Giulia BENCINI

 GIULIA M. L. BENCINI

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Università Ca Foscari Venezia

Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Palazzo Cosulich,

Fondamenta Zattere, Dorsoduro 1405 Venezia, 30123

 

Telephone: +39 041-234– 7831

Email: giulia.bencini@unive.it

Fax: +39 041 234– 7822

 

 

Country of Birth: UK

Citizenship: UK, Italian, US

 

 

EDUCATION

 

§  Ph.D., Linguistics, 2002

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

Dissertation Title: The representation and processing of argument structure constructions.

Advisor: Prof. Adele Goldberg. Committee members: Prof. Kathryn Bock, Prof. Gary Dell.

 

§  Graduate Certificate, Cognitive Science, 1997       

Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 

§  Laurea Degree, Modern Languages and Literatures (English, German), 1993

University of Florence, Italy

Thesis Title: Per uno studio tipologio della frase interrogativa

Advisor: Prof. Alberto Nocentini

 

OTHER HIGHER EDUCATION

 

§  Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY [Ruth Kirstein NRSA-32 Individual Fellowship, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development].

§  Certificate in Neural Network Modeling, University of Oxford, UK, 1998

§  LSA Linguistics Summer Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 1999

§  LSA Linguistics Summer Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1995 

 

 

PRESENT POSITION

 

2015 –             Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Università Ca Foscari Venezia, Italy

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

2014 – 2015    Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY, NY

2008 – 2014    Assistant Professor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY, NY

2004 – 2008    Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY

2004                Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY

2001 – 2002    Research Associate, Psychology Department, New York University, NY, NY

2000 – 2001    Research Fellow, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

1999 – 2000    Research Assistant, Language Production Laboratory (Director: Prof.

Kathryn Bock), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

1997 – 1998    Research Assistant, Neurolinguistics Laboratory (Director: Prof. Lise

Menn), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1997                Graduate Teaching Assistant, Psycholinguistics course, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1996                Graduate Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Linguistics, Linguistics & Speech Language Pathology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1994 – 1997    English as a Second Language Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1993 – 1995    HdR Translations & Editing Services, Boulder, CO

Translator and editor; manager for multilingual translation projects

 

VISITING POSITIONS

 

2003                Visiting Scientist, Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy

 

ACADEMIC CONSULTANCIES

 

2012 – 2014    Random House, NY, NY

Linguistics consultant for Living Language Series: Italian

2012 – 2013    IRCCS San Camillo Rehabilitation Hospital, Lido di Venezia, Italy

Consultant on linguistic rehabilitation in aphasia

 

AWARDS, GRANTS AND HONORS

 

2004                Hunter College, City University of New York, Award for Excellent Research

2004 – 2007    National Institute of Child Health and Human Development NRSA-32 Post-doctoral Fellowship to conduct research on first language acquisition (funding rate: < 10 percent)

2001                Department of Linguistics Cheng Award for Excellent Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

2000 – 2001    Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Research Award for conducting interdisciplinary research

1995 – 1996    Tuition Award for International Students, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1993                Cum Laude Degree, University of Florence, Italy

 

 

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH INTERESTS

§  Psycholinguistics: first and second language acquisition and processing in children and adults; multilingualism; psycholinguistic approaches to language disorders; language and cognition; language production; syntactic priming; language interventions in children and adults with and without language disorders

§  Linguistics: Constructional/constructionist approaches to grammar, syntax-semantics interface; argument realization; formal vs. usage-based approaches

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

§  Language science: linguistics and psycholinguistics, acquisition, disorders

§  General and English Linguistics: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics

§  Phonetics of American English, varieties of AE, clinical phonetics and phonology

§  Phonetics and Phonology of British English, varieties

§  Neural bases of speech, language, hearing, cognition and communication

§  Linguistic, cognitive and psychological aspects of acquired communication disorders (aphasia)

§  Language and communicative processes in healthy aging, MCI and dementia

§  Research methods in experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Editorial

 

§  Member, Editorial Board, Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2011– present

 

Ad hoc reviewing for journals: Corpora, Frontiers in Language Sciences, Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Child Language; Journal of Cognitive Linguistics; Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition, Language Neuropsychologia; Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition

