Francesca Antonioli is a PhD student at Ghent University, working across the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication and the Department of Experimental Psychology. Her research focuses on structural priming in translation, a cognitive phenomenon that has been widely studied in psycholinguistics but remains underexplored in translation studies.
Combining corpus linguistics and experimental methods, Francesca investigates how linguistic context and language similarity influence structural priming during translation. Her project includes both a corpus-based analysis of voice alternation in five languages (Dutch, English, German, Italian, and Spanish) and an experiment involving translation students and bilinguals.
With a background in translation and an advanced master’s degree in linguistics, Francesca is especially interested in the intersection between cognitive processes and language use in multilingual settings.
