'We can be creative, with multiple languages even more'. It has been a pleasure to test metaphor production with Chiara Pompei and Veronica Mangiaterra in Prato and visit my favourite translanguaging teacher in my favourite translanguaging class!

And what if mixing languages makes kids better at creating metaphors? Happy to see these happy faces working on a new project on multilingualism & metaphor Chiara Pompei Veronica Mangiaterra and the great expert in multilingualism Jacopo Torregrossa! Stay tuned for results! #NEPLab

Very special days in Prato with Veronica Mangiaterra for an intensive testing session with multilingual children on #multilingualmetaphors . Thanks to Jacopo Torregrossa for accompanying us into this amazing world. Thank you, maestra Sandra, for taking care of our future so brilliantly❤️

My lab, when we were kids #NEPLab IUSS PAVIA (from an idea of Chiara Pompei who used it for her talk on metaphor skills development in Zurich last week)

Don't miss Chiara Pompei 's (@IussPavia) talk on our Tuesday colloquium! She'll be presenting at the University of Zurich but you can join us online (link upon request)!

TITLE OF THE TALK: ' #Metaphors step by step: a walk through the #acquisition of figurative #language '. 📚
Zurich Linguistics

...and we are on! Join us for some great talks on #experimental #pragmatics iusspavia.zoom.us/my/br.saladelc…

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than by reading the call for papers of XPRAG.it 2024 in Venice?💘😂
Great invited speakers and pre-conference workshops in a wonderful venue, definitely not to be missed!
Deadline: April 30, 2024! #XPRAGIT2024

Thank you Gerardo Ortega for inviting me to present some of the works we are doing at IUSS PAVIA (w/ Valentina Bambini) on pragmatic processing, sensory-motor experience, and imagery in schizophrenia. Loved the discussions and the tour around in #Birmingham !!

The Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics Lab at IUSS PAVIA: 12 people and counting! Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro Paolo Canal Dr. Luca Bischetti Chiara Pompei Veronica Mangiaterra Biagio Scalingi Fabrizio Luciani Missing Federico Frau Maddalena Bressler (she/her), Chiara B. and Fortunata

The #clouddog went to Paris. Happy to have spent these days with wonderful pragmatic minds. It was a pleasure to present my work at #XPRAGX . Some colleagues told me: 'You can tell there is a lot of heart in what you do”. There is a lot of it, indeed.
See you in Cambridge! 💕

Across dogs that are clouds and lawyers who are sharks, we made it through the third morning at #XPRAG2023 #XPRAGX #Metaphor Chiara Pompei Federico Frau IUSS PAVIA

‘Tell me the dog is white without telling me the dog is white’. Chiara Pompei speaking about #developmental and #computational investigation of #metaphor production skills in #preschoolers . #XPragX

Our “cloud dog” rained down inspiring comments at #IndiPRAG2023 !
Valentina Bambini SerenaLecce
#languagedevelopment #metaphorproduction

The #XPRAG week started with a great talk by Kirsten Abbot-Smith here at #IndiPRAG2023 Workshop on environmental, cognitive, and socio-cognitive factors influencing pragmatic skills and social interaction in typical and atypical children #XPRAG 2023 #pragmatics Chiara Pompei

No more time excuses to neglect pragmatics in clinical contexts: here's the brief version of APACS (Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates) for remote use. It takes only 10 min! link.springer.com/article/10.100… Soon the in-person version too. Funded by Ministero della Salute

One never forgets the first subjects recorded with the new EEG machine... Chiara Pompei and Federico Frau testing the new BrainAmp system arrived in the Laboratory of Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics at IUSS PAVIA for the #ERCCoG #PROMENADE

I had a great time visiting, and finally meeting, Valentina Bambini and group Chiara Pompei Federico Frau Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro Veronica Mangiaterra Biagio Scalingi Federico Frau Dr. Luca Bischetti. They are doing great research on metaphor and Xprag more generally! Thank you for having me!

This week Hamad visited our lab and filled the atmosphere with lots of discussion about metaphor, imagery, semantic richeness and even poetry. Thanks Hamad! IUSS PAVIA Biagio Scalingi Chiara Pompei Federico Frau Veronica Mangiaterra Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro Dr. Luca Bischetti #PROMENADE

Next week, don't miss *three* great talks in our 'IUSS Linguistics Seminars' series at IUSS PAVIA! We'll go from theoretical syntax (w/ C. Guardiano & G. Longobardi) to NLG applied to psychiatry (w/ Lena K. Palaniyappan) on Monday, up to semantic cognition (w/ H. Al-Azary) on Tuesday!
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Can't wait to give a talk about metaphor production in children at #XPRAG2023 !
Just a bite: do you want to know how a white dog becomes a could in a child's mind?
See you in #Paris to find out!
#XPRAGX