izv. prof. dr. sc. Nada Poropat Jeletić

Title:	Associate professor
Function:	Director of the Centre for Research on the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria; Head of the Postgraduate Study in Translation; Academic Coordinator for Erasmus Mobility
Location:	Ured 281 (Noordung Campus, Negrijeva ulica 6)
Public phone number:	+385 99 302 4444
E-mail:	E-mail
Official web page URL:	https://ffpu.unipu.hr/ffpu/nada.poropat_jeletic
Department:	Katedra za talijanski jezik

Teaching

undergraduate

• Basics of Grammar (272775) - Lecturer in charge
• Bilingualism and multilingualism (212672) - Lecturer in charge
• Bilingualism and multilingualism (244798) - Lecturer in charge, Lecturer in charge
• Early bilingualism and multilingualism (200217) - Lecturer in charge
• Introduction to pragmalinguistics (227517) - Lecturer in charge
• Italian Language and Literature 2 (255162) - Lecturer in charge
• Roman Linguistics (200915) - Lecturer in charge
• Theory of Llanguages and Cultures in Contact (158397) - Lecturer in charge
• Variations & Use in Modern Italian Language (46896) - Lecturer in charge

graduate

• Early bilingualism in education (244497) - Lecturer in charge
• Glottodidactics (245579) - Lecturer in charge
• Grammatical Analysis (275147) - Lecturer in charge
• Historical Grammar (146991) - Lecturer in charge
• Legal characteristics of multilingualism (245578) - Lecturer in charge

integrated undergraduate and graduate

• Early bilingualism and multilingualism (119167) - Lecturer in charge
• Early bilingualism and multilingualism (273672) - Lecturer in charge

undergraduate

• Early bilingualism and multilingualism (174581) - Lecturer in charge

Consultations

Office hours: by appointment via e-mail (nada.poropat.jeletic@unipu.hr)

Biography

Nada Poropat Jeletić, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Pula, also involved in teaching within study programs of the Faculty of Educational Sciences and the Faculty of Economics and Tourism in Pula. She is the Director of the Centre for Research on the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria and the head of the Postgraduate Course Study in Translation. Furthermore, she is the Academic Coordinator for the Erasmus+ mobility between European higher education institutions, member of the PLIDA Certification Center Board of the Dante Alighieri Society in Rome and member of the examination board for professional exams at the Agency for Education and Training in Zagreb. Between 2018 and 2020 she served as the Deputy Head of the ITALI Double Degree University Program, developed in collaboration with the University of Perugia (Italy). She was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Romance Philology of the University of Wroclaw (June 2016) and at the University of Perugia (October 2016).

International scientific projects:

Neurocognitive abilities and early bilingual development: language exposure and executive functions (NeuroLEEF)
European Union - Principal Investigator: N. Poropat Jeletić, PhD

Cross-linguistic influence during real time processing (CLEAR)
HORIZON-MSCA, European Union, UiT The Arctic University of Tromso - Principal Investigator: M. Westergaard, PhD

Multilingual minds (MuMin)
Research Council of Norway - Principal Investigator: N. Mitrofanova, PhD

Mapping the cognitive predictors of L2 grammar proficiency 
University of Cambridge - Principal Investigators: M. Bozic, PhD; S. Les, PhD; J. Kwek, PhD

Morphological overabundance (MOPREH)
European Union - Principal Investigator: T. Bošnjak Botica, PhD

Multilevel approach to discourse in language development (MultiDIS)
Croatian Science Foundation - Principal Investigator: G. Hržica, PhD

Linguistic memory archive of Istria
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Italy - Principal Investigators: E. Moscarda Mirković, PhD; F. Crevatin, PhD

Official bilingualism in the Slovene and the Croatian Istria: the traslation of administrative texts
Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia - Principal Investigators: I. Lalli Paćelat, PhD; M. Kompara Lukančič, PhD

Intercultural approach to linguistic, literary and didactic contents
Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia - Principal Investigator: R. Scotti Jurić, PhD

Assoc. Prof. Nada Poropat Jeletić obtained a PhD in the field of Humanities, specializing in Philology, with a focus on Romance Studies, in 2014 at the University of Zadar (summa cum laude). Additionally, she was a recipient of a doctoral scholarship awarded by the Italian Union and the Popular University of Triest from 2011 to 2014. During her studies she gained international experience at prestigious institutions (Harvard, Oxford, Sydney, Hamburg, Barcelona, Rome, Padua and so forth), participating in advanced training programs that refined her methodological and interdisciplinary approach. She started her professional path with an internship in 2010/2011 at INFORMO/European Academy for Education and Social Research (Buje/Dublin), a national contact point for the European Project Association (EPA), where she developed expertise in entrepreneurial culture dissemination, management techniques and the organization of educational programs within the My-Europa eAcademy platform, as well as in European project planning under the European FP7 collaborative project framework (FP7).

