Marta Manenti

Associate Professor

Sciences du langage
UMR Inserm U 1253 - Autisme et Neurodéveloppement
UFR de Lettres et Langues
UFR de Médecine

Contact details

Office 24 – Tanneurs campus (ground floor)

Phone: 0247366684
Email: marta.manenti@univ-tours.fr

Taught academic discipline(s)

BA in Linguistics
Syntax, First Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics – Language Disorders, Critical Reading of Scientific Articles

Speech and Language Therapy
Typical Oral Language Development, Methodology for the Analysis of Scientific Articles

Master’s in (A)typical Development and Formal Linguistics
Language in Autism, Methodology: Critical Reading of Scientific Articles

Research topics

My research focuses on language development in neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), with a particular interest in structural language abilities in adolescents and adults.

ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7631-9059
ResearchGate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marta-Manenti/research
HAL : https://cv.hal.science/marta-manenti

Activities / Resume

PUBLICATIONS

Articles published in international peer-reviewed journals

Bosnić, A., Vogelzang, M., Cecchetto, C., Demir, O., Kalocsanyiova, E., Manenti, M., Masullo, C., Öztürk, F., Sarisoy, D., Roussou, A., Takovski, A., Tekin, I., Viganò, M., Giustolisi, B., & Donati, C. (under review). What do we know about adolescents' receptive morphosyntax? Insights from a scoping review. Journal of Child Language.
Manenti, M., Prévost, P., Houy-Durand, E., Bonnet-Brilhault, F., & Ferré, S. (2025). Facing phonological complexity as an autistic adult: An exploratory study. Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 10, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/23969415251322751
Manenti, M., Ferré, S., Tuller, L., Houy-Durand, E., Bonnet-Brilhault, F., & Prévost, P. (2024). Profiles of structural language and nonverbal intellectual abilities in verbal autistic adults. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 114, 102361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rqsd.2024.102361
Manenti, M., Tuller, L., Houy-Durand, E., Bonnet-Brilhault, F., & Prévost, P. (2023). Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition. Lingua, 294, 103598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103598
Schaeffer, J., Abd El-Raziq, M., Castroviejo, E., Durrleman, S., Ferré, S., Grama, I., Hendriks, P., Kissine, M., Manenti, M., Marinis, T., Meir, N., Novogrodsky, R., Perovic, A., Panzeri, F., Silleresi, S., Sukenik, N., Vicente, A., Zebib, R., Prévost, P., & Tuller, L. (2023). Language in autism: Domains, profiles and co-occurring conditions. Journal of Neural Transmission, 130(3), 433-457. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-023-02592-y

Book chapters

Manenti M. & Prévost, P. (2025). Language in autistic adults. In Schaeffer, J., Novogrodsky, R., Perovic, A., Prévost, P. & Tuller, L. (eds.). Language in autism (pp. 249-269). Wiley Blackwell.

Conference papers published in the proceedings of national conferences

Ferré, S., Mahé, O., Manenti, M., Pimenta, H., & Prévost, P. (2022). Détecter un déficit phonologique chez les adultes - un module adulte pour LITMUS-QU-NWR-FR. Proc. XXXIVe Journées d'Études sur la Parole -- JEP 2022, 280-288. https://doi.org/10.21437/JEP.2022-30

Additional information

Administrative Responsibilities
Since 2024: ERASMUS Exchange Officer, Department of Linguistics, University of Tours.

Research Networks
2023–27: Member of the COST project (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action CA22139, Justice to Youth Language Needs: Human Rights Undermined by an Invisible Disadvantage. Coordinator (PI): M. Arche (University of Greenwich, UK). Recipient of a grant for the Short-Term Scientific Mission "Training linguists: familiarization with juvenile justice for improved group performance and more effective interdisciplinary collaboration" (E-COST-GRANT-CA22139-a9639787). https://youthjusticelanguage.org/short-term-scientific-missions/

Popular Science Activities
2023: Guest intervention with Philippe Prévost on La Méridienne radio program, Radio Campus Tours, 20 June 2023, Tours, France. https://www.radiocampustours.com/emissions/la-meridienne-inserm-philippe-prevost-et-marta-manetti-autisme-et-troubles-du-langage/

Organization of Scientific Events
2025: Member of the organizing committee of the 17th GALA Conference (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition), University of Tours, 11–13 September 2025, Tours, France.
2022: Member of the organizing committee of the 3rd annual ANDREW Conference (Autism and Neurodevelopment REsearch Workshop), University of Tours, 1 April 2022, Tours, France.
2021: Member of the organizing committee of the Fête de la science, the annual French science outreach festival, 2–3 October 2021, Tours, France.

Occasional Peer-Review Activities
Since 2025: Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Second Language Research, Autism & Development Language Impairments.