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Direct linkPersici, 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
Viterbori, Paola; Zanobini, Mirella; Cozzani, Francesca – First Language, 2018
This study aims to evaluate phonological competences and their correlations with lexical abilities in 2-year-old Italian-speaking children. Eighty-eight children (46 females) aged 25-32 months participated in the study. From the total sample, three subgroups of children with different lexical skills were extracted to identify phonological…
Descriptors: Italian, Phonological Awareness, Young Children, Language Skills
Longobardi, Emiddia; Spataro, Pietro; Pecora, Giulia; Bellagamba, Francesca – First Language, 2019
This cross-sectional study investigated the use of four verbal indices of social knowledge (personal pronouns, verb conjugations, people words and mental state language) and their concurrent relations in a sample of 287 Italian-speaking children between 18 and 36 months. Results showed that the production of all indices increased with age. Mental…
Descriptors: Italian, Native Language, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs
Stolt, Suvi; Savini, Silvia; Guarini, Annalisa; Caselli, Maria Cristina; Matomäki, Jaakko; Lapinleimu, Helena; Haataja, Leena; Lehtonen, Liisa; Alessandroni, Rosina; Faldella, Giacomo; Sansavini, Alessandra – First Language, 2017
This cross-linguistic study investigated whether the native language has any influence on lexical composition among Italian (N = 125) and Finnish (N = 116) very preterm (born at <32 gestational weeks) children at 24 months (controls: 125 Italian and 146 Finnish full-term children). The investigation also covered the effect of maternal education…
Descriptors: Native Language, Finno Ugric Languages, Italian, Language Skills
