Person
Reader
- Italian Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Head of Section
- Section 3
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail petra.bernardinirom.luse
Room SOL:L514c
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I'm associate professor of Romance languages, in particular Italian, with a linguistic profile, and the Director of Romance and Classical Languages, and modern greek and the program/courses under the umbrella "multilingualism" regarding Mother tongue tuition and study guidance. I teach different courses of Italian at all levels as well as about Mother tongue tuition and study guidance, especially language acquisition.
My research field is language acquisition and bilingualism, mainly cross-linguistic influence, and code-switching in bilingual speech.
I have written about nouns and adjectives in the Italian language and about the relationships between the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and morposyntactic levels in language acquisition, A1-C2, and one about the acquisition of Italian and French at international schools. My current research regards mother tongue tuition.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies (research leader)
Books (2)
- Bernardini, P. (2004). L'italiano come prima e seconda (madre)lingua : Indagine longitudinale sullo sviluppo del DP. Études Romanes de Lund, 71. Department of Romance Languages. Dissertation.
- Bernardini, P. (2001). Lo squilibrio nell'acquisizione di due lingue nell'infanzia. Lund University. Licentiate thesis.
Editorships (3)
- Bacquin, M., Bernardini, P., Egerland, V. & Granfelt, J. (2020). (Eds.) Écrits sur les langues romanes à la mémoire d'Alf Lombard. Études romanes de Lund, 111. Centre of Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Bernardini, P., Egerland, V. & Granfeldt, J. (2009). (Eds.) Mélanges plurilingues offerts à Suzanne Schlyter à l'occasion de son 65ème anniversaire. Études Romanes de Lund, 85. Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet.
- Bardel, C., Bernardini, P., Bozier, C., Cariboni Killander, C., Fodor, M., Forné, A., Granfeldt, J., Håkansson, J., Mörte Alling, A., Pålsson, M. & Westin, E. (1998). (Eds.) Actes du premier Congrès des Romanistes Scaninaves pour étudiants en doctorat. Extra seriem Commentaires & Communications. PERLES Petites études romanes de Lund.
Articles (5)
- Bernardini, P. & Granfeldt, J. (2019). On cross‐linguistic variation and measures of linguistic complexity in learner texts: Italian, French and English. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gargiulo, C., Tronnier, M. & Bernardini, P. (2019). The role of prosody in overt pronoun resolution in a null subject language and in a non-null subject language : A production study. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 4, 1-21. Ubiquity Press Ltd..
- BERNARDINI, P. (2017). Weak interest in the weaker language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 29-30. Cambridge University Press.
- Bernardini, P. & van de Weijer, J. (2017). On the direction of cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of object clitics in French and Italian. LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 8, 204-233. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Bernardini, P. & Schlyter, S. (2004). Growing syntactic structure and code-mixing in the weaker language: The Ivy Hypothesis. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 7, 49-69. Cambridge University Press.
Book chapters (5)
- Bernardini, P. & Timofte, M. (2017). Cross- Linguistic Influence in the Bilingual Acquisition of Object Clitics : A Matter of Complexity?. In Di Domenico, E. (Ed.) Syntactic Complexity from a Language Acquisition Perspective (pp. 206-232). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Gyllstad, H., Granfeldt, J., Bernardini, P. & Källkvist, M. (2014). Linguistic correlates to communicative proficiency levels of the CEFR: The case of syntactic complexity in written L2 English, L3 French and L4 Italian. In Roberts, L., Vedder, I. & Jan H., H. (Eds.) EUROSLA Yearbook (pp. 1-30), 14. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Bernardini, P. (2011). Qualificativi, aggettivi. In Simone, R. (Ed.) Vocabolario Treccani (pp. 1200-1203), 2. Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana.
- Bernardini, P. (2010). Collettivi, nomi. In Simone, R. (Ed.) Il vocabolario Treccani : Enciclopedia dell'italiano. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (pp. 227-229), 1: A-L. Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana.
- Bernardini, P. (2003). Word order in the Italian DP in child and adult acquisition. In Müller, N. (Eds.) (In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Conference contributions (6)
- Gargiulo, C., Tronnier, M. & Bernardini, P. (2019). Prosodic features in anaphora resolution: a comparative study on Italian and Swedish.
- Gargiulo, C., Tronnier, M. & Bernardini, P. (2019). Prosodic prominence in pronoun resolution : a cross-linguistic comparison between Italian and Swedish (Poster presentation).
- Bernardini, P. & Timofte, M. (2014). Bilingual acquisition of object clitics in Romanian and Italian. Structure, Use, and Meaning in Intercultural Settings, 17-30. Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov.
- Granfeldt, J., Bernardini, P., Gyllstad, H., Källkvist, M. & Wiberg, E. (2013). Linguistic correlates to the CEFR levels.
- Granfeldt, J., Bernardini, P., Gyllstad, H., Källkvist, M. & Wiberg, E. (2012). Lingvistiska korrelat till den Gemensamma europeiska referensramens nivåer.
- Bernardini, P. (2010). Transfer in the contact between French and Italian? Evidence from the acquisition of object clitics in L2 and 2L1.
Reports (1)
Working papers (2)
- Kupisch, T. & Bernardini, P. (2007). Determiner use in Italian Swedish and Italian German children: Do Swedish and German represent the same parameter setting?. Nordlyd, 34. University of Tromsø.
- Bernardini, P. & Egerland, V. (2006). Acquisition, variation, change: On the definite article and kinship nouns in Italian. Quaderni di lavoro dell'ASIS, 5. C.N.R..
Reviews (1)
Supervision at Lund University (2)
- Gargiulo, C. (2020). On L1 Attrition and Prosody in Pronominal Anaphora Resolution. Études romanes de Lund, 110. Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet. Dissertation.
- Smidfelt, L. (2019). Studies on lexical inferencing and inter comprehension of Italian as a foreign language in a Swedish setting. Études romanes de Lund, 108. Humanistiska fakulteten, Lunds universitet. Dissertation.
Administrative
- Head of Section at Section 3
- Chairperson, Board of Section 3, Centre for Languages and Literature
- Member, The Board, Centre for Languages and Literature
Teaching
Reader
- Italian Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Head of Section
- Section 3
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail petra.bernardinirom.luse
Room SOL:L514c
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20