Marta Ferrari

ferrariMarta Ferrari è una dottoranda in Psicologia, Linguistica e Neuroscienze Cognitive, sotto la
supervisione della professoressa Maria Teresa Guasti.
Dopo aver partecipato a uno stage del Max Planck Institute di Antropologia Evolutiva a Lipsia, si è
laureata in Scienze Filosofiche presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano, con una tesi sulle capacità
sintattiche e ricorsive negli animali non umani. Successivamente, ha conseguito una seconda laurea
magistrale in Lettere Moderne, con una tesi sugli aspetti linguistici, neurobiologici e psicologici del
bilinguismo.
La sua ricerca di dottorato rientra all’interno del progetto ERC “Realizing Leibniz’s dream: child
languages as a mirror of the mind”.

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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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