Marta Tagliani

University of Verona | UNIVR · Department of Foreign Languages and Literature

This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of grammars. In this volume, grammaticalization is dealt wit...

Language change can be conceptualized as a cyclical process of continuous renewal of the involved elements which somehow change their nature, with respect to phonological or lexico-grammatical features. A crucial aspect of such diachronic evolution is that cyclical change takes place systematically and follows regular and unidirectional patterns of...

This entry overviews the pioneering experimental studies exploiting eye movement data to investigate language processing in real time. After examining how vision and language were found to be closely related, herein focus the discussion on the evolution of eye-tracking methodologies to investigate children’s language development. To conclude, herei...

The acquisition of negation in Child Italian has not yet been comprehensively addressed in the literature. This paper aims to provide a fine-grained picture of the acquisition process in this Romance language by considering production data and exploring three specific aspects of negation development: (a) the emergence and subsequent development of...

Italian relative clauses like Il bambino che bacia la mamma ‘the child that kisses the mom’ are ambiguous between a subject reading and an object reading with postverbal subject. However, the latter is scarcely accessible for word order and theory-internal considerations. This study aims at investigating the role of semantic (im)plausibility in pro...

The volume Humanities in the Third Millennium: Approaches, Contamination, and Perspectives includes some of the different lines of research developed by Ph.D. students and young researchers from the Doctoral School of Humanities of the University of Verona, as well as from other Italian and foreign Universities. The contributions included in this v...

In this presentation, given at the Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference (EPC) in Palma de Mallorca on 26.06.2019, we investigate the comprehension of ambiguous Italian relative clauses such as (1), which are usually interpreted as subject RCs (i.e., the boy kisses the mom), but which can also be interpreted as object RCs with post-verbal subje...

This experimental study aims to investigate at what age Italian children master the logical concept of double negation, according to which two negatives cancel each other out yielding a positive meaning. Previous acquisitional studies on child languages indicate that children show a cross-linguistic preference for a negative concord interpretation...