Carmen Belacchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3075980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmen Belacchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmen |
| FAMILY NAME | Belacchi |
| SIGNATURE | BELACCHI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Urbino |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5562-8311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The metalinguistic and metarepresentational attitude of early bilingual children
Aims and objectives: Definitional skill is the ability to define words using canonical formats. This skill requires lexical, morpho-syntactic, and pragmatic abilities, as well as metalinguistic attitude. Bilingualism has a crucial role in cognitive development, especially in promoting metareflective competencies. The relationship between bilingualism and definitional skills is a very under investigated topic. The aim of this study is to explore i…
Implicit Grammatical Gender Representation in Italian Children with Autism without Intellectual/Language Disorder
Grammatical language development in individuals with autism (without intellectual/language impairment) is mostly qualitatively comparable to language development in typically developing children of the same age. The majority of tasks used to study grammatical development require explicit performance (use of verbal language). Here, we administered an implicit categorization task (by biological sex) to understand which markers children use to impli…
Latent groups and latent traits of participation in bullying via factor mixture analysis
In this study, we drew on a person‐centred approach to explore forms of involvement and roles in bullying. More specifically, we applied Factor Mixture Analysis (FMA) to an in‐depth measure of bullying roles, with a view to identifying latent dimensions of participation in bullying and latent groups characterised by differential behavioural patterns. Participants were 899 high school students (51% females) attending the 9th (49%) and 11th grades …
Implicit Representation of Grammatical Gender in Italian Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) display impaired phonological and/or morpho-syntactic skills. To detect these impairments, it would be of value to devise tasks that assess specific markers of implicit linguistic competence. We administered a forced choice semantic categorization task developed in Italian (Belacchi and Cubelli in Journal of psycholinguistic research 41:295–310, 2012) for detecting the implicit use of grammatica…
Feeling and Thinking of Others
This study aims at investigating the affective and cognitive components of empathy in relation to both emotion comprehension and prosocial/hostile behaviors in preschoolers. A total of 219 children (54% boys; aged between 3 and 6: mean age 4.10) and 20 teachers (two for each class: group A and group B ) took part in this research. Pupils’ empathy and hostile/prosocial roles were assessed by teacher reports [ B elacchi and F arina, 2010] and child…
Implicit Knowledge of Grammatical Gender in Preschool Children
Prosocial/hostile roles and emotion comprehension in preschoolers
Bullying occurs at approximately the same rate in kindergarten as in elementary school, but few studies inquired into preschool years [Alsaker and Nägele, 2008 ; Stassen Berger, 2007 ]. This study aimed at: (1) verifying the presence in preschoolers of two additional participant roles (Consoler and Mediator), besides the six traditional roles detected by Salmivalli et al. [ 1996 ], grouped in four latent macroroles, by means of teacher report ver…
‘To define means to say what you know about things’
Some authors have suggested that definitional skills include metalinguistic components (Watson, 1985; Snow, 1990; McGhee-Bidlack, 1991). The present study therefore empirically investigated relations between the ability to define words and level of metalinguistic awareness in 280 Italian children (with ages ranging from 5 to 11 years) and in two groups of 40 adults each (with low and high educational levels, respectively). We used a definitional …
Feeling and Thinking of Others
This study aims at investigating the affective and cognitive components of empathy in relation to both emotion comprehension and prosocial/hostile behaviors in preschoolers. A total of 219 children (54% boys; aged between 3 and 6: mean age 4.10) and 20 teachers (two for each class: group A and group B ) took part in this research. Pupils’ empathy and hostile/prosocial roles were assessed by teacher reports [ B elacchi and F arina, 2010] and child…
Prosocial/hostile roles and emotion comprehension in preschoolers
Bullying occurs at approximately the same rate in kindergarten as in elementary school, but few studies inquired into preschool years [Alsaker and Nägele, 2008 ; Stassen Berger, 2007 ]. This study aimed at: (1) verifying the presence in preschoolers of two additional participant roles (Consoler and Mediator), besides the six traditional roles detected by Salmivalli et al. [ 1996 ], grouped in four latent macroroles, by means of teacher report ver…
Implicit Knowledge of Grammatical Gender in Preschool Children
‘To define means to say what you know about things’
Some authors have suggested that definitional skills include metalinguistic components (Watson, 1985; Snow, 1990; McGhee-Bidlack, 1991). The present study therefore empirically investigated relations between the ability to define words and level of metalinguistic awareness in 280 Italian children (with ages ranging from 5 to 11 years) and in two groups of 40 adults each (with low and high educational levels, respectively). We used a definitional …
Prosocial/hostile roles and emotion comprehension in preschoolers
Bullying occurs at approximately the same rate in kindergarten as in elementary school, but few studies inquired into preschool years [Alsaker and Nägele, 2008 ; Stassen Berger, 2007 ]. This study aimed at: (1) verifying the presence in preschoolers of two additional participant roles (Consoler and Mediator), besides the six traditional roles detected by Salmivalli et al. [ 1996 ], grouped in four latent macroroles, by means of teacher report ver…
Feeling and Thinking of Others
This study aims at investigating the affective and cognitive components of empathy in relation to both emotion comprehension and prosocial/hostile behaviors in preschoolers. A total of 219 children (54% boys; aged between 3 and 6: mean age 4.10) and 20 teachers (two for each class: group A and group B ) took part in this research. Pupils’ empathy and hostile/prosocial roles were assessed by teacher reports [ B elacchi and F arina, 2010] and child…
Implicit Knowledge of Grammatical Gender in Preschool Children
Implicit Representation of Grammatical Gender in Italian Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) display impaired phonological and/or morpho-syntactic skills. To detect these impairments, it would be of value to devise tasks that assess specific markers of implicit linguistic competence. We administered a forced choice semantic categorization task developed in Italian (Belacchi and Cubelli in Journal of psycholinguistic research 41:295–310, 2012) for detecting the implicit use of grammatica…
Latent groups and latent traits of participation in bullying via factor mixture analysis
In this study, we drew on a person‐centred approach to explore forms of involvement and roles in bullying. More specifically, we applied Factor Mixture Analysis (FMA) to an in‐depth measure of bullying roles, with a view to identifying latent dimensions of participation in bullying and latent groups characterised by differential behavioural patterns. Participants were 899 high school students (51% females) attending the 9th (49%) and 11th grades …
Implicit Grammatical Gender Representation in Italian Children with Autism without Intellectual/Language Disorder
Grammatical language development in individuals with autism (without intellectual/language impairment) is mostly qualitatively comparable to language development in typically developing children of the same age. The majority of tasks used to study grammatical development require explicit performance (use of verbal language). Here, we administered an implicit categorization task (by biological sex) to understand which markers children use to impli…
The metalinguistic and metarepresentational attitude of early bilingual children
Aims and objectives: Definitional skill is the ability to define words using canonical formats. This skill requires lexical, morpho-syntactic, and pragmatic abilities, as well as metalinguistic attitude. Bilingualism has a crucial role in cognitive development, especially in promoting metareflective competencies. The relationship between bilingualism and definitional skills is a very under investigated topic. The aim of this study is to explore i…
Developmental psychology (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Language Development and Disorders (4 works) · Categorization (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (2 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (2 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works)