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Persici, Valentina; Morelli, Marika; Lavelli, Manuela; Florit, Elena; Guerzoni, Letizia; Cuda, Domenico; Yoshinaga-Itano, Christine; Majorano, Marinella – First Language, 2022
The present study aimed to investigate the communicative characteristics of children with cochlear implants (CIs) and their mothers in interaction, whether and how they differ from those of mother-child dyads with normal hearing, and whether mother and child influence each other over the first year after implantation. Eighteen Italian-speaking…
Descriptors: Mothers, Interaction, Infants, Toddlers
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Majorano, Marinella; Rainieri, Chiara; Corsano, Paola – Journal of Child Language, 2013
The present study focuses on the characteristics of parental child-directed communication and its relationship with child language development. For this purpose, thirty-six toddlers (18 males and 18 females) and their parents were observed in a laboratory during triadic free play at ages 1;3 and 1;9. The characteristics of the maternal and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Longitudinal Studies, Parents
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Fasolo, Mirco; Majorano, Marinella; D'Odorico, Laura – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
This study examined early vocal production to assess whether it is possible to identify predictors of vocabulary development prior to the age point at which lexical delay is usually identified. Characteristics of babbling and first words in 12 Italian children with slow expressive development (late talkers; LT) were compared with those of 12…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonetics, Child Language, Vocabulary Development