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A Characterization of Language Development in Heritage Speakers
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Ruhl, Nadja; Polkina, Darya; Gorobets, Elena; Ozbic, Martina; Marini, Andrea – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study focuses on the assessment of working memory and linguistic skills in 21 Italian-Russian speaking bilingual children who were born in Italy and inherited Russian from their parents. Their performance was compared to that of 21 monolingual Russian-speaking and 21 monolingual Italian-speaking peers. For the assessment of the two languages…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Russian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lexical Fixedness and Compositionality in L1 Speakers' and L2 Learners' Intuitions about Word Combinations: Evidence from Italian
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Fioravanti, Irene; Senaldi, Marco Silvio Giuseppe; Lenci, Alessandro; Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna – Second Language Research, 2021
The present investigation focuses on first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers' sensitivity to lexical fixedness and compositionality of Italian word combinations. Two studies explored language users' intuitions about three types of word combinations: free combinations, collocations, and idioms. In Study 1, Italian Verb+Noun…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Italian, Phrase Structure