 

§  Ad hoc reviewing for grants: Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR), Italy; National Science Foundation (NSF), USA; PSC-CUNY of the City University of New York, USA; University of Padova, Italy

 

§  Ad hoc reviewing for professional conferences: Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP); Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference; The Romance Turn

 

Conference and workshop organization

 

§  Organizer, international workshop: “Beyond reading: dalla neurobiologia agli interventi”, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy, September 23– 24, 2017

§  Organizer, Workshop: “A dieci anni dalla Convenzione ONU: principi e progetti per il futuro che vogliamo”, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy, December 3, 2016

§  Co-organizer, Workshop on Language and Autism, Hunter College, City University of New York and Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, April 2010

§  Assitant-organizer, Colloquium Series at the Linguistic Society of America Summer School, University of Illinois, USA, July 1999

§  Assistant-organizer, Workshop on Specific Language Impairment, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, July 1995

§  Assistant organizer, Working Conference on Cross-Linguistic Aphasia, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, July 1995

 

 

 

Institutional Appointments

 

Ca Foscari University of Venice

 

2016  –             Delegate of the Rector for support services to students with disabilities and specific learning difficulties

 

Committees and Service

 

Ca Foscari University of Venice

 

2017 –             Member, Doctoral Program Committee, Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies

2017 –             Member, University Committee for Scientific Instrumentation

2017                Member, Selection Committee for the Director of Science Gallery Venice

 

Hunter College, City University of New York, NY

 

2013 – 2015    Member, Personnel and Budget Committee, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

2014 – 2015    Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

2012 – 2014    Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

2011                Member, Search Committee for an Associate Professor in Adult Neurogenic Communication Disorders, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

2012 – 2015    Member, Risk Management Committee, Center for Communication Disorders, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

2012                Member, Curriculum Committee in Speech-Language Pathology, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

2008                Member, Grade appeals Committee, Communication Sciences Program

2008                Member, Search Committee for Associate Professor in Urban Public Health, School of Health Sciences

2008 – 2014    Graduate Advisor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

 

 

LANGUAGES

 

English (native), Italian (native), Spanish (B2), French (B2), German (B2)

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

1.     At Ca Foscari University of Venice, Venice

 

§  LT 006P: English Language and Linguistics (undergraduate)

This one-year course offers a general B2+ level English course, and a one-semester linguistic introduction to English phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.  The course also examines how variation in accents and dialects interacts with various aspects of human life in society.  Students examine how variation arises, how it can be described, what role it plays in how people perceive themselves and others, the role is plays in literature, film, humor, and music.

§  LT 501P: English Language and Linguistics (undergraduate)

This one-year course consists of a general C1 level English course, and a one-semester linguistic introduction to English phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics for students in Cultural and Linguistic Mediation Studies. The course also examines how variation in accents and dialects interacts with various aspects of cross-cultural communication.

 

§  LMJ090: English Language and Psycholinguistics (graduate)

This one-year course consists of a general B2+ to C1+ level English course, and a one-semester introduction to English from a cognitive science perspective.

 

2.     At Hunter College, City University of New York, NY

 

A. Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (Accredited clinical MS program in speech language pathology)

 

§  COMSC 604: Introduction to Language Science (undergraduate course)

This course is a prerequisite for graduate studies in Speech-language pathology. The course is an introduction to the cognitive science of language covering the basics of (English) linguistics and language acquisition in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. I taught the course in Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011.

 

§  COMSC 607. Phonetics of American English (undergraduate course)

This course is a prerequisite for graduate studies in Speech-language pathology. The course covers articulatory phonetics of American English, clinical phonetics and phonology, (IPA and extended IPA), varieties of American English, non-native speech. I taught the course in Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011.

 

§  COMSC 712. Neural Processes of Communication (graduate course)

This course addresses the anatomy physiology of normal processes of speech, language, hearing, vision, cognition, and communication, the development of the human nervous system; neurological bases of language and communicative disorders. I taught the course in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.

 

§  COMSC 726. Adult Neurogenic Communication Disorders (graduate course)

This course addresses the neurological, linguistic, cognitive and/or psychological aspects of acquired communication disorders in the adult population. The course focuses on the differential aphasia classifications and diagnosis and treatment of receptive and expressive language and speech disorders in aphasia. I taught the course in: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.

