Alice Suozzi

Alice Suozzi is a Research Fellow at the Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She earned her cum laude PhD in Modern Languages, Cultures, and Societies and Language Sciences (Language Sciences curriculum) in 2024 after completing her cum laude Master’s in Italian Studies and Linguistic Sciences at the University of Bologna in 2019. Her research focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, Italian verb argument structures, and language acquisition, particularly instrument realization in typologically diverse languages.

• Education
  • PhD in Lingue, culture e società moderne e scienze del linguaggio (Curriculum: Scienze del Linguaggio), Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2024)
  • Master’s in Italianistica, Culture Letterarie Europee e Scienze Linguistiche (LM-14 - MODERN PHILOLOGY), University of Bologna (2019)
  • Certificat de Spécialisation en Linguistique, Université de Genève (2024)

Research Interests center on Italian syntactic optionality, instrumental argument structures, computational linguistics benchmarks, and comparative studies between spoken and sign languages. Her work integrates experimental methods, corpus analysis, and pre-trained language models to investigate how children acquire complex morphosyntactic structures and how instruments function in Italian dialects and cross-modal communication.

Scientific Activities include organizing seminar series like Inclubembo and contributing to conferences such as Zadar Linguistic Forum, LSRL-53, and NOCroDeP 2023. Her publications address topics ranging from Italian clitic pronouns to syntactic bootstrapping hypotheses, with a 2025 article introducing the BAMBI baby language model for Italian.