Additional Contact Information
Position: Professor of Linguistics (Bilingualism)
Email: m.tamburelli@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: ++44 (0)1248 382078
Location: Room 205b, 37-41 College Road
Qualifications
- PhD: Linguistics (Bilingualism)
University College London, - BA: Linguistics
University College London,
Teaching and Supervision
PhD supervision
- Conor Glackin: Intelligibility and communication in stressful social contexts. 2017-2023.
- Judit Vari: Monitoring language vitality in autochthonous diglossic communities. 2017-2021.
- Mara Leonardi: Trilingualism and Diglossia among the Germanic-speaking group in South Tyrol (Italy). 2012-2016.
- Abigail Ruth Price: “Is ‘reversed diglossia’ coming to Wales? Investigating the linguistic habits of adolescents in Wales and beyond.†Fully funded studentship in bilingualism, Â鶹Íø Anniversary Scholarship. 2013-2019.
- Lissander Brasca: Classification of Romance linguistic varieties. 2013-2023 (P/T).
- Athanasia Papastergiou: the role of educational settings in bilingual acquisition. ESRC funded PhD. 2014-2016 (co-supervisor).
Teaching at Â鶹Íø
I teach courses on introductory linguistics, phonology, and bilingualism (from a social as well as a psycholinguistic perspective). For details, please consult the current timetable or send me a message.
- QXL1110 - Introduction to Language
- QXL2201 - Sounds and Sound Systems
- QXL33/4470 - Language Policy & Planning
- QXL 1115 Intro to Phonetics and Phonology
- QXL 4432 Research Methods
- QXL33/4436 – Phonology in Bilingual Acquisition
Research Interests
My Research focuses on bi- and multi-lingualism, both from a mentalist/representational perspective as well as from a sociolinguistic and comparative perspective.
Within a representational perspective, I have worked on Bilingual First Language Acquisition, particularly in relation to syntactic and phonological transfer effects in simultaneous bilinguals, but also on the acquisition and organisation of lexical properties, the nature of paradigms and of the mechanisms underlying lexical organisation (including the mapping of cross-modular information in the lexicon) and on lexical and phonological development in typically developing children and in children with SLI.
I also work on the more social and comparative aspects of bilingual development, particularly on regional and minority languages (language policy and maintenance), on issues of language diversity (the measurement of linguistic attitudes), and the diglossic/bilingual communities of Italy, but also on measuring phonetic distance in linguistic continua, and on the measurement and application of intelligibility rates as a criterion of demarcation between 'regional languages' and 'regional dialects'.
I am currently director of theÌý and head of the Language Attitudes Research Team.
Postgraduate Project Opportunities
Bilingual first language acquisition: crosslinguistic interference in the acquisition of syntactic and phonological structures; bilingual acquisition in diglossic contexts.
Publications
2025
- Accepted/In press
Vari, J. & Tamburelli, M., Jan 2025, (Accepted/In press) Double Standards. Peter Lang Publishing, (Historical Sociolinguistics).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Gruffydd, I., Tamburelli, M., Breit, F. & Bagheri, H., Jan 2025, In: Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 44, 1, p. 79-106 28 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - E-pub ahead of print
Tamburelli, M., Gruffydd, I., Breit, F. & Brasca, L., 10 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 44, 3-4, p. 257-296 40 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2024
- E-pub ahead of print
Brasca, L., Tamburelli, M., Gruffydd, I. & Breit, F., 10 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M., 30 Jun 2024, Linguaggio e Variazione | Variation in Language. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice University Press, p. 215-226
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M., Feb 2024, Heritage Languages in the Digital Age: The case of autochthonous minority languages in Western Europe. Arendt, B. & Reershemius, G. (eds.). Multilingual Matters
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Breit, F., Tamburelli, M., Gruffydd, I. & Brasca, L., 31 Dec 2024, In: Linguistics Beyond and Within. 10, p. 7-32
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2023
- Published
Papastergiou, A., Sanoudaki, E., Tamburelli, M. & Chondrogianni, V., Jan 2023, In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 26, 1, p. 78-94
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - E-pub ahead of print
Tamburelli, M., 30 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review - Published
Breit, F. (Developer), Tamburelli, M. (Developer) & Gruffydd, I. (Other), 3 May 2023
Research output: Non-textual form › Software - Published
Vari, J. & Tamburelli, M., Jun 2023, In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 44, 6, p. 1-20 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Unpublished
Breit, F., Tamburelli, M., Gruffydd, I. & Brasca, L., 4 May 2023, (Unpublished).
