Michela Ippolito, University of Toronto

Research

semantics prosody gestures questions bias Italian English French

Latest funding

Non canonical questions: a multimodal approach to understanding bias
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$42,262
The semantics of pronominal clitics
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$81,300

All 2 grants and awards

Non canonical questions: a multimodal approach to understanding bias

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Ippolito, Michela

Keywords: prosody; semantics; gestures; questions; bias; Italian; English; French;Spanish

$42,262

The semantics of pronominal clitics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Ippolito, Michela

Keywords: semantics; anaphora; referring expressions; pronouns; intensionality; clitics; romance linguistics; pragmatics

$81,300

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: semantics Dear Professor Ippolito, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on semantics connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Non canonical questions: a multimodal approach to understanding bias" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]