Natalia Rinaldi

PhD Candidate
natalia.rinaldi@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Linguistics

Areas of Interest

  • Linguistics;
  • Language Acquisition;
  • Language Variation;
  • Syntax;
  • Semantics.

Working Dissertation

Supervisors

Prof. Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux

Biography

Natalia Rinaldi is a PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Toronto, where she previously held an OGS Award (2017-18). She is interested in language acquisition, language variation and psycholinguistics. Her research interests are acquisition of morphosyntactic and semantic features by monolingual children. Natalia’s dissertation investigates how children acquire meaning relying on linguistic cues in Brazilian Portuguese modal verbs.

Education

BA, São Paulo State University (UNESP)
MA, São Paulo State University (UNESP)

Cohort

  • 2016-2017