Emily Stanford

fe13883cee2365c0974773c04d731b17_f1025Emily Stanford ha un Dottorato in Linguistica conseguito all’Università di Ginevra con una specializzazione in Psicolinguistica.

Nella sua attuale ricerca post-dottorale all’Università di Ginevra, che è un’estensione del progetto Europeo ‘Syntactic Cartography and Locality in Adult Grammar and Language Acquisition (SynCart)’, sta indagando se l’acquisizione della sintassi nello sviluppo tipico è determinata dalla geometria dell’albero sintattico.

Inoltre, è la destinataria di un bando di mobilità post-dottorale rilasciato dalla Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) tramite il quale è attualmente in visita presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. La sua ricerca legata a questo bando intende esaminare la validità diagnostica di nuove misure indipendenti dal linguaggio nella valutazione di deficit sintattici in bambini multilingui.

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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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