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Direct linkSilvia 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
Carla Contemori; Claudia Manetti; Federico Piersigilli – First Language, 2025
For children, Object Relative (OR) clauses can be late acquired across a number of languages (e.g., this is the goat that the cows are pushing), and production of non-standard ORs that include resumption is often attested (e.g., Italian; French; English). In addition, starting at age 6, children start adopting passive subject relatives (SRs)…
Descriptors: Italian, Phrase Structure, Language Acquisition, Native Language
Tonioli, Valeria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
The aim of the paper is to present the results of a research project called 'Tell Me', conducted from October 2018 to March 2020. The project focused on Bengali children living in Venice, Italy, and aimed to describe (1) children's languages in the home environment and at school; (2) the quality and quantity of input they receive in every language…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Italian, Family Relationship, Language Usage
Saturno, Jacopo – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
The present paper investigates the acquisition of L3 Polish by L1 Italian university students of L2 Russian. The participants had never studied the L3 prior to the experiment, but took a meta-linguistically explicit course in Slavic Linguistics focussing on Polish/Russian contrastive grammar. The main research question is whether or not the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Transfer of Training, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Artuso, Caterina; Palladino, Paola – Second Language Research, 2019
The current study investigates the relation between working memory updating and second language learning (L2) outcomes in typically-developing fourth grade children. Our primary aim was to replicate and extend previous findings on the relationship between updating and low-level reading skills, i.e. fluency. Our second objective was to examine…
Descriptors: Role, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Grade 4
Rastelli, Stefano; Vernice, Mirta – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2013
The Aspect Hypothesis assumes that--in early interlanguages--the perfective past spreads from telic to atelic verbs because events occurring in the past are easier to be associated with predicates having an inherent endpoint in their lexico-conceptual representation. In this study it is questioned whether for initial L2ers knowing the general…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Italian, Linguistic Theory, Interlanguage
