Professor Francesco Cavallero

Francesco Cavallero is Associate Professor in the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies and Head of the Centre for Modern Languages at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Before this, he held positions at various universities in Australia and he is now living and working in Singapore.

Francesco Cavallero's research interests are in sociolinguistics and the social aspects of bilingualism, especially of minority groups in multilingual contexts. He has published on language maintenance and shift, the demographics of the Italian community in Australia, language attitudes in Singapore and on minority groups in South East Asia.  His main research focus is the survival of minority languages and the factors that influence both language maintenance and shift. He is the author of the book Transgenerational language shift: From Sicilian and Italian to Australian English, published in 2010 by The Italian Australian Institute at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia).

Selected publications

Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco, Cavallaro, Francesco and Kratochvíl, František (2018) Abui Landscape Names: Origin and Functions. In Onoma: Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences.

Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco, and Francesco Cavallaro (2018) Roots from the Archipelago: Proto-Alor Etymologies in the Context of Alor Languages. In Annals of the University of Craiova: Series Philology - Linguistics, 40(1/2), in press.

Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco, and Francesco Cavallaro (2018) Lamòling is Back: Immanence and Unwritten Legends in Alor. In Religion, 49(Special Issue), forthcoming.
Cavallaro, Francesco, Mark Seilhamer, Ho Yen Yee and Ng Bee Chin (2018) Attitudes to Mandarin Chinese Varieties in Singapore. In Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 28(2).