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Cresci, Michela – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation presents a linguistic study of the sound patterns of Camuno framed within Evolutionary Phonology (Blevins, 2004, 2006, to appear). Camuno is a variety of Eastern Lombard, a Romance language of northern Italy, spoken in Valcamonica. Camuno is not a local variety of Italian, but a sister of Italian, a local divergent development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Romance Languages, Phonology, Oral Language
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Dispaldro, Marco; Leonard, Laurence B.; Deevy, Patricia – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: In many languages a weakness in non-word repetition serves as a useful clinical marker of specific language impairment (SLI) in children. However, recent work in Italian has shown that the repetition of real words may also have clinical utility. For young typically developing Italian children, real word repetition is more predictive of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Italian, Language Impairments, Children