Research output: Working paper
2021
- Published
Vari, J. & Tamburelli, M., Sept 2021, In: Languages. 6, 3, e134.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M., 21 Jan 2021, Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Tamburelli, M. & Tosco, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 21-39 (Studies in World Language Problems).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M. (Editor) & Tosco, M. (Editor), 21 Jan 2021, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 277 p. (Studies in World Language Problems )
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M., Jun 2021, In: Lingua. 256, 103068.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Leonardi, M. & Tamburelli, M., 21 Jan 2021, Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Tamburelli, M. & Tosco, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 87-103 (Studies in World Language Problems; vol. 8).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M. & Tosco, M., Jan 2021, Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Tamburelli, M. & Tosco, M. (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 3-17 (Studies in World Language Problems ; vol. 8).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2020
- Published
Price, A. & Tamburelli, M., Jul 2020, In: International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 30, 2, p. 195-213
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2018
- Published
Tamburelli, M. & Brasca, L., 1 Jun 2018, In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 33, 2, p. 442-455
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2016
- Published
Price, A. R. & Tamburelli, M., May 2016, In: Language Culture and Curriculum. 29, 2, p. 189-2016
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M., Oct 2016, In: Modern Language Review. 111, 4, p. 1119-21 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2014
- Published
Tamburelli, M., Sanoudaki, E., Jones, G. & Sowinska, M., 18 Nov 2014, In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 18, 4, p. 713-725
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M., 9 Jan 2014, In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 35, 3, p. 252-270
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2013
- Published
Chondrogianni, V. & Tamburelli, M., 1 Jan 2013, In: Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 3, 3, p. 289-295
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M., 2013, Proceedings of the 4th ENIEDA Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
2012
- Published
Tamburelli, M., Jones, G., Gobet, F. & Pine, J. M., 1 Jun 2012, In: Language and Cognitive Processes. 27, 6, p. 901-946
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M., 2012, L’enseignement des langues locales Institutions, méthodes, ideologies. Rome: Aracne. Agresti, G. & De Gioia, M. (eds.).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M. & Jones, G., 28 Dec 2012, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2010
- Published
Jones, G., Tamburelli, M., Watson, S. E., Gobet, F. & Pine, J. M., 1 Dec 2010, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.. 53, 6, p. 1642-1655
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M., 2010, Philologica Wratislaviensia: Acta et Studia. Proceedings of the Conference Languages in Contact 2010. Chruszczwski, P. (ed.).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
2008
- Published
Tamburelli, M., 1 Jan 2008, In: Arena Romanistica. 1, p. 144-173
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M., 1 Jul 2008, In: Language Acquisition. 15, 3, p. 130-182
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2007
- Published
Tamburelli, M., 2007, Two or More Languages: proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism, University of Joensuu, Finland. Nikolaev, A. (ed.). Vol. 41.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
2006
- Published
Tamburelli, M., 2006, Proceedings of the Fourth Cambridge Post-Graduate Conference in Language Research.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review - Published
Tamburelli, M., 2006, UCL Working Paper Linguistics, 18.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
2005
- Published
Tamburelli, M., 2005, UCL Working Paper Linguistics, 17.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Activities
2025
How do you promote the community language maintenance? What does research tell us about the future of Eifeler Platt?
We combine the latest research findings and audience contributions to take you on a journey through fundamental questions concerning the vitality and maintenance of Eifeler Platt in East Belgium.
Listen to experts and connect with fellow language and dialect enthusiasts.
14 Mar 2025
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invited talk, followed by two days of discussion panels, in which I participated as main discussant and co-discussant.
