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 …

Many studies find true verbal passives in English acquired only after age four, but some find
three-year-olds fully adultlike. We explain this discrepancy using Relativized Minimality (RM …

This paper investigates the comprehension and the production of passive sentences in
Italian-speaking children (aged 3 years, 4 months to 6 years, 2 months) analyzing both the …

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 …

Anna Cardinaletti & Francesca Volpato is study investigates the comprehension and
production of relative clauses and passive sentences by a group of 10 university students …

This study assesses the comprehension of verbal passives by children acquiring European
Portuguese. Here I present data from three experimental studies designed to test the …

4.5. Results I. Relative clauses 120 4.6. Results II. Clefts and relatives: a comparison
between structures, tasks, and participants 123 4.6. 1. A look at the single participants 129 …

We used the elicited production task to explore the production of short and long passives in
15 Mandarin-speaking preschool children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD; …

A new elicited production task inducing oral production of actional passive sentences was
carried out by school-aged Italian-speaking children with typical development or with …

In this article, we compare the answers given by two deaf Italian twins in the standardized
test TCGB and in a test developed by linguists to analyse the competence of passives in …