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Elena Gandolfi; Giovanna Diotallevi; Paola Viterbori – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study examined the language and nonverbal inhibitory control skills of Italian monolingual and bilingual typically developing (TD) preschoolers with Italian as their second language and of age-matched monolingual and bilingual peers with developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Four groups of preschoolers were enrolled: 30 TD…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Inhibition, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Paizi, Despina; De Luca, Maria; Zoccolotti, Pierluigi; Burani, Cristina – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
Italian developmental dyslexic readers show a striking length effect and have been hypothesised to rely mostly on nonlexical reading. Our experiments tested this hypothesis by assessing whether or not the deficit underlying dyslexia is specific to lexical reading. The effects of lexicality, word frequency and length were investigated in the same…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Developmental Disabilities, Reading Difficulties