6 Mar 2025 – 8 Mar 2025
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)Participation in Regional Government (Lombardy region, Italy) discussions on possible amendments of regional law for cultural heritage (PDL 52, commissione cultura).
Presentation of research results and of recent outreach activities aimed at fostering the presence of Lombard in public, formal, and institutional spaces.
28 Jan 2025
Activity: Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel (Contributor)
2024
External Examiner
6 Dec 2024
Activity: Examination (Examiner)sharing recent research findings with stakeholders: local politicians, research participants, members of local institutions (e.g. public library) and general public. Held in Albino, Bergamo, Italy.
24 Nov 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker)How do you successfully maintain a language? What can research tell us about the future of the Welsh language?
Combining the latest research and interactive contributions from the audience, Beyond language: a peek into the future of Welsh will take you on a journey through some of the fundamental questions surrounding language vitality and its maintenance.
This is a free event and a great opportunity to hear from subject experts and network with fellow language enthusiasts.
13 Nov 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Chair)sharing recent research findings with the local mayor and community representatives. Held in San Pellegrino, Italy.
4 Nov 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement (Speaker)Presentation of research findings and discussion with 3rd sector organization for the promotion of regional languages of Northern Italy.
Oct 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement (Contributor)Paper presented at the International Congress of Linguists 2024 in Poznań:
Active language policy and the fostering or maintenance of positive attitudes are fundamental
components in the prevention of language shift (e.g. Fishman, 1990). This, together with recent
methodological developments in sociolinguistics (Kircher & Zipp, 2022) calls for a more holistic approach to the measurement of language attitudes and their relationship with exposure levels. In this paper, we present three large studies investigating the relationship between early exposure, language attitudes, and different bilingual language policies in three European communities where a minority/endangered language coâ€exists with a sociolinguistically dominant language.
The bilingual communities under investigation are Lombardâ€Italian in Italy, Moselle Franconianâ€German in Belgium, and Welshâ€English in Wales, exemplifying fundamentally different types of language policy as well as systematic variation in both opportunities for and amount of early exposure. The Welsh language receives full socioâ€political recognition, and there exist ample opportunities for people to be exposed to Welsh either in the family or broader community. Lombard, on the other hand, is in a situation of benign neglect, not benefitting from any active policy and with rather scarce opportunities for exposure except for those who grow up in a predominantly Lombardâ€speaking family. Moselle Franconian is somewhat in between: while not officially recognised, its speakers are considered a Germanâ€speaking minority. Importantly, however, due to a situation of diglossia (Ferguson, 1959), it is
Moselleâ€Franconian – rather than German – that is regularly spoken in daily communication, hence providing ample opportunities for early exposure.
To investigate the relationship between these different sociolinguistic situations and the effect they may have on speakers’ attitudes, we collected data from 338 participants aged between 24â€36 years, employing three different methodologies that varied in degree of explicitness: the Attitudes towards Languages Questionnaire (Schoel et al., 2012), the Matched Guise Technique (Lambert et al., 1960), and the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald et al., 1998).
Data from each method will be investigated in relation to several indicators of early exposure
collected through a linguistic background questionnaire, as well as to extralinguistic variables – notably gender – while attitude dimensions such as status and solidarity will also be explored.
Preliminary results suggest potential links between bilingual language policy and speakers’
attitudes, with possible interactions between types of exposure and some of the attitude scores. This research can provide insight into how different policies may affect language attitudes, and the role of early exposure as potential mediator.
8 Sep 2024
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)This paper explored the relationship between early language exposure and the language attitudes of Welsh-English speakers in north-west Wales.
Our findings indicate the importance of early language exposure in forming implicit attitudes, which suggests that increased means of exposure, particularly beyond educational contexts, should receive more attention in Welsh language policy and planning, and more generally in minority language situations where a good level of educations use has been established.
12 Jul 2024
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Plenary talk at Research Methodologies Conference 2024.
