2026
Mazzaggio, G., (2026). Verso un modello cognitivo‑pragmatico del flirt. Seminario S.I.BIL., Università di Roma Tre, 5 Marzo
2025
Mazzaggio, G., (2025). Invited talk "Dalla semantica alla pragmatica: implicature scalari e apprendimento di una seconda lingua". Circolo Linguistico Fiorentino, Florence, October 24
Fusco, A., Mazzaggio, G., Zoli, C. (2025). Invited seminar “Linguistica e Large Language Models”. Titolo dell’intervento: “Morphology in Disguise? A case study of Tokenization on a multilingual dialectal corpus”., Università di Verona, Italy, June 4
Mazzaggio, G., (2025). Invited seminar, ”Foreign Language Effect e la Distanza Linguistica: Nuove Prospettive sulla Riduzione degli Stereotipi di Genere”, Università degli Studi di Milano‑Bicocca, Italy, April 15
Mazzaggio, G., (2025). Invited seminar, ”L’interfaccia tra semantica e pragmatica nell’acquisizione delle implicature scalari in L2”, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, April 3
Mazzaggio, G., (2025). Invited seminar at "Conversazioni Linguistiche": ”Le implicature scalari nell’acquisizione di una seconda lingua: l’intersezione tra pragmatica e semantica”, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy, February 14
Mazzaggio, G., (2025). Invited seminar: ”Ironia verbale e teoria dell’eco”, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy, January 30
Mazzaggio, G., (2025). Invited seminar: "Pragmatica sperimentale: l’ironia verbale e l’eco tra cognizione e sviluppo". Seminario S.I.BIL., Università
di Roma Tre, Italy, January 16
2024
Mazzaggio, G., (2024). Digitalizing the Manzini and Savoia (2005) Corpus. Invited speaker at the event "ASDV Reloaded. Archivio Sonoro dei Dialetti Veneti", Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy, December 19-20
Mazzaggio, G., (2024). ”Revisiting Pragmatic Language in Autism: A Re‑analysis Through Emerging Theories”. Invited talk at the workshop ”Il linguaggio dell’autismo. Abilità pragmatiche, linguistiche e sociali”, Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore”, Italy, December 3‑4
Mazzaggio, G., (2024). Invited speaker at the workshop "Mente e Linguaggio", Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy, November 15
Mazzaggio, G., (2024). Digitalizing the Manzini and Savoia (2005) Corpus. Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy, October 25‑26
Binazzi, N., Mazzaggio, G., Zoli, C. (2024). Dialects in Italy: the PNRR corpus. Università di Milano, Milan, Italy, September 23
Mazzaggio, G., (2024). Exploring Adjective Ordering: Insights from Psycholinguistic Experimental Manipulations. Workshop, Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy, May 9
Mazzaggio, G., (2024). Methods in Experimental Pragmatics. Live Lunches, Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy, May 8
Mazzaggio, G. (2024). Invited speaker “Beyond Theory of Mind: Exploring Pragmatic Language in Autism Spectrum Disorders”. 2nd Workshop KEAMA, Moral Cognition and Communication in Autism, Universidad de Valladolid, March 7-8
2023
Mazzaggio, G. (2023). Invited talk “The Manzini and Savoia (2005) corpus: a digital journey through Italian and Romance morphosyntactic varieties.”. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Nice, France, November 16
Binazzi, N., Mazzaggio, G. (2023). Invited talk "Dialects in Italy". University of Milan, October 2
Mazzaggio, G. (2023). Book presentation “Tanto per intenderci. Breve introduzione alla pragmatica sperimentale”. University of Messina, May 11
Mazzaggio, G. (2023). Invited seminar: “Exploring the Language Challenges of Autism: Pragmatic Difficulties and the Case of Irony Comprehension”, Cyprus University, May 2
Mazzaggio, G. (2023). Invited Workshop: “Experimental Pragmatics”, 20th STaPs Conference, Augsburg/Budapest/Vienna, February 24, 25
Mazzaggio, G. (2023). Invited seminar: "The Development of Language and Communication". Universiity of Rome "tor Vergata", February 3
2022
Mazzaggio, G. (2022). Book presentation “Tanto per intenderci. Breve introduzione alla pragmatica sperimentale”. University of Trento, November 28
Mazzaggio, G. (2022). Tanto per Intenderci: "alcuni" dibattiti in Pragmatica Sperimentale.. Seminario S.I.BIL., Roma Tre University, Rome, October 27
Mazzaggio, G. (2022). Invited speaker at the LinGOkultura 2022 festival: round table on the theme: "Multilingualism and identity in the context of cognitive sciences of language and literature". XCenter, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, October 4
