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Professor Raffaella Folli is a faculty member at the School of Communication and Media, Ulster University, where she serves as Research Director for Modern Languages and Linguistics. She joined the university in 2005 after research roles at the University of Arizona and University of Cambridge.
She holds a DPhil in Linguistics (2001) and MPhil in Linguistics (1998) from the University of Oxford, alongside a BA in Philosophy (1995) from the University of Milan. Her research focuses on theoretical syntax, multilingualism, and child language development.
Her recent publications explore
- auxiliary selection in Romance languages
- neural speech decoding via multimodal learning
- cross-linguistic influences in bilingual children
- historical syntactic restructuring in French
- statistical analysis of language proficiency
Scientific recognition includes
- Distinguished Research Fellowship (2011)
- Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship (2023)
- Membership in the Royal Irish Academy (2023)
She advises PhD researchers like Balthazar Lauzon and Gianluca Porta, and leads the Ulster Centre on Multilingualism (UCoM) since 2012. Her externally funded projects include collaborations with Barnardo’s and the AHRC Green Transition Ecosystem initiative.
