Carlo Cecchetto

persone_0007_cecchetto_carloCarlo Cecchetto è professore ordinario all’Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (3 mesi all’anno) e direttore di ricerca presso il CNRS francese (Unità di ricerca “Structures Formelles du Langage” a Parigi, 9 mesi all’anno).

Dopo gli studi post-laurea alle università di Milano e di Ginevra, ha avuto lavori di ricerca e insegnamento presso il San Raffaele di Milano, la Kanda University di Tokyo e l’Università degli Studi di Siena. I suoi interessi di ricerca includono la sintassi delle lingue naturali, lo studio dell’interfaccia sintassi-semantica, il ruolo della memoria a breve termine nella comprensione linguistica e la linguistica e la psicolinguistica delle lingue dei segni.

Negli ultimi dieci anni ha pubblicato articoli sulle principali riviste del settore (incluse Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language Semantics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Lingua, Applied Psycholinguistics, Cognition, Cortex, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychologia, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Experimental Brain Research, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education e Aphasiology). Ha curato diversi volumi ed è co-autore di una monografia per MIT Press.

Attualmente coordina un gruppo di lavoro (“working package”) nel progetto Horizon 2020 SIGN-HUB (“The Sign Hub: preserving, researching and fostering the linguistic, historical and cultural heritage of European Deaf signing communities with an integral resource”).

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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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