Marina Nespor#
| Membership Number: | 2499 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.psicologia.unimib.it/03_persone/scheda_personale.php?personId=295 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011- SISSA - Language, Cognition and Development Lab
- 2007-2011 Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca
- 1998-2007 Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Ferrara
- 1992-1998 Professor at HIL (Holland Institute of Linguistics)
- 1975-1998 Professor of Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- General linguistics
- Phrasal phonology
- Prosody
- Rhythm
- Language acquisition
- Mechanisms of language acquisition
- Communication vs. grammar
- Origin of language
Honours and Awards
- 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 Member of the Academia Europaea
