Francesca Volpato

Francesca Volpato
Ca' Foscari University of Venice | UNIVE · Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies

PhD

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February 2016 - present
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
Description
  • Clinical linguistics
September 2011 - present
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
Description
  • Linguistics for deafness and hearing impairments
Education
November 2006 - October 2009

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Publications (29)
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The research presented in this volume covers first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language heritage and language impairment. Papers in this collection use a variety of experimental methods, such as eye-tracking, elicitation tasks, production tasks administered off-line and untimed, transcriptions of spontaneous speech, productio...
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This study investigates the production of clitic pronouns by monolingual Italian children aged 4;9-10;11, using a sentence repetition task including sentences with one or two restructuring verbs. The main findings are as follows: (i) children were more accurate with proclitics than enclitics, (ii) in their reproductions, they sometimes changed the...
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Over the years and especially in the last two decades, research in the field of deafness and language impairment has grown in quantitative and qualitative terms, thanks to the numerous studies and instruments that have been carried out with the aim of assessing the linguistic competence of persons with typical development, people with hearing impai...
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This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages, eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9, held in Bucharest in September 2018. The studies offer new insights into central issues in the literature, such as syntactic complexity in both typical and impaired language settings, intervention effects, the acquisit...
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The present volume presents research on language processing and language disorders. Topics range across typical language processing, child developmental language disorders, adult neurodegenerative disorders and neurological bases of typical or impaired brains. The chapters cover a number of linguistic phenomena, including relative clauses, empty ca...
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Verbal working memory resources may impact syntax comprehension. Thirteen Italian children with cochlear implants (CIs) were assessed in relative clause (RC) comprehension, digit span and nonword repetition and compared to 13 chronological age peers (CA) and 13 younger controls (LA) with normal hearing (NH). The RC comprehension task tested subject...
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This volume deals with the syntactic competence of Italian-speaking individuals with hearing impairment (cochlear implant users and LIS signers) and individuals with normal hearing (children, adolescents, and adults), focusing on relative clauses, a central topic in current research. The volume also presents the participants’ performance in differe...
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In this paper, we analyse how Italian-speaking children with cochlear implants produce subject and object questions introduced by who and which+NP. The aim of the study is to analyse whether a correlation exists between the accuracy of the responses of an elicitation task of wh-questions and clinical variables (i.e. age of hearing aid fitting; age...
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We assess a group of 12 Italian-speaking children with cochlear implants on the repetition of complex syntactic structures (left-dislocated sentences with resumptive clitic pronouns, long-distance subject and object wh-questions, cleft sentences, genitive and oblique relative clauses). The performance of the experimental group was compared with the...
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Syntax is impaired in individuals with cochlear implants (CIs). Several studies have shown that Italian speaking children fitted with CIs have troubles with relative clauses (Volpato and Adani 2009, Volpato 2010, Volpato 2012, Volpato and Vernice 2014), sentences containing clitic pronouns (Guasti et al. 2014), and wh-questions (Volpato and D'Orten...
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Italian students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) must receive adequate linguistic support before approaching University in order for them to achieve successful results. Unfortunately, their individual educational programs during secondary school are often based on inaccurate diagnosis and information. Indeed, in addition to learning difficulti...
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Italian students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) must receive adequate linguistic support before approaching University in order for them to achieve successful results. Unfortunately, their individual educational programs during secondary school are often based on inaccurate diagnosis and information. Indeed, in addition to learning difficulti...
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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 variables observed in previous studies on other languages (verb type and presence of the by -phrase) versus an Italian-specific variable: the use of auxiliary venire “to come...
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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 what extent they differ from three groups of 13 normal hearing (NH) children matched on morphosyntactic abilities (age: 5;0–7;9), chronological age (age: 7;5–10;3),...
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Recently, a test battery was developed with the goal of assessing perception of F 0 in linguistic, but language-independent, contexts by listeners from different language backgrounds. Test validation using Dutch, Italian and Romanian listeners generally showed comparable performance. In this study we present cross-language results on how F 0 contri...
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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 typologies of deaf people: orally-trained children with cochlear implants, native signers, non-native signers and deaf foreigners adolescents and adults. Although the result...
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Objectives: The auditory speech sounds evaluation 2009 test battery for assessment of speech pitch perception is presented. It was designed to (a) assess perception of pitch in linguistic contexts without the confounds of secondary acoustic cues, (b) be usable with listeners from different language backgrounds, and (c) be suitable for use in a cli...
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The aim of this study is to investigate the production and comprehension of subject (OS) and object (OO) restrictive relative clauses in various hearing and hearing-impaired populations (cochlear-implanted children, adolescent LIS signers, hearing children, hearing adolescents, and hearing adults). An agent selection task and an elicited production...
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The aim of this study is to assess the comprehension and to elicit the production of clitic pronouns in sentences with left-dislocation, in three adult hearing impaired bilinguals Italian/LIS and in four hearing speakers of Italian. The occurrence of clitic pronouns and the presence of past participle agreement in Italian are investigated through s...
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We investigated the comprehension of subject and object relative clauses in hearing-impaired (HI) children using a cochlear implant compared to that of hearing children, by using an agent selection task. We show that HI children performed significantly poorer than their typically-developing peers. Despite their low performance, HI children show non...

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