 

§  COMSC 715: Communication Processes related to Aging (graduate course)

This course covers language, communication and cognitive processes across the life span in normal and abnormal aging, prevention, assessment and treatment. I developed this new course in the Speech Pathology Curriculum. I taught the course in 2013, 2014, 2015.

 

§  COMSC 705: Summative Research Project (graduate course)

This course is a two-semester research practicum course aimed at allowing students to develop and conduct an original research project in speech-language pathology, write it up as an MA thesis, and present it in a formal conference-style presentation at the end of their second year. Students gain hands on practice as investigators in research in speech-language pathology. Students apply the knowledge acquired in prior research methods courses by carrying out an individual research project using research methods best suited for the research question. I taught the course in 2012-2013, 2013-2014.

 

§  The ICF and the speech-language pathologist (2-ASHA CEUs)

Course description: Although speech-language pathologists see clients on a daily basis, they may be unfamiliar with how the ICF model relates to the intervention practices. This course will focus on practical strategies to enable speech-language pathologists to utilize the ICF model when considering treatment practices. I taught the course in 2014.

 

B. Department of Psychology

 

§  Research Methods in Experimental and Social Psychology. This course is an intensive one-semester research practicum aimed at allowing students to develop and conduct an original behavioral research project in psychology. The course covers the bases of qualitative and quantitative research methods in social and cognitive psychology. Students gain hands on practice both as participants and as investigators in laboratory experiments. They develop an understanding of the ethical considerations involved in conducting research, they become familiar with a number of examples of research design using different methods, and develop skills in critiquing published research. Students apply this knowledge by carrying out an individual research project using research methods best suited for the research question. They conceptualize the research question, determine the research design, collect and analyze the data, and write up the findings in American Psychological Association (APA) style. I taught the course in Spring 2004.

 

3. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 

Department of Linguistics, English as a Second Language (ESL) Program

 

§  LING 1000

Spoken English Course for international students enrolled full-time at the University of Colorado. I taught the course each Spring and Fall, 1994–1997.

 

Department of Linguistics and Institute for Cognitive Science

§  LING 2000

Introduction to Linguistics for Majors in Speech-Language Pathology, Linguistics.

Teaching assistant: Spring 1997.

 

Department of Linguistics and Institute for Cognitive Science

§  LING 5300

Research in Psycholinguistics for Cognitive Science Majors in Psychology and Linguistics.

Teaching assistant: Fall 1997.

 

 

STUDENT SUPERVISION

 

Graduate

 

Primary Advisor, MA theses, Ca Foscari University of Venice

 

§  Chiara Mazza. “Deaf university students and students with language and reading impairments in the foreign language curriculum”. 2017. MA, Language Sciences.

 

Second Advisor, MA theses, Ca Foscari University of Venice

 

§  Emanuele Casani, “Rapid Naming, Reading, Comprehension, and Syntactic Production by Italian Dyslexic Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment”. 2017. MA, Language Sciences.

§  Lisa Cagnin. “Comprendo. Un’Analisi del test associazione nome figura”. 2016. MA, Language Sciences.

 

Primary Advisor, MA theses, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Hunter College, City University of New York

 

§  Allison Charles. “Caretaker knowledge of dysphagia: An educational intervention”. 2014. MA, Speech-Language Pathology.

§  Maya Brand. “The effect of a multimodal treatment approach on speech intelligibility of a child with childhood apraxia of speech an/or phonological impairment: a case study”. 2014.  MA, Speech-Language Pathology.

§  Brittany Zucker. “Vocational training in Autism: An individualized task analysis approach”. 2014. MA, Speech-Language Pathology.

§  Julie Feldman. “Examining interrupting behaviors in individuals with Asperger Syndrome during group therapy”. 2014. MA, Speech-Language Pathology.

§  Victoria Lennon. “A multi-domain assessment tool to evaluate planning abilities in young adults with mild TBI”. 2014. MA, Speech-Language Pathology.

§  Jamie Revitz. “The effects of animal assisted therapy on the elderly within a a speech and language context”. 2013. MA, Speech-Language Pathology.

