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Pagliai, Irene, Dr.
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Pagliai, Irene, Dr.

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Dr. Irene Pagliai, Postdoctoral Researcher
Bienroder Weg 80, Room 206
Tel.: +49 (0)531/391 8703
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04/2026 – present Postdoctoral Researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), English Linguistics, Technische Universität Braunschweig.
10/2025 – 11/2025 Research Fellow, EMC2 – Energy in Multilingual and Multicultural Communication and Communities (EU project), University of Cagliari.
09/2025 PhD in General Linguistics, University of Göttingen (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Anke Holler, Prof. Dr. Caroline Sporleder, Dr. Thomas Weskott, Prof. Dr. Alessandro Lenci); title: “Capturing Idiom Complexity. A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Intra-Idiom Variation and the Interplay Between Idiomatic Features and Contextual Integration”.
09/2021 – 04/2025 PhD candidate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), DFG-funded Research Training Group 2636 “Form-Meaning Mismatches”, University of Göttingen
09/2018 – 03/2021 MA in Linguistics, University of Bologna
2019 – 2020 Erasmus stay, Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse
09/2014 – 07/2018 BA in Humanities, University of Bologna
Research and Teaching

Research Interests

Lexical Semantics
Psycholinguistics
Language and Cognition
Cross-Linguistic Analysis
Linguistic Creativity
Corpus Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Computational Linguistics
Pragmatics

 

Teaching

Lexical Semantics
Semantics and Pragmatics
Introduction to Linguistics

Publications

Pagliai, I. (submitted for review). (Don’t) take this literally: human and LLM judgments in atypical idiom contexts. Linguistics Vanguard.

Pagliai, I. (2026). Some cakes have icing, others have a cherry: Does it make a difference? A cross-linguistic norming study on 150 pairs of English and Italian idioms [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bv6jw v1

Pagliai, I. (2025). ‘Well, if you want to play with fire, make sure the flames are tamed’: Investigating the integration of idiom literal completions across literal and creative contexts. Language and Cognition, 17, e55. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2025.10013

Pagliai, I., van Boven, G., Adewumi, T., Alkhaled, L., Gurung, N., Södergren, I., & Smith, E. H. B. (2024). Data bias according to Bipol: Men are naturally right and it is the role of women to follow their lead. In M. Abbas & A. A. Freihat (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2024) (pp. 34–46). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.04838

Adewumi, T., Alkhaled, L., Gurung, N., van Boven, G., & Pagliai, I. (2024). Fairness and bias in multimodal AI: A survey. arXiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.19097

Pagliai, I. (2024). Idiom Complexity in Apple-Pie Order: the Disentanglement of Decomposability and Transparency. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon @ LREC-COLING 2024 (pp. 49–55). https://aclanthology.org/2024.cogalex-1.6/

Pagliai, I. (2023). Bridging the Gap: Creation of a Lexicon of 150 Pairs of English and Italian Idioms Including Normed Variables for the Exploration of Idiomatic Ambiguity. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.123

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