Professor Benedicto grew up as the first child of a family of immigrants in Barcelona, Catalunya, a region in the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, where both Catalan and Spanish are spoken. Growing up bilingual, Professor Benedicto is especially interested in the theoretical tension between the wide range of language diversity and the narrow commonality of abstract principles cross linguistically, she is interested in formalizing the parametrization of linguistic grammars as well as the creation of multiple grammars in multilingual individuals.