Mazzaggio, G. (2022). Some (but not all) implicatures gained the same attention in Experimental Pragmatics. Jezik and Linguistics Colloquia, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia, March 10
2021
Mazzaggio, G. (2021). Book presentation “Tanto per intenderci. Breve introduzione alla pragmatica sperimentale”. University of Cagliari, December 2
2020
Mazzaggio, G. (2020). "No Pun Intended": the Comprehension of Irony and Implicatures in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Research Seminar at University of Neuchâtel, September 24. Available at: https://unine.ubicast.tv/permalink/v125f64f8408ayibc0if/iframe/
2019
Mazzaggio, G., Franco, L., Manzini M.R. (2020) Pseudopartitives, measures and agreement: an experimental study. Webinar-Seminari di Linguistica (Università degli Studi di Padova). March 6
Mazzaggio, G., (2019). The computation of scalar and other conversational implicatures. Invited lecture at School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India). November 15
Mazzaggio, G. (2019). Speech and Language Disorders. Invited lecture at Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy. May 15
2018
Mazzaggio, G. (2018). Atypical processing in Pragmatics: the case of irony. Invited seminar at Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy. November 23
Mazzaggio, G. (2018). On the cost of scalar implicaures. Invited speaker at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire sur le Langage, le Cerveau et la Cognition, Lyon, France. November 8
Mazzaggio, G. (2018). Autism Spectrum Disorder and pragmatic comprehension. Invited talk for professionals of Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari (Neuropsichiatria Infantile), Trento, Italy. Organizer: Dr. Stefano Calzolari. October, 22
Mazzaggio, G. (2018). The computation of some (but not all) implicatures. Invited speaker at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire sur le Langage, le Cerveau et la Cognition, Lyon, France. March 26.
2017
Mazzaggio, G., Foppolo, F., Job, R., Surian, L. (2017). Pragmatic abilities in children with ASD: new perspectives. Invited presentation at Xprag.it, Behavioral and Neural Evidence on Pragmatic Processing, University of Genoa, Italy. June 10-11.
Mazzaggio, G. (2017). Bilingualism in context. Invited lecture at University of Constantine the Philosopher, Nitra, Slovak Republic. March, 23-24.
2016
Mazzaggio, G. (2016). Addressing the debate on pronoun reversal, caused by Theory of Mind or by Echolalia?. Invited presentation at the Cognition, Brain, & Behavior faculty and graduate seminar, University of Notre Dame, IN. February 29.
2015
Mazzaggio, G. (2015). Autismo e Inversione Pronominale: l’ipotesi della Teoria della Mente. Invited seminar/workshop, L’Aquila University, Italy. April, 19
2025
Fusco, A., Mazzaggio, G., Zoli, C. 2025. From Glosses to Grammar: A Computational Approach to Annotating Italian Dialects. Going Romance 2025, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. Italy December 3‑5
Fusco, A., Mazzaggio, G., Zoli, C. 2025.From glosses to dialectal texts: A computational approach to annotating Italian dialects. 19th Comparative Italian Dialect Syntax‑Morphology Meeting, Università degli Studi ‘G. d’Annunzio’ di Chieti e Pescara. Italy September 8‑10
Starr, G., Mazzaggio, G. (2025). A constraint‑based approach to L2 implicature generation: Cross‑linguistic influence in quantifier interpretation among L1 Japanese L2 English learners. Workshop XPrag‑Fest, Leibniz‑Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin. July 17‑19
Mazzaggio, G., Fusco, A., Zoli, C. (2025). Strategie Computazionali per l’Analisi dei Dialetti: Apprendimento da Corpora Limitati. VIII Convegno Internazionale di Dialettologia‑Progetto A.L.Ba.‑”Dialetti: per parlare e parlarne”, Università degli Studi della Basilicata. May 8‑10
2024
Mazzaggio, G., Rees,A., Bott, L. (2024). Scalar and Ad‑Hoc Implicatures in Second‑Language Speakers. 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it 2024), Ospedale San Camillo IRCCS, Venezia Lido, Italy. September 26‑27
Mazzaggio, G., Manzini, M.R., Scontras, G. (2024). Adjective ordering in Italian cannot be predicted by syntactic hierarchies and movement. IGG49 pre-conference Workshop, IUSS Pavia, Italy. February 21
2023
Longo, F., van Tiel, B., Stateva, P., Mazzaggio, G. 2023. Scalar diversity and second-language processing: the Pragmatic Transfer Hypothesis. Oral presentation: The 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag X), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France. September 20-22.
