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Ferraris, Stefania – Language Learning & Language Teaching (MS), 2012
This chapter presents the results of a study on interlanguage variation. The production of four L2 learners of Italian, tested four times at yearly intervals while engaged in four oral tasks, is compared to that of two native speakers, and analysed with quantitative CAF measures. Thus, time, task type, nativeness, as well as group vs. individual…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Statistical Analysis, Second Language Learning, Longitudinal Studies
Caprin, Claudia; Guasti, Maria Teresa – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
This study provides new evidence concerning the pattern of acquisition of free and bound morphemes in Italian, based on the speech of 59 children recorded through a cross-sectional method. We found that inflectional morphology is mastered before free-standing morphology. Despite the great variety of verb inflections, the analyses showed that…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Italian, Case Studies
Coluzzi, Paolo – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2009
This article looks at the linguistic landscape in two Northern Italian cities: Milan and Udine. Signs in two streets of a similar length were recorded and classified according to the language or languages they were written in. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence in the linguistic landscape of the different languages making up the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Signs, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism
Nelson, Michael – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Scholarly books with "identity" and "culture" in the title have loomed large on academic publishing lists for several years. Scholarly books with "Sinatra" in the title are a more recent phenomenon. Despite his six-decade career as the Voice (the 1940s), the Chairman of the Board (the 50s and 60s), and Ol' Blue Eyes (the 70s through his death, in…
Descriptors: Singing, Italian Americans, Popular Culture, Reputation
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
Keren-Portnoy, Tamar; Majorano, Marinella; Vihman, Marilyn M. – Journal of Child Language, 2009
This study assesses the extent of phonetic continuity between babble and words in four Italian children followed longitudinally from 0;9 or 0;10 to 2;0--two with relatively rapid and two with slower lexical growth. Prelinguistic phonetic characteristics, including both (a) consistent use of specific consonants and (b) age of onset and extent of…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Italian, Child Language, Infants
Perrin, Daniel – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
"Promoting public understanding" is what the programming mandate asks the Swiss public broadcasting company SRG SSR to do. From a sociolinguistic perspective, this means linking speech communities with other speech communities, both between and within the German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-speaking parts of Switzerland. In the…
Descriptors: Journalism, Language Planning, Action Research, Ethnography
Rothman, Jason – Second Language Research, 2011
The present article addresses the following question: what variables condition syntactic transfer? Evidence is provided in support of the position that third language (L3) transfer is selective, whereby, at least under certain conditions, it is driven by the typological proximity of the target L3 measured against the other previously acquired…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Incelli, Ersilia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This paper investigates native speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) interaction in the workplace in computer-mediated communication (CMC). Based on empirical data from a 10-month email exchange between a medium-sized British company and a small-sized Italian company, the general aim of this study is to explore the nature of the intercultural…
Descriptors: International Trade, Business Communication, Official Languages, Second Language Learning
Cobianchi, Andrea – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2010
The study is aimed at identifying hemispheric language dominance in both the right-handed and left-handed participants. Eighteen right-handed and 18 left-handed young volunteers were invited to listen for 80 times to a 720 ms duration Italian word. Signals from 16 electrodes were averaged and displayed both as traces and maps. When the word was…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Aphasia, Patients, Language Processing
Lindqvist, Christina – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2010
The present study investigates lexical inter- and intralingual influences in the oral production of 14 very advanced learners of French L3. Lexical deviances are divided into two main categories: formal influence and meaning-based influence. The results show that, as predicted with respect to advanced learners, meaning-based influence is the most…
Descriptors: Semantics, French, Language Proficiency, Oral Language
Unterrainer, Eva Maria – Research-publishing.net, 2012
This paper illustrates the research design (including the pilot study) of a work-in-progress study aimed at examining the potential of bilingual podcasts for the vocabulary acquisition in Italian as an L3 in the Austrian school context for beginning learners. The longitudinal study tries to link findings of the Lexical Approach (Lewis, 1993, 1997)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Second Language Learning, Italian
Serratrice, Ludovica; Sorace, Antonella; Filiaci, Francesca; Baldo, Michela – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
A number of recent studies have argued that bilingual children's language comprehension and production may be affected by cross-linguistic influence. The overall aim of this study was to investigate whether the ability to judge the grammaticality of a construction in one language is affected by knowledge of the corresponding construction in the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, English, Italian
Chiesi, Francesca; Primi, Caterina – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
The aim of the present research was to test the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS) in order to acquire a valid instrument to measure attitudes inside the Italian educational context. The SATS was administered to Italian-speaking undergraduate students enrolled in introductory…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Validity, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
Molino, Alessandra – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2010
A cross-cultural approach is taken to analyse Linguistics research articles in English and Italian in terms of 1) the use of exclusive first-person subject pronouns in English and first-person inflected verbs in Italian, and 2) the passive voice in both languages and "si" constructions in Italian. The aim is to determine whether personal and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Writing (Composition), Cross Cultural Studies