Selected recent publications.
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
2019
Cecchetto, C., & Donati, C. (2019). Against the parallelism between the NP and the clause: evidence from idioms”. Linguistics.
Costa, F., Sharley, S., & Guasti, M.T. (2019). Does English delay learning to read Italian in primary school children? Rivista di grammatica generativa.
Giustolisi, B., Vernice, M., Cecchetto, C., Papagno, C., Burdo, S., Giuliani, A., & Guasti, M. T. (2019). Narrative skills in Italian pre-school deaf children with cochlear implant. Effects of late linguistic exposure on a late acquired domain. Lingue e Linguaggio.
Hu, S., Zhou, P., Foppolo, F., Vender, M., & Delfitto, D. (2019). Scalar implicatures in Chinese children with reading difficulties. First Language.
Mantovan, L., Giustolisi, B., & Panzeri, F. (2019). Signing something while meaning its opposite: the expression of irony in LIS. Journal of Pragmatics.
Vogelzang, M., Foppolo, F., Guasti, M. T., van Rijn, H., & Hendriks, P. (2019). Reasoning about alternative forms is costly: The processing of null and overt pronouns in Italian using pupillary responses. Discourse Processes.
2018
Arosio, F., & Giustolisi, B. (2018). Interference in direct object clitic production in Italian monolingual children. Frontiers in Communication.
Arosio, F., & Guasti M.T. (2018) The production of wh-questions by Italian-speaking children with SLI. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.
Papagno, C., & Cecchetto, C. (2018) “Is auditory-verbal short-term memory involved in sentence comprehension?”. Cortex.
Cattaneo, Z., Rinaldi, L., Geraci, C., Cecchetto, C., Papagno. C. (2018) Spatial biases in deaf, blind and deafblind individuals as revealed by a haptic line bisection task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Checchetto, A., Geraci, C., Cecchetto, C., & Zucchi, S. (2018). The language instinct in extreme circumstances: The transition to tactile Italian Sign Language (LISt) by Deafblind signers. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics.
Garraffa, M., Guasti, M. T., Marinis, T., & Morgan, G. (2018) Editorial: Language Acquisition in Diverse Linguistic, Social and Cognitive Circumstances. Frontiers in Psychology.
Giustolisi, B., & Emmorey, K. (2018). Visual statistical learning with stimuli presented sequentially across space and time in deaf and hearing adults. Cognitive Science.
Giustolisi, B., Vergallito, A., Cecchetto, C., Varoli, E., & Romero Lauro, J.L. (2018). Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal gyrus enhances sentence comprehension. Brain and Language.
Guasti, M.T., Pagliarini, E., & Stucchi, N. (2018). The rhythm of handwriting. Response to Vivian Cook’s comment on Children’s first handwriting productions show a timing structures. Inference.
Guasti, M.T., Pagliarini, E., & Stucchi, N. (2018). Language, reading and motor control: get rhythm! Biolinguistics.
Guasti, M.T., Vernice, M., & Franck, J. (2018). Continuity in the Adult and Children’s Comprehension of Subject and Object Relative Clauses in French and Italian. Languages.
Hu, S., Gavarrò, A., & Guasti, M.T. (2018). Chinese children’s knowledge of topicalization. Experimental evidence from a comprehension study. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
Hu, S., Cecchetto, C. & Guasti, M. T. (2018) A new case for structural intervention: Evidence from Wenzhounese relative clauses. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
Pagliarini, E. Crain, S. & Guasti, M. T. (2018) The compositionality of logical connectives in Italian. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
Staub, A., Foppolo, F., Donati, C., & Cecchetto, C. (2018). Relative clause avoidance: Evidence for a structural parsing principle. Journal of Memory and Language.
Vernice, M., & Pagliarini, E. (2018). Is Morphological Awareness a Relevant Predictor of Reading Fluency and Comprehension? New Evidence From Italian Monolingual and Arabic-Italian Bilingual Children. Frontiers in Communication.