Between 2011 and 2014 she was as a Research Assistant at the Department of Studies in the Italian Language of the University in Pula, later continuing as a Postdoctoral Researcher from 2014 to 2016. From 2016 to 2022 she was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary, Italian and Cultural Studies and from 2022 on she hold the position of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the “Juraj Dobrila” University of Pula. Throughout her academic career, she has taught a diverse array of courses across undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs, including: Glottodidactics; Legal Aspects of Multilingualism; Pragmalinguistics; Computational Tools for Linguistic Analysis; Contrastive Linguistics; Romance Philology; Historical Grammar; Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Early Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in the European Union; Phonetics and Phonology; Morphology; Syntax; Grammatical Analysis; Introduction to Linguistics; Professional translation for the Banking and Financial Sector; Professional translation for the Tourism and Hospitality Sector, etc.

As the principal investigator, she is leading the international scientific project "Neurocognitive abilities and early bilingual development: language exposure and executive functions" (European Union, 2025–2029) and is currently collaborating on three other international research projects: "Multilingual minds" (Research Council of Norway), "Cross-linguistic influence during real time processing" (Horizon-MSCA, European Commission) and "Morphological overabundance in Croatian Language" (Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics, European Union). In collaboration with Professor Malte Rosemeyer (Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Philosophy and Philology, Laboratory for Speech Studies), she is involved in an advisory role in the implementation of a doctoral scientific research (2025–2029) within the project "Experimental replication of historical reanalysis processes (ExRean)" (principal investigator: Prof. Malte Rosemeyer, PhD), funded by the European Research Council with a total grant of 2 million euros. 

She is the author of four monographs, has edited six collective volumes and has published around forty scientific papers in internationally recognized academic journals, conference proceedings and monographs (in the United States of America, Switzerland, Norway, England, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, etc.), with a focus on pragmalinguistic, sociolinguistic and neurocognitive aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism. She has participated in approximately forty national and international scientific conferences (United States of America, England, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Italy, Estonia, Malta, etc.) and in more than fourty programmes of scientific and pedagogical training. She serves on editorial boards and acts as a guest editor for various international scientific monographs and academic journals and she contributes to peer-review processes for several distinguished international journals and edited volumes (Oxford University Press Journal of Lexicography, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development – Taylor & Francis, Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics; University of Toronto Press, Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana, etc.). 

She has actively taken part in the work of numerous organising committees of international scientific conferences and in professional development programmes under the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute in Zagreb and the Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency (AZOO), as well as in the organisation of science-popularisation events held under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, the General Consulate of Italy in Rijeka, the Popular University of Triest and the Italian Union in Rijeka. She also participated in organisational activities related to scientific dissemination aimed at fostering early neurocognitive development within the NTC Sistema di apprendimento – Stimolazione precoce dei bambini e sviluppo delle capacità intellettive attraverso il gioco, implemented under the patronage of MENSA International and UNICEF, led by Dr. Ranko Rajović and Prof. dr. Andrea Debeljuh. She is a member of several academic committees and professional associations.

A significant component of the scientific activity of Associate Professor Nada Poropat Jeletić, is devoted to the study of multilingual discourse and the documentation of endangered linguistic varieties, with particular emphasis on the development of digital language resources and internationally accessible corpus infrastructures. Her research is grounded in an interdisciplinary integration of corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language technologies, and discourse analysis, and relies on contemporary methodological procedures for the collection, transcription, annotation and digital processing of linguistic data. The corpora in question were developed within the framework of the international scientific research project Multilevel Approach to Discourse in Language Development (MultiDis), funded by the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ – UIP-2017-05-6603) between 2018 and 2022, under the leadership of Associate Professor Gordana Hržica, PhD. The corpora produced within the MultiDis project have been integrated into the international TalkBank infrastructure, the world’s largest database for research on language, communication, and cognition. They have been adapted to the international standards of CLAN (Computerized Language Analysis) and the CHAT protocol (Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts), and include multilevel standardized transcription, synchronization with audio recordings, syntactic segmentation, morphosyntactic annotation, and the coding of code-switching phenomena. In this way, they enable highly detailed phonological, morphosyntactic, pragmatic, and discourse-oriented investigations. Associate Professor Nada Poropat Jeletić is the co-author of the C-ORAL-IC corpus, The Corpus of Spoken Istrovenetian/Fiuman and Croatian (Poropat Jeletić, N., Moscarda Mirković, E.; Hržica, G. – BilingBank C-ORAL-IC Corpus, 2024. Retrieved from: https://biling.talkbank.org/access/C-ORAL-IC.html. DOI:10.21415/PAZ2-EP87), the most extensive digital resource of spontaneous Istrovenetian and Fiuman speech. She is also the co-author of the CABank Istriot Corpus (Moscarda Mirković, E., Poropat Jeletić, N.; Hržica, G. – CABank Istriot Corpus, 2024. Retrieved from: https://ca.talkbank.org/access/Istriot.html. DOI: 10.21415/NR0X-ZZ76), the first systematically constructed and internationally available digital corpus of Istriot, one of the most endangered Romance linguistic varieties in Europe, which is listed in UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. The corpus represents an exceptionally valuable resource for digital humanities, romance linguistics, endangered-language documentation and the preservation of Europe’s intangible linguistic and cultural heritage. The development of these corpora entails complex procedures of digital processing of spoken-language data, as well as the structuring and archiving of research data in accordance with the FAIR principles of open science and with international standards for research data management.

