Chiara Saponaro is a postdoctoral researcher in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Within the ERC Synergy project “Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind”, she examines on the one hand children’s acquisition of quantifiers and on the other how meaning ambiguity is perceived and resolved, probing the linguistic and cognitive mechanisms that shape these processes.
She earned her PhD in Psychology, Linguistics, and Cognitive Neuroscience under the supervision of Prof. Maria Teresa Guasti. Her doctoral work investigated children’s interpretive preferences and linguistic production strategies when dealing with semantically ambiguous sentences.
She holds a degree in Cognitive Science from the CIMeC – University of Trento, where she completed an experimental thesis on the types of conceptual representations that can be accessed when linguistic stimuli are processed outside conscious awareness.
