Aspect Processing in Italian: An Eye-Tracking Study This thesis aims at investigating the processing of imperfective and perfective aspect in Italian, as part of a larger cross-linguistic project on aspect processing in ...

L’obiettivo di questo studio è di analizzare la performance di studenti/esse italiani/e bilingui tardivi/e di inglese in un task che utilizza il metodo del priming cross-linguistico. (numero di partecipanti) studenti/esse ...

The aim of this study was to investigate whether English-Italian heritage bilinguals share the abstract representations of certain syntactic structures across languages (Hartsuiker et al., 2004). A Structural Priming ...

This work provides a comprehensive analysis of the educational struggles of disabled students, especially dyslexics and deaf learners, who learn English as a second language at a university level. The first part of the ...

Captions have been found to benefit diverse learners, supporting comprehension, memory for content, vocabulary acquisition, and literacy (Gernsbacher, 2015). In this study we compare human-corrected captions (HCs) with ...

This thesis presents and discusses the results of two experiments conducted to study the acceptability of Focus Adverb placement in English in two groups of English speakers. The two groups investigated were Italians holding ...

The present dissertation is a case study on an Italo-Bengali 8-year-old girl with suspected Learning Disability and severe problems related to the Italian language, especially in comprehension. The research project provides ...

Syntactic priming is a paradigm which helps linguists understand how speakers abstractly represent the languages that they master. This paradigm has been largely used in the field of psycholinguistics with the purpose of ...

Tenendo in considerazione la scarsa disponibilità di adeguati test linguistici specifici per soggetti bilingui in Italia, la tesi propone l’adattamento all’italiano di un subtest originariamente destinato alla valutazione ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether bilinguals have a single, integrated representation of syntactic information (the interactive view) or whether the L1 syntactic representations and mechanisms are kept ...