Veronica Bressan

Veronica Bressan is a Contract Lecturer (Lecturer) at the Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind from IUSS Pavia (2021–2025), an MA in Language and Mind: Linguistics and Cognitive Studies from the University of Siena (2018–2021), and a BA in Humanistic Studies from the University of Trieste (2015–2018), with Erasmus+ mobility at Freie Universität Berlin (2017–2018).

• PhD (2025): Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind, IUSS Pavia
• MA (2021): Language and Mind, University of Siena
• BA (2018): Humanistic Studies, University of Trieste

Her research focuses on the syntax-pragmatics interface, particularly scalar implicatures and D-linking in Italian, examining how feature inclusion and intervention effects shape early grammars. She employs experimental methodologies to study language acquisition and contributes to computational linguistics through projects like BLiMP-IT, a benchmark for evaluating Italian language models. Her work intersects theoretical linguistics with cognitive modeling and artificial intelligence.

Veronica actively presents her research at international conferences (e.g., GLOW47, IGG50, XPrag X) and participates in invited seminars, including CISCL Research Seminars and LiVe Lunch. She has contributed to organizing academic events like IGG49 at IUSS Pavia and collaborates with scholars such as Adriana Belletti and Christopher Chesi. Her teaching includes contributions to 'Psycholinguistics' in the Master's program in Language Sciences at Ca' Foscari.