Letizia Raminelli

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Letizia Raminelli è dottoranda di ricerca in Psicologia, Linguistica e Neuroscienze Cognitive presso l’Università di Milano-Bicocca sotto la supervisione della Prof.ssa Maria Teresa Guasti.

Letizia si è laureata in “Language and Mind: Linguistics and Cognitive Studies” presso l’Università degli Studi di Siena, con una tesi sperimentale sulla comprensione del si riflessivo in bambini monolingui e bilingui italiani in età prescolare.

Il suo dottorato, che rientra nel progetto europeo “Realising Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind”, si concentra sull’acquisizione delle particelle focali negative persino…non, neppure, nemmeno e neanche, e indaga l’interazione tra negazione e inferenze scalari e additive in comprensione e produzione in bambini monolingui italiani di età prescolare e scolare.

 

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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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