A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development
inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian …

Abstract Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and children with Developmental
Dyslexia (DD) have problems comprehending relative clauses (RCs) and find object RCs …

This study investigates the elicited production of subject (SRs) and object relatives (ORs) in
Italian by 13 cochlear-implanted (CI) children (age: 7; 9–10; 8) to determine whether and to …

Purpose Relative clauses present a well-known processing asymmetry between object-
extracted and subject-extracted dependencies across both typical and atypical populations …

Sentence and text comprehension is known to be difficult for orally trained individuals with
hearing impairment. This study explored the comprehension of several syntactic structures …

Verbal working memory resources may impact syntax comprehension. Thirteen Italian
children with cochlear implants (CIs) were assessed in relative clause (RC) comprehension …

The aim of the study is to investigate if German children with hearing loss (HL) display
persisting problems in comprehending complex sentences and to find out whether these …

Children with hearing impairment show difficulties in sentences derived by Wh-movement,
such as relative clauses and Wh-questions. This study examines the nature of this deficit in …

Background A robust finding from language acquisition, adult processing, and individuals
with language impairment is that certain types of Object Relatives (ORs) and Object …

This essay offers a general perspective on the linguistic competence of deaf children in
Italian language. Some studies have investigated the linguistic competence in different …