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Linguistic atlases 2.0 - The thrill of searching for geolinguistic data... and incredibly finding them

Carlo Zoli

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Is there life after a PhD?

Full Circle: From Clinical Practice to a PhD in Linguistics and Back Again

Marina Rossi

Online session

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Polysemous Neurons and Grandmother Cells: Language Models as Tools to Study Fine-Grained Semantics in the brain

Andrea Bruera

Online session

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Different approaches to argument structure: minimalism vs. construction grammar

Selected papers:

Harley, H. (2011) A Minimalist Approach to Argument Structure. In C. Boeckx (Ed.), The Oxford Handobook of Linguistic Minimalism. Oxford: Oxford Handbook Online. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268367375_A_Minimalist_Approach_to_Argument_Structure)

Goldberg, A. E. (1999) The emergence of the semantics of argument structure constructions. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), The Emergence of Language (1st ed.). Psychology Press. (https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~suzanne/2520/readings/goldberg99.pdf)

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Easter party

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Is there life after a PhD? 🔭

Researchers, yes, but at what price?

Simone Avesani

Online session

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Mentors party: standing on their shoulders

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Reading between the lines: digital biomarkers of discourse properties for cognitive decline

Giorgia Albertin

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L2 and L1 compound processing: an eye-tracking study on Italian students with typical development and Developmental Dyslexia

Angelica Zordan

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PhDiscussion 💬

On trees and constructions: contrastive views on first language acquisition

Selected papers:

Friedmann, N., Belletti, A., and Rizzi, L. (2021) Growing trees: The acquisition of the left periphery. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1): 131, 1-38. (https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5877/)

Behrens, H. (2021) Constructivist approaches to first language acquisition. Journal of Child Language 48(5), 959-983. (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-child-language/article/constructivist-approaches-to-first-language-acquisition/9859E93FA9AA8D32F269DE38E721EEA6)

Online session

Is there life after a PhD? 🔭

Between natural sciences and human sciences: adventures and peregrinations of a post-doc

Rocco Gaudenzi

Online session

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Rhetorical questions in Italian: the acquisition of lexical, morphosyntactic and prosodic markers

Maria F. Ferin

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Christmas party

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PhDiscussion 💬

The Strugic of Scientific Revoscovery

Selected papers:

Diez, J. (2007) Falsificationism and the structure of theories: the Popper–Kuhn controversy about the rationality of normal science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 38, 543-554. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368107000386

Rowbottom, D.P. (2011) Kuhn vs. Popper on criticism and dogmatism in science: a resolution at the group level. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 42, 117-124. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003936811000110X

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Meeting with the new PhD students - part 2

Artemisia room and online

Meeting with the new PhD students - part 1

Co-working room and online

Is there life after a PhD?

Postdoctoral Chaos: finding a job... or creating it

Eleonora Marocchini

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Syntactic features of concession in Italian student writing: first results

Elena Ferrato

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Is there life after a PhD?

 How I accidentally got my dream job

Massimiliano Canzi

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Guest stars

Irony across the lifespan: understanding developmental perspectives and cognitive processes 

Greta Mazzaggio

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Guest stars

Intervention effects in exhaustification: the acquisition of scalar quantifiers

Veronica Bressan

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Linguistic turn 101: why take it as mantra in foreign languages?

Mariana González Zambón

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Parties

Easter party

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Is there life after a PhD?

Surviving the wilds of academia: a nomadic researcher's experience

Fabio D'Asaro

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How learning L2 English affects the reading strategies and reading-related cognitive strategies in typical and dyslexic Italian learners

Ilaria Venagli

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Parties

Valentine's day party

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Drifting alignments: Effects of L2 exposure and gender in South Tyrolean Italian prosody

Salvatore Gianninò

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The pragmatics of humor: A lifespan perspective

Luca Bischetti

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Parties

Christmas party 

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Is there life after a PhD?

