Luisa Meroni

Biography

Luisa Meroni is employed as a university lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages ​​at Utrecht University. She studied philosophy at the Università Degli Studi di Milano, where she obtained her degree in Language Philosophy cum laude in 1997 achieved. She continued her studies Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park and obtained her Ph.D. in 2005. with her dissertation on language acquisition, entitled "Putting Children in Context". After working for a year as visiting researcher at the MIT, she worked for two years as a Postdoc at McGill University. Then she started at the University of Utrecht, first using a Marie Curie scholarship as a researcher and then also as a university lecturer. Her research focuses on three areas: child language acquisition, sentence processing and second language acquisition. In the area of ​​child-language development, she conducted a large number of studies on the knowledge of young children about the limitations of semantic features on linguistic expressions, in particular, logical expressions such as disjunction and operators (such as 'every' and 'only'). In other studies, she studied how children and adults solve syntactic and semantic ambiguities that arise during language processing, a project for which she received a two-year European Science Foundation (ESF) fund.

Research Interest

Neuroscience & Cognition Utrecht