Veronica BRESSAN

Research and Academic Experience 

2024 - present: Research fellow at Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Education

2021 - present (dissertation defense: spring 2025): PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind at University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Pavia

November 2023 – March 2024: Research stay at Fachbereich Linguistik, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz

2018 - 2021: MA in Language and Mind: Linguistics and Cognitive Studies (LM-39) at University of Siena, Siena

2015 - 2018: BA in Studi Umanistici (L-10) at University of Trieste, Trieste

October 2017- March 2018: Erasmus+ Studium Mobility at Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 

Other didactic activities

25/06/2024: Didactic lab for Scuola di orientamento IUSS, IUSS Pavia, Pavia. Title: “La crescita del linguaggio: strumenti e mappe dello sviluppo linguistico”

26/10/2023: University seminar within the MA course “Morphosyntax and experimental studies”, MA: Language and Mind: Linguistics and Cognitive Studies, University of Siena, Siena. Title: “The local side of scalar implicatures: insights from language acquisition”.

Conferences

Fusco A., Barbini M., Piccini Bianchessi M.L., Bressan V., Neri S., Rossi S., Sgrizzi T., Chesi C.: Recurrent Networks are (Linguistically) Better? An (Ongoing) Experiment on Small-LM training on Child-Directed Speech in Italian. Talk at CLiC-it 2024, Pisa (Italy), 4-6/12/2024. 

Bressan V., Belletti A., Chesi C.: To each (dependency), their own (features): intervention effects in exhaustification. Talk at GALA16, Lisbon (Portugal), 12-14/09/2024. 

Bressan V.: The acquisition of scalar some: An experimental study at the syntax/pragmatics interface. Poster at Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators, Berlin (Germany), 27-29/06/2024. 

Bressan V., Belletti A., Chesi C.: The local side of scalar implicatures: insights from the acquisition of Italian some. Talk at Konstanz Linguistics Conference, Kostanz (Germany), 21-22/03/2024.

Bressan V., Belletti A., Chesi C.: Some implicatures are more complex than others: the acquisition of scalar some and object relatives. Poster at XPrag X, Paris (France), 20-22/09/2023. 

Bressan V.: Intervention via feature inclusion in early grammars: the acquisition of scalar alcuni. Talk at The Romance Turn 11, Madrid (Spain), 19-21/09/2023. 

Bressan V.: Complexity as feature inclusion: the role of intervention in the acquisition of scalar implicatures. Talk at ColDocSFL 2023, Saint-Denis (France), 28-29/06/2023. 

Chesi C., Bressan V., Belletti A.: D-linking and lexical restriction in locality violations. Talk at CGG32, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain), 24-26/04/2023. 

Chesi C., Bressan V., Belletti A.: Which vs. What NP: the role of D-linking and “lexical restriction”. Poster online at HSP 2023, Pittsburgh (USA), 9-11/03/2023.

Bressan V.: The grammatical side of scalar implicatures: insights from language acquisition. Talk online at STaPS20, 24-26/02/2023.

Chesi C., Bressan V., Belletti A.: The role of D-linking and lexical restriction in locality violations. Poster at IGG48, Florence (Italy), 16-18/02/2023.

Bressan V.: Scalar implicatures like object A’-dependencies: feature inclusion in early grammars. Talk at IGG47, Catania (Italy), 24-26/02/2022.

Invited talks

Bressan V.: Intervention effects in exhaustification: the acquisition of scalar quantifiers. CISCL Research Seminars, Universy of Siena, Siena, 07/05/2024. 

Bressan V.: Intervention effects in exhaustification: the acquisition of scalar quantifiers. LiVe Lunch Seminars, University of Verona, Verona, 24/04/2024.

Bressan V.: The local side of scalar implicatures: insights from the acquisition of Italian some. Talk at Romance Colloquium, Universität Konstanz, Kostanz (Germany), 16/02/2024.

Conference organization

Organization of IGG49, IUSS Pavia, Pavia, 22-23/02/2024