Publications

To appear

• Andreou, Maria. To appear. Language and cognitive aspects of child bilingualism: Research observations and classroom applications. Inquiries in Language Learning. Peter Lang.
• Torregrossa, Jacopo & Christiane M. Bongartz. To appear. Activation of referents in the bilingual mind. In G. Fotiadou and I. Tsimpli (eds.), Individual differences in anaphora resolution: Language and cognitive effects. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2024

• Leonetti Escandell, Victoria & Jacopo Torregrossa. 2024. The interpretation of null and overt subject pronouns in Spanish compared to Greek and Italian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1).
• Listanti, Andrea & Jacopo Torregrossa. 2024. The development of postverbal subjects in L2 Italian: A multifactorial corpus analysis. Applied Psycholinguistics 45(1). 180–212.
• Torregrossa, Jacopo, Andrea Listanti, Christiane Bongartz & Theodoros Marinis. 2024. Adding discourse to sentence repetition tasks: Under which conditions does bilingual children’s performance improve? Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 3(2). 100107.

2023

• Andreou, Maria, Jacopo Torregrossa & Christiane Bongartz. 2023. The use of null subjects by Greek-Italian bilingual children: Identifying cross-linguistic effects. In Georgia Fotiadou & Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (eds.), Individual differences in anaphora resolution: Language and cognitive effects, 166–191. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Bader, Markus, Jacopo Torregrossa & Esther Rinke. 2023. Pinning down the interaction between animacy and syntactic function in the interpretation of German and Italian personal and demonstrative pronouns. Discourse Processes 60(9). 655–673.
• Carbonara, Valentina, Andrea Scibetta & Jacopo Torregrossa. 2023. The benefits of multilingual pedagogies for multilingual children’s narrative abilities. International Journal of Multilingualism. International Journal of Multilingualism 21(2). 645–669.
• Listanti, Andrea & Jacopo Torregrossa. 2023. The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters. First Language 43(4). 431–460.
• Listanti, Andrea, Jacopo Torregrossa, Sonja Eisenbeiß & Christiane Bongartz. 2023. Home Literacy Exposure in the Heritage Language Enhances Theory-of-Mind Development: A Study on Greek-Italian Bilingual Children. In Paris Gappmayr & Jackson Kellogg (eds.), Proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), 505–518. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Torregrossa, Jacopo, Irene Caloi & Andrea Listanti. 2023. The acquisition of syntactic structures in heritage Italian: Assessing the role of language exposure at critical periods. In Francesco Romano (ed.), Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language, 155–194. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.
• Torregrossa, Jacopo, Sonja Eisenbeiß & Christiane Bongartz. 2023. Boosting bilingual metalinguistic awareness under dual language activation: Some implications for bilingual education. Language Learning 73(3). 683–722. 

2021

• Andreou, Maria, Jacopo Torregrossa & Christiane Bongartz. 2021. Sentence repetition task as a measure of language dominance. In Danielle Dionne & Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 45), 14–25. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Skrimpa, Vasileia, Vasilina Spanou, Christiane Bongartz, Eleni Peristeri, Maria Andreou & Despina Papadopoulou. 2021. Bilingualism effects in pronoun comprehension: Evidence from children with autism. Autism Research 15(2). 270–283.
• Torregrossa, Jacopo, Maria Andreou, Christiane Bongartz & Ianthi Maria Tsimpli. 2021. Bilingual acquisition of reference: The role of language experience, executive functions and cross-linguistic effects. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 24(4). 694–706.

2020

• Andreou, Maria, Jacopo Torregrossa & Christiane Bongartz. 2020. The sharing of reference strategies across two languages: The production and comprehension of referring expressions by Greek-Italian bilingual children. Discours 26. 
• Bongartz, Christiane & Jacopo Torregrossa. 2020. The effects of balanced biliteracy on Greek-German bilingual children’s secondary discourse ability. Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 23(8). 948–963.
• Torregrossa, Jacopo, Maria Andreou & Christiane M Bongartz. 2020. Variation in the use and interpretation of null subjects: A view from Greek and Italian. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 5(1): 95. 1–28. pdf

2019

• Torregrossa, Jacopo, Christiane Bongartz & Ianthi Maria Tsimpli. 2019. Bilingual reference production. A cognitive-computational account. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9(4–5). Benjamins. 569-599.

2018

• Torregrossa, Jacopo. 2018. Distinguishing Focus and Contrast at PF: A view from Italian. In Marco García García & Melanie Uth (eds.), Focus Realization and Interpretation in Romance and beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Torregrossa, Jacopo & Christiane Bongartz. 2018. Teasing apart the effects of dominance, transfer and processing in reference production by German- Italian bilingual adolescents. Languages 3(3). pdf

2017

• Andreou, Maria & Ianthi Tsimpli. 2017. Aspectual distinctions in the narratives of bilingual children. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 55(3). 305-324. Special Issue: Tense, Aspect and Modality in L2. Guest Editors: K. McManus, N. Vanek, L. Roberts & P. Leclercq. pdf
• Torregrossa, Jacopo. 2017. The role of executive functions in the acquisition of reference: The production of demonstrative pronouns by German monolingual children. In Language Acquisition at the Interfaces: Proceedings of GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) 2015, 318-331. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pdf