About
My research focuses on the semantics of natural language and its interface with syntax and pragmatics. In my work, I closely combine formal approaches with crosslinguistic and experimental methods of investigation. Some topics I have worked on include polar and wh-questions, negative polarity and negative concord, connectives, and unconditionals.
I am a postdoctoral researcher involved in the LeibnizDream project “Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind” (PIs: Artemis Alexiadou (HU), Maria Teresa Guasti (UniMiB), and Uli Sauerland (ZAS)). I received my PhD from Harvard University in January 2021, with a dissertation on polar questions and interrogative particles supervised by Gennaro Chierchia.
You can contact me at auroregonzalez ‘at’ alumni.harvard.edu or aurore.gonzalez ‘at’ unimib.it
Recent & upcoming
- “Sì e no: How Italian children and adults answer positive and negative polar questions” with Chiara Dal Farra, Silvia Silleresi, Desiré Carioti and Maria Teresa Guasti, accepted in Language Acquisition.
- “Aspectual shift in Romance: A preliminary study” with Anamaria Fălăuş and Gennaro Chierchia, to appear in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29.
- “Is DP conjunction always complex?: The view from child Georgian and Hungarian” with Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Tamar Makharoblidze and Lilla Pintér, published in Semantics & Pragmatics. DOI: 10.3765/sp.18.5
- “Non-subject relative clauses are even more annoying than we thought! Production of four types of RC from Italian-speaking adults and children” with Yangyu Sun, Chiara Dal Farra, Chiara Saponaro, Johannes Hein, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland and Maria Teresa Guasti, to be presented at Going Romance 2025.
- “A comparison of children’s relative clause production in Georgian, Italian and Yoruba” with Yangyu Sun, Chiara Dal Farra, Johannes Hein, Johnson F. Ilori, Tamar Makharoblidze, Chiara Saponaro, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland and Maria Teresa Guasti, to be presented at BUCLD 50.
- “Testing aspectual shift in Romance” with Anamaria Fălăuş and Gennaro Chierchia, presented at RALFe 2025 on June 5, 2025.
- The workshop “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Interpreting Bare Arguments: The Workshop” was held at Nantes Université on May 12-13, 2025. The program can be found here.
- “French constituent unconditionals relativize a free choice item” with Karoliina Lohiniva, to appear in the volume Theory, data, and practice.