Claudia Crocco is Associate professor of Italian linguistics at Ghent University where he has been a faculty member since 2006. Claudia completed her Ph.D. in General linguistics (2004) and her MA in Classical languages (1999) at the University of Naples Federico II. Before joining Ghent University, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Universities of Antwerp (2004) and Salerno (2005), and a visiting professor of phonetics at the University of Macerata (2004).

Her research interests range from grammar to sociolinguistics. Current research topics include intonational phonetics and phonology of Italian, syntax-prosody interface, and the (re)standardization of Italian. Claudia is also interested in Early modern grammatical writings.

Claudia Crocco è Professore associato di Linguistica italiana dal 2006. Dopo aver ottenuto la Laurea in Lettere classiche (1999) presso l'Università di Napoli "Federico II" ha conseguito, presso la stessa università, il Dottorato di ricerca in Linguistica generale (2004). Prima di assumere l'incarico di docenza all'Università di Gent, è stata ricercatrice postdottorale all'Università di Anversa (2004), assegnista di ricerca presso l'Università di Salerno (2005), e professore a contratto di fonetica presso l'Università di Macerata (2004).

I suoi interessi di ricerca spaziano dalla grammatica alla sociolinguistica. Attualmente i principali temi di studio riguardano la fonetica e fonologia intonazionale dell'italiano, l'interfaccia sintassi-prosodia, la (ri)standardizzazione dell'italiano e la riflessione grammaticale nel Rinascimento.

Projects

Projects as supervisor

Prosodic cues to syntactic reanalysis. Experimentally tracking Jespersen's cycle in progress (2019 - 2022)
A linguistics-based protocol for teaching foreign language prosody (2019 - 2021)
Cross-linguistic studies at the syntax-phonology interface (2018 - 2018)
Subtitles of Italian films in Dutch (2000-2006). A sociological, linguistic and media analysis (2008 - 2014)

Projects as co-supervisor

Projects as researcher

API. An archive of varieties of spoken Italian (1999 - 2001)
CLIPS. Corpora and lexical of written and spoken Italian (1999 - 2004)

Publications

Key publications

Intonational phonology of the regional varieties of Italian(2015)
- Barbara Gili Fivela
- Cinzia Avesani
- Marco Barone
- Giuliano Bocci
- Claudia Crocco
- Mariapaola D'Imperio
- Rosa Giordano
- Giovanna Marotta
- Michelina Savino
- Patrizia Sorianello
Everyone has an accent. Standard Italian and regional pronunciation(2017)
- Claudia Crocco
Is Italian clitic right dislocation grammaticalised? A prosodic analysis of YN-questions and statements(2013)
- Claudia Crocco
Towards a New Standard. Theoretical and Empirical Studies on the Restandardization of Italian(2017)

Most recent publications

Full bibliography

Teaching

Discovering Linguistics - Linguistic Discoveries

Discovering Linguistics - Linguistic Discoveries (DLLD) is a series of six short lectures spread throughout the academic year, aimed at presenting in an accessible and attractive fashion a number of linguistic topics. DLLD is organized by Claudia Crocco and Anne Breitbarth and is funded by the UGent initiative Internationalisation@Home.

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The Bachelor and Master courses of Italian linguistics cover the following topics:

History of the Italian language (introductory level, Italiaanse taalkunde I)
Phonetics and phonology of Italian (introductory level, Italiaanse taalkunde I)
Morphology of Italian (introductory level, Italiaanse taalkunde I)
Syntax of Italian (introductory level, Italiaanse taalkunde II)
Sociolinguistics of contemporary Italian (intermediate level, Italiaanse taalkunde III)
Intonation and the syntax-prosody interface in Italian (advanced level, Italiaanse taalkunde - Bijzondere vraagstukken I)
The codification of Italian: grammar books and the Questione della lingua (advanced level, Italiaanse taalkunde - Bijzondere vraagstukken II)

Links to the course pages:

Services

- Coordinator of the section of Italian studies

- International coordinator for the Study progamme Linguistics and Literature