Francesca Panzeri
Biographic Data
| ID | 1208973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Panzeri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Panzeri |
| SIGNATURE | PANZERI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7668-7556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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…
Cross-Linguistic Recognition of Irony Through Visual and Acoustic Cues
Irony is easy to understand ”
In face-to-face conversations, interlocutors might recognize the ironic intent of a speaker relying on the incongruity of the comment relative to a situation, and on irony markers such as the ironic tone of voice and specific facial expressions. In instant messaging, acoustical and visual cues are typically absent, and the context is not always shared. We investigated the role of emoji as cues to detect irony, hypothesizing that they might play t…
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…
Disjunction in Negative Contexts
This squib reports experimental findings from a study investigating the interpretation of simple disjunction in negative contexts in four languages: Italian, French, English, Romanian. We provide evidence that casts doubt on the robustness of the distinction between PPI disjunction languages and non-PPI disjunction languages. The difference turns out to be less clear-cut than assumed in the theoretical (e.g., Szabolcsi 2002, Spector 2014, Nicolae…
Scalar and ad-hoc pragmatic inferences in children
Several studies investigated preschoolers’ ability to compute scalar and ad-hoc implicatures, but only one compared children's performance with both kinds of implicature with the same task, a picture selection task. In Experiment 1 ( N = 58, age: 4;2-6;0), we first show that the truth value judgment task, traditionally employed to investigate children's pragmatic ability, prompts a rate of pragmatic responses comparable to the picture selection t…
The comprehension of ironic criticisms and ironic compliments in individuals with Down syndrome
Signing something while meaning its opposite
Forking paths and polarity items licensing
There is an elegant account, proposed by Beaver and Condoravdi (2003), that assumes that the temporal connectives before and after are converses (i.e., they are analyzed by means of a unified lexical schema), and that explains away their different logical and veridical behavior appealing to other factors. There is an elegant explanation that connects the licensing of Polarity Items to informational strengthening requirements: Polarity Items are v…
The comprehension of ironic criticisms and ironic compliments in individuals with Down syndrome
Irony is easy to understand ”
In face-to-face conversations, interlocutors might recognize the ironic intent of a speaker relying on the incongruity of the comment relative to a situation, and on irony markers such as the ironic tone of voice and specific facial expressions. In instant messaging, acoustical and visual cues are typically absent, and the context is not always shared. We investigated the role of emoji as cues to detect irony, hypothesizing that they might play t…
Cross-Linguistic Recognition of Irony Through Visual and Acoustic Cues
Forking paths and polarity items licensing
There is an elegant account, proposed by Beaver and Condoravdi (2003), that assumes that the temporal connectives before and after are converses (i.e., they are analyzed by means of a unified lexical schema), and that explains away their different logical and veridical behavior appealing to other factors. There is an elegant explanation that connects the licensing of Polarity Items to informational strengthening requirements: Polarity Items are v…
Signing something while meaning its opposite
The comprehension of ironic criticisms and ironic compliments in individuals with Down syndrome
Disjunction in Negative Contexts
This squib reports experimental findings from a study investigating the interpretation of simple disjunction in negative contexts in four languages: Italian, French, English, Romanian. We provide evidence that casts doubt on the robustness of the distinction between PPI disjunction languages and non-PPI disjunction languages. The difference turns out to be less clear-cut than assumed in the theoretical (e.g., Szabolcsi 2002, Spector 2014, Nicolae…
Scalar and ad-hoc pragmatic inferences in children
Several studies investigated preschoolers’ ability to compute scalar and ad-hoc implicatures, but only one compared children's performance with both kinds of implicature with the same task, a picture selection task. In Experiment 1 ( N = 58, age: 4;2-6;0), we first show that the truth value judgment task, traditionally employed to investigate children's pragmatic ability, prompts a rate of pragmatic responses comparable to the picture selection t…
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…
Irony is easy to understand ”
In face-to-face conversations, interlocutors might recognize the ironic intent of a speaker relying on the incongruity of the comment relative to a situation, and on irony markers such as the ironic tone of voice and specific facial expressions. In instant messaging, acoustical and visual cues are typically absent, and the context is not always shared. We investigated the role of emoji as cues to detect irony, hypothesizing that they might play t…
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…
Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Irony (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)