Sara Andreetta

University of Udine | UNIUD

Background: Clinical guidelines recommend the administration of intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator thromboly-tic treatment to persons who suffered ischemic stroke within 4,5 hours since onset. However, the available evidence on the potential improvement of language after thrombolysis is still scanty. Aims: This study assessed the...

To fully embrace situations of radical uncertainty, we argue that the theory should abandon the requirements that narratives, in general, must lead to affective evaluation, and that they have to explain (and potentially simulate) all or even the bulk of the current decisional context. Evidence from studies of incidental learning show that narrative...

To test the idea that poetic meter emerged as a cognitive schema to aid verbal memory, we focused on classical Italian poetry and on three components of meter: rhyme, accent, and verse length. Meaningless poems were generated by introducing prosody-invariant non-words into passages from Dante’s Divina Commedia and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. We then...

To test the idea that poetic meter emerged as a cognitive schema to aid verbal memory, we focused on classical Italian poetry and on three components of meter: rhyme, accent, and verse length. Meaningless poems were generated by introducing prosody-invariant non-words into passages from Dante’s Divina Commedia and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. We then...

This article reports the results of an experimental study that examines the influence of bilingualism on the acquisition and use of the 'Maximize Presupposition' principle in the context of speakers’ choices among propositional attitude predicates (equivalent to) 'know' and 'think'. We compared the performance of monolingual Slovenian- and Italian-...

To test the idea that poetic meter emerged as a cognitive schema to aid verbal memory, we have focused on classical Italian poetry and on its three basic components of meter: rhyme, accent and verse length. Meaningless poems were generated by introducing prosody-invariant non-words into passages from Dante's Divina Commedia and Ariosto's Orlando Fu...

Recently, there has been increasing interest in techniques for enhancing working memory (WM), casting a new light on the classical picture of a rigid system. One reason is that WM performance has been associated with intelligence and reasoning, while its impairment showed correlations with cognitive deficits, hence the possibility of training it is...

This study investigates the processing of long-distance syntactic dependencies by native speakers of Slovenian (L1) who are advanced learners of Italian as a second language (L2), compared with monolingual Italian speakers. Using a self-paced reading task, we compare sensitivity of the early-acquired L2 learners to syntactic anomalies in their L2 i...

The experimental literature on the pragmatic abilities of bilinguals is rather sparse. The only study investigating adult second language (L2) learners (Slabakova, 2010) found an increase of pragmatic responses in that population relative to monolinguals. The results of studies on early bilingual children are unclear, some finding a significant inc...

Si certaines formes de communication implicite comme les implicatures scalaires ont été l’objet d’un nombre considérable d’études chez les monolingues, peu d’études ont été menées sur les capacités pragmatiques des apprenants de langue seconde (L2). Les seules données disponibles proviennent de l’étude de Slabakova (2010) qui a montré qu’ils sont p...

This chapter focuses on the effects of aging on the process of language production from a psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic perspective. The first section of the chapter provides a detailed description of the language p production system by outlining the notions of micro- (i.e., lexical and grammatical) and macrolinguistic (i.e., pragmatic and d...

Background: The label “fluent aphasia” applies to different aphasic syndromes characterised by fluent speech with difficulties in lexical retrieval and/or grammatical processing. Aims: This study aims at investigating microlinguistic and macrolinguistic skills in persons with fluent aphasia. We hypothesised that their lexical and syntactic (i.e.,...

Several studies have shown that traditional standardised aphasia tests may not be sensitive enough to adequately assess linguistic deficits and recovery patterns in persons with aphasia. As a result, both functional and structural methods for the analysis of connected language samples from people with aphasia have been devised. This article focuses...

Di recente numerosi studi hanno dimostrato che i tradizionali test per la valutazione dei disturbi linguistici in pazienti con afasia non sono completamente sufficienti a determinarne le reali competenze comunicative e linguistiche. Di conseguenza, tanto nella ricerca quanto nella pratica clinica si stanno affermando nuovi approcci per valutare que...

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) represents a condition whose cognitive and behavioral sequelae are often underestimated, even when it exerts a profound impact on the patients' every-day life. The present study aimed to analyze the features of narrative discourse impairment in a group of adults with mTBI. 10 mTBI non-aphasic speakers (GCS > 13) a...

Anomic aphasia is a disturbance affecting lexical retrieval. Nonetheless, persons with this disorder may also experience difficulties in the construction of coherent narratives. Whether this symptom is a sign of a macrolinguistic difficulty per se or reflects the lexical disorder is still an open debate. In order to analyze the effect of the lexica...

Background: Several studies have shown that traditional standardised aphasia tests may not be sensitive enough to adequately assess linguistic deficits and recovery patterns in persons with aphasia. As a result, both functional and structural methods for the analysis of connected language samples from people with aphasia have been devised (see Arms...