Biosketch

I hold a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pisa, where I specialised in Phonetics, Corpus Linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. In 2019, I defended a doctoral dissertation on the human perception and the computational processing of foreign-accented speech. From 2018 to 2021, I worked at the University of Bologna, as a Post-Doctoral Researcher, a Teaching Tutor, and an NLP Lab Manager. Currently I am a Researcher (RTD-a) in Linguistics at the University of Pavia.

My research deploys mixed-method approaches, by combining computational, quantitative and qualitative techniques. Some of my recent publications include articles on political and media discourse, phonetics and phonology and non-native speech. I have coordinated (with Francesca Masini and Silvia Ballarè) the RadioCast-it speech corpus. From 2020, I have been a member of the editorial board of John Benjamins Publishing Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (MetBib) and the editorial assistant of DIVE-IN – An International Journal on Diversity and Inclusion. In 2021, I joined the OED Researchers Advisory Group (Oxford Languages). I have also served as a reviewer to national and international scientific conferences and journals. 

 Research interests:

• Acoustic Phonetics
• Speech Perception
• Prosody
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Multimodality
• Political Discourse Analysis
• (Social) Media Linguistics
• Sentiment Analysis 

A. Barotto & C. R. Combei. (2023, in stampa). Outlier latenti nelle costruzioni a lista: il caso del discorso politico su Twitter. In F. Sullet-Nylander et al. (eds.), Populism, political representation, media language and power, Vol. 4, Stockholm University Press: Stockholm. [saggio in volume].

C. R. Combei, A. Luporini, A. Pano Alaman & M. Turci. (2022). In guerra contro il virus invasore: un'analisi critica delle metafore sul COVID-19 nel discorso politico istituzionale. In S. Fusari, B. Ivancic & C. Mauri (eds.), Diversità e inclusione. Quando le parole sono importanti, Meltemi: Milano, 207-226. ISBN: 9788855197038. [saggio in volume].

C. R. Combei. (2022). A mixed-method corpus approach to the COVID-19 vaccination debate. Lingue e Linguaggi, 47, 191-223. [articolo in rivista di classe A].

C. R. Combei. (2022). Discussing Politics on Twitter: Some Evidence from Linguistics. In M. Ceravolo & A. Finozzi (eds.), Italian Studies Across Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity, New Approaches, and Future Directions, Aracne: Roma, 129-164. ISBN: 9791221800814. [saggio in volume].

C. Zanchi, S. Luraghi, C. R. Combei. (2022). PaVeDa - Pavia Verbs Database: Challenges and Perspectives. In E. Vylomova et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP, ACL Anthology: Stroudsburg, 99-102, ISBN: 978-1-955917-93-3. [articolo in atti di convegno con ISBN].

C. R. Combei, A. Luporini. (2021). Sentiment and Emotion Analysis Meet Appraisal: A corpus study of tweets related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 53(1), 115-136. [articolo in rivista di classe A].

L. Pannitto, L. Busso, C. R. Combei, L. Messina, A. Miaschi, G. Sarti & M. Nissim. (2021). Teaching NLP with Bracelets and Restaurant Menus: An Interactive Workshop for Italian Students. In D. Jurgens, V. Kolhatkar, L. Li, M. Mieskes, T. Pedersen (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP, ACL Anthology: New York City, 160-170, ISBN: 978-1-954085-36-7. [articolo in atti di convegno con ISBN].

L. Messina, L. Busso, C. R. Combei, L. Pannitto, A. Miaschi, G. Sarti & M. Nissim. (2021). A dissemination workshop for introducing young Italian students to NLP. In D. Jurgens, V. Kolhatkar, L. Li, M. Mieskes, T. Pedersen (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP, ACL Anthology: New York City, 52-54. ISBN: 978-1-954085-36-7. [articolo in atti di convegno con ISBN].

C. R. Combei, O. Tordini & F. Ardolino. (2020). L’acquisizione del sistema vocalico italiano: uno studio acustico su parlanti germanofoni e romenofoni. In Italiano LinguaDue, 12(2), 175-188. [articolo in rivista di classe A].

C. R. Combei, M. Farnè, L. Pinto & D. Giannetti. (2020). Populism and Policy. Examining Political Communication on Twitter in Italy 2018-2019. Italian Political Science, 15(2), 223-241. [articolo in rivista scientifica].

L. Busso, C. R. Combei & O. Tordini. (2020). The mediatization of femicide: a corpus-based study on the representation of gendered violence in Italian media. L’Analisi linguistica e letteraria, 28(3), 29-48. [articolo in rivista di classe A].

C. R. Combei. (2020). “Parlo come mangio!” Il lessico populista su Twitter. In E. Magni & Y. Martari (a cura di), CLUB Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 4, AMSActa: Bologna, 102-122. ISBN: 9788854970182. [saggio in volume].

C. R. Combei & D. Giannetti. (2020). The Immigration Issue in Twitter Political Communication: Italy 2018-2019. Comunicazione Politica, 21(2), 231-265. [articolo in rivista scientifica].

L. Busso, C. R. Combei & O. Tordini. (2020). Narrating Gender Violence. A Corpus-Based Study on the Representation of Gender-Based Violence in Italian Media. In G. Giusti & G. Iannàccaro (eds.), Language Gender and Hate Speech, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari: Venezia, 39-58. ISBN: 978-88-6969-479-0. [saggio in volume].

C. R. Combei & G. Marotta. (2019). Where Do Accents Come from? Factors Affecting the Degree of Foreign-accented Italian. In D. Piccardi et al. (eds.), Audio archives at the crossroads of speech sciences, digital humanities and digital heritage, Collana di Studi AISV, Vol. 6, Officinaventuno: Milano, 233-248. ISBN: 978-88-97657-38-5. [saggio in volume].

C. R. Combei. (2019). Is “manovra” really “del popolo”? Linguistic Insights into Twitter Reactions to the Annual Italian Budget Law. In R. Bernardi, R. Navigli & G. Semeraro (eds.), Proceedings of the 6^th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2019, Accademia University Press: Torino, paper21, 1-8. ISBN: 9791280136008, codice Scopus: 2-s2.0-85074809475. [articolo in atti di convegno con ISBN].

L. Busso, C. R. Combei & O. Tordini. (2019). La rappresentazione lessicale della violenza di genere: “donne come vittime” nei media italiani. In B. Aldinucci et al. (eds.), Parola. Una nozione unica per una ricerca multidisciplinare, Edizioni Università per Stranieri di Siena: Siena, 261-279. ISBN: 978-88-32244-02-1. [saggio in volume].

C. R. Combei. (2017). CorAIt – A non-native speech database for Italian. In R. Basili et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 4^th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Accademia University Press: Torino, 113-118. ISBN: 0978-88-99982-76-8, codice Scopus: 2-s2.0-85037344065. [articolo in atti di convegno con ISBN].

C. R. Combei & O. Tordini. (2017). A pilot sociophonetic study on open-mid vowels uttered by young male and female speakers of the Pisan variety. In C. Bertini et al. (a cura di), Sources and functions of speech variation. Disentangling the role of biological and social factors, Collana di Studi AISV, Vol. 3, Officinaventuno: Milano, pp. 111-131. ISBN: 978-88-97657-19-4. [saggio in volume].