation of consonant clusters? Evidence from German. Studi e Saggi Linguistici 61(2), 37-65. https://doi: 10.4454/ssl.v58i2.256