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Potenzialità di utilizzo ornamentale del giglio di mare ( Pancratium maritimum L.) a fini produttivi
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Comprensione linguistica e Memoria di Lavoro in persone con Sindrome di Down
No full textNei soggetti con sindrome di Down (SD) le competenze linguistiche risultano compromesse in modo più consistente di altre aree dello sviluppo, quali quella cognitiva e sociale (Chapman, Schwarts e Kay-Raining Bird, 1991). Un aspetto del linguaggio che risulta particolarmente deficitario è la morfosintassi, mentre le capacità lessicali sembrano essere maggiormente preservate. La relazione tra le capacità di Memoria di Lavoro Verbale e il lessico è già stata evidenziata (Jarrold, Baddeley e Phillips, 2002) e il presente lavoro si inserisce all’interno di questo filone di ricerche proponendosi di approfondire le relazioni tra la comprensione morfosintattica e le capacità di Memoria di Lavoro Verbale. Inoltre è stata studiata la relazione tra questi aspetti del funzionamento psicologico e il livello cognitivo raggiunto dai soggetti: l’Età Mentale e l’Età Cronologica. I risultati indicano che le competenze morfosintattiche sono relate all’Età Cronologica. Inoltre esse correlano con le prestazioni in compiti di Memoria di Lavoro Verbale che implicano operazioni di elaborazione di una certa complessità
Idiom understanding in first graders: a follow-up study on less skilled comprehenders
No full textThe relation between text and idiom comprehension in children with
poor text comprehension skills was investigated longitudinally. In the
first phase of the study, six-year-old first graders with different levels
of text comprehension were compared in an idiom and sentence
comprehension task. Text comprehension was shown to be more
closely related to idiom comprehension than sentence comprehension.
The follow-up study, carried out eight months later on less-skilled text
comprehenders, investigated whether an improvement in text comprehension
was paralleled by an improvement in idiom comprehension.
The development of sentence comprehension was also taken into
account. Children who improved in text comprehension also improved
in idiom comprehension; this improvement was, instead, weakly
related to an improvement in sentence comprehension. The relationship
between text and idiom comprehension is discussed in the light of the
Global Elaboration Model (Levorato & Cacciari, 1995)
To break the….embarrassment: Text Comprehension Skills and Figurative Competence in skilled and less-skilled text comprehenders
No full textThe aim of the present study was to investigate children’s ability to complete idiom fragments embedded in stories. Previous
studies found that children’s and preadolescents’ ability to comprehend a text was related to their ability to understand an idiomatic
expression (Cain, Oakhill, & Lemmon, 2005; Levorato, Nesi, & Cacciari, 2004; Nippold, Moran, & Schwarz, 2001). Comprehension
and production processes share a vast amount of conceptual and lexical knowledge. Hence, we hypothesized that children’s text reading
comprehension skills also might be related to their ability to produce nonliteral completions. Skilled and less-skilled text comprehenders
(age range from 7.4 to 10.3) were presented with short stories that ended with an idiomatic fragment (e.g., “Paul broke the . . .” for the
idiom “break the ice”) and were asked to complete the story. The children’s completions were coded as Literal, Idiomatic, or Figurative,
as in previous studies (Levorato & Cacciari, 1992, 1995). The results showed that children’s ability to understand a text was related to
their ability to complete idiomatic fragments figuratively. Less-skilled comprehenders provided more literal completions than skilled
comprehenders who, in turn, provided more idiomatic completions
Effetti della soluzione nutritiva e del substrato sulla qualità del fiore reciso di Lilium
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