Beatrice Giustolisi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1208972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beatrice Giustolisi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beatrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Giustolisi |
| SIGNATURE | GIUSTOLISI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5967-1392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Is the Resolution of Ambiguous Pronouns Influenced By Code-Switching and Sociolinguistic Context? Insights from Italian-English bilinguals
Aims and objectives: Ambiguous pronoun resolution has been amply investigated by previous literature on bilingual language processing. However, factors related to the sociolinguistic environment of bilingual communities and sociopragmatic cues in bilingual communication remain almost unexplored. This study examines whether different sociolinguistic contexts influence bilinguals’ ambiguous pronoun resolution and whether code-switching modulates re…
Exploring bimodal lexical access in unimodal bilinguals through videos with captions
Studies on bimodal bilingualism showed that bimodal lexical access is not costly compared to unimodal lexical access, but that it can be even advantageous. We asked whether the same can be observed in unimodal bilinguals as long as some bimodal conditions are provided. We exploited the ecological bimodal setting of subtitled videos and designed four versions of a semantic categorization task, with unimodal (spoken or written language) and bimodal…
Are Children Sensitive to Ironic Prosody? A Novel Task to Settle the Issue
Ironic remarks are often pronounced with a distinctive intonation. It is not clear whether children rely on acoustic cues to attribute an ironic intent. This question has been only indirectly tackled, with studies that manipulated the intonation with which the final remark is pronounced within an irony comprehension task. We propose a new task that is meant to assess whether children rely on prosody to infer speakers' sincere or ironic communicat…
Processing code-blending beyond the lexical level
Bimodal bilinguals master languages in two modalities, spoken and signed, and can use them simultaneously due to the independence of the articulators. This behavior, named code-blending, is one of the hallmarks of bimodal bilingualism. Lexical experiments on production and comprehension in American Sign Language/English showed that blending is not cognitively costly and facilitates lexical access. In this work, we replicated the blending advantag…
Cross-Linguistic Recognition of Irony Through Visual and Acoustic Cues
Assessing Lexical and Syntactic Comprehension in Deaf Signing Adults
Among the existing sign language assessment tools, only a small number can be used in clinical settings. This contribution aims at presenting three comprehension assessment tests (two lexical and one syntactic) that offer a solid basis to build tools to assess language impairments in deaf signing adults. We provide the material and guidelines, based on psychometric analyses of the items, to make these tests suitable for clinical assessment. They …
On the nature of role shift
Attitude role shift is a sign language strategy to report someone else’s utterance or thought. It has been analyzed either as a kind of demonstration or, alternatively, as a complex construction involving subordination plus a context-shifting operator. The present work reports the results of a sentence-to-picture matching task developed in three different sign languages (Italian Sign Language, French Sign Language and Catalan Sign Language) with …
Age of exposure and subject/object asymmetries when wh -movement goes rightward
We report an experiment addressing the comprehension of LIS interrogatives in three adult populations with different times of exposure to sign language: native signers, early signers, and late signers. We investigate whether delayed exposure to language affects comprehension of interrogatives and whether there is an advantage for subject dependencies over object dependencies, as systematically reported for spoken languages. The answer to the firs…
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language
In a previous study, our research group investigated the expression of irony in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and suggested that specific manual and non-manual markers signaled the signer’s meaning and attitude. The present research aimed at expanding those findings by analyzing whether these markers are used in irony recognition and whether they are language-specific. We designed an experiment in which we compared recognition of ironic remarks out…
Measuring sign complexity
The study of articulatory complexity has proven to yield useful insights into the phonological mechanisms of spoken languages. In sign languages, this type of knowledge is scarcely documented. The current study compares an error-driven measure and a model-driven measure of complexity for signs in French Sign Language (LSF). The former measure is based on error rates of handshape, location, orientation, movement, and sign fluidity in a repetition …
Asymmetries in relative clause comprehension in three European sign languages
Relativization is a robust subordinating type across languages, displaying important typological variability concerning the position of the nominal head that the relative clause modifies, and sign languages are no exception. It has been widely assumed since Keenan & Comrie (1977) that the subject position is more accessible to relativization than object and oblique positions. The main aim of this paper is to investigate the extension of this famo…
Mind the stimulation site
The comprehension of ironic criticisms and ironic compliments in individuals with Down syndrome
Signing something while meaning its opposite
Phonological blending or code mixing? Why mouthing is not a core component of sign language grammar
Phonological blending or code mixing? Why mouthing is not a core component of sign language grammar
Signing something while meaning its opposite
Mind the stimulation site
The comprehension of ironic criticisms and ironic compliments in individuals with Down syndrome
Asymmetries in relative clause comprehension in three European sign languages
Relativization is a robust subordinating type across languages, displaying important typological variability concerning the position of the nominal head that the relative clause modifies, and sign languages are no exception. It has been widely assumed since Keenan & Comrie (1977) that the subject position is more accessible to relativization than object and oblique positions. The main aim of this paper is to investigate the extension of this famo…
Age of exposure and subject/object asymmetries when wh -movement goes rightward
We report an experiment addressing the comprehension of LIS interrogatives in three adult populations with different times of exposure to sign language: native signers, early signers, and late signers. We investigate whether delayed exposure to language affects comprehension of interrogatives and whether there is an advantage for subject dependencies over object dependencies, as systematically reported for spoken languages. The answer to the firs…
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language
In a previous study, our research group investigated the expression of irony in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and suggested that specific manual and non-manual markers signaled the signer’s meaning and attitude. The present research aimed at expanding those findings by analyzing whether these markers are used in irony recognition and whether they are language-specific. We designed an experiment in which we compared recognition of ironic remarks out…
Measuring sign complexity
The study of articulatory complexity has proven to yield useful insights into the phonological mechanisms of spoken languages. In sign languages, this type of knowledge is scarcely documented. The current study compares an error-driven measure and a model-driven measure of complexity for signs in French Sign Language (LSF). The former measure is based on error rates of handshape, location, orientation, movement, and sign fluidity in a repetition …
Assessing Lexical and Syntactic Comprehension in Deaf Signing Adults
Among the existing sign language assessment tools, only a small number can be used in clinical settings. This contribution aims at presenting three comprehension assessment tests (two lexical and one syntactic) that offer a solid basis to build tools to assess language impairments in deaf signing adults. We provide the material and guidelines, based on psychometric analyses of the items, to make these tests suitable for clinical assessment. They …
On the nature of role shift
Attitude role shift is a sign language strategy to report someone else’s utterance or thought. It has been analyzed either as a kind of demonstration or, alternatively, as a complex construction involving subordination plus a context-shifting operator. The present work reports the results of a sentence-to-picture matching task developed in three different sign languages (Italian Sign Language, French Sign Language and Catalan Sign Language) with …
Processing code-blending beyond the lexical level
Bimodal bilinguals master languages in two modalities, spoken and signed, and can use them simultaneously due to the independence of the articulators. This behavior, named code-blending, is one of the hallmarks of bimodal bilingualism. Lexical experiments on production and comprehension in American Sign Language/English showed that blending is not cognitively costly and facilitates lexical access. In this work, we replicated the blending advantag…
Cross-Linguistic Recognition of Irony Through Visual and Acoustic Cues
Are Children Sensitive to Ironic Prosody? A Novel Task to Settle the Issue
Ironic remarks are often pronounced with a distinctive intonation. It is not clear whether children rely on acoustic cues to attribute an ironic intent. This question has been only indirectly tackled, with studies that manipulated the intonation with which the final remark is pronounced within an irony comprehension task. We propose a new task that is meant to assess whether children rely on prosody to infer speakers' sincere or ironic communicat…
Is the Resolution of Ambiguous Pronouns Influenced By Code-Switching and Sociolinguistic Context? Insights from Italian-English bilinguals
Aims and objectives: Ambiguous pronoun resolution has been amply investigated by previous literature on bilingual language processing. However, factors related to the sociolinguistic environment of bilingual communities and sociopragmatic cues in bilingual communication remain almost unexplored. This study examines whether different sociolinguistic contexts influence bilinguals’ ambiguous pronoun resolution and whether code-switching modulates re…
Exploring bimodal lexical access in unimodal bilinguals through videos with captions
Studies on bimodal bilingualism showed that bimodal lexical access is not costly compared to unimodal lexical access, but that it can be even advantageous. We asked whether the same can be observed in unimodal bilinguals as long as some bimodal conditions are provided. We exploited the ecological bimodal setting of subtitled videos and designed four versions of a semantic categorization task, with unimodal (spoken or written language) and bimodal…
Linguistics (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (7 works) · Sign language (7 works) · Comprehension (6 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (4 works)