Pragmatica sperimentale

Siamo interessati allo sviluppo della competenza pragmatica in bambini a sviluppo tipico e atipico, e alla risoluzione di compiti pragmatici in individui adulti. Mediante l’utilizzo di diverse tecnologie, indaghiamo la comprensione dei contenuti impliciti del discorso, la computazione di inferenze logiche e pragmatiche, la comprensione dei significati non letterali (metafora e ironia in particolare), modulando anche i diversi fattori contestuali o individuali che possono intervenire nella risoluzione di ambiguità di tipo pragmatico.

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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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