Westphal-Fitch, G., Giustolisi, B., Cecchetto, C., Martin, J.S., & Fitch, W.T. (2018). Artificial Grammar Learning Capabilities in an Abstract Visual Task Match Requirements for Linguistic Syntax. Frontiers in Psychology.
2017
Arosio, F., Foppolo, F., Pagliarini, E., Perugini, M., & Guasti M.T. (2017). Semantic and pragmatic abilities can be spared in Italian children with SLI. Language learning and development.
Arosio, F., Panzeri, F., Molteni, B., Magazù, S., & Guasti, M.T. (2017). The Comprehension of Italian relative clauses in poor readers and in children with Specific Language Impairment. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics.
Giustolisi, B., Mereghetti, E., & Cecchetto, C. (2017). Phonological blending or code mixing? Why mouthing is not a core component of sign language grammar. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
Guasti, M. T. (2017). Comparison of two types of omission in child language: Articles and Third Person Direct Object Clitics. Lingue e Linguaggio.
Guasti, M. T. (2017). I disturbi specifici del linguaggio nei bambini con italiano L2. Giornale di Neuropsichiatria dell’età evolutiva.
Hu, S., & M. T. Guasti (2017). Complexity in the Acquisition of Relative Clauses from School-age sequential Mandarin-Italian Bilingual Children. International Journal of Chinese education.
Foppolo, F. & Marelli, M. (2017). No delay for some inferences. Journal of Semantics.
Foppolo, F. & Panzeri, F. (2017). Presuppositions are challenging not only for preschoolers, but also for school-aged children.In S. Pistoia-Reda, F. Domaneschi (eds.), Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions, Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition.
Pagliarini, E., Scocchia, L., Vernice, M., Zoppello, M., Balottin, U., Bouamama, S., Guasti, M.T., & Stucchi, N. (2017). Children’s first handwriting productions show a rhythmic structure. Scientific Reports.
2016
Arosio, F., Pagliarini, E., Perugini, M., Barbieri, L., & Guasti, M. T. (2016). Morphosyntax and logical abilities in Italian poor readers: The problem of SLI under-identification. First Language.
Cattaneo Z., Cecchetto, C. & Papagno, C. (2016). Deaf individuals show a leftward bias in numerical bisection. Perception.
Cecchetto, C., Giustolisi, B., & Mantovan, L. (2016). Short-term memory and sign languages. Sign span and its linguistic implications. Linguística: Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto.
Guasti, M.T., Palma, S., Genovese, E., Stagi, P., Saladini, G., & Arosio, F. (2016). The production of direct object clitics in pre-school and primary school-aged children with specific language impairments. Clinical linguistics and Phonetics.
Hu, S., Gavarró, A., & Guasti, M.T. (2016). Children’s production of head-final relative clauses: The case of Mandarin. Applied Psycholinguistics.
Hu, S., Gavarró, A., Vernice, M., & Guasti, M.T. (2016). The acquisition of Chinese relative clauses: Contrasting two theoretical approaches. Journal of Child Language.
Mantovan L., Duarte, K., Geraci, C., Cardinaletti, A. (2016). Access to knowledge: the issue of deaf students and more. Annali di Ca’ Foscari, serie Occidentale.
Panzeri, F. & Foppolo, F. (2016). Not only task matters, position also. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa.
Panzeri, F. (2016). The slurs between philosophy of language and linguistics. Rivista italiana di filosofia del linguaggio.
Papagno C., G. Minniti, G. C. Mattavelli, L. Mantovan, & Cecchetto, C. (2016). Tactile short-term memory in sensory deprived individuals. Experimental Brain Research.
Sprouse, J., Caponigro I., Greco, C., & Cecchetto, C. (2016). Experimental syntax and the variation of island effects in English and Italian. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
Vender, M., M., Garaffa, A. Sorace, & M. T., Guasti (2106). Child L2 learning and Specific Language Impairment: superficially similar but linguistically different. Clinical linguistics & phonetics.
