I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences. I hold a degree in Formal Linguistics from the University of Padua (Italy) and a PhD in Psychology, Linguistics, and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy).
My current research investigates how social and semantic knowledge influence morphosyntactic gender agreement. More broadly, I am interested in understanding how extra-linguistic knowledge interacts with strict morphosyntactic rules and in identifying the linguistic features that guide syntactic agreement processes.
Selected publications
Abbondanza, M., Galimberti, V., Reverberi, C., Durante, F., Foppolo, F. (2025). Neutralizing role nouns: Investigating the efficacy of ə in written and oral Italian. Frontiers in Communication, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1530778
Abbondanza, M., Amenta, S., Rinaldi, L., & Marelli, M. (2024). Time is -ending: Sub-lexical information activates the horizontal Mental Time Line in word processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 51(1), 119-132. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001331
Abbondanza, M., Rinaldi, L., Foppolo, F., & Marelli, M. (2021). The mental representation of nonnumerical quantifiers: The Spatial-Linguistic Association of Response Codes (SLARC) effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(12), 2021–2028. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001037