10 Jul 2024
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Speakers’ attitudes are considered a fundamental barometer for the vitality of a language (e.g., UNESCO, 2003). This, together with findings that implicit attitudes are generally stronger predictors of habitual and spontaneous behaviour (e.g., Perugini, 2005), raises two core questions: (1) which types
of attitudes and thus which attitude measurements are better predictors of language usage? (2) to what extent do different language policies feed different types of speakers’ attitudes? We explored these questions by measuring rates of spontaneous language usage and comparing them with attitudinal results from two methods that vary in degrees of implicitness: the Matched Guise Technique (Lambert et al., 1960) and the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald, McGhee & Schwartz, 1998) across two bilingual communities whose regional/minority languages receive radically different degrees of sociopolitical recognition: Lombard–Italian (Italy) and Welsh–English (UK). Results from 163 participants
aged between 24–36 years show that usage rates correlate with MGT status scores for Lombard but not for Welsh. The reverse holds for IAT scores, correlating with usage rates for Welsh but not Lombard.
We propose that these findings can be understood in view of the different socio-political support associated with the two languages: while strong support for Welsh led to its use becoming habitual and thus able to be captured by implicit attitude measurements, the use of Lombard has been discouraged for decades, and therefore younger speakers who choose to use it are making a more deliberate, conscious decision, resulting in behaviour that corelates with the less implicit measurements of the MGT. These results have important implications for the study of language attitudes, particularly for the measurement of attitudes as a proxy for language vitality. Specifically, they suggest that the degree to which an attitudinal measurement can predict linguistic behaviour depends partly on the social and political circumstances of the language at issue.
12 Jun 2024 – 16 Jun 2024
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Oral presentation
25 May 2024
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)23 May 2024
Activity: Consultancy (Advisor)External Examiner
21 May 2024
Activity: Examination (Examiner)Paper presented at VALS-ASLA 2024:
Asymmetries and inequalities between major languages and regional/minority/endangered languages are often reflected in – as well as a consequence of – language policy and the linguistic attitudes held by speakers of those languages (e.g., Fishman, 1991; Trudgill, 1992; UNESCO, 2003). In this paper, we present two large studies investigating the relationship between language attitudes and different levels of socio-political recognition in three European communities where a minority/endangered language co-exists in an asymmetric relationship with a sociolinguistically dominant language.
The communities under investigation are Lombard-Italian speakers in Italy, Moselle Franconian-German speakers in Belgium, and Welsh-English speakers in Wales. These communities are markedly different in terms of their language policies and the degrees of socio-political recognition of their minority/endangered language. In Wales, the Welsh language enjoys full socio-political recognition and strong public support (e.g. Baker, 2003); in the Eifel region of Belgium, while Moselle Franconian does not enjoy direct recognition, its speakers are a recognised linguistic minority, albeit it as German speaking, with Moselle-Franconian indirectly supported as a closely-related variety of German (Möller, 2017); meanwhile, despite a mention in a regional law, Lombard does not feature among the languages that the Italian government deems worthy of protection, and as such does not benefit from any active policy (Coluzzi, 2007; Coluzzi et al., 2018).
To investigate the potential inequalities that emerge from the different socio-political situations across the three bilingual communities, we collected data from a total of 235 participants aged between 24-36 years employing two different methodologies. This resulted in the collection of attitudinal measurements that varied in degree of explicitness: the Attitudes Towards Language Questionnaire (AToL, Schoel et al., 2013) measured explicit/overt language attitudes, while an adaptation of the Matched Guise Technique (MGT, Lambert, Gardner and Fillenbaum, 1960) measured less overt and more indirect attitudes towards the communities’ languages via the speaker-evaluation paradigm.
Results from the AToL suggest a link between degree of socio-political recognition and overall overt attitude, with Welsh scoring higher than both Moselle Franconian and Lombard, and Moselle-Franconian scoring higher than Lombard.
The link between degree of socio-political recognition and attitudes is further supported by the MGT results, where an interaction between community and attitude score suggests that the attitudes held towards each language type (i.e., majority language vs minority language) depend on the community, with Wales and Belgium scoring the minority/endangered language more positively than the majority language, while Lombardy shows the opposite trend.
