Giulia Mornati

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Giulia Mornati is a PhD student of the University of Milan-Bicocca. Her project, “Understanding word function in Italian children aged 12 to 24 months”, is under the supervision of Maria Teresa Guasti.

She graduated in Clinical Psychology, Development and Neuropsychology in 2014 at the University of Milan-Bicocca. Later she worked as a research assistant at the Child Psychopathology Unit of the IRCCS E.Medea – Associazione La Nostra Famiglia (Bosisio Parini, LC). She was involved in a research project under the supervision of Dr. Chiara Cantiani aimed at the identification of early neurophysiological markers for language and learning disorders and the different evolutionary trajectories in infants from 6 months of life.

During her PhD she will study the morphology in Italian children from 12 months old and in particular the comprehension of articles and clitics.

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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