Program

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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