Joseph A Galasso
Lecturer
Faculty - Linguistics
Brief Biography
Joseph Galasso (b. August 21, 1964) is on the Faculty of Linguistics at California State University Northridge. His main theoretical research involves asking how assumptions made in the Minimalist Program (Noam Chomsky 1995) might reveal underlying implications to the development of child syntax. Hence, his work has led to extending the so-called morphological Dual Mechanism Model (Steven Pinker) towards providing an account of child language acquisition. In 1990-91, he was accepted to study Semiotics under Umberto Eco (Bologna), but due to extended periods of unrest and militant protests throughout Italian universities that year—as a result of newly-written draconian legislation called the Ruberti Reforms of 1990 --he revised his plan of study, left Italy and went to England to pursue a PhD in Child Language Acquisition under the mentorships of Andrew Radford and Harald Clahsen (University of Essex, UK). His recent writings are on Artificial Intelligence & the Recursive Implementation. His research can be found in Oxford’s Bibliographies in Linguistics, and The Handbook of Developmental Linguistics.
Education
- Ph.D. Linguistics 1999, University of Essex
Research
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