Mirta Vernice
Biographic Data
| ID | 1497862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mirta Vernice |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mirta |
| FAMILY NAME | Vernice |
| SIGNATURE | VERNICE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9911-2755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Daily Linguistic Practice Interview
The increasing number of primary students with varying degrees of exposure to a family minority language requires a reflection on whether specific aspects of their daily language experience influence their learning. Indeed, Minority Language Children (MLC) often report difficulties in reading that must be better investigated to exclude neurodevelopmental conditions such as dyslexia. To this aim, we developed a new instrument, the Daily Linguistic…
The ReadFree tool for the identification of poor readers
In this study, we validated the “ ReadFree tool ”, a computerised battery of 12 visual and auditory tasks developed to identify poor readers also in minority-language children (MLC). We tested the task-specific discriminant power on 142 Italian-monolingual participants (8–13 years old) divided into monolingual poor readers ( N = 37) and good readers ( N = 105) according to standardised Italian reading tests. The performances at the discriminant t…
Mapping thematic roles onto grammatical functions in sentence production
Continuity in the Adult and Children's Comprehension of Subject and Object Relative Clauses in French and Italian
Subject and object relative clauses have been studied from the point of view of language acquisition and adult sentence processing. In the adult sentence processing literature, subject relative clauses (RCs) are read faster than object RCs (e.g., Frauenfelder et al. 1980 for French; King and Kutas 1995 for English; Schriefers et al. 1995 for Dutch). Similarly, children understand and produce subject RCs earlier and with greater accuracy than obje…
Co-referential Processing of Pronouns and Repeated Names in Italian
The acquisition of Chinese relative clauses
This study examines the comprehension of relative clauses by Chinese-speaking children, and evaluates the validity of the predictions of the Dependency Locality Theory (Gibson, 1998, 2000) and the Relativized Minimality approach (Friedmann, Belletti & Rizzi, 2009). One hundred and twenty children from three to eight years of age were tested by using a character–sentence matching task. We found a preference for subject relative clauses that persis…
The acquisition of SV order in unaccusatives
In two sentence repetition experiments, we investigated whether four- and five-year-olds master distinct representations for intransitive verb classes by testing two syntactic analyses of unaccusatives (Burzio, 1986; Belletti, 1988). Under the assumption that, with unaccusatives, the partitive case of the postverbal argument is realized only on indefinites (Belletti, 1988), we tested whether children used indefiniteness as a feature to assign the…
Effects of prosodic cues on topic continuity in child language production
It remains controversial whether children are able to process and integrate specific linguistic cues in their mental model to the same extent as adults. In the present study, a sentence continuation task was employed to determine how Italian speakers (4-, 5-, 6-year-olds and adults) interpret prosodic cues to decide which referent is more salient in a sentence, and thus more likely to be continued as the subject of a subsequent utterance. Partici…
The production of relative clauses by Italian cochlear-implanted and hearing children
Co-referential Processing of Pronouns and Repeated Names in Italian
The production of relative clauses by Italian cochlear-implanted and hearing children
Continuity in the Adult and Children's Comprehension of Subject and Object Relative Clauses in French and Italian
Subject and object relative clauses have been studied from the point of view of language acquisition and adult sentence processing. In the adult sentence processing literature, subject relative clauses (RCs) are read faster than object RCs (e.g., Frauenfelder et al. 1980 for French; King and Kutas 1995 for English; Schriefers et al. 1995 for Dutch). Similarly, children understand and produce subject RCs earlier and with greater accuracy than obje…
Mapping thematic roles onto grammatical functions in sentence production
Effects of prosodic cues on topic continuity in child language production
It remains controversial whether children are able to process and integrate specific linguistic cues in their mental model to the same extent as adults. In the present study, a sentence continuation task was employed to determine how Italian speakers (4-, 5-, 6-year-olds and adults) interpret prosodic cues to decide which referent is more salient in a sentence, and thus more likely to be continued as the subject of a subsequent utterance. Partici…
The production of relative clauses by Italian cochlear-implanted and hearing children
The acquisition of SV order in unaccusatives
In two sentence repetition experiments, we investigated whether four- and five-year-olds master distinct representations for intransitive verb classes by testing two syntactic analyses of unaccusatives (Burzio, 1986; Belletti, 1988). Under the assumption that, with unaccusatives, the partitive case of the postverbal argument is realized only on indefinites (Belletti, 1988), we tested whether children used indefiniteness as a feature to assign the…
The acquisition of Chinese relative clauses
This study examines the comprehension of relative clauses by Chinese-speaking children, and evaluates the validity of the predictions of the Dependency Locality Theory (Gibson, 1998, 2000) and the Relativized Minimality approach (Friedmann, Belletti & Rizzi, 2009). One hundred and twenty children from three to eight years of age were tested by using a character–sentence matching task. We found a preference for subject relative clauses that persis…
Co-referential Processing of Pronouns and Repeated Names in Italian
Continuity in the Adult and Children's Comprehension of Subject and Object Relative Clauses in French and Italian
Subject and object relative clauses have been studied from the point of view of language acquisition and adult sentence processing. In the adult sentence processing literature, subject relative clauses (RCs) are read faster than object RCs (e.g., Frauenfelder et al. 1980 for French; King and Kutas 1995 for English; Schriefers et al. 1995 for Dutch). Similarly, children understand and produce subject RCs earlier and with greater accuracy than obje…
Mapping thematic roles onto grammatical functions in sentence production
The ReadFree tool for the identification of poor readers
In this study, we validated the “ ReadFree tool ”, a computerised battery of 12 visual and auditory tasks developed to identify poor readers also in minority-language children (MLC). We tested the task-specific discriminant power on 142 Italian-monolingual participants (8–13 years old) divided into monolingual poor readers ( N = 37) and good readers ( N = 105) according to standardised Italian reading tests. The performances at the discriminant t…
The Daily Linguistic Practice Interview
The increasing number of primary students with varying degrees of exposure to a family minority language requires a reflection on whether specific aspects of their daily language experience influence their learning. Indeed, Minority Language Children (MLC) often report difficulties in reading that must be better investigated to exclude neurodevelopmental conditions such as dyslexia. To this aim, we developed a new instrument, the Daily Linguistic…
Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Language Development and Disorders (4 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (4 works) · Sentence (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works)