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Roberta D'Alessandro is a Professor in the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication at Utrecht University, specializing in Linguistics and Syntax with a focus on Language Variation. She heads the Linguistics section and is a member of the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) and the Descartes Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities. D'Alessandro has a prominent role as the editor-in-chief of the open access journal Isogloss. As an advocate for Open Access, she is actively involved in policy-making related to science communication and ethical communication within the framework of the International Science Council and the European Commission. Her research interests encompass syntactic variation, heritage language syntax, agreement in Italo-Romance dialectology, the syntax-phonology interface, and syntactic change resulting from language contact in migration contexts. D'Alessandro has authored and co-authored several significant publications in her field, contributing to the understanding of microcontact syntactic theory and the ethical dimensions of theoretical linguistics.
Department of Psychology