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Roberto is an affiliated lecturer in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. He is also the Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics at Homerton College, Cambridge, where he is also a Postgraduate Tutor and Praelector. Upon completion of his PhD, Roberto was the postdoctoral research associate on two different projects: ‘Rethinking Being Gricean: New Challenges for Metapragmatics’ and ‘Core Syntax in Bilingual Children’.
Roberto holds a PhD and an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. He also holds a degree in English Language Teaching from the Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa and law degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Buenos Aires.
Bilingualism.
English language teaching and assessment.
First and second language processing.
Pragmatics.
Semantics.
Research method practice.
Bilingualism.
First and second language processing.
Pragmatics.
Semantics.
- Sileo, R.B., Cilibrasi, L., Heine, J. & Tsimpli, I.M. (2024). The role of aspect on anaphora resolution in English as a first and second language. Journal of the European Second Language Association 8(1), 48-65.
- Sileo, R. B. & Jaszczolt, K.M. (2021). Towards a conceptual-semantic model of cross-sentential anaphora. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 13, 63-97.
- Jaszczolt, K. M. & Sileo, R. B. (2021). Pragmatics and Grammar as Sources of Temporal Ordering in Discourse: The Case of And. In Macagno, F. & Capone, A. (Eds.) Inquiries in Philosophical Pragmatics: Issues in Linguistics, 53-81.
- Sileo, R.B. & Tyčová, D. (2019). Czech-Rep: Introducing a nonword repetition task for Czech. Studies in Applied Linguistics 10(2), 101-107.
- Sileo, R.B. (2018a). Slurs, truth-value judgements, and context sensitivity. Human Affairs 28(1), 17-23.
- Sileo, R.B. (2018b). The semantics and pragmatics of racial and ethnic slurs: Towards a psychologically real contextualist account. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 11, 86-119.