Daniel Puccini -

CV

Academic background
2009 - Present	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen PhD on social-cognitive development and pre-linguistic communication in infancy
2006 - 2008	University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Research Master's Degree of Arts in Linguistics; cum laude
2001 - 2005	University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics
1996 - 2000	Manzano High School, Albuquerque High School Diploma
Research Interests
	Gestural communication in infancy
	Emergence of joint attention skills in infancy
	How extralinguistic factors shape communication between infants and caregivers

Publications and Current Projects
2010	The type of shared activity shapes caregiver and infant communication, Gesture
Research/ Work Experience
July 2008 - February 2009	English teacher - Katakura WBLC, Amsterdam
February 2008 - July 2008	Research on acquisition of reference by children with SLI - Master's thesis
September 2007 - January 2008	Research assistant for Dr. Margot Rozendaal corpus research investigating the cross-linguistic acquisition of reference
February 2007 - August 2007	Internship in Babylab in Utrecht with Elma Blom and Daniela Polišenská Assistance in preferential head turn experiments investigating acquisition of inflection
Conference Presentations
The use of mulitmodal communication in infancy	Talk at University of Bieleveld; Emergentist Semantics Group
Multimodal fasmapping at 15 months	CEU Budapest Conference on Cognitive Development
Gesture and language in infant directed communication across contexts (poster presentation)	International Society on Infant Studies, Baltimore 2010
Joint Action and Joint pointing at 12 months (poster presentations)	Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting 2009, Denver, USA Multimod Conference 2009, Toulouse, France Joint Action Meeting 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acquisition of nominal and pronominal reference by children with Specific Language Impairment	STUTS 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Scholarships/Awards
2008	Amsterdam Merit Scholarship
2001- 2005	New Mexico Lottery Success Scholarship
2000	New Mexico Regents Scholarship
Languages
	Spanish, Italian, Dutch, American Sign Language

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