Mazzaggio, G., Stateva, P. (2023). On the Italian Molto and Tanto and the differences with the Slovenian Precej and Veliko. 48th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG48), University of Florence, Italy. February, 16-18
2022
Mazzaggio, G., Zappoli, A., Mazzarella, D. (2022). The Processing of Irony Across the Lifespan. 9th Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2022), IUSS Pavia, Italy. September 22-23
2021
Mazzaggio, G., de Bettignies, H., Mazzarella, D. (2021). Pragmatic skills in aging: the case of irony. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2021), University of Paris, France. September 2-4
Foppolo, F., Mazzaggio, G., Franco, L., Manzini M.R. (2021). A group of researchers is/are testing agreement with pseudopartitives. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2021), University of Paris, France. September 2-4
Panzeri, F., Mazzaggio, G., Giustolisi, B., Silleresi, S., Surian, L. (2021). Atypical patterns of irony comprehension in children with ASD. Accepted symposium “Pragmatic deficits in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder” (Organizers: Rama Novogrodsky and Jeannette Schaeffer), The 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 4-7.
Mazzaggio, G. (2021). Explicit gender stereotyping in bilingualism. Accepted paper in the thematic session: “Morals and social norms in multilingual performance: Looking beyond the foreign language effect”, International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB13), University of Warsaw, Poland. July 9-14.
Mazzaggio, G., de Bettignies, H., Mazzarella, D. (2021). Does irony understanding decline with age? 12th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, online. May 18- 21
2019
Marocchini E., Di Paola, S., Mazzaggio, G., Domaneschi, F. (2019). Indirect speech acts in high functioning autism. XVI AISC Annual Conference, University of Roma Tre, Italy. December 11-13.
Mazzaggio, G., Franco, L., Manzini M.R. (2019). Pseudopartives, measures and agreement. Accepted paper at the Brain, Language & Learning Conference, University of Siena, Italy. September 19-20.
Mazzaggio, G., Reboul, A., Caretta, C., Darblade, M., Van der Henst, JB., Cheylus, A., Stateva, P. (2019). On the Cost of Scalar Implicatures: an Eye-Tracking Study. Accepted paper at The 3rd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, University of Cagliari, Italy. September 26-28.
Mazzaggio, G., Foppolo, F., Job, R., Surian, L. (2019). Lexical and Ad-hoc scales in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Accepted paper at 45° Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG45), University of Padua, Italy. February 21-23
2018
Foppolo, F., Mazzaggio, G., Job, R., Surian, L. (2018). Scalar and Ad-hoc Implicatures in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Accepted paper at Conference on Developmental Language Disorders (DevO), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. September 26-28.
Mazzaggio, G., Panzeri, F., Giustolisi, B., Surian, L. (2018). Understanding the Processing of Irony in High-Functioning Autistic Children. Accepted paper at Conference on Developmental Language Disorders (DevO), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. September 26-28.
Mazzaggio, G., Panzeri, F., Giustolisi, B., Surian, L. (2018). La comprensione dell’ironia in bambini con Disturbi dello Spettro Autistico. Accepted paper in the symposia: “Saper comunicare: Il ruolo della Teoria della mente e della pragmatica”, AIP XXXI Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e dell’Educazione, Torino, Italy. September 17-19.
Foppolo, F., Mazzaggio, G., Panzeri, F., Surian, L. (2018). Some implicatures are easier. Accepted paper at the Workshop “Scalar Implicatures: Formal and Experimental Exploration”, University of Siena, Italy. July 11-13.
Mazzaggio, G. (2018). Irony Comprehension in High-Functioning Autistic Children. Presentation at PhD Open Day, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy). June 7.
Mazzaggio, G., Panzeri, F., Giustolisi, B., Surian, L. (2018). The atypical pattern of irony comprehension in children with high-functioning autism. Accepted paper at The 2nd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, University of Pavia, Italy. May 30-June 1.
