Lucia Sbacco

PhD Linguistics, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (HASS)
Email: l.sbacco2@newcastle.ac.uk

Research Interests:

  • Experimental Phonetics
  • First Language Acquisition
  • Language Variation and Change
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Sociophonetics
  • Sound Change

PhD Topic: Phonetic patterns of pre-adolescent English speakers’ production of Italian as a Heritage Language
Supervisors: Ghada Khattab & Dan Duncan

My research examines the the sound properties of Italian as a Heritage language by pre-adolescent English speakers born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne. In particular, I aim to investigate how age of onset and exposure to a heritage language influence the speaker’s phonological acquisition of complex sounds.