Joseph A Galasso
Lecturer

Brief Biography

Joseph Galasso's main research involves issues surrounding early child language development. He is interested in pursuing certain 'Minimalist Program' assumptions (Chomsky 1995) and to ask how such assumptions might explain observed early stages of morphosyntactic development in children. His research specifically asks how/when the requirements and conditions placed on 'Merge' over 'Move' operations come on-line in child language and whether or not these operations are open to maturation factors having to do with a brain-to-language corollary. His work has appeared in 'The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics' (2016) (Radford & Galasso) (eds. Jeffrey L. Lidz, William Snyder, and Joe Pater). His latest contributions have been to: Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics Annotated Bibliography on ‘Acquisition of Possessives’ (by Elena Babatsouli) Oxford University Press (Mark Aronoff, Editor in Chief). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has referenced his research on Minimalist Approaches to Early Child Language Acquisition, citing his work on ‘Headedness’ (PMID: 32457672) ‘Fragments Along the Way: Minimalism as an Account of Some Stages in First Language Acquisition’ (by Helen Goodluck, Nina Kazanina) as part of the Research Topic: The Biology of Language Under a Minimalist Lens: Promises, Achievement, Limits. His most recent writings involve topics on Neurolinguistics: Squibs, Essays, Reviews and Basal Ganglia Grammar.

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