Analyses of the solidarity and status components of the MGT show that consistent language policy (e.g., in Wales) is strongly reflected in speakers’ attitudes, while the type of “benign neglect†(e.g., Fishman, 2004: 115) we see in Lombardy tends to continually encourage negative attitudes towards the endangered language, perpetuating asymmetries and possibly accelerating endangerment.
12 Feb 2024 – 13 Feb 2024
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)Public seminar (online) on issues of language planning for the Sicilian language.
30 Jan 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)
2023
Paper presented at Linguistics Beyond and Within 2023:
Speakers’ attitudes are considered a fundamental barometer for the current and future vitality of a language, with recent work emphasising the importance of methodological developments (Kircher & Zipp, 2022). This, together with the growing concern surrounding the replicability of results across the social sciences, including in linguistics (Grieve, 2021), calls for urgent developments in research practices, including the adoption of more consistent and comparable implementations of method. In this paper, we present a series of studies conducted using a newly developed digital application for the collection, storage and transfer of data for research in multilingualism and language attitudes, specifically designed for research in bilingual populations who speak a majority language and a regional/minority/heritage language. This application offers the fundamental benefit of enhancing consistency and comparability within and across studies, which also improves reproducibility, for example by ensuring that presentation of stimuli for a speaker evaluation paradigm (Lambert et al., 1960) is more strictly controlled both across participants and across studies. As the source code is publicly available and version-controlled, other researchers can easily view and reconstruct tasks exactly as they were administered. The application was recently employed across three European communities whose regional/minority languages receive radically different degrees of socio-political recognition: Lombard (Italy), Moselle Franconian (Belgium), and Welsh (UK).Our results reveal fundamental differences in attitude scores depending on measurement type (questionnaire vs. speaker evaluation paradigm). Besides reinforcing the view that different measurements are likely to tap on different attitudinal constructs (e.g., Pantos, 2019), these results also suggest that different measurement methods may gather data on different attitude objects. We argue that this highlights a need for a more holistic approach to the measurement of language attitudes, where a battery of tests – as opposed to a single measure – should become the norm, as it has done in other research areas.
13 Oct 2023
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Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education
12 Oct 2023
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Paper presented at Documenting languages, Documenting Cultures 2023. The conference focuses on the topic of language documentation from the various perspectives offered by different ‘minority’ situations (migrant languages, minority languages, dialects). Its aim is to provide an interdisciplinary look at a topic which is today the focus of renewed interest, both in epistemological and theoretical terms.
6 Oct 2023
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Paper presented at the Welsh Linguistics Seminar
27 Jun 2023
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Member of Scientific Committee
Mar 2023 – 25 May 2024
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2022
12 Sep 2022
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)19 Jun 2022
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)invited talk at the Laz Institute, Istanbul, Turkey.
17 May 2022
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2021
Plenary talk at the conference "New Contexts for the Use of Minoritized Languages", University of Zadar, Croatia.
27 May 2021
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Invited talk at the Center for languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden.
14 May 2021
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2020
Invited talk at theÌýThe Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study, University of Greifswald, Germany.Ìý
11 Dec 2020
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2019
An introduction to language planning concepts, ideas and activities for members of a non-profit organisation working towards the recognition, maintenance and development of the Venetan language, which is currently denied recognition by the Italian government.
31 Mar 2019
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Popularisation event.
Audience: general public, 3rd sector organisations, local policy makers.
Content: An overview of how the benefits of bilingualism apply to local communities.
30 Mar 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Popularisation event.
Audience: secondary school pupils.
Content: An overview of how regional bilingualism is implemented across Europe.
30 Mar 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Talk given at the 2019 Multilingual Learning Conference
1 Mar 2019
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2018
Invited talk at the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism, University of Reading.
28 Nov 2018
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Knowledge Exchange event, reporting on how experiences from Welsh language policy are informing developments in Lombardy and in Italy more broadly.
21 Jun 2018
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)Awareness raising event for the general public. Discussing the current position of Lombard and comparing it to more successful regional language situations in Europe.
23 May 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker)Awareness raising event for the general public. Discussing the current position of regional languages in Italy and the advantages that bilingualism could bring.
23 May 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker)Awareness raising event for the general public. Discussing the current position of Lombard and comparing it to more successful regional language situations in Europe.
20 May 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker)Awareness raising event (research impact)
May 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Speaker)Awareness raising event for the general public. Discussing the current position of Lombard and comparing it to more successful regional language situations in Europe.
19 Apr 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker)co-authored with Mauro Tosco, University of Turin
2018
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)2018
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser)
2017
2017
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Plenary address
2017
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminars, University of Cambridge.
2017
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Keynote address
2017
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)2017
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Linked to the impact case study "Reversing the history of Lombard: An Impact Case Study" (linked to the IAA project “Supporting maintenance, use, and development of newly recognised regional languagesâ€).
2017
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)Talk organised by the Cambridge Group for Endangered Languages and Cultures (CELC), University of Cambridge.
2017
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)2017
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)
2016
2016
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)2016
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser)Evaluating undergraduate programmes in Linguistics, University of Brighton.
2016 – 2020
Activity: Examination (Examiner)2016
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Participant)
2015
to the Regional Government of Lombardy (Italy). Advising on the development of language maintenance policy and activities, including the drafting of new laws on cultural and linguistic heritage and providing support in popularisation meetings and events. This activity is linked to the Impact Case Study “Reversing the history of Lombardâ€.
18 Oct 2015 →
Activity: Consultancy (Consultant)2015
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)2015
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)2015
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2014
2014
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2013
9 Sep 2013
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)Member of the Committee
6 Jun 2013 →
Activity: Membership of committee (Chair)This international conference will bring together linguists, political scientists, legal experts, writers, activists and other scholars working on the current status and future prospects of such ‘contested’ languages, as well as on issues of corpus and status planning and how these impact on both the speaker communities and the academic world.
2013
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser)2013
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)2013
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
Projects
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01/08/2021 – 30/04/2025 (Finished)
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01/04/2012 – 30/09/2015 (Finished)
Other Information
Selected presentations and invited talks
- (2022) Tamburelli, M. “Attitudes reversed: how Ausbau-centric approaches hinder the maintenance of linguistic diversityâ€. Keynote talk at LABiC 2022: International conference on bilingualism with local languages, Language Attitudes and Bi(dia)lectal Competence, University of Venice, Italy.
- (2022) Tamburelli, M. “Language Contestation as a Route to Endangermentâ€. Talk invited by the Laz Institute and delivered at the Endangered Languages Colloquium, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.
- (2021) Tamburelli, M. “Myth busters: Online platforms and emerging ideological shift among Lombard speakers.†Plenary talk at the conference New Contexts for the Use of Minoritized Languages, University of Zadar, Croatia.
- (2020) Tamburelli, M. “Regional Language Maintenance and the Importance of Digital Domains.†Invited talk at the conference Minority Languages in the Digital Age, The Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study, University of Greifswald, Germany.
- (2019) Tamburelli, M. “Bilingual advantage and home language use: the case of minority languages†Invited talk at the 2019 Multilingual Learning Conference, European Council of International Schools (ECIS), London, UK.
- (2019) Tamburelli, M. “Bilingualism and local communities.†Invited talk at CILVE2 (Second International Conference on the Venetan Language), Vicenza, Italy.
- (2018) Tamburelli, M. and Tosco, M. “Contested Languages FAQsâ€. Oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Contested Languages in the Old World (CLOW-3), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Tamburelli, M. (2017) “Finding languages: from an old problem to a modern challenge.†Plenary address at UPCEL Language in Society, 20-22 September 2017, University of Madrid, Spain.
- Tamburelli, M. (2017) ‘The hidden multilingualism of Italy: issues and challenges’ Invited talk at ‘Endangered and Minority Languages of Italy’, Cambridge Group for Endangered Languages and Cultures (CELC), University of Cambridge, UK (January 2017).
- Tamburelli, M. (2017) “Issues in Romance classification: the case of Gallo-Italic†Invited talk at the Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminars, University of Cambridge, UK (January 2017).