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The ReadFree Tool for the Identification of Poor Readers: A Validation Study Based on a Machine Learning Approach in Monolingual and Minority-Language Children
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Carioti, Desiré; Stucchi, Natale Adolfo; Toneatto, Carlo; Masia, Marta Franca; Del Monte, Milena; Stefanelli, Silvia; Travellini, Simona; Marcelli, Antonella; Tettamanti, Marco; Vernice, Mirta; Guasti, Maria Teresa; Berlingeri, Manuela – Annals of Dyslexia, 2023
In this study, we validated the "ReadFree tool", a computerised battery of 12 visual and auditory tasks developed to identify poor readers also in minority-language children (MLC). We tested the task-specific discriminant power on 142 Italian-monolingual participants (8-13 years old) divided into monolingual poor readers (N = 37) and…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Task Analysis, Italian, Monolingualism
Effects of Prosodic Cues on Topic Continuity in Child Language Production
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Vernice, Mirta; Guasti, Maria Teresa – First Language, 2014
It remains controversial whether children are able to process and integrate specific linguistic cues in their mental model to the same extent as adults. In the present study, a sentence continuation task was employed to determine how Italian speakers (4-, 5-, 6-year-olds and adults) interpret prosodic cues to decide which referent is more salient…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Child Language, Language Acquisition