Giulia Bettelli has earned her Ph.D. in Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Milan – Bicocca, under the supervision of Prof. Fabrizio Arosio, with a thesis entitled ‘The effectiveness of a morphosyntactic priming-based training program in different populations’. With this thesis, the effectiveness of such a training specifically designed to help L2 Italian children and children with Developmental Language Disorders (DLD) in the acquisition of third-person direct object clitic pronouns and passive sentences has been proved.
Her main research interests include syntax and bilingualism, as well as pragmatic phenomena such as irony detection through different means of communication and crosslinguistically.
