Francesco Giannelli is a Phd student in the Psychology department of the University of Milano Bicocca, under the supervision of prof. Maria Teresa Guasti.
He started his academic career in the University of Napoli “L’Orientale”, doing a BA in “Comparative Languages and Literatures”, where he studied English, Chinese and Spanish language. In 2009 he moved to Siena for a 2 years MA in “Linguistics”, where he was supervised by prof. Luigi Rizzi. Here he gained solid syntactic and morphologic knowledge. In 2011 he started a MSc in “Neuroscience of Language” in the University of Reading, in the United Kingdom, where he learned the Neurolinguistics methods used in research and in assessment clinic.
In 2012 he entered the PhD program in “Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience” in Milan, where he is currently working. His main research focuses are the brain mechanisms of second language acquisition and processing; the electrophysiology of language in bilingual speakers; and the role of language proficiency and of age of acquisition in bilinguals cognition; and on linguistic prediction.
