Roberto Cirillo

Roberto Cirillo
  • MA Linguistics
  • Master's Student at National Research University Higher School of Economics

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National Research University Higher School of Economics
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  • Master's Student
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October 2010 - April 2013
University of Pavia
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  • Master's Student

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(ENG) Aim of this work is to establish a comparison between sign languages and verbal (oral) languages, with reference to spatial cognition and its conceptualization and linguistic representation in each modality. The comparison, carried out especially through the Italian Sign Language (LIS) and Italian (with reference to other languages as well),...
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The reason why I decided to deal with this topic is that there are only a few works comparing sign and verbal languages. Moreover some interesting insights on the faculty of language may come out of the observation of phenomena in two different language modalities. WORD ORDER The language used to talk about space, and in particular locative sentenc...

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Could you suggest some bibliography on this topic? I'm interested in the neural correlates of associative learning and would like to read some articles or books (more or less recent). I guess there's much to do with the hebbian theory.
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Hello again. Can anyone provide some titles about the evolutionary emergence of the phoneme? I know Blevins' book "Evolutionary Phonology", but I'd like to read something more.
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Hello everyone. I'm looking for bibliography about the concept of "prosodeme", if there exists one. Can anyone provide some? I'm interested in prosodic structure. I'm looking for books about prosodic typology, prosodic hierachies, phonological rules and grammaticality. In my work I'm trying to link prosody to the linguistic code competence (so in general, language acquisition) and to the concept of expectedness.

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