Position: Professor of Linguistics (Bilingualism)

Email: m.tamburelli@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: ++44 (0)1248 382078

Location: Room 205b, 37-41 College Road

  • PhD: Linguistics (Bilingualism)
    University College London,
  • BA: Linguistics
    University College London,

PhD supervision

  • Martin di Maggio: Language attitudes and intelligibility in Arbëreshë. Started 2021 (P/T)
  • Conor Glackin: Intelligibility and communication in stressful social contexts. 2017-2023.
  • Judit Vari: Monitoring language vitality in autochthonous diglossic communities. 2017-2021.
  • Mara Leonardi: Trilingualism and Diglossia among the Germanic-speaking group in South Tyrol (Italy). 2012-2016.
  • Abigail Ruth Price: “Is ‘reversed diglossia’ coming to Wales? Investigating the linguistic habits of adolescents in Wales and beyond.” Fully funded studentship in bilingualism, Bangor University Anniversary Scholarship. 2013-2019.
  • Lissander Brasca: Classification of Romance linguistic varieties. Started in September 2013-2023 (P/T).
  • Athanasia Papastergiou: the role of educational settings in bilingual acquisition. ESRC funded PhD. 2014-2016 (co-supervisor).

Teaching at Bangor

I teach courses on introductory linguistics, phonology, and bilingualism (from a social as well as a psycholinguistic perspective). For details, please consult the current timetable or send me a message.

  • QXL1110 - Introduction to Language
  • QXL2201 - Sounds and Sound Systems
  • QXL33/4404 - Language Contact and Bilingualism
  • QXL 1115 Intro to Phonetics and Phonology
  • QXL 4432 Research Methods
  • QXL33/4436 – Phonology in Bilingual Acquisition
I welcome enquiries from students interested in pursuing a PhD in the areas of:
 
Regional, Minority and Contested languages: linguistic attitudes; assessment of language vitality; intelligibility measurements and quantitative comparison of linguistic traits; intelligibility as a criterion of demarcation.
 
Language policy and maintenance, reversing language shift: the measurement of linguistic attitudes, the impact of attitudes on maintenance efforts, the relationship between attitudes, policy and usage in regional/minority/contested/heritage language situations.

Bilingual first language acquisition: crosslinguistic interference in the acquisition of syntactic and phonological structures; bilingual acquisition in diglossic contexts.

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2013

  • CyhoeddwydGrammar in parsing and acquisition
    Chondrogianni, V. & Tamburelli, M., 1 Ion 2013, Yn: Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 3, 3, t. 289-295
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • CyhoeddwydLesser languages in Modern Europe: the case of Italy
    Tamburelli, M., 2013, Proceedings of the 4th ENIEDA Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Cyfraniad i Gynhadledd › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2012

2010

2008

2007

  • CyhoeddwydLexical Acquisition and Simultaneous Bilingualism
    Tamburelli, M., 2007, Two or More Languages: proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism, University of Joensuu, Finland. Nikolaev, A. (gol.). Cyfrol 41.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Cyfraniad i Gynhadledd › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2006

  • CyhoeddwydParadigms, Acquisition and Bilingualism
    Tamburelli, M., 2006, Proceedings of the Fourth Cambridge Post-Graduate Conference in Language Research.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Cyfraniad i Gynhadledd › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • CyhoeddwydRemarks on Richness
    Tamburelli, M., 2006, UCL Working Paper Linguistics, 18.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl

2005

2023

  • Pushing boundaries in the measurement of language attitudes: Combining new technology and standardising practice

    Paper presented at Linguistics Beyond and Within 2023:

    Speakers’ attitudes are considered a fundamental barometer for the current and future vitality of a language, with recent work emphasising the importance of methodological developments (Kircher & Zipp, 2022). This, together with the growing concern surrounding the replicability of results across the social sciences, including in linguistics (Grieve, 2021), calls for urgent developments in research practices, including the adoption of more consistent and comparable implementations of method. In this paper, we present a series of studies conducted using a newly developed digital application for the collection, storage and transfer of data for research in multilingualism and language attitudes, specifically designed for research in bilingual populations who speak a majority language and a regional/minority/heritage language. This application offers the fundamental benefit of enhancing consistency and comparability within and across studies, which also improves reproducibility, for example by ensuring that presentation of stimuli for a speaker evaluation paradigm (Lambert et al., 1960) is more strictly controlled both across participants and across studies. As the source code is publicly available and version-controlled, other researchers can easily view and reconstruct tasks exactly as they were administered. The application was recently employed across three European communities whose regional/minority languages receive radically different degrees of socio-political recognition: Lombard (Italy), Moselle Franconian (Belgium), and Welsh (UK).Our results reveal fundamental differences in attitude scores depending on measurement type (questionnaire vs. speaker evaluation paradigm). Besides reinforcing the view that different measurements are likely to tap on different attitudinal constructs (e.g., Pantos, 2019), these results also suggest that different measurement methods may gather data on different attitude objects. We argue that this highlights a need for a more holistic approach to the measurement of language attitudes, where a battery of tests – as opposed to a single measure – should become the norm, as it has done in other research areas.

