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Syntactic intervention on relative clauses: two case studies on italian-speaking children with cochlear implants
No full textThis paper deals with the linguistic competence of two children with cochlear implants who
showed weaknesses in the comprehension and production of relative
clauses. These children were administered a protocol of language
intervention based on formal linguistics and were explicitly taught verb
argument structure, the Theta criterion, and syntactic movement used to
derive relative clauses. Immediately after the intervention and some
months later (2 and 5, respectively), the two children showed better
comprehension and production of relative clauses. In addition,
generalization effects were found. Non-treated structures and narrative
skills (tested in one of the children) also improved, and improvement was
maintained some months after the end of the treatment
Valutazione della competenza linguistica e intervento. Osservazioni sulle modalità e sugli strumenti disponibili
No full textQuesto capitolo introduttivo si pone l’obiettivo di definire il contesto all’interno del quale collocare
i cinque contributi presenti nel volume collettaneo. Partendo dall’impatto che può avere la sordità sullo sviluppo delle abilità linguistiche e comunicative, questo contributo sottolinea l’importanza di utilizzare strumenti diversi (standardizzati e non standardizzati) per valutare opportunamente la competenza linguistica delle persone sorde. Presenta inoltre strategie di intervento linguistico che promuovono l’insegnamento della lingua dei segni e l’uso di diversi strumenti multimodali e multimediali per favorire l’inclusione in situazioni in cui la comunicazione attraverso la lingua vocale è compromessa
Valutazione linguistica in italiano e nella LIS e strategie di intervento
Full text linkNell’ultimo ventennio la ricerca nel campo della sordità e delle disabilità linguistiche è cresciuta sotto il profilo quantitativo e qualitativo, grazie ai numerosi studi e agli strumenti che sono stati realizzati allo scopo di valutare la competenza linguistica in italiano di persone con e senza deficit uditivo. Tuttavia, sono ancora molti gli aspetti linguistici dell’italiano che necessitano di essere approfonditi nelle popolazioni di sordi. Nelle persone sorde (segnanti) la valutazione è focalizzata principalmente o esclusivamente sulla lingua vocale, poiché non si dispone di sufficienti strumenti dedicati alla descrizione e alla valutazione delle abilità linguistiche nella lingua dei segni. Il presente volume raccoglie studi originali e innovativi condotti da laureati, in collaborazione con docenti e ricercatori dell’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, che più recentemente hanno contribuito in modo significativo al progredire dell’attività di ricerca nel campo della descrizione della competenza linguistica in italiano e nella lingua dei segni e nello sviluppo di strategie di intervento guidate dalla linguistica formale, atte a favorire lo sviluppo delle abilità comunicative, lessicali e sintattiche in contesti di sordità e di deficit linguistico
Language Acquisition, Processing and Bilingualism: Selected papers from The Romance Turn VII
No full textBringing together selected papers from the conference “The Romance Turn VII” held in Venice in October 2015, this volume focuses on a broad range of topics at the heart of the current debate on language acquisition, including clitic pronouns, left-dislocations, passives, relative clauses, and wh-questions. It explores these topics within a range of different acquisition settings, such as L1 and L2 acquisition, bilingualism, typical and atypical development. In addition to syntax, the volume covers other modules of grammar, namely, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology, and adds a perspective on language processing to current discussions on the acquisition of Romance languages.
This book also includes contributions on atypical language acquisition in cases of deafness and on language intervention based on formal linguistics. It will appeal not only to scholars and students interested in the nature and processes behind first, second and bilingual language acquisition, and impaired language acquisition, but also to language educators and clinicians
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Developing convergence: Towards an integrated developmental model of language processing in children and adults
No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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