§  Lauren Postiglione. “Lexical access in aphasia: The role of phonotactic probabilities.” 2013. MA, Speech-Language Pathology.

§  Taryn Levenstein. “The effects of high constraint and low constraint utterances on echolalic responses in children with autism spectrum disorder”. 2013. MA in Speech-Language-Pathology.

§  Melissa Rosenthal. “Multi-informant Perspectives in Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome”. 2013. MA, Speech-Language Pathology.

 

 

Undergraduate (selected)

 

Advisor, BA theses, Ca Foscari University of Venice

 

§  Giulia Piccolo. “Segno Nome Quale: An experimental study of Name sign assignment among deaf signers and a comparison with proper name assignment in spoken languages”. 2016. BA.

§  Ilaria Tiozzo Pagio. “Gender features in Italian passives: a syntactic priming investigation”.

2016. BA.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Articles in refereed journals, chapters and conference proceedings

 

Bencini, G.M.L. (2017).  Speech errors as a window on language and thought: A cognitive science perspective.  Altre Modernità, 243–262.

 

Casenhiser, D. & Bencini, G.M.L. (2015). Argument Structure Constructions.  In E. Dabrowska & D. Divjak (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, de Gruyter-Mouton.

 

Agostini, M. Garzon, M., Benavides-Varela, S. Bencini, G.M.L., Rossi, G. Rosadoni, S., Mancuso, M. Turolla, A. Meneghello, F., Tonin, P. (2014).  Telerehabilitation in Poststroke Anomia.  BioMed Research International, Volume 2014, Article ID 706909.

 

Bencini, G.M.L. Psycholinguistics. (2013).  In G. Trousdale, T. Hoffman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar (pp. 379–396).  Oxford University Press.

 

Zampieri, E., Franco, L., Bencini, G.M.L., Meneghello, F. (2013).  On the production of axial prepositions. Linking Figure and Ground in Broca's Aphasia: A case study. Language and Information Society , 19, 59–100.

 

Semenza, M., Bencini, G.M.L., Garzon, M., Meneghello, F., Benincà, P., & Semenza, C. (2012). Assessing DP in a Case of Agrammatism.  Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 61, 283–284.

 

Franco, L., Zampieri, E., Meneghello, F., & Bencini, G.M.L. (2012).  Prepositions inside words and the morphosyntax of compounds – A view from agrammatism.  Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, Supplement, September 2012, 32­–35.

 

Volpato, C., Bencini, G.M.L, & Semenza, C. (2012).  Accessing letter and Arabic number form and orientation in global alexia.  Brain and Language, 120, 217–225.

 

Bencini, G. M. L., Pozzan, L. Bertella, L., Mori, I., Pignatti, R., Ceriani, F., & Semenza, C. (2011). When two and too don’t go together: A selective phonological deficit sparing number words. Cortex, 47, 1052–1062.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., Pozzan, L. Biundo, R., McGeowan, W., Venneri, A., Semenza, C., & Valian, V. (2011). Language Specific Effects in Alzheimer's Disease: Subject Omission in Italian and English. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 24, 25–40.

 

Garzon, M., Semenza, M., Meneghello, F., Bencini, G.M.L., Semenza, C. (2011).  Target Unrelated Verbal paraphasias: A Case study.  Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 23, 142–143.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., & Valian, V. (2008).  Abstract sentence representations in 3-year-olds: Evidence from comprehension and production.  Journal of Memory and Language, 59, 97–113.

 

Semenza, C., Bencini, G.M.L., Bertella, L., Mori, I., Pignatti, R., Ceriani, F., Magno Caldognetto, E., & Cherrick, D. (2007).  A dedicated neural mechanism for vowel selection: A case of relative vowel deficit sparing the number lexicon”.  Neuropsychologia, 45, 425–430.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., Biundo, R., Semenza, C., & Valian, V. (2005). Subject drop in Italian Alzheimer’s Disease. Brain and Language, 95, 133–134.

 

Goldberg, A.E., & Bencini, G.M.L.  Support from processing for a constructional approach to grammar. (2005). In A. Tyler, M. Takada, Y. Kim, & D. Marinova (Eds.), Language in use: Cognitive and discourse perspectives on language and language learning (pp. 3–18).  Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.