Vernice, M., Cecchetto, C., Donati, C., & Moscati, V. (2016). Relative clauses are not adjuncts: an experimental investigation of a corollary of the raising analyses. Linguistische Berichte.
Sauerland, U., Grohmann, K. Guasti, & M. T. et al. (2016). How 5 year olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe. First Language.
2015
Pagliarini, E. Guasti, M.T., Toneatto, C., Granocchio, E., Riva,F., Sarti, D., Molteni, D.B., & Stucchi, N. (2015) Dyslexic children fail in complying with rhythmic constraints of handwriting. Human Movement Science.
Arcodia, G.F. (2015). More on the morphological typology of Sinitic. Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics.
Arcodia, G.F., Basciano, B., & Melloni, C. (2015). Areal perspectives on total reduplication of verbs in Sinitic. Studies in Language.
Cantiani, C., Lorusso, M.L., Perego, P., Molteni, M. & Guasti, M.T. (2015). Developmental Dyslexia with and without language impairment: ERPs reveal qualitative differences in morphosyntactic processing. Developmental Neuropsychology.
Cecchetto, C., Checchetto A., Geraci, C., Santoro, M., & Zucchi, S. (2015) .The Syntax of Predicate Ellipsis in Italian Sign Language (LIS). Lingua.
Foppolo, F., Marelli, M., Meroni, L., & Gualmini, A. (2015). Hey Little Sister, Who’s the Only One? Modulating Informativeness in the Resolution of Privative Ambiguity. Cognitive science.
Katsos, N. Guasti, M. T. et al. (2016). Cross-linguistic patterns in the order of acquisition of quantifiers. PNAS.
Varlokosta, S., A., Belletti, J., Costa, N., Friedemann, A., Gavarrò, K., Grohmann, M.T., Guasti, L., Tuller, M., Lobo, M., et al. (2015). A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Acquisition of Clitic and Pronoun Production. Language Acquisition.
Vernice, M., & Guasti, M. T. (2015). The acquisition of SV order in unaccusatives: manipulating the definiteness of the NP argument. Journal of Child Language.
Stavrakaki, S., Tasioudi, M., & Guasti, M. T. (2015). Morphological cues in the comprehension of relative clauses by Greek children with Specific Language Impairment and typical development: A comparative study. International Journal of Speech and Language Pathology.
2014
Arcodia, G.F. (2014). Grammaticalisation with coevolution of form and meaning in East Asia? Evidence from Sinitic. Language Sciences.
Guasti, M.T., Papagno, C., Vernice, M., Cecchetto, C., Giuliani, C., & Burdo S. (2014). The effect of language structure on linguistic strengths and weaknesses in children with cochlear implants: Evidence from Italian. Applied Psycholinguistics.
Foppolo, F., Meroni, L., Marelli, M., & Gualmini, A. (2014). The only one strategy in context. Lingua.
AUTHORED BOOKS
Guasti, M. T. (2017). Language acquisition. The Growth of grammar. Cambridge, Mass:MIT Press. II Edition.
Arcodia, G.F., & Basciano, B. (2016). Linguistica cinese. Bologna: Pàtron.
Mantovan L. (2017). Nominal modification in Italian Sign Language (LIS). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Belletti, A., & Guasti, M. T. (2015). The acquisition of Italian: Different modes. Amsterdam: Benjiamin.
Cecchetto, C., & Donati, C. (2015). (Re)labeling. Cambridge: MA, MIT Press.
LINGUISTIC TESTS
Vernice, M., Arosio, F., Branchini, C., Barbieri, L., Roncaglione, E., Carravieri, E., Van der Lely, H.J.K., Guasti, M.T. (2013). CLAD-ITA GAPS: un test di screening delle abilità fonologiche e morfo-sintattiche in bambini con un Disturbo Specifico del Linguaggio. Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo.
Cecchetto, C., Di Domenico, A., Garraffa, M., & Papagno, C. (2012). Comprendo: Batteria per la Comprensione di Frasi Negli Adulti. Milano: Raffaello Cortina Editore.
