À propos
DCP
I am a Speech and Language Therapist by training (Università La Sapienza, Roma) and clinical experience, passionate about everything that concerns the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, its development and impairments or differences in clinical populations. This passion has led me first to pursue a master’s in Neuroscience, Language and Communication (UCL, London), and then to dive into research with a PhD (Université de Paris) and a postdoc within the Institute of Language, Communication and Brain (Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence).My research projects focussed on the semantics and pragmatics of non-speech vocalisations in interaction, taking an interdisciplinary and multimodal approach to the study of language. Especially, my work has aimed to investigate how the use of non-speech vocalisations in interaction can be informative about infants’ and children’s pragmatic development, and contribute to the early identification of delays or differences in the socio-cognitive sphere.
I am now working with Daniele Schön (INS), in collaboration with Roxane Bertrand and Leonardo Lancia (Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence) on studying pragmatics and conversational dynamics in children with cochlear implants and adults within the autistic spectrum. Especially, we aim to investigate similarities and differences between conversational and music interaction, exploring bidirectional parallelisms, influences, and whether practice on the latter might have transferable effects for individuals struggling with the socio-pragmatic aspects of communication at different levels.
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