Roberto B Sileo

Dr. Roberto B Sileo is an Affiliated Lecturer in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. He serves as Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics at Homerton College, where he is also a Postgraduate Tutor and Praelector. His roles include teaching and research supervision across undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

• Affiliations: University of Cambridge (Lecturer), Homerton College (Fellow, Director of Studies)
• Education: PhD & MPhil in Linguistics (Cambridge), Law Degrees (Oxford/Buenos Aires), English Language Teaching (Argentina)

His research focuses on bilingualism, first/second language processing, pragmatics, and semantics. Key projects include investigations into anaphora resolution, temporal ordering in discourse, and the semantics of racial/ethnic slurs. Recent work explores the intersection of aspectuality and anaphora in L1/L2 contexts (2024) and contextualist accounts of slurs (2018-2021).

Publications span pragmatic-theoretical linguistics, applied language studies, and sociolinguistics. His nonword repetition task for Czech (2019) contributes to language assessment methodologies. Current research clusters include semantics/pragmatics, experimental phonetics, and computational linguistics.

No formal awards listed, though his active postdoctoral research roles (2018-2021) indicate sustained scholarly engagement. His work intersects with Homerton College's academic community and the broader TAL research initiatives at Cambridge.