 

Bencini, G.M.L. (2004). A diachronic account of question particle position.  In A. Parenti (Ed.), Per Alberto Nocentini: Investigazioni linguistiche (pp. 44–62).  Firenze: Alinea.

 

 Bencini, G.M.L. (2003).  Towards a diachronic typology of yes/no question constructions with particles. Proceedings of the Thirty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 604–621.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., & Goldberg, A. E. (2000).  The contribution of argument structure constructions to sentence meaning.  Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 640–651.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., & Goldberg, A.E. (1999).  Constructions as the main determinants of sentence meaning. Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 785).  New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

Edited Books

 

Riggio L. & G.M.L. Bencini (Eds.) (2011).  Essential Italian: Beginner Course. NY: Random House. 

 

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS (CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, COLLOQUIA)

 

§  (with Anna Cardinaletti) University of Brescia, Italy, “Accessible writing and inclusive communication”.  Brescia Summer School on Sustainable Tourism and Inclusive Design, Department of Architecture and Engineering, July, 2017.

§  University of Venice, Italy, “Developing convergence: A lifespan perspective on language representation and processing”.  7th Meeting of the Romance Turn, October, 2015.

§  IRCCS San Camillo, Lido di Venezia, Italy “Deciding what to count in aphasia treatment: The need for a biopsychosocial model”.  Venice Summer School in Aphasia Rehabilitation, July, 2013.  

§  Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, “L’accessibilità comunicativa in ottica biopsicosociale”, July, 2013.

§  University of Florence, “Per uno studio sperimentale della sintassi”.  Linguistics Department, January, 2013.

§  University of Reading, Reading, UK.  “The resilience of structure in talk: Evidence from Language acquisition and language loss”.  Linguistics & Communication Sciences Department, February, 2012.

§  Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.  “The resilience of structure in talk: Evidence from Language acquisition and language loss”.  Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies Colloquium, December, 2012.

§  University of Buffalo, NY.  “The resilience of structure in talk: Evidence from Language acquisition and language loss”.  Linguistics and Cognitive Science Colloquium, October, 2011.

§  University of Tucson, AZ.  “The resilience of structure in talk: Evidence from Language acquisition and language loss”.  Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, April, 2011.

§  Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.  “How abstract is syntactic priming? The role of semantics and morphology”.  Department of Psychology, May, 2010.

§  Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. “Abstraction in child language production”.  Workshop on Early Syntax, Department of Psychology, April, 2009.

§  University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.  “The psycholinguistics of constructions: Integrating data from children and adults”.  Linguistics Department, February, 2007.

§  Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY.  “Abstraction in child sentence production: Evidence from structural priming”.  Psycholinguistics Supper Series, February, 2006.

§  Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.  “Abstraction in adult and child sentence production”. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, February, 2006.

§  Max Planck Institute for Cultural Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.  “The psycholinguistics of constructions”. February, 2003.

 

 

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

Bencini, G.M.L. (2016, May). “The case for the ICF: Towards a model that includes clinical education, advocacy, and translational research”.  Paper presented at the International Conference on UNIversal Inclusion Rights and Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities in the Academic Context, Torino, Italy.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., Valian, V., & Pozzan, L. (2016, April).  “Conceptual effects on syntactic priming in monolingual and bilingual English speakers”.  Paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children.  University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., Galletta, E., Cascella, P. (2013, November).  “Implementing the ICF in multiple domains: Towards a model that includes clinical education, advocacy, and translational research”.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

 

Semenza, M., Bencini, G.M.L., Garzon, M., Meneghello, F., Benincà, P., & Semenza, C.  “Assessing DP in a Case of Agrammatism”. (2012, October).  Poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Francisco, CA.

 

Franco, L., Zampieri, E., Meneghello, F., & Bencini, G.M.L. (2012).  “Prepositions inside words and the morphosyntax of compounds – A view from agrammatism”.  Poster presented at the 13th International Science of Aphasia Conference, Groenigen, The Netherlands.

