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Maria Teresa Guasti

Maria Teresa Guasti

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
7961
World Ranking
4725
National Ranking
49

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

  • Verb Syntax in Italian Child Grammar: Finite and Nonfinite Verbs

    Maria Teresa Guasti

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

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

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

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

  • Causative and perception verbs: A comparative study

    Maria Teresa Guasti

  • 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

  • At the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface in Child Language

    Andrea Gualmini;Stephen Crain;Luisa Meroni;Gennaro Chierchia

  • Scalar Implicatures in Child Language: Give Children a Chance

    Francesca Foppolo;Maria Teresa Guasti;Gennaro Chierchia

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

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

  • Relative clause formation in Romance child's production

    Maria Teresa Guasti;Anna Cardinaletti

  • 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

  • Selecting word order: the Rhytmic Activation Principle

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

  • L'acquisizione del linguaggio. Un'introduzione

    M Guasti

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

    Claudia Caprin;Maria Teresa Guasti

  • Semantic Restrictions in Romance Causatives and the Incorporation Approach

    Maria Teresa Guasti

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

    Fabrizio Arosio;Maria Teresa Guasti;Natale Stucchi

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

    Spyridoula Varlokosta;Adriana Belletti;João Costa;Naama Friedmann

  • The Acquisition of French Relative Clauses Reconsidered

    Maria Teresa Guasti;Ur Shlonsky

  • 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

  • Semantic interfaces : reference, anaphora and aspect

    Carlo Cecchetto;Gennaro Chierchia;Maria Teresa Guasti

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

    Adriana Belletti;Maria Teresa Guasti

  • Acquisition of Italian Interrogatives

    Maria Teresa Guasti

  • Cross-linguistic patterns in the acquisition of quantifiers

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

  • The Compositionality of Logical Connectives in Child Italian.

    Elena Pagliarini;Stephen Crain;Maria Teresa Guasti

Frequent Co-Authors

Heather K. J. van der Lely
Heather K. J. van der Lely Harvard University
Stephen Crain
Stephen Crain Macquarie University
Gennaro Chierchia
Gennaro Chierchia Harvard University
Anne Christophe
Anne Christophe École Normale Supérieure
Claudio Luzzatti
Claudio Luzzatti University of Milano-Bicocca
Antonella Sorace
Antonella Sorace University of Edinburgh
Marina Nespor
Marina Nespor International School for Advanced Studies
Massimo Molteni
Massimo Molteni University of Padua
Holly P. Branigan
Holly P. Branigan University of Edinburgh
Hedderik van Rijn
Hedderik van Rijn University of Groningen

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