Vincenzo Moscati
Professor
Department of Education, human sciences and intercultural communication
University of Siena
Italy
Biography
Vincenzo Moscati received his PhD (European Doctorate) in Cognitive Science at the University of Siena and since 2014 he is a member of the CISCL - Center for Interdepartmental Studies on Language and Cognition . He is an associate researcher at the ARC Center of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders at the Macquarie University, where he previously held a post-doctoral position. He has been Visiting Scholar at MIT in the Department of Linguistics of Noam Chomsky between 2004 and 2005 and at the Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit (Center for Research on Multilingualism) at the Hamburg University. His research focuses on formal linguistics and psycholinguistics, with a special interest on language acquisition. The resolution of scope ambiguities in young children, the cross-linguistic study of the syntax of negative sentences and the acquisition of syntax-pragmatic interface.
Research Interest
His research focuses on formal linguistics and psycholinguistics, with a special interest on language acquisition. The resolution of scope ambiguities in young children, the cross-linguistic study of the syntax of negative sentences and the acquisition of syntax-pragmatic interface.