Publish or and perish: How to feel valued in Academia and shape your future 

Elena Mattei

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Meeting with the new PhD students

Co-working room and online

Emanuele Bernardi

The role of  syntax and semantics in Greenberg's Universal 20

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Anne Kruijt

Laway muk doren! Iraqw spelling in social media vs. the ‘academic’ orthography

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Andrea Brugnoli

The influence of syllable weight on German primary and secondary stress

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Marco Biasio

Of Painted Birds and Eastperanto, or the Golden Utopia of a Pan-Slavic Language

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Elena Mattei

Multimodal Corpus Analysis of Digital Tourism Discourse.

The role of text-image relationships in the Instagram promotion of the traveling experience 

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Tor Håvard Solhaug

On the nature of tonal accents in Norwegian

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Tamara Bassighini

Word Formation in the Dialect of Tyrol: The Bavarian Verbal Prefix "der-"

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Marco Biasio 

Of Painted Birds and Eastperanto, or the Golden Utopia of a Pan-Slavic Language

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Daniele Caccin 

Chinese Character Variants and Popular Character Forms in Yueyan (Sayings of Old Shaoxing)

Zoom

Anna Katharina Pilsbacher (University of Verona, UIT-The Arctic University of Norway)

Morphologically determined differences in the realisation of prefixes in Bavarian dialects

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Francesca Festi

How is the passive voice acquired? A proposal for a pedagogical intervention with primary school 4th graders

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Gloria Mambelli

The multilingual origins of the English lexicon

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Arianna Compostella

Usage-based Approaches to the Acquisition of Syntax

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Chiara Bernardini

On the interference between language and music

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Paola Peratello

Multispectral imaging for a (more extensive) codicological examination

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Giorgia Andreolli

Digital instructional materials during a time of change

Qingqin Tan

Chinese teaching and learning in Italy: the past and the present

Co-Working Room

Meet the new PhD students

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Jelena Živojinović

The typological position of the Rhaeto-Romance varieties and of the Northern Italian dialects: gerundial constructions and progressive periphrastic periphrases

Aula Olimpia

Julia De Jonge

Literary Empathy and Morality

Co-Working Room

Greta Viale

To Be or To Have, that is the question...a Study on the Possessive Dichotomy in Latin

Francesca Festi

Metalinguistic awareness and bilingualism: a study involving Italian primary school pupils.

Manuel Garrobo 

"Para dar orden a las cosas de cavalleria"
Database and study of the motif of the court feast in Spanish and Italian chivalry books  

Julia de Jonge

Emotions May Make One Believe Fake News 

Arianna Compostella

Language and Perception: Exploring the Interaction Between Sequence Learning and Hierarchical Learning in Different Sensory Domains

Valentina Marcati  (University of Milan)

“Narrating the post-Soviet: reflections on identity, nationality and history in German Sadulaev’s works” 

Luca Jaccond

Seclusion and roaming in Xavier de Maistre's "Voyage autour de ma chambre" and "Lépreux de la cité d'Aoste" 

Gloria Mambelli

French-origin lexis in the vocabulary of rural life in medieval England

Paola Perratello

"The Lion of the Piraeus: past, present and future” 

Marco Biasio (University of Padua)

What you get is (not always) what you see: some crosslinguistic remarks on epistemic futures.

Piero Renato Costa León

Religious toponymy in the Hispanic Americas: A historical overview, "desacralizing" and lexical transformations 

Jelena Živojinović

Some further remarks on the Serbo-Croatian clitic je 

Anne Kruijt

Causal constructions in Iraqw

PhD Christmas Party

Daniele Caccin

Historical Lexicograpy in China

Anastasiia Carisio

Cognitive definition as an analytic tool for cultural linguistics.

Chiara Benardini

Does the processing of music harmony influence the simultaneous processing of linguistic complexity?
A behavioral study

Antonio Arnieri, Silvia Calvi, Anne Kruijt, and
Michela Redolfi

Harry Potter and the usage and translation of proper names: a cross-linguistic perspective

Daniele Caccin and Silvia Calvi

Lexicographical Workshop

Eirini Apostolopoulou

Place of articulation shifts

First year PhD 

Meet the gang: Part 1

Fabio Ramasso

Kafka's Ulysses: a metaliterature story