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Peer reviewedBates, Elizabeth; Devescovi, Antonella; D'Amico, Simona – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
Examined the extent to which cross-linguistic differences in sentence interpretation would generalize to complex sentences with an embedded clause. College students who were native speakers of English or Italian completed four experiments. Results indicated that cross-linguistic differences were maintained when students interpreted complex…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedCaselli, Cristina; Casadio, Paola; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 1999
Examined cross-linguistic similarities and differences in early lexical and grammatical development among English- and Italian-speaking preschoolers. Parents completed surveys on vocabulary size, vocabulary composition, and grammatical complexity. No cross-linguistic differences surfaced in the composition of vocabulary in this age range. There…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Child Development, Child Language, Cultural Differences
