Marina Nespor - Curriculum vitae#

• 1972. M.A. in Philosophy. University of Milano.
• 1977. Ph.D. in General Linguistics. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill.

• 1975-1998. University of Amsterdam: Professor of Linguistics.
• 1992-1998. Professor at HIL (Holland Institute of Linguistics).
• 1998-2007. University of Ferrara. Professor of General Linguistics.
• 2007-2011. University of Milano-Bicocca. School of Psychology. Professor of General Linguistics.
• 2011- : SISSA - Language, Cognition and Development Lab

• 1973-74. University of North Carolina: Department of Romance Languages. Teaching Assistant.
• 1974-75. University of North Carolina: Department of General Linguistics. Teaching Assistant.
• August-December 1985. University of Athens: Department of Linguistics. Visiting Professor.
• June 1988. Autonomous University of Barcelona at Girona. Professor at the Summer School on Theoretical Linguistics.
• November-December 1988. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Department of Catalan. Visiting Professor.
• March-April 1989. University of Pavia. Linguistics Department. Visiting Professor.
• April 1989. University of Rome. Department of Language Sciences. Visiting Professor.
• November-December 1989. Autonomous University of Barcelona at Girona. Course on poetic meter.
• June 1990. University of Rome. Summer School in Linguistics. Course in Phonology.
• June 1992. University of Ferrara. Visiting Professor.
• March 1995. DIP.S.CO. San Raffaele. Milano. Course in Phonology.
• July 1995. Università di Roma. Summer School in Linguistics. Course in Phonology.
• July 1998: University of Genève. Intensive Phonology course at the General Linguistics Department.
• 1998: University of Ferrara. Visiting Professor.
• July 1999: University of Utrecht: Visiting Professor.
• July 2000: professor at the GLOW Summer school held in Mytilini, Greece.
• October 2001: visiting professor at the University of Patras, Greece, within the Erasmus program.
• 2001-today: scientific collaborator of the Cognitive Neuroscience sector of SISSA Trieste.
• October 2004: visiting professor at the University of Patras, Greece, within the Erasmus program.
• 2005: visiting professor for a bimester at the University of Potsdam.
• January-October 2005: visiting professor at SISSA, Trieste. Cognitive Neuroscience sector.

• 1989-1993 president of GLOW (association of Generative Linguistics).
• 1998 appointed chiara fama Professor at the University of Ferrara (special appointment for outstanding scientific achievements)
• 2006-2009 appointed at the Interdisciplinary Center Beniamino Segre of the Accademia dei Lincei to carry out a research on The development of linguistic capacities in humans.
• 2008 elected member of the Academia Europaea.

• University of Amsterdam
• University of Göttingen
• University of Athens
• University of Utrecht
• University of Haifa (organized with W. Sandler)
• University of Vienna
• University of Ferrara (ESF OMLL Workshop organized with L. Fadiga (Medical School) and G. Barbujani (Deptartment of Biology))
• SISSA, Trieste

• Autonomous University of Barcelona
• Cambridge University
• LSCP, EHESS, Paris
• Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
• SISSA, Trieste
• University of Amsterdam
• University of Hong Kong
• University of Lisbon
• University of Utrecht

• OMLL on The Origin of Language 2002-2005. European Science Foundation. Principal investigator.
• Interuniversity grant (COFIN) of the Italian Minister of Education and Research 2005-2007. Principal Investigator of the University of Ferrara.
• Interuniversity grant (COFIN) of the Italian Minister of Education and Research 2008-2010. Principal Investigator. University of Milano-Bicocca.
• HFSP (Human Frontiers Scientific Program) grant RGP 68/2002. Member. CONTACT Learning and development of Contextual Action EC Funded NEST Project # 5010. 1/9/2005-31/8/2008.

• Project on different mechanisms in language acquisition. In collaboration with: Jacques Mehler (SISSA, Trieste), Marcela Peña (Pontificia Università Catolica de Chile and SISSA, Trieste), Luca Bonatti (University Pompeu Fabra, ICREA, Barcelona), Mohinish Shukla (University of Rochester), Judit Gervain (University of British Columbia), Ansgar Endress (Harvard).
• Project on rhythmic classes. In collaboration with Jacques Mehler (SISSA, Trieste), Mohinish Shukla (University of Rochester).
• Project on the iambic-trochaic law. In collaboration with Mohinish Shukla (University of Rochester), Ansgar Endress (Harvard), Ricardo Bion (Stanford), Marcela Peña (Pontificia Università Catolica de Chile and SISSA, Trieste), Silvia Benavides Varala (SISSA, Trieste).
• Project on the linguistic abilities of cochlear implanted children. In collaboration with Ricardo Bion (SISSA, Trieste), Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano Bicocca), Carlo Cecchetto (University of Milano Bicocca), Costanza Papagno (University of Milano Bicocca), Carlo Geraci (University of Milano Bicocca).
• Project on word order and the cognitive factors that influence it. PhD project of Alan Langus (SISSA, Trieste).
• Project on the functional difference between vowels and consonants. In collaboration with: Jacques Mehler (SISSA, Trieste), Luca Bonatti (University Pompeu Fabra, ICREA, Barcelona), Jean-Rémy Hochmann (SISSA, Trieste).
• Project on frequency of distribution of close and open class items. In collaboration with: Jacques Mehler (SISSA, Trieste), Judit Gervain (Università Descartes, Paris).

• Italian: native
• English: fluent
• Dutch: fluent
• Greek: fluent
• French: quite good passive competence both oral and written
• Turkish: beginner