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

• “Children’s production of wh-questions across five language families” with Kazuko Yatsushiro, Chiara Dal Farra, Johannes Hein, Silvia Silleresi, Aijun Huang, Johnson F. Ilori, Lilla Pintér, Vaijayanthi Sarma, Maria Teresa Guasti and Uli Sauerland, accepted with minor revisions in Language Acquisition.
• “Core Concepts and Indirect Alternatives: On the Anti-Duality of Quantifiers” with Paloma Jeretič, Itai Bassi, Marie-Christine Meyer, Kazuko Yatsushiro and Uli Sauerland, accepted in Journal of Semantics.
• “Not all scalar implicatures are derived from utterable alternatives: evidence from child language acquisition” with Paloma Jeretič, Itai Bassi, Andreea Nicolae, Kazuko Yatsushiro and Uli Sauerland, to be presented at ELM 4 on June 10-12, 2026.
• “Which conjunctive expressions are hiding something? The view from (younger) children” with Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Ágnes Langó-Tóth and Uli Sauerland, to be presented at Language Development from Infancy to Adolescence 4 on February 19, 2026.
• “Sì and no: How Italian children and adults answer positive and negative polar questions” with Chiara Dal Farra, Silvia Silleresi, Desiré Carioti and Maria Teresa Guasti, published in Language Acquisition. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2025.2562194
• The Proceedings of TripleA 11 edited with Jérémy Pasquereau are now published.
• “Aspectual shift in Romance: A preliminary study” with Anamaria Fălăuş and Gennaro Chierchia, published in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29. DOI: 10.18148/sub/2025.v29.1232
• “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
• “French constituent unconditionals relativize a free choice item” with Karoliina Lohiniva, to appear in the volume Theory, data, and practice.