Marta Ferrari

ferrariMarta Ferrari è una dottoranda in Psicologia, Linguistica e Neuroscienze Cognitive, sotto la
supervisione della professoressa Maria Teresa Guasti.
Dopo aver partecipato a uno stage del Max Planck Institute di Antropologia Evolutiva a Lipsia, si è
laureata in Scienze Filosofiche presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano, con una tesi sulle capacità
sintattiche e ricorsive negli animali non umani. Successivamente, ha conseguito una seconda laurea
magistrale in Lettere Moderne, con una tesi sugli aspetti linguistici, neurobiologici e psicologici del
bilinguismo.
La sua ricerca di dottorato rientra all’interno del progetto ERC “Realizing Leibniz’s dream: child
languages as a mirror of the mind”.

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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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