NeTS Linguistics Lab @ IUSS (Laboratory for Neurolinguistics, Computational Linguistics and Theoretical Syntax) was established in April 2021 and it is the natural continuation of the linguistics activity of the NETS Center, established in March 2011, and directed by Prof. Andrea Moro, Professor of Linguistics, until September 2016 then by Prof. Cristiano Chesi until the center was terminated in March 2021.
The Lab is now directed by Prof. Cristiano Chesi.
The aims and activities of the center are mainly related to the issues of the theory of natural language, in particular to syntax and its interface with semantics and pragmatics, the computational models of processing, neuropragmatics and the neural localizations and architecture of linguistic processes.
The research and didactic activities will be carried out by relying also on agreements with other advanced schools and universities both at national and international levels.
RESEARCH TOPICS
RESEARCH ON NEUROLINGUISTICS
- Neurobiological foundations of syntax
- Possible vs. impossible languages
- Neuropragmatics and neural basis of figurative language
- Negation in the brain
- The quest for the neurobiological basis of syntax by awake surgical procedures
RESEARCH ON THEORETICAL SYNTAX
- Theory of Movement (Long Distance Dependencies)
- Clause structure (expletives, copular inversion and unaccusativity)
- Syntax-semantics interface (focus, vocative, definiteness effect)
- Directionality (Top-Down, Left-Right) of phrase structure building
RESEARCH ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
- Computation, recursion and complexity
- Formal model of processing and generation
- Psycholinguistic efforts estimation through complexity metrics
NeTS Linguistics Lab @ IUSS (Laboratory for Neurolinguistics, Computational Linguistics and Theoretical Syntax) was established in April 2021 and it is the natural continuation of the linguistics activity of the NETS Center, established in March 2011, and directed by Prof. Andrea Moro, Professor of Linguistics, until September 2016 then by Prof. Cristiano Chesi until the center was terminated in March 2021.
The Lab is now directed by Prof. Cristiano Chesi.
The aims and activities of the center are mainly related to the issues of the theory of natural language, in particular to syntax and its interface with semantics and pragmatics, the computational models of processing, neuropragmatics and the neural localizations and architecture of linguistic processes.
The research and didactic activities will be carried out by relying also on agreements with other advanced schools and universities both at national and international levels.
RESEARCH ON NEUROLINGUISTICS
- Neurobiological foundations of syntax
- Possible vs. impossible languages
- Neuropragmatics and neural basis of figurative language
- Negation in the brain
- The quest for the neurobiological basis of syntax by awake surgical procedures
RESEARCH ON THEORETICAL SYNTAX
- Theory of Movement (Long Distance Dependencies)
- Clause structure (expletives, copular inversion and unaccusativity)
- Syntax-semantics interface (focus, vocative, definiteness effect)
- Directionality (Top-Down, Left-Right) of phrase structure building
RESEARCH ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
- Computation, recursion and complexity
- Formal model of processing and generation
- Psycholinguistic efforts estimation through complexity metrics
EQUIPMENT
NeTS center is fully equipped for psycholinguistic experiments:
- Eye Tracker - EyeLink 2000 Hz
- CEDRUS response pad
- ZOOM H4 - digital recorder
- SAMSUNG HMX-Q100BP HD - video recorder
- SPSS
- Presentation Software
Director:
Prof. Cristiano Chesi, professor of General linguistics at IUSS
Full Members:
Valentina Bambini
Pauli Brattico
Paolo Canal
Stefano Cappa
Eleonora Catricalà
Marco Fasoli
Matteo Greco
Paolo Lorusso
Andrea Moro
Giulia Piredda
Andrea Sereni
Maria Paola Sforza Fogliani
Former Visiting Scholar at NETS Center:
Pier Marco Bertinetto ( Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa )
Robert C. Berwick ( Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department - MIT, Cambridge, MA )
Gennaro Chierchia ( Harvard University )
Noam Chomsky ( MIT, Cambridge, MA )
Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France)
Robert Frank ( Yale University, New Haven )
Angela Friederici ( Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig )
Giorgio Graffi
Lorenzo Magrassi ( University of Pavia )
Andrea Moro ( IUSS Pavia )
Luigi Rizzi (Collège de France)
Dominique Sportiche
Katalin Balog ( Rutgers University )
Beate Krickel ( TU Berlin )
Anna Marmodoro ( University of Durham & University of Oxford )
Cristina Meini
Shota Momma ( University of California, San Diego )
Jubin Abutalebi ( University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan - University of Hong Kong )
Cristina Amoretti
Pier Marco Bertinetto ( Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa )
Claudia Bianchi
Marco Catani
Roberto Cavallaro
Mauro Ceroni
Annalisa Coliva
Simona Di Paola ( Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa )
Uriah Kriegel ( Institut Jean Nicod, Paris )
Paolo Labinaz
Lorenzo Magrassi
Daniela Perani ( UniSR, Milano )
Marco Riva ( Neurosurgery Residency Program, University of Milan )
Marco Tettamanti ( Nuclear Medicine Department & Division of Neuroscience "San Raffaele" Scientific Institute, Milan )
Gabriella Vigliocco ( University College, London )
Andrea Vitale
NeTS aims at establishing formal agreements for research and teaching purposes with other institutions. Presently, the following ones have already been signed by IUSS:
IRCCS San Matteo, Pavia
Istituto Neurologico Besta, Milan
Università "Vita-Salute" San Raffaele, Milan
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
King's College, London
Queen Mary, London
UCL, London
Institute of Philosophy, London
Collège de France, Paris
École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST), Paris
Max Planck Institute, CBS, Leipzig
University of Toronto, Toronto
Memory and Aging Centre, Neurology Department, University of San Francisco, San Francisco
Neurolinguistics Laboratory, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
