Vincenzo Galatà

Vincenzo Galatà obtained his PhD in “Psychology of Programming and Artificial Intelligence” from the University of Calabria (Italy) in 2010, with a dissertation on “Production and perception of vocal emotions: a European cross-linguistic study”.

Since completion of his PhD, he has been conducting research as a post-doctoral research fellow on different aspects of human speech in areas such as Phonetics and Phonology, Language Development and Acquisition and Speech Corpus Design, as well as more detailed themes such as Emotional Speech, Second Language Acquisition and Socio-phonetics from both an acoustic and articulatory (Ultrasound Tongue Imaging) point of view. More specifically, his research interests have included the acquisition of Italian as a second language in pre-school children, at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (2010-2014), investigating the acoustic and articulatory variation of /r/ in adults in a bilingual setting in South Tyrol, at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy (2014-2016), managing the speech resources of the members of the Language Study Unit at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy  hosted on The Language Archive at the Max-Planck-Institut of Nijmegen (2016-2017). Over the years, thanks to the different projects he has been working on during his post-doc positions, he has developed strong skills in fieldwork research and in the design of speech corpora.

In 2017 he earned an Endeavour Research Fellowship awarded by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training supporting his research on the “Italian Roots In Australian Soil” project (started in 2011) which aims to study variation and change in the speech of first and second generation Italo-Australians in collaboration with Prof. C. Best (MARCS Institute, WSU), Dr B. Di Biase (Italian Federation of Migrant Workers and Families (FILEF) Sydney & WSU), Dr C. Avesani (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Padova, Italy) and Prof. M. Vayra (University of Bologna, Italy).

He is a member of the International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA) and of the Italian Association for Speech Sciences (AISV). He is also webmaster and communications manager of AISV.

He is fluent in Italian, English, French, German and Swiss-German.