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D'Angiulli, Amedeo; Siegel, Linda S.; Serra, Emily – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2001
Canadian English-Italian bilingual children were administered phonological, reading, spelling, syntactic, and working memory tasks in both languages. Results suggest English-Italian interdependence is most clearly related to phonological processing but may influence other linguistic modules. Exposure to a language with more predictable…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Italian, Language Processing

Leonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Analysis of the spontaneous speech of English- and Italian-speaking children with specific language impairment indicated that word-final consonants adversely influenced Italian subjects' tendency to use articles. There was no evidence of syntactic differences between the language groups. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Comparative Analysis, Consonants