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Yau, Shu Hui; Brock, Jon; McArthur, Genevieve – Developmental Science, 2016
It has been proposed that language impairments in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) stem from atypical neural processing of speech and/or nonspeech sounds. However, the strength of this proposal is compromised by the unreliable outcomes of previous studies of speech and nonspeech processing in ASD. The aim of this study was to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Language Impairments
Chan, Lionel – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation examines the acquisition of object clitic placement in Standard Italian by heritage speakers (HSs) of non-standard Italian dialects. It compares two different groups of Standard Italian learners--Northern Italian dialect HSs and Southern Italian dialect HSs--whose heritage dialects contrast with each other in clitic word order.…
Descriptors: Italian, Nonstandard Dialects, Native Language, Standard Spoken Usage