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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Tenured full professors | Germanic Linguistics

Birgit Alber

Birgit.Alber@unibz.it

+39 0472 014210

BX A3.36b
Faculty of Education
Regensburger Allee 16 - viale Ratisbona, 16
39042
Brixen-Bressanone

Courses

Comparative Grammar of German and Italian

12415C · L-LIN/14 · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - German section · DE

German Linguistics

12405A · L-LIN/14 · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - German section · DE

German Linguistics (Lab.)

12405B · L-LIN/14 · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - German section · DE

Language and media comunication

17327 · L-LIN/14 · Bachelor in Communication Sciences and Culture · DE

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Main Research Areas

- the phonology of German and its varieties
- description and analysis of the Germanic varieties of Northern Italy (Tyrolean, Mòcheno and Cimbrian), compared to their Romance contact varieties
- theoretical phonology in the framework of Optimality Theory (the analysis of linguistic typologies)
- analysis of the stress patterns of the world's languages
- prosodic morphology (the typology of truncation)
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