Foppolo, F., Mazzaggio, G., Panzeri, F., Surian, L. (2018). What’s behind some (but not all) implicatures. Accepted paper at The 2nd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, University of Pavia, Italy. May 30-June 1.
2017
Mazzaggio, G., Job, R., Surian, L. (2017). When a second language makes you more logical: scalar implicatures and second language oral processing. Accepted paper at the workshop Implicatures or domain restriction/domain widening? – Theoretical and experimental approaches, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. June 19-20.
Mazzaggio, G. (2017). “I spy with my little eye”. Pragmatic inferences in typically developing children and children with High Functioning Autism. Presentation at PhD Open Day, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy. June 7.
2016
Mazzaggio, G. (2016). Echolalia as a communicative strategy: a Kleefstra-syndrome case study. Accepted paper at the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. April 21-24.
Mazzaggio, G. (2016). Addressing the debate on pronoun reversal, caused by Theory of Mind or by Echolalia? Accepted paper at the UNC Linguistics Department’s 2016 Spring Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. March 5.
Mazzaggio, G., Mazza, M., Valenti, M., Mariano, M., Pino, M.C. (2016). Is First- and Second-Person Singular Pronouns Acquisition Related with the Development of Theory of Mind?. Accepted paper at the16th Texas Linguistic Society conference, University of Texas, Austin, TX. February 19-20.
Mazzaggio, G. (2016). English L2 in Italy: the role of the teacher in acquiring a second language. Accepted paper the Alabama Languages Conference The Many Tongues of Talk and Tale, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. October 29-30.
2015
Mazzaggio, G. (2015). Pathological quotations. The functions of echolalia: a case study. Accepted paper at Convegno internazionale di studi sulla citazione, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy. October 29-30.
Mazzaggio, G. (2015). Autism and pronoun reversal. A Theory-of-Mind perspective. Accepted paper at Cognitive Science Arena (CSA), III Edition, Libera Università di Bolzano, Brixen, Italy. February 6-7.
2025
Longo, F., Panizza, D., Mazzaggio, G., van Tiel, B. 2025. The (in)felicity of a dog or a reindeer. On the interpretation and processing of ignorance and scalar inferences triggered by disjunction. 5Sinn und Bedeutung 30 (SuB30), Goethe University Frankfurt. September 23‑27
Mazzaggio, G., Panzeri, F.. 2025. Rethinking Ad‑Hoc Implicatures: Disentangling Pragmatic Failure from Methodological Noise. The 11th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag), University of Cambridge, UK. September 17‑19 Settembre
Starr, G., Mazzaggio, G. 2025. Cross‑linguistic differences in quantifier semantics influence the generation of scalar implicatures in the second language. The 11th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag), University of Cambridge, UK. September 17‑19
Longo, F., Panizza, D., Mazzaggio, G., van Tiel, B. 2025. The (in)felicity of a dog or a reindeer. On the interpretation and processing of ignorance and scalar inferences triggered by disjunction. The 11th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag), University of Cambridge, UK. September 17‑19
Schirato, F., Franco, L., Mazzaggio, G. 2025. Exploring the Molti‑tude of Uses: ’Tanto’ and ’Molto’ in Italian. 50th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG50), Università di Padova, February 19‑21
Zappoli, A., Andreetta,S., Mazzaggio, G. 2025. The sound of echoic and non‑echoic irony in Italian: bridging the gap between prosody and pragmatics. XXI Convegno Nazionale AISV, Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”. February 6‑8
Baldi, B., Binazzi, N., Franco, L., Manzini, M.R., Mazzaggio, G., Zoli, C., Savoia, L.M. (2025). Digitalizzazione di un Corpus di Dialetti Italiani e Romanci: preservare la micro‑variazione linguistica. Conference title: ”Patrimonio culturale al futuro: sostenibilità sociale, innovazione tecnologica, trasformazione digitale. Le ricerche in corso nel Progetto CHANGES”. Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. January 23‑24
2024
Mazzaggio, G. (2024) Diminishing Gender Bias Through Second Language Use: An Empirical Study. LaGendA. Gender‑inclusive language in a Multilingual Europe. Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy. October 3‑4
Zappoli, A., Andreetta,S., Mazzaggio, G. (2024). How does verbal irony sound in Italian? A Relevance‑Theory approach focusing on the role of echo. 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it 2024), Ospedale San Camillo IRCCS, Venezia Lido, Italy. September 26‑27
Longo, F., van Tiel, B., Panizza, D., Mazzaggio, G. (2024). Examining Disjunction Interpretation Across Languages: Why Participants Reject Validly True Statements. IGG49 pre-conference Workshop, IUSS Pavia, Italy. February 21
2023
Cannone, E., Mazzaggio, G. (2023). The Impact of Relationship Proximity on the Use of Irony and Sarcasm. Oral presentation: The 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag X), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France. September 20-22.
