Her research focuses primarily on spontaneous speech with special regard to intonation, temporal characteristics and voice quality (especially irregular phonation) both in typical and pathological speech. The subjects' age cover both the adulthood and the infancy from the age of 5. The pragmatic functions of prosody were also included in her studies, principally the suprasegmental characteristics of discourse markers. Her research has involved mainly acoustic analysis but recently it has been extended to articulatory investigations.