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Lexical Stress Contrastivity in Italian Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Exploratory Acoustic Study
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Arciuli, Joanne; Colombo, Lucia; Surian, Luca – Journal of Child Language, 2020
We investigated production of lexical stress in children with and without autism spectrum disorders (ASD), all monolingual Italian speakers. The mean age of the 16 autistic children was 5.73 years and the mean age of the 16 typically developing children was 4.65 years. Picture-naming targets were five trisyllabic words that began with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
The Process of Stress Assignment in Reading Aloud: Critical Issues from Studies on Italian
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Sulpizio, Simone; Burani, Cristina; Colombo, Lucia – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
In polysyllabic languages the assignment of stress is crucial for understanding the reading process. Here we review empirical evidence, drawn mainly from studies on Italian, and discuss critical issues in understanding reading. We first discuss the lexical and sublexical mechanisms responsible for stress assignment and propose that the former is…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Italian, Phonemes, Reading Processes
Stress Priming and Statistical Learning in Italian Nonword Reading: Evidence from Children
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Colombo, Lucia; Deguchi, Chizuru; Boureux, Magali – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Italian has regular spelling-sound correspondences; however, assignment of lexical stress is unpredictable. Sensitivity to stress neighborhood information was investigated by constructing three types of three-syllabic nonwords: nonwords with word-endings characterized by a strong neighborhood of dominant stress words (dominant), nonwords with…
Descriptors: Italian, Suprasegmentals, Syllables, Experiments
The Influence of Phonological Mechanisms in Written Spelling of Profoundly Deaf Children
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Colombo, Lucia; Arfe, Barbara; Bronte, Tiziana – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
In the present study, the effect of phonological and working memory mechanisms involved in spelling Italian single words was explored in two groups of children matched for grade level: a group of normally hearing children and a group of pre-verbally deaf children, with severe-to-profound hearing loss. Three-syllable and four-syllable familiar…
Descriptors: Phonology, Short Term Memory, Spelling, Italian
Italian Verb Inflection in Alzheimer Dementia
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Colombo, Lucia; Fonti, Cristina; Stracciari, Andrea – Neuropsychologia, 2009
A group of 20 patients with probable Alzheimer disease (AD) and a control group were tested in a verb generation task, in a verb synonym task and several cognitive tests. Three types of verbs and novel verbs were presented in simple sentence frames, in two different conditions. In one condition participants were presented with the verb in the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Semantics, Verbs, Alzheimers Disease
Regularity and/or Consistency in the Production of the Past Participle?
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Colombo, Lucia; Laudanna, Alessandro; De Martino, Maria; Brivio, Cristina – Brain and Language, 2004
In the present study we have investigated the acquisition of the past participle of Italian verbs of the second (including mostly irregular verbs) and third (including mostly regular verbs) conjugations in school age children, and with simulations with an artificial neural network. We aimed to verify the extent to which children are sensitive to…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Italian, Children