2026 Maria Teresa Guasti: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	42	4724	4371	49	47	156	7961

Maria Teresa Guasti publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maria Teresa Guasti sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 156 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Maria Teresa Guasti D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maria Teresa Guasti sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Maria Teresa Guasti is affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a substantial focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. Additional areas include artificial intelligence, language and linguistics, and statistics and probability.

The main topics addressed in Guasti's work include:

Reading and literacy development
Language development and disorders
Neurobiology of language and bilingualism
Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
Second language learning and teaching
Text readability and simplification
Syntax, semantics, linguistic variation

Among recent publications, Guasti has contributed to studies covering language disorders, bilingualism, and developmental impairments. Some notable papers are:

"Developmental Language Disorder: Early Predictors, Age for the Diagnosis, and Diagnostic Tools. A Scoping Review" (2021) published in Brain Sciences
"How Adults and Children Interpret Disjunction under Negation in Dutch, French, Hungarian and Italian: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison" (2021) published in Language Learning and Development
"Negative sentences with disjunction in child Catalan" (2021) published in Language Acquisition
"Timing anticipation in adults and children with Developmental Dyslexia: evidence of an inefficient mechanism" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
"Morphosyntactic weaknesses in Developmental Language Disorder: the role of structure and agreement configurations" (2020) published in Journal of Child Language

Guasti frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Elena Pagliarini, Desirè Carioti, Fabrizio Arosio, Natale Stucchi, and Mirta Vernice.

Their work has been published repeatedly in certain venues, reflecting a sustained research presence in these journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues include:

Frontiers in Psychology
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
First Language
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Language Acquisition

Guasti has also authored books published by recognized academic publishers. These include:

L'apprendimento della lettura nei bambini con italiano L2 (2020) published by University of Florence
Language Acquisition in Diverse Linguistic, Social and Cognitive Circumstances, volume II (2023) published by Frontiers Media

Best Publications

Language acquisition : the growth of grammar

Maria Teresa Guasti

1256
Citations
Verb Syntax in Italian Child Grammar: Finite and Nonfinite Verbs

Maria Teresa Guasti

541
Citations
The acquisition of disjunction: Evidence for a grammatical view of scalar implicatures

Gennaro Chierchia;Stephen Crain;Maria Teresa Guasti;Andrea Gualmini

440
Citations
Why children and adults sometimes (but not always) compute implicatures

Maria Teresa Guasti;Gennaro Chierchia;Stephen Crain;Francesca Foppolo

415
Citations
Causative and perception verbs: A comparative study

Maria Teresa Guasti

372
Citations
Grammatical feature dissimilarities make relative clauses easier: A comprehension study with Italian children

Flavia Adani;Flavia Adani;Heather K.J. van der Lely;Matteo Forgiarini;Maria Teresa Guasti

237
Citations
At the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface in Child Language

Andrea Gualmini;Stephen Crain;Luisa Meroni;Gennaro Chierchia

222
Citations
Scalar Implicatures in Child Language: Give Children a Chance

Francesca Foppolo;Maria Teresa Guasti;Gennaro Chierchia

218
Citations
Prosodic structure and syntactic acquisition: the case of the head-direction parameter

Anne Christophe;Marina Nespor;Maria Teresa Guasti;Brit Van Ooyen

206
Citations
Relative clause formation in Romance child's production

Maria Teresa Guasti;Anna Cardinaletti

180
Citations
Developmental Language Disorder: Early Predictors, Age for the Diagnosis, and Diagnostic Tools. A Scoping Review.

Alessandra Sansavini;Maria Elena Favilla;Maria Teresa Guasti;Andrea Marini

164
Citations
Selecting word order: the Rhytmic Activation Principle

Nespor;M.-T. Guasti;A. Christophe

157
Citations
L'acquisizione del linguaggio. Un'introduzione

M Guasti

115
Citations
The Acquisition of Morphosyntax in Italian: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Claudia Caprin;Maria Teresa Guasti

113
Citations
Semantic Restrictions in Romance Causatives and the Incorporation Approach

Maria Teresa Guasti

112
Citations
Disambiguating Information and Memory Resources in Children’s Processing of Italian Relative Clauses

Fabrizio Arosio;Maria Teresa Guasti;Natale Stucchi

110
Citations
A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Acquisition of Clitic and Pronoun Production

Spyridoula Varlokosta;Adriana Belletti;João Costa;Naama Friedmann

107
Citations
The Acquisition of French Relative Clauses Reconsidered

Maria Teresa Guasti;Ur Shlonsky

99
Citations
Number dissimilarities facilitate the comprehension of relative clauses in children with (Grammatical) Specific Language Impairment.

Flavia Adani;Matteo Forgiarini;Maria Teresa Guasti;Heather K. J. Van Der Lely

97
Citations
Semantic interfaces : reference, anaphora and aspect

Carlo Cecchetto;Gennaro Chierchia;Maria Teresa Guasti

97
Citations
The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

Adriana Belletti;Maria Teresa Guasti

93
Citations
Acquisition of Italian Interrogatives

Maria Teresa Guasti

91
Citations
Cross-linguistic patterns in the acquisition of quantifiers

Napoleon Katsos;Chris Cummins;Maria-José Ezeizabarrena;Anna Gavarró

86
Citations
The Compositionality of Logical Connectives in Child Italian.

Elena Pagliarini;Stephen Crain;Maria Teresa Guasti

83
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Heather K. J. van der Lely Harvard University

Kleanthes K. Grohmann University of Cyprus

Stephen Crain Macquarie University

Gennaro Chierchia Harvard University

Anna Cardinaletti Ca Foscari University of Venice

Ira A. Noveck Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Christopher C. Cummins MIT

Anne Christophe École Normale Supérieure

Adriana Belletti University of Siena

Claudio Luzzatti University of Milano-Bicocca

External Links

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