THURSDAY 26th
14:00 Welcome
14:15 – 15:15 Invite speaker Andrea Moro Scuola Universitaria Superiore – IUSS, Pavia
Where sound and meaning combine and how to disentangle them: on the role of theoretical syntax in neurolinguistics
15:15 Coffee break
15:45 Greta Mazzaggio, Ludovico Franco and Maria Rita Manzini:
Pseudopartitives, measures and agreement
16:15 Janek Guerrini and Salvador Mascarenhas:
Shifting centers: toward a unified view of grammatical and contingent privative modification
16:45 – 18:00 Poster session 1 and coffee break
18:00 João Delgado, Ana Raposo and Ana Lúcia Santos:
Intervention effects? Adult processing of relative clauses vs. control structures
18:30 Chiara Boila, Tom Fritzsche, Jacopo Torregrossa and Barbara Höhle
Online processing of German non-canonical sentences in L1 and 2L1 pre-schoolers: Do cognitive control abilities play a role?
FRIDAY 27th
9:00 Daniele Panizza and Maik Thalmann:
Adults are not always faster than children. An eye-tracking study on the online comprehension of Indirect Scalar Implicatures
9:30 Mikael Roll, Anna Hed, Andrea Schremm and Merle Horne:
Tonal cues to inflection in a second language: Neural patterns of acquisition
10:00 Léo Picat and Salvador Mascarenhas
Reasoning with disjunctions under cognitive load
10.30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 Paolo Lorusso, Matteo Greco, Cristiano Chesi and Andrea Moro:
Wh- extraction from nominal copular sentences: a structural asymmetry account
11:30 Simona Mancini, Pedro Paz-Alonso and Manuel Carreiras
The cortical representation of left and right branching: evidence from Spanish and Basque
12:00 Manar Haddad Hanna and Naama Friedmann
Which dependencies are affected by missing the critical period for syntax? A study of Palestinian Arabic hearing impairment
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 Maria Teresa Guasti, Elena Pagliarini, Daniela Sarti, Elisa Granocchio and Natale Stucchi
Inefficient predictive timing mechanism in Developmental Dyslexia: evidence from adults and children
15:00 Patrick C. Trettenbrein, Giorgio Papitto, Angela D. Friederici and Emiliano Zaccarella
Functional neuroanatomy of sign language in deaf signers: Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-analysis and Meta-analytic Connectivity Mapping
15:30 Anna Cardinaletti, Elisa Piccoli and Francesca Volpato
Syntactic deficits in Italian high-school students with a diagnosis of dyslexia and a case study of syntactic training
16:00 – 17:30 Poster session 2 and coffee break
17:30 Ronit Szterman and Naama Friedmann
The effect of syntactic complexity on reading aloud and reading comprehension in children with hearing loss
18:00 – 19:00 Invited speaker – Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France)
Encoding of syntactic structures for language and math
Social dinner
SATURDAY 28th
9:00 Anna Martinez-Alvarez, Judit Gervain, Elena Koulaguina, Ferran Pons and Ruth De Diego-Balaguer
Neural basis of prosodic cues supporting non-adjacent rule learning in infancy
9:30 Giulia Mornati, Valentina Riva, Elena Vismara, Massimo Molteni and Chiara Cantiani
Early lexical comprehension and gender agreement in Italian toddlers.
10:00 Fabrizio Arosio, Valentina Persici and Elena Pagliarini
Processing of object clitics in Italian monolingual children
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 Emily Stanford and Hélène Delage
Attention and passives in French-speaking children with typical and atypical development
11:30 – 12:30 Invited speaker – Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz (INSERM)
Infants’ early competence for language and symbols
Poster session
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