Eleonora Beccaluva

_MG_6627Eleonora Beccaluva è una dottoranda in ‘Psicologia, Linguistica e Neuroscienze Cognitive’ sotto la supervisione del Professor Fabrizio Arosio, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, e della prof.ssa Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano.

Eleonora si è laureata in Psicologia presso l’Università degli Studi di Torino e ha lavorato come assegnista di ricerca presso l’Innovative Interactive Interfaces Lab https://i3lab.polimi.it/ del Politecnico. La sua ricerca si focalizza sulla progettazione, lo sviluppo e la valutazione di tecnologie interattive innovative a supporto delle disabilità e delle fragilità tra le quali la realtà virtuale immersiva, i robot sociali, le stanze multisensoriali e l’interazione motion-based.

Durante il suo dottorato si occuperà della rilevazione e potenziamento di abilità linguistiche e cognitive in bambini e adolescenti con problemi dello spettro autistico e con disturbi evolutivi del linguaggio attraverso l’uso di ambienti immersivi, realtà mista e Tangible User Interfaces.

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settembre 17, 2024
  • BIL Seminar: Margreet Vogelzang settembre 17, 2024 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Aula 3143 U6 Bicocca

    Introducing the concept of (bilingual) reference profiles: A cluster-analysis approach

    Empirical studies on bilingual children’s reference production have often focussed on comparisons with monolingual peers. In this talk, I will introduce the concept of “reference profiles”: Speakers may exhibit similar or different behaviours in reference production, independently of whether they belong to a specific group (e.g., monolinguals or bilinguals) or whether their production adheres to some norm.
    As an empirical example, I will present data from thirty-seven Greek-Italian bilingual children (Mage = 9;4, range 7;10-11;6) who performed narrative retelling tasks in both of their languages, as well as vocabulary tasks and various cognitive tasks. The data show that the children had a good mastery of reference (i.e. appropriately using null pronouns, full pronouns, or full nouns) in both of their languages. Using cluster analyses, two distinct reference profiles were identified. Further investigation showed that these profiles differed in both their sustained attention and in the use of overspecified REs in contexts where reference to the same referent was maintained. These results are interpreted in light of current cognitive theories of (bilingual) reference processing and emphasise the potential of (reference) profiles for the study of other domains beyond bilingual reference production.

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