Greta Mazzaggio
Biographic Data
| ID | 1508454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greta Mazzaggio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greta |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazzaggio |
| SIGNATURE | MAZZAGGIO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8019-7066 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender bias and the foreign language effect
Gender bias is deeply embedded in language and influences perceptions of social roles. Prior research suggests that the Foreign Language Effect (FLE) – the phenomenon where using a foreign language affects judgment and reasoning – can reduce implicit biases, including gender stereotypes, when individuals process information in a second language (L2). This effect has been attributed to increased cognitive effort and emotional detachment, leading t…
Scalar diversity and second-language processing of scalar inferences
We investigate the processing of scalar inferences in first language (L1) and second language (L2). Expanding beyond the common focus on the scalar inference from ‘some’ to ‘not all’, we examine six scalar expressions: ‘low’, ‘scarce’, ‘might’, ‘some’, ‘most’ and ‘try’. An online sentence-picture verification task was used to measure the frequency and time course of scalar inferences for these expressions. Participants included native English spe…
Formula Production and its Relation to General Language Ability in Mandarin-Speaking Autistic Children
The semantics behind the inference
Italian Adjective Order Is Not Predicted by Syntactic Hierarchies and Movement
Speakers have robust preferences for the relative order of adjectives when multiple adjectives modify a noun (e.g., big blue box vs. blue big box; see Scontras 2023 for an overview). Here we investigate adjective ordering in Italian, a language with postnominal adjectives that also allows for noun-medial ANA configurations. We present two experiments on Italian AAN, ANA, and NAA orders. We find strong ordering preferences in the ANA template but …
Negative Pragmatic Transfer in Bilinguals
Building on the cross-linguistic variability in the meaning of vague quantifiers, this study explores the potential for negative transfer in Italian-Slovenian bilinguals concerning the use of quantificational determiners, specifically the translational equivalents of the English "many", that is the Slovenian "precej" and "veliko". The aim is to identify relevant aspects of pragmatic knowledge for cross-linguistic influence. The study presents the…
Verbal irony and the implicitness of the echo
Speakers can express a critical, dissociative attitude by being ironic. According to the Echoic account of verbal irony, this attitude targets a proposition that echoes a thought attributed to someone other than the speaker herself at the present time. This study investigated the role of echo in irony processing across the lifespan. Through a self-paced reading task, we assessed whether the degree of explicitness of the proposition echoed by the …
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…
On the interpretation of scalar implicatures in first and second language
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…
On the interpretation of scalar implicatures in first and second language
Verbal irony and the implicitness of the echo
Speakers can express a critical, dissociative attitude by being ironic. According to the Echoic account of verbal irony, this attitude targets a proposition that echoes a thought attributed to someone other than the speaker herself at the present time. This study investigated the role of echo in irony processing across the lifespan. Through a self-paced reading task, we assessed whether the degree of explicitness of the proposition echoed by the …
Negative Pragmatic Transfer in Bilinguals
Building on the cross-linguistic variability in the meaning of vague quantifiers, this study explores the potential for negative transfer in Italian-Slovenian bilinguals concerning the use of quantificational determiners, specifically the translational equivalents of the English "many", that is the Slovenian "precej" and "veliko". The aim is to identify relevant aspects of pragmatic knowledge for cross-linguistic influence. The study presents the…
Italian Adjective Order Is Not Predicted by Syntactic Hierarchies and Movement
Speakers have robust preferences for the relative order of adjectives when multiple adjectives modify a noun (e.g., big blue box vs. blue big box; see Scontras 2023 for an overview). Here we investigate adjective ordering in Italian, a language with postnominal adjectives that also allows for noun-medial ANA configurations. We present two experiments on Italian AAN, ANA, and NAA orders. We find strong ordering preferences in the ANA template but …
Gender bias and the foreign language effect
Gender bias is deeply embedded in language and influences perceptions of social roles. Prior research suggests that the Foreign Language Effect (FLE) – the phenomenon where using a foreign language affects judgment and reasoning – can reduce implicit biases, including gender stereotypes, when individuals process information in a second language (L2). This effect has been attributed to increased cognitive effort and emotional detachment, leading t…
Scalar diversity and second-language processing of scalar inferences
We investigate the processing of scalar inferences in first language (L1) and second language (L2). Expanding beyond the common focus on the scalar inference from ‘some’ to ‘not all’, we examine six scalar expressions: ‘low’, ‘scarce’, ‘might’, ‘some’, ‘most’ and ‘try’. An online sentence-picture verification task was used to measure the frequency and time course of scalar inferences for these expressions. Participants included native English spe…
Formula Production and its Relation to General Language Ability in Mandarin-Speaking Autistic Children
The semantics behind the inference
Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (3 works) · First language (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works)