Luciani, F., Ferretti, F., Mazzaggio, G. (2023). Metaphor Processing in Late Foreign Language Learners. Oral presentation: The 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag X), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France. September 20-22.
Zappoli, A., Andreetta, S., Avesani, C., Mazzaggio, G. (2023). Exploring the Production of Verbal Irony and Prosodic Contours in Native and Second Language Speakers of Italian and English. Oral presentation: The 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag X), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France. September 20-22.
2022
Mazzaggio, G., Stateva, P. (2022). Pragmatic transfer in bilinguals: cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of quantifiers. 9th Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2022), IUSS Pavia, Italy. September, 22-23
Mazzaggio, G., Reboul, A., Van der Henst, J., Cheylus, A., Lorusso, P., Stateva, P. (2022). On the cost of scalar implicatures: an eye-tracking study. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2022), University of York, UK. September 7-9
2021
Mazzaggio, G., de Bettignies, H., Mazzarella, D. (2021). The Processing of Irony Across the Lifespan. The 4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, University of Turin, Italy. July 8-9.
Mazzaggio, G. (2021). Explicit Gender Stereotyping in Bilingualism. The 4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, University of Turin, Italy. July 8-9.
2019
Mazzaggio, G., Shield, A. (2019). What a pro-drop language can tell us about pronouns’ use in high-functioning ASD children: the case of Italian. The 3rd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, University of Cagliari, Italy. September 19-20.
Domaneschi, F., Mazzaggio, G., Di Paola, S. (2019). Indirect Speech Acts in High Functioning Autism. The 3rd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, University of Cagliari, Italy. September 19-20.
Mazzaggio, G., Di Paola, S., Domaneschi, F. (2019). Indirect Speech Acts in High Functioning Autism. The 8th Experimental Pragmatics conference (XPrag2019), University of Edinburgh. June 19-20.
Mazzaggio, G., Shield, A. (2019). The production and comprehension of pronouns and verb inflections by Italian children with ASD: A new dataset in a pro-drop language. Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (40th Annual SRCLD Conference), University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI. June 6-8.
Mazzaggio, G., Reboul, A., Caretta, C., Darblade, M., Van der Henst, J., Cheylus, A., Stateva, P. (2019). The Case of Scalar Implicature Processing: an Eye-Tracking Study. Giornate di Studi Scientifici sul Linguaggio, University of Rovereto, Trento. February 11-12.
2018
Mazzaggio, G., Foppolo, F., Panzeri, F., Surian, L. (2018). Scalar vs Ad-Hoc implicatures. Guess which one is easier. Poster presentation at Ambigo: Workshop on Ambiguity – Theory, Development, and Processing, University of Göttingen, Germany. July 4-6.
2017
Mazzaggio, G., Job, R., Surian, L. (2017). Second language processing of scalar implicatures: the degree-of-bilingualism effect. Poster presentation at the 5th Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. September, 13-15.
Foppolo, F., Panzeri, F., Mazzaggio, G., Surian, L. (2017). Find a friend or a scale mate: comparing ad hoc and scalar implicatures. Poster presentation at the XPrag 2017 Conference, University of Cologne, Germany. June 20-23.
2016
Mazzaggio, G., Pino, M.C., Mariano, M. (2016). The Theory of Mind’s role in pronoun acquisition: the phenomenon of pronoun reversal in typically developing children. Poster presentation at the PhD Workshop Day, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy. June 13.
Mazzaggio, G., Pino, M.C., Mariano, M., Mazza, M., Valenti, M. (2016). First- and second-person singular pronouns acquisition and the development of Theory of Mind. Poster presentation at the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. April 21-24.
2015
Mazzaggio, G. (2015). Autism and Pronoun Reversal: a ToM perspective. Poster presentation at the workshop “Perspectives on the ontogeny of mutual understanding”, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. October 1-2.