 

Garzon, M., Semenza, M., Meneghello, F., Bencini G.M.L., & Semenza, C. (2011, October).  “Target Unrelated Verbal Paraphasias: A Case Study”.  Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Montréal, Québec.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., Pozzan, L., Knowles, E., & Valian, V. (2010, November).  “Lexical, conceptual, and syntactic influences on syntactic priming in monolingual and bilingual English speakers”.  Poster presented at the 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

 

Pozzan, L., Bencini, G.M.L., Quirk, E., Eng, N. & Valian, V. (2010, November).  “The acquisition of English main and embedded questions in child and adult SLA: an elicited production study”.  Paper presented at the 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., Pozzan, L., Valian, V., & Semenza, C. (2010, May).  “Language specific effects in Alzheimer’s Disease: Subject Omission in Italian and English”.  Paper presented at the Workshop on Psycholinguistics Across the Borders, Rovereto, Italy.

 

Pozzan, L., Bencini, G.M.L., & Valian, V. (2010, May).  “Input and generalization in first and second language acquisition”.  Poster presented at the Workshop on Psycholinguistics Across the Borders, Rovereto, Italy.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., Eng, N., & Semenza, C. (2009, November). “Selective impairment in number word production in a bilingual Aphasic”. Poster presented at 47 th the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Boston, MA.

 

Bencini, G.M.L. (2007, July).  “Abstract imitation in adult and child language”.  Poster presented at the Workshop on Neurocognitive Development and Autism: The Mirror Neuron Hypothesis. Washington, DC.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., & Valian, V. (2006, November).  “Abstract linguistic representations in 3-year-olds: Evidence from syntactic priming in language production”.  Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Houston, TX.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., & Valian, V. (2006, June).  “Abstract sentence representations in 3-year-olds: Evidence from production and comprehension”.  Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., & Valian, V. (2006, May).  “Abstract syntactic priming in 3-year-olds”.  Poster presented at the 3 rd Annual Workshop in Language Production, Chicago, IL.

 

Semenza, C., Bencini, G.M.L., Bertella, L., Mori, I., Pignatti, R., Ceriani, F., Cherrick, D., & Magno Caldognetto, E. (2006, February).  “A vowel deficit in aphasia sparing the number lexicon”.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the World Federation of Neurology – Aphasia and Cognitive Disorders Research Group, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., Biundo, R., Semenza, C., & Valian, V. (2005, October).  “Subject drop in Italian Alzheimer’s Disease”.  Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., Biundo, R., Semenza, C., & Valian, V. (2005, July).  “Subject drop in Italian Alzheimer’s of the Disease”.  Poster presented at the 6 th Conference on the Science of Aphasia, Helsinki, Finland.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., McElree, B., & Foraker, S. (2004, September).  “The effect of animacy on the time course of filler-gap resolution in wh-questions”.  Poster presented at 9th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Aix-en-Provence, France.

 

Bencini, G.M.L. (2003, November).  “Towards a typology of yes/no question constructions with particles”. Paper presented at the 39th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago, IL.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., Bock, K., & Goldberg, A. (2002, February).  “How abstract is grammar? Evidence from structural priming in language production”.  Poster presented at the 15th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.

 

Bencini, G.M.L., & Nocentini, A. (2000, November).  “Interrogative particles: Diachrony versus typological consistency”.  Paper presented at the 73 rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL.

 

 

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH

 

Hunter College, City University of New York, NY, Department of Speech-Language Pathology

and Audiology

 

2012 – 2014    Co-founder, Hunter College Aphasia Project: Conversational Groups, Education, Research, Advocacy for people with aphasia. Center for Communicative Disorders, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY

2012 – 2014    Leader, Technology in Aphasia Program: computer training for people with aphasia. Center for Communicative Disorders, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY

2012 – 2014    Faculty co-supervisor for student-clinicians engaged in Conversational Group Activities for people with aphasia, Hunter College Aphasia Project.

 

Ca Foscari University of Venice

 

§  “Ciò che non si vede”. Lab on Inclusion and Sustainable Development Goals, for 5th grade Elementary school children, Kids University, Ca Foscari University, Venice, June 2017.

§   “Engaging Inclusively. Diversity and Inclusion in Public Engagement”. Research Communication Week, Ca Foscari University, Venice, June 2017.