Chiara Saponaro

saponaro_fotoChiara Saponaro è una dottoranda in Psicologia, Linguistica e Neuroscienze Cognitive sotto la supervisione della prof.ssa Maria Teresa Guasti.

Si è laureata in Scienze Cognitive presso il CIMeC – Università degli Studi di Trento con una tesi sperimentale sulle tipologie di rappresentazioni concettuali accessibili quando lo stimolo linguistico è presentato al di fuori del processamento consapevole.

La sua ricerca di dottorato, che rientra all’interno del progetto ERC “Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind”, si propone di indagare le preferenze di interpretazione e i pattern di produzione di frasi semanticamente ambigue in bambini scolari e prescolari.

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  • BIL Seminar "What does atypicality really mean? Language acquisition in autism" - Mikhail Kissine febbraio 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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