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Gervain, Judit; Erra, Ramon Guevara – Cognition, 2012
Does statistical learning (Saffran, Aslin, & Newport, 1996) offer a universal segmentation strategy for young language learners? Previous studies on large corpora of English and structurally similar languages have shown that statistical segmentation can be an effective strategy. However, many of the world's languages have richer morphological…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Learning Strategies, Probability, Infants
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Bonfiglioli, Claudia; Finocchiaro, Chiara; Gesierich, Benno; Rositani, Francesco; Vescovi, Massimo – Cognition, 2009
The Italian demonstrative pronouns "questo/a" ("this[subscript [mas/fem]]") and "quello/a" ("that[subscript [mas/fem]]") implicitly convey information about objects' distance with respect to the speaker. Our study investigated the referents of "questo/a" ("this[subscript [mas/fem]]") and "quello/a" ("that[subscript [mas/fem]]") by analysing their…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Form Classes (Languages), Evaluation Methods, Auditory Stimuli
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Siegal, Michael; Iozzi, Laura; Surian, Luca – Cognition, 2009
The purpose of the two experiments reported here was to investigate whether bilingualism confers an advantage on children's conversational understanding. A total of 163 children aged 3-6 years were given a Conversational Violations Test to determine their ability to identify responses to questions as violations of Gricean maxims of conversation…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Monolingualism, Slavic Languages, Bilingualism
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Bonifacci, Paola; Snowling, Margaret J. – Cognition, 2008
English and Italian children with dyslexia were compared with children with reading difficulties associated with low-IQ on tests of simple and choice RT, and in number and symbol scanning tasks. On all four speed-of-processing tasks, children with low-IQ responded more slowly than children with dyslexia and age-controls. In the choice RT task, the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intelligence, Dyslexia, Intelligence Quotient
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Geraci, Carlo; Gozzi, Marta; Papagno, Costanza; Cecchetto, Carlo – Cognition, 2008
It is known that in American Sign Language (ASL) span is shorter than in English, but this discrepancy has never been systematically investigated using other pairs of signed and spoken languages. This finding is at odds with results showing that short-term memory (STM) for signs has an internal organization similar to STM for words. Moreover, some…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Short Term Memory, American Sign Language
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Burani, Cristina; Marcolini, Stefania; De Luca, Maria; Zoccolotti, Pierluigi – Cognition, 2008
The role of morphology in reading aloud was examined measuring naming latencies to pseudowords and words composed of morphemes (roots and derivational suffixes) and corresponding simple pseudowords and words. Three groups of Italian children of different ages and reading abilities, including dyslexic children, as well as one group of adult readers…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Morphemes, Dyslexia, Suffixes
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Franck, Julie; Lassi, Glenda; Frauenfelder, Ulrich H.; Rizzi, Luigi – Cognition, 2006
This paper links experimental psycholinguistics and theoretical syntax in the study of subject--verb agreement. Three experiments of elicited spoken production making use of specific characteristics of Italian and French are presented. They manipulate and examine its impact on the occurrence of "attraction" errors (i.e. incorrect agreement with a…
Descriptors: Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Word Order
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Vigliocco, Gabriella; Vinson, David P.; Siri, Simona – Cognition, 2005
Italian speakers were asked to name pictures of actions (e.g. "bere", to drink). Pictures were presented at the same time as distracter words that were semantically related or unrelated to the picture names, and were of the same or different grammatical class (verbs or nouns). Half of the participants named the actions as verbs in citation form,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Italian, Pictorial Stimuli
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Lee, Christopher S.; Todd, Neil P. McAngus – Cognition, 2004
The world's languages display important differences in their rhythmic organization; most particularly, different languages seem to privilege different phonological units (mora, syllable, or stress foot) as their basic rhythmic unit. There is now considerable evidence that such differences have important consequences for crucial aspects of language…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Speech, Phonetics, Auditory Perception
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Ammon, Mary Sue; Slobin, Dan I. – Cognition, 1979
The comprehension of sentences expressing instigative causation was investigated in children aged two to four speaking English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish. Cross-linguistic differences in development revealed the roles of morphological and syntactic devices in processing these constructions. The word order systems of English and Italian…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cross Cultural Studies, English, Error Analysis (Language)