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Pretato, Elena; Peressotti, Francesca; Bertone, Carmela; Navarrete, Eduardo – Second Language Research, 2018
Recent evidence demonstrates that pictures corresponding to iconic signs are named faster than pictures corresponding to non-iconic signs. The present study investigates the locus of the iconicity advantage in hearing bimodal bilinguals. A naming experiment with iconic and non-iconic pictures in Italian Sign Language (LIS) was conducted. Bimodal…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Bilingualism, Italian, Sign Language
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Marini, Andrea; Boewe, Anke; Caltagirone, Carlo; Carlomagno, Sergio – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
Narratives produced by 69 healthy Italian adults were analyzed for age-related changes of microlinguistic, macrolinguistic and informative aspects. The participants were divided into five age groups (20-24, 25-39, 40-59, 60-74, 75-84). One single-picture stimulus and two cartoon sequences were used to elicit three stories per subject. Age-related…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Cartoons