List of select publications

Hržica, G.; Košutar, S.; Poropat Jeletić, N. - The relationship between self-assessment of language proficiency and measures of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity: evidence from bilingual speakers of Italian in Croatia // Frontiers in Communication, vol. 9 - Heritage Languages at the Crossroads: Cultural Contexts, Individual Differences, and Methodologies, 2024. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1371126/full 

Blagoni, R.; Poropat Jeletic, N.; Blecich, K. - The Italophone Reefs in the Croatophone Sea // Bilingual Landscape of the Contemporary World / Grucza, S. ; Olpińska-Szkiełko, M. ; Romanowski, P. (Ed.).
Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, 2016. p. 11-36.

Blagoni, R.; Poropat Jeletić, N.; Blecich, K. - Istroveneto e italofonia in Istria: prospettive e visioni di un'insularità etnolinguistica // Le isole linguistiche dell'Adriatico / Lucija Šimičić, Lucija ; Škevin, Ivana ; Vuletić, Nikola (Ed.).
Roma: Gioacchino Onorati Editore, 2018. p. 69-92.

Moscarda Mirković, E., Poropat Jeletić, N.; Hržica, G. - CABank Istriot Corpus, 2024. Retrieved from: https://ca.talkbank.org/access/Istriot.html. DOI: 10.21415/NR0X-ZZ76

Poropat Jeletić, N., Moscarda Mirković, E.; Hržica, G. - BilingBank C-ORAL-IC Corpus, 2024. Retrieved from: https://biling.talkbank.org/access/C-ORAL-IC.html. doi:10.21415/PAZ2-EP87

Poropat Jeletić, N. - C-ORAL-IC: dalla progettazione all'analisi con CLAN (Computerized Language Analysis) e CHAT (Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts). Pula: University of Pula, 2025 (preface and review by: dr. Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University - USA).

Professional memberships

She is a member of the following associations:

• European Academy for Education and Social Research (since 2010)
• Women of Europe Association (Field of Research) (since 2011)
• Mediterranean Studies Association (since 2011)
• Network of the Excellence of Institutional Italian - European Commission (since 2014)
• Research Society Pietas Iulia (since 2015)
• Athens Institute for Education and Research (since 2016)
• Research Center for the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria (since 2018)
• Croatian Applied Linguistics Society (since 2019)

Past employments

2026 - ongoing: Director of the Centre for Research on the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria

2026 - ongoing: Member of the examination board for national professional exams at the Agency for Education and Training in Zagreb

2024 - ongoing: Head of the Postgraduate Course Study "Translation in the framework of Croatian-Italian bilingualism"

2022 - ongoing: Associate Professor - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Pula 

2022 - ongoing: Coordinator for the ERASMUS mobility projects.

2021 - Senior Research Associate - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Pula

2019 - ongoing: Commission Examinator of the PLIDA certification centre ("Dante Alighieri" Society Language Proficiency Diplomas, Rome - Italy)

2018 - 2020: Co-Director of the Graduate Double Degree Diploma (ITAS) with the University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy)

2016 - 2022: Assistant Professor - Faculty of Interdisciplinary, Italian and Cultural studies of the University of Pula

2012 - ongoing:  Teaching Associate - Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Pula

2015: Research Associate - Department of Italian Studies of the University of Pula

2014 - 2017: Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Italian Studies of the University of Pula

2014: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) 

2011 - 2014: Doctoral scholarship by the Italian Union and the Università Popolare di Trieste (Italy)

2011 - 2014: Study-related traineeships as a visiting student: Harvard, Oxford, Sydney, Barcelona, ​​Hamburg, Rome, Padua, and so forth. 

2011 - 2014: Teaching Assistant/Research Fellow - Department of Italian Studies of the University of Pula

2010 - 2011: INFORMO / European Academy for Education and Social Reserach (Buie/Dublin) (Internship)

Scientific publications (CroRIS)