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Maria Teresa Guasti is a Professor of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. She has held academic positions since 1988, including Assistant Professor (2000-2005) and Researcher roles at institutions like the University of Siena and San Raffaele Hospital. Her research bridges theoretical linguistics, child language acquisition, and cognitive disorders like dyslexia and developmental language impairment (DLD).
- PhD in Linguistics, University of Geneva
Guasti’s work focuses on syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in typical and atypical language development, with a special emphasis on bilingual acquisition, DLD, and dyslexia. She has contributed to understanding timing anticipation deficits in dyslexia and has expanded her research into musical cognition and motor control (handwriting). Recently, she collaborated with human-computer interaction scientists to develop language-based interactive technologies.
Her publications span 160 works, including 80 peer-reviewed articles and 6 books, with over 7,000 citations and an H-index of 42. Key grants include the ERC Synergy (2019) and Multimind (2017-2022, €516,122).
- 2019 ERC Synergy Grant for Leibniz’s Dream (€10.2M)
- 2012-2018 Associate Investigator at ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
- 2005-2009 Italian Representative in European COST A33 Action
Guasti has trained 14 PhD students, supervised 12 postdocs, and mentored 100+ master’s students. She has served as Associate Editor for Language Acquisition and Frontiers in Psychology, and on editorial boards including Journal of Child Language. She has delivered keynotes at international conferences and taught at summer schools.