    13 Hyd 2023

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr)
  • A matter of strength: Language policy, attitudes, and linguistic dominance in three bilingual communities

    Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education

    12 Hyd 2023

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr)
  • New developments in documenting attitudes in minority and heritage language situations: an Italian case-study

    Paper presented at Documenting languages, Documenting Cultures 2023. The conference focuses on the topic of language documentation from the various perspectives offered by different ‘minority’ situations (migrant languages, minority languages, dialects). Its aim is to provide an interdisciplinary look at a topic which is today the focus of renewed interest, both in epistemological and theoretical terms.

    6 Hyd 2023

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr)
  • New avenues in collecting attitudinal data on regional/minority languages: the case of Welsh

    Paper presented at the Welsh Linguistics Seminar

    27 Meh 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)

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2018

  • The complexities of phonological complexity: evidence from bilingualism

    Invited talk at the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism, University of Reading.

    28 Tach 2018

    Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)
  • Wales at the forefront: how the Welsh experience is shaping regional bilingualism in Italy.

    Knowledge Exchange event, reporting on how experiences from Welsh language policy are informing developments in Lombardy and in Italy more broadly.

    21 Meh 2018

    Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr)
  • Lombard Language: regional languages in modern Europe

    Awareness raising event for the general public. Discussing the current position of Lombard and comparing it to more successful regional language situations in Europe.

    23 Mai 2018

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Siaradwr)
  • Regional Languages and Bilingualism

    Awareness raising event for the general public. Discussing the current position of regional languages in Italy and the advantages that bilingualism could bring.

    23 Mai 2018

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Siaradwr)
  • Lombard Language: regional languages in modern Europe

    Awareness raising event for the general public. Discussing the current position of Lombard and comparing it to more successful regional language situations in Europe.

    20 Mai 2018

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Siaradwr)
  • Reversing the history of Lombard

    Awareness raising event (research impact)

    Mai 2018

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Ymgysylltu ag ysgolion (Siaradwr)
  • Lombard Language: regional languages in Modern Europe

    Awareness raising event for the general public. Discussing the current position of Lombard and comparing it to more successful regional language situations in Europe.

    19 Ebr 2018

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Siaradwr)
  • Contested Languages FAQ

    co-authored with Mauro Tosco, University of Turin

    2018

    Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr)
  • Contested Languages in the Old World 3

    2018

    Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy, seminar, cwrs Academaidd (Trefnydd)

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2014

2013

Selected presentations and invited talks

  • (2022) Tamburelli, M. “Attitudes reversed: how Ausbau-centric approaches hinder the maintenance of linguistic diversity”. Keynote talk at LABiC 2022: International conference on bilingualism with local languages, Language Attitudes and Bi(dia)lectal Competence, University of Venice, Italy.
  • (2022) Tamburelli, M. “Language Contestation as a Route to Endangerment”. Talk invited by the Laz Institute and delivered at the Endangered Languages Colloquium, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.
  • (2021) Tamburelli, M. “Myth busters: Online platforms and emerging ideological shift among Lombard speakers.” Plenary talk at the conference New Contexts for the Use of Minoritized Languages, University of Zadar, Croatia.
  • (2020) Tamburelli, M. “Regional Language Maintenance and the Importance of Digital Domains.” Invited talk at the conference Minority Languages in the Digital Age, The Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study, University of Greifswald, Germany.
  • (2019) Tamburelli, M. “Bilingual advantage and home language use: the case of minority languages” Invited talk at the 2019 Multilingual Learning Conference, European Council of International Schools (ECIS), London, UK.
  • (2019) Tamburelli, M. “Bilingualism and local communities.” Invited talk at CILVE2 (Second International Conference on the Venetan Language), Vicenza, Italy.
  • (2018) Tamburelli, M. and Tosco, M. “Contested Languages FAQs”. Oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Contested Languages in the Old World (CLOW-3), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Tamburelli, M. (2017) “Finding languages: from an old problem to a modern challenge.” Plenary address at UPCEL Language in Society, 20-22 September 2017, University of Madrid, Spain.
  • Tamburelli, M. (2017) ‘The hidden multilingualism of Italy: issues and challenges’ Invited talk at ‘Endangered and Minority Languages of Italy’, Cambridge Group for Endangered Languages and Cultures (CELC), University of Cambridge, UK (January 2017).
  • Tamburelli, M. (2017) “Issues in Romance classification: the case of Gallo-Italic” Invited talk at the Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminars, University of Cambridge, UK (January 2017).