Alessia Cassarà is a Junior Professor at the Institute of Romance Languages of the University of Tübingen. Her field of research is Romance linguistics (Italian, French, Spanish) with a focus on language variation and change. She is fascinated by the cognitive mechanisms that regulate the survival of one linguistic form rather than the other (e.g. language economy, cognitive efficiency, etc.). To conduct her research, she combines methods from corpus linguistics with methods from experimental linguistics (e.g. elicitation tasks, structural priming).