About me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychology at McGill University. I am part of Dr. Debra Titone's McGill Language & Multilingualism Lab and Dr. Brendan Johns' McGill Cognitive Computing Lab. I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in 2019, under the joint supervision of Prof. Alessandro Lenci and Prof. Pier Marco Bertinetto.

In my research, I make use of computational and psycholinguistic methodologies to understand how our experience with the ambient linguistic environment influences the way we use and process language, a concept that lies at the heart of usage-based language models. In particular, I have published work on the representation and processing of multiword and idiomatic language in first-language and second-language speakers, using a wide range of approaches, like eye-tracking during silent reading, distributional semantic models, corpus-based models of lexical strength, lexical decision latencies and other corpus-based and behavioral techniques.

You can learn more about my work by looking at the Research and Publications pages.