Languages
Romance languages (especially Spanish and Italian; further French, Friaul, Sicilian)
Slavic languages (especially Czech; further Polish, Bulgarian)
Germanic languages (especially German; further English)
Finno-Ugric: Finnish
Tupi–Guarani: Guaraní (Paraguay); Chibchan: Bribri (Costa Rica)
Subfields & Research interests
Theoretical and experimental phonology and prosody
Theoretical and experimental syntax (pro-drop, word order, questions)
Language contact and change
Language variation and sociolinguistics
Second language acquisition
Information structure
The syntax-phonology interface
Discourse analysis
Dialectology
Linguistic Landscape
Forensic linguistics