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Benelli, Beatrice; Belacchi, Carmen; Gini, Gianluca; Lucangeli, Daniela – Journal of Child Language, 2006
Some authors have suggested that definitional skills include metalinguistic components (Watson, 1985; Snow, 1990; McGhee-Bidlack, 1991). The present study therefore empirically investigated relations between the ability to define words and level of metalinguistic awareness in 280 Italian children (with ages ranging from 5 to 11 years) and in two…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Nouns, Definitions, Verbs