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Characteristics of Phonological Development as a Risk Factor for Language Development in Italian-Speaking Pre-Term Children: A Longitudinal Study
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D'Odorico, Laura; Majorano, Marinella; Fasolo, Mirco; Salerni, Nicoletta; Suttora, Chiara – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
This study analysed the early linguistic development of Italian pre-term children. Samples of spontaneous pre-linguistic and verbal production were recorded at 12 and 18 months of age from two groups of children: 24 pre-term children and 15 full-term children. The Italian version of the MacArthur-Bates Questionnaire was administered at 24 months…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Phonetics, Risk, Language Acquisition
Awareness of Phonological Segments and Reading Ability in Italian Children.
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Cossu, Giuseppe; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Comparison of Italian and English-speaking children's (N=200) segmentation abilities indicated that the discrepancies between the language groups reflected the children's phonologic and orthographic differences. (CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Phonology and Grammatical Morphology in Specific Language Impairment: Accounting for Individual Variation in English and Italian.
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Bortolini, Umberta; Leonard, Laurence B. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
The purpose of this study was to determine whether individual differences observed in the grammatical morphology of children with specific language impairment (SLI) could be traced to another source, such as the use of weak syllables. Results show that imitations in prosody may restrict the degree of grammatical morpheme use by children with SLI.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, Individual Differences