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Bortolini, Umberta; Leonard, Laurence B.; Caselli, Maria Cristina – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Children with specific language impairments (eight learning Italian, eight learning English as a first language) were studied for grammatical deficits. Italian-speakers used noun inflections, verb inflections, copula forms more than English-speaking counterparts, matched by utterance length. Articles were used similarly. Results were consistent…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Kaldor, Susan; Shell, Ruth – 1970
Through an experiment investigating the processes used by several speakers of Asian languages to decode passages by speakers of Australian English, this paper seeks to establish and categorize the types of problems encountered by multilingual speakers when decoding the speech of monolingual speakers in one of their (the multilinguals') second…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis