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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
Peyer, Elisabeth; Kaiser, Irmtraud; Berthele, Raphael – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2010
This study investigates Italian and French students' grammatical problems while reading in German as an L3 or L4. For the study, we developed a reading test which consists of invented encyclopaedia articles on imaginary animals. These articles enabled us to test various grammatical structures for their receptive difficulty. This paper discusses…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Grammar, Reading Tests, Multilingualism
