Anastasia Parini

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Anastasia Parini is a PhD student in Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience, under the supervision of Prof. Maria Teresa Guasti.
After her BA in Languages, Civilisation and the Science of Language (L-11) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, with an experimental thesis on phonological phenomena in Italian Sign Language (LIS), “Phonological Phenomena in Italian Sign Language (LIS): Epenthesis and Repetition Loss”, supervised by Prof. Chiara Branchini, she obtained her MA in Language Sciences (LM-39) at the same University, with an experimental thesis on some aspects of the syntax of LIS, “Indexical signs (IX) in clause-final position in Italian Sign Language (LIS) – A preliminary study”, supervised by Prof. Chiara Branchini and Prof. Anna Cardinaletti.
She then collaborated with the LeibnizDream research group with a BORSA DI RICERCA, after which she worked for a year as a post-doc researcher on some aspects of LIS linguistics, both supervised by Prof. Maria Teresa Guasti.
Her PhD is part of the ERC Project “Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind”, and it will focus on language acquisition in LIS.

Upcoming Events

February 3, 2025
February 10, 2025
  • BIL Seminar "What does atypicality really mean? Language acquisition in autism" - Mikhail Kissine February 10, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm U6, Sala Lauree, Terzo piano

    Abstract: 
    "Research on language in autism mostly explores delayed acquisition or atypical use, the reference point being language in non-autistic individuals. Such approaches focus on language disability, but somewhat downplay the acquisition routes that may be specific to autism. More specifically, typical language development is known to be intimately linked to socio-pragmatic, joint communicative experiences. Early-onset and life-long atypicality in the socio-communicative domain are core characteristics of autism, and likely explain why language onset is often significantly delayed in autistic children. However, it is also usually assumed that language trajectories in autism should be correlated with an increase of socio-communicative skills, such as joint attention. In this talk, I will review evidence that some autistic individuals may, in fact, acquire language in spite of persisting strong socio-communicative disabilities. I will also present new results that show that some autistic children are interested in language in and of itself, independently of its communicative function, and display enhanced sensitivity to the acoustic and structural properties of the linguistic input."

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