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Provazza, Serena; Carretti, Barbara; Giofrè, David; Adams, Anne-Marie; Montesano, Lorena; Roberts, Daniel – Annals of Dyslexia, 2022
The extent to which impaired visual and phonological mechanisms may contribute to the manifestation of developmental dyslexia across orthographies of varying depth has yet to be fully established. By adopting a cross-linguistic approach, the current study aimed to explore the nature of visual and phonological processing in developmental dyslexic…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Visual Perception, Visual Impairments, Dyslexia
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Barachetti, Chiara; Majorano, Marinella; Rossi, Germano; Antolini, Elena; Zerbato, Rosanna; Lavelli, Manuela – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The relationship between first and second language in early vocabulary acquisition in bilingual children is still debated in the literature. This study compared the expressive vocabulary of 39 equivalently low-SES two-year-old bilingual children from immigrant families with different heritage languages (Romanian vs. Nigerian English) and the same…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Vocabulary Development, Romance Languages, Italian
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Laurence B. Leonard; Mariel L. Schroeder – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
The main goal of this tutorial is to promote the study of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) across different languages of the world. The cumulative effect of these efforts is likely to be a set of more compelling and comprehensive theories of language learning difficulties and, possibly, of language acquisition in general.…
Descriptors: English, Language Acquisition, Developmental Delays, Morphology (Languages)
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Mayr, Robert; Montanari, Simona – Journal of Child Language, 2015
This paper examines the production of word-initial stops by two simultaneous trilingual sisters, aged 6;8 and 8;1, who receive regular input in Italian and English from multiple speakers, but in Spanish from only one person. The children's productions in each language were analyzed acoustically and compared to those of their main input providers.…
Descriptors: Phonology, Multilingualism, Linguistic Input, Italian
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Havy, Mélanie; Bouchon, Camillia; Nazzi, Thierry – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
Infants have remarkable abilities to learn several languages. However, phonological acquisition in bilingual infants appears to vary depending on the phonetic similarities or differences of their two native languages. Many studies suggest that learning contrasts with different realizations in the two languages (e.g., the /p/, /t/, /k/ stops have…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Processing, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Santello, Marco – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2014
This study outlines a linguistic profile of two subgroups of Italian English circumstantial bilinguals - one dominant in English and the other dominant in Italian--by exploring for the first time their linguistic repertoire through the Gradient Bilingual Dominance Scale (Dunn & Fox Tree, 2009). The scale takes into account language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Dominance, Bilingualism, Immigrants
Stevens, Jon – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines two information-structural phenomena, Givenness and Focus, from the perspective of both syntax and pragmatics. Evidence from English, German and other languages suggests a "split" analysis of information structure--the notions of Focus and Givenness, often thought to be closely related, exist independently at…
Descriptors: Grammar, Discourse Analysis, Syntax, Pragmatics
Brunswick, Nicola, Ed.; McDougall, Sine, Ed.; de Mornay Davies, Paul, Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
This book provides a unique and accessible account of current research on reading and dyslexia in different orthographies. While most research has been conducted in English, this text presents cross-language comparisons to provide insights into universal aspects of reading development and developmental dyslexia in alphabetic and non-alphabetic…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Reading, Dyslexia, Spelling
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Wolff, Ulrika – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2009
The prevalence of phonological and surface dyslexia subtypes among Swedish university students with dyslexia (n = 40) was examined using both the regression method, developed by Castles and Coltheart, and latent profile analysis. When an academic-level control group was used as a reference group in a regression, eight students with phonological…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reference Groups, Dyslexia, Profiles
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d'Eugenio, Antonio – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
Both Italian and English have four degrees of stress: emphatic, main, secondary and weak. This paper outlines some similarities, then reviews differences between the languages that can cause difficulties in learning the second language. (CHK)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Contrastive Linguistics, English, Intonation
Ingram, David – 1981
Current opinion regarding the nature of the young child's representation of two or more languages is that there is one system during the earliest stages of development. This paper explores theoretical and methodological difficulties underlying this issue. Theoretically, it is questioned what is being claimed about the child's cognitive capacities…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Bilingualism, Child Language, English
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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
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Nespor, Marina; Vogel, Irene – Phonology, 1989
Examines syllable-timed languages (Catalan, Greek, Italian) and stress-timed languages (English, Polish) to show that, in regard to rhythm, both categories behave similarly in several crucial areas. In both language types, the ideal rhythmic pattern involves a separation of stresses and the elimination of clashes. (33 references) (JL)
Descriptors: English, Greek, Italian, Language Patterns
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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
AGARD, FREDERICK B.; DI PIETRO, ROBERT J. – 1965
DESIGNED AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR PROFESSIONALS PREPARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, PLANNING COURSES, OR DEVELOPING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS, A SERIES OF STUDIES HAS BEEN PREPARED THAT CONTRASTS, IN TWO VOLUMES FOR EACH OF THE FIVE MOST COMMONLY TAUGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE SOUND AND GRAMMATICAL…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Consonants
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