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Silvia Silleresi; Elena Pagliarini; Maria Teresa Guasti – First Language, 2025
This study investigates the interpretation of disjunction words (Italian 'o') in negative sentences by Italian monolingual and bilingual (L1 Italian - L2 English) children and Italian adults. Participants were asked to judge Italian sentences corresponding to the English sentence 'This animal did not eat the carrot or the pepper'. According to the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Semantics, Linguistic Theory, Italian
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Cairncross, Alex; Dal Pozzo, Lena – First Language, 2022
While previous work on postverbal subjects in Italian has shown that young children are sensitive to the effects of argument structure and definiteness, little is known about the acquisition of postverbal subjects at the VP-periphery. In response, the present study investigated such subjects under new-information focus by monolingual Italian…
Descriptors: Italian, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Adults