Although the syntactic priming methodology is a promising tool for language acquisition
researchers, using the technique with children raises issues that are not problematic in adult …

We report an experiment that examined whether children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
(ASD) spontaneously converge, or align, syntactic structure with a conversational partner …

Through two elicited production experiments we investigated how preschool Italian-
speaking children access the left periphery of the clause with respect to topics in Clitic Left …

This study investigated the long-term effects of structural priming on children's use of indirect
speech clauses in a narrative context. Forty-two monolingual English-speaking 5-year-olds …

The present article explores the hypothesis that some Italian sentences involving the
reflexive clitic si may represent a possible route to access the passive computation in the …

To describe a transitive event, the English language allows a choice of two Voices. The
canonical form is the active-voice, and the alternative is the passive-voice, which offers its …

This dissertation reports the findings of five studies investigating the language-cognition
interface in various clinical populations. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, I …

Certain structures are particularly challenging for children. Explanations of such challenges
reference both grammatical development and processing capacities. This study concerns …

Weiterhin soll in dieser Studie die Bedeutung sozialer Interaktionen weiter untersucht
werden, indem die Anzahl der Sprecher betrachtet wird. Kinder lernen nicht nur von einer …

Résumé L'objectif de cette étude est de déterminer, d'une part, si la maîtrise de différentes
constructions syntaxiques acquises tardivement peut être améliorée en les amorçant au …