Anna Teresa Porrini
Biographic Data
| ID | 2065930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Teresa Porrini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna Teresa |
| FAMILY NAME | Porrini |
| SIGNATURE | PORRINI A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0858-8297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dative Clitics as Arguments and Adjuncts
This study investigates the processing of Italian verb constructions containing preverbal dative clitics that function either as arguments or as adjuncts, adopting a developmental perspective across Italian-speaking children, adolescents, and adults. In a self-paced reading experiment, adults and fourteen-year-old adolescents read trivalent verbs selecting a dative argument (‘Martina mi ha prestato una bicicletta.’; Eng.: ‘Martina lent me a bicyc…
Role of Theory of Mind in children’s derivation of ad hoc conversational implicatures
Previous literature suggests that four-year-old children can derive ad hoc scalar implicatures, but it remains unclear whether they do so by taking into account the speaker’s perspective. This research investigated this issue by testing children’s ability to derive ad hoc implicatures in conditions in which the speaker had either a false or a true belief about relevant aspects of the communicative context. The participants were typically developi…
Expletive negation in Italian temporal clauses
This work aims to investigate the role of negation when it fails to reverse the polarity of a sentence, thus becoming “expletive”. An example is offered by the following Italian sentence: Chiara è rimasta in casa finché Marco non ha chiamato la pizzeria per la cena (literally ‘Chiara remained in the house until Marco did not call the pizzeria for dinner’, meaning ‘Chiara remained at home until Marco called the pizzeria for dinner’). Although nega…
Processing standard and expletive negation
Natural language sometimes expresses negation in rather puzzlingly different forms. Different from Standard Negation (SN), Expletive Negation (EN) involves a negative marker that does not affect the truth conditions of a sentence. The theoretical literature debates whether EN is a semantically empty element or a negative operator. This paper addresses this question by investigating the processing of EN and SN against affirmative sentences through…
An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms
How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures
Pragmatic theories generally agree that the derivation of implicit meaning depends on the assumption that the speaker is cooperative and knowledgeable, as well as the contextual relevance of the implicature. Studies on scalar implicature priming have investigated the latter, but the influence of the first two factors remains understudied. Here, we investigated the effect of the presence (or absence) of a cooperative and knowledgeable interlocutor…
Ad-Hoc Conversational Implicatures in Two-Year-Olds
Young children’s (n = 108) and adults’ (n = 40) ability to compute ad-hoc quantity conversational implicatures was assessed using a new implicit task that relied on eye-tracking. The children were 2 and 5 years old. Looking times reveal that all participants interpreted simple references by relying on implicatures. However, 2-year-olds failed to derive standard ad-hoc implicatures and succeeded only on a novel type of implicature based on typical…
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Ad-Hoc Conversational Implicatures in Two-Year-Olds
Young children’s (n = 108) and adults’ (n = 40) ability to compute ad-hoc quantity conversational implicatures was assessed using a new implicit task that relied on eye-tracking. The children were 2 and 5 years old. Looking times reveal that all participants interpreted simple references by relying on implicatures. However, 2-year-olds failed to derive standard ad-hoc implicatures and succeeded only on a novel type of implicature based on typical…
An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms
How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures
Pragmatic theories generally agree that the derivation of implicit meaning depends on the assumption that the speaker is cooperative and knowledgeable, as well as the contextual relevance of the implicature. Studies on scalar implicature priming have investigated the latter, but the influence of the first two factors remains understudied. Here, we investigated the effect of the presence (or absence) of a cooperative and knowledgeable interlocutor…
Dative Clitics as Arguments and Adjuncts
This study investigates the processing of Italian verb constructions containing preverbal dative clitics that function either as arguments or as adjuncts, adopting a developmental perspective across Italian-speaking children, adolescents, and adults. In a self-paced reading experiment, adults and fourteen-year-old adolescents read trivalent verbs selecting a dative argument (‘Martina mi ha prestato una bicicletta.’; Eng.: ‘Martina lent me a bicyc…
Role of Theory of Mind in children’s derivation of ad hoc conversational implicatures
Previous literature suggests that four-year-old children can derive ad hoc scalar implicatures, but it remains unclear whether they do so by taking into account the speaker’s perspective. This research investigated this issue by testing children’s ability to derive ad hoc implicatures in conditions in which the speaker had either a false or a true belief about relevant aspects of the communicative context. The participants were typically developi…
Expletive negation in Italian temporal clauses
This work aims to investigate the role of negation when it fails to reverse the polarity of a sentence, thus becoming “expletive”. An example is offered by the following Italian sentence: Chiara è rimasta in casa finché Marco non ha chiamato la pizzeria per la cena (literally ‘Chiara remained in the house until Marco did not call the pizzeria for dinner’, meaning ‘Chiara remained at home until Marco called the pizzeria for dinner’). Although nega…
Processing standard and expletive negation
Natural language sometimes expresses negation in rather puzzlingly different forms. Different from Standard Negation (SN), Expletive Negation (EN) involves a negative marker that does not affect the truth conditions of a sentence. The theoretical literature debates whether EN is a semantically empty element or a negative operator. This paper addresses this question by investigating the processing of EN and SN against affirmative sentences through…
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Implicature (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works)