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Direct linkDispaldro, Marco; Ruggiero, Anna; Scali, Francesca – Journal of Child Language, 2015
The gender and number of a direct object clitic pronoun are based on the gender and number of the noun to which it refers. Grammatical gender is an intrinsic property of the lexical item that is independent from the natural sex of referents, whereas number is a non-intrinsic feature of nouns based on the conceptual level of quantity. The aim of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Young Children, Comprehension, Grammar
Dispaldro, Marco; Leonard, Laurence B.; Deevy, Patricia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: Using 2 different scoring methods, the authors examined the diagnostic accuracy of both real-word and nonword repetition in identifying Italian-speaking children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Method: A total of 34 children ages 3;11-5;8 (years;months) participated--17 children with SLI and 17 typically developing…
Descriptors: Repetition, Diagnostic Tests, Italian, Children
Leonard, Laurence B.; Dispaldro, Marco – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: Extended optional use of direct object clitic pronouns (e.g., "la" in "Paula la vede" ["Paula sees her"]) appears to be a clinical marker for specific language impairment (SLI) in Italian. In this study, we examined whether sentence production demands might influence the degree to which Italian-speaking…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Italian, Grammar, Language Impairments
Dispaldro, Marco; Leonard, Laurence B.; Deevy, Patricia – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: In many languages a weakness in non-word repetition serves as a useful clinical marker of specific language impairment (SLI) in children. However, recent work in Italian has shown that the repetition of real words may also have clinical utility. For young typically developing Italian children, real word repetition is more predictive of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Italian, Language Impairments, Children
Dispaldro, Marco; Benelli, Beatrice – Journal of Child Language, 2012
This study explores the development of children's knowledge of linguistic and pragmatic aspects of singular and plural in Italian, for definite articles (Experiment 1) and verbs (Experiment 2). Participants aged three to adult were asked to pick objects from two dishes, each with a different number of items on them (one vs. two), following the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Italian, Language Acquisition
Dispaldro, Marco; Benelli, Beatrice; Marcolini, Stefania; Stella, Giacomo – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: Non-word repetition in children is a skill related to, but separable from grammatical ability. Lexical skill may bridge the gap between these two abilities. Aims: The main aim was to determine whether real-word-repetition tasks could be better as predictors of grammatical ability than non-word-repetition tasks in children with typical…
Descriptors: Repetition, Grammar, Language Skills, Young Children
