Location: Aula Volpi, Roma Tre University, Via del Castro Pretorio 20, Roma

Thursday 12 June 2025

9:00-9:30        Opening remarks

Paola Perucchini, Director of the Department of Education, Roma Tre University

Remo Job, President of the  Marica De Vincenzi Foundation, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Trento University

Lyn Frazier, Chair of the Marica De Vincenzi Foundation's Scientific Committee, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Stefano Mastandrea, Treasurer of the Marica De Vincenzi Foundation and Professor at the Department of Education, Roma Tre University

Talk Sessions: Chair Dr. Lyn Frazier

9:30-10:00      Edith Kaan (University of Florida, USA)

Code-switching and cognitive control

10:00-10:30    Eleonora Rossi (University of Florida, USA) 

The impact of working memory constraints on language processing: evidence from time-frequency representations

10:30-11:00   Coffee break

11:00-11:30   Carla Contemori (University of El Paso Texas, USA) 

Referential choice during codeswitching in Spanish-English bilinguals

11:30-12:00    Gabriela Puscama (Indiana University Bloomington, USA). 

L2 vocabulary training affects word retrieval and language processing: A multisession eye-tracking study

12:00-14:00   Lunch break for all attendants: Trattoria Nazzareno via Magenta 35/37

14:00-14:30   Luigi Rizzi (Collège de France, University of Siena) 

Notes on impenetrability and intervention locality

14:30-15:00   Sandra Villata (Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore")

Island Effects across Languages: New Experimental Evidence

15:00-15:30    Roberto Petrosino (New York University Abu Dhabi)

The linguistic sophistication of morphological decomposition: More than islands of regularity. A meta-analytic study

15:30-16:30   Poster Session and Coffee break (Poster list below)

16:30-17:00   Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati (SFL (CNRS/Paris8)/ University Milano Bicocca)

Avoid Gaps or Avoid Nodes

17:00-17:30   Giuditta Smith (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Linguistic considerations for the assessment of aphasia in speakers of Malay: the verbal domain in a diglossic context

17:30-18:00    Nicoletta Biondo (UC San Francisco)

Sentence Comprehension in the Brain: Integrating Lesion Evidence with Psycholinguistic Approaches

18:00: End of Day 1

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Friday 13 June 2025

Talk Sessions: Chair Dr. Eleonora Rossi

9:30: Conference starts

9:30-10:00 Maria Garraffa (University of East Anglia)

Effects of the environment on language and cognitive development in children living in refugees’ camps: a study on    native speakers of Rohingya

10:00-10:30    Luca Cilibrasi (University of Siena)

Agreement in immersion schools

10:30-11:00   Coffee break

11:00-11:30    Maeike Slikkerveer (University of Zurich)

Advance planning of grammatical structure during speaking develops throughout childhood: Evidence from the production of simple and complex noun phrases

11:30-12:00   Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca), Shenai Hu (Xiamen University), Xiao Jie (Xiamen University), Lucy Zhao (University of Cambridge), Yangyu Sun (University of Milan-Bicocca). 

Wh-questions in in-situ languages

12:00-14:00   Lunch break for all attendants: Trattoria Nazzareno via Magenta 35/37

14:00-14:30   Andrea Listanti (University of Cologne)

L1 and L2 sensitivity to unaccusativity and information structure constraints on Italian word order

14:30-15:00   Aurora Bel & Rut Benito (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)

Predictive Processing of Differential Object Marking: The Influence of the Non-Dominant Language in Spanish-Catalan Bilinguals

15:00-15:30    Birgit Spechtenhauser (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck)

Language(s) in the Mind: Psycholinguistic Approaches to the Study of Metacognitive Development in Multilinguals

15:30-16:30   Poster Session and Coffee break (Poster list below)

16:30-17:00    Tania Cerni (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Ferrara)

Exploring the Spelling Process During Writing: A Cognitive-Motor Partnership

17:00-17:30   Michele Scaltritti (University of Trento)

Decisional components in motor-response execution

17:30-18:00   Simone Sulpizio (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Unlocking Meaning: The Central Role of Semantics in Visual Word Recognition and its Relation to Cognitive Control.

18:00-19:00   Meeting of the Marica De Vincenzi Board members

20:00: Dinner for Marica De Vincenzi foundation members; other attendants dine independently

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Saturday 14 June 2025

Talk Sessions: Chair Dr. Carla Contemori

9:30: Conference starts

9:30-10:00      Greta Mazzaggio (Università degli Studi di Firenze)

Addressing Scalar Diversity and Cross-Linguistic Variation in Second-Language Implicature Interpretation

10:00-10:30    Daniele Panizza (University of Messina) 

The effect of (multi)sensory uncertainty on the interpretation of scalar ambiguity in adolescent and adults

10:30-11:00   Coffee break

11:00-11:30    Francesco Vespignani (Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova)

Neural entrainment to phrases and sentences

11:30-12:00    Colin Phillips (University of Oxford, University of Maryland) 

Exceeding expectations: Why speakers (and learners) do better than you'd think

12:00: Closing remarks and end of the conference

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Poster sessions (Posters will be displayed on both days)

June 12, 3:30-4:30 pm                                             

June 13, 3:30-4:30 pm

1)   Viviana Masia (University Roma Tre)

Gauging the persuasive impact of presupposition: Evidence from an offline experiment

2)       Elisa Di Domenico, Federico Piersigilli (Università per Stranieri di Perugia)

On the overuse/ non-overuse of overt subject pronouns in L2 Italian

3) Sokolovic-Perovic, Mirjana, Bassetti, Bene and Favilla, Mariaelena  (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia; University of Birmingham)

Consonant length is contrastive in the Italian variety of English: Evidence of singleton-geminate minimal pair production in an English word repetition task

4)     Ilaria Porru (Graduate Center, CUNY)

Pronoun Interpretation and Use in Turkish Heritage Speakers: A Comparative Study in Germany and the US                 

5)     Marina Sokolova (ULisbon / NTNU)

Attach Me If You Can      

6)    Reid Vancelette (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Predictive Processing of Structural and Lexical Cases in L2 Russian Learners 

7)     Paolo Lorusso, Andrea Marini (Università di Udine)

The Role of Grammatical Complexity in a Sentence Repetition Task with Italian Preschoolers   

8)    Sara Ferini, Paolo Lorusso (Università di Udine). 

Music Perception and Pronunciation Proficiency in a Foreign Language    

9)    Marina Sokolova (ULisbon / NTNU)

Parsing Effects of Code-Switching