A mandated by the Italian Ministry of Health, the Italian Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Società Italiana Medicina Fisica e Riabilitazione, SIMFER) appointed a Commission composed of SIMFER members to draw up guidelines for the rehabilitation treatment of adolescents with spinal deformities. Other medical organizations contributing to the redaction of the final guidelines vers...

The current study examined the validity of the Italian version of the Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale (ACSS; Henderson-King & Henderson-King, 2005) in a sample of 378 Italian adult women. A series of confirmatory factor analyses were conducted. A three-factor solution provided the best fit to the data and confirmed the Intrapersonal, Social, and Consider dimensions. The three factors were ...

Candela, F., Zucchetti, G., & Villosio, C. (2014). Preliminary validation of the Italian version of the original Sport Motivation Scale. J. Hum. Sport Exerc., 9(1), pp.136-147. This study aims at develop and validate a preliminary Italian version of the original Sport Motivation Scale. The original scale was translated into Italian following transcultural procedures. The scale was administered ...

In this study we investigate the prosody of Italian Particle Verbs (henceforth, PrtV's). After comparing two alternative hypotheses about the prosodic constituent PrtV's correspond to, we concentrate on three rules of Italian phonology that differ in their domain of application: the phonological word (ω) vs. the phonological phrase (φ). We then report on a production experiment carried out with...

Two experiments assessed whether grammatical gender of Italian nouns referring to animals and tools affects conceptual representations of the corresponding objects, comparing results from Italian and English. In the first experiment, we elicited semantic substitution errors (e.g., saying “hammer” when “axe” is intended), finding language-specific gender effects (more errors in Italian than Engl...

In Italian, length contrast is exploited in the consonant system. Previous articulatory studies have focused on the temporal organization of gestures in Italian geminates and on the lower lip kinematics of the singleton/geminate distinction, and have showed that the time interval between the nuclei of two successive syllables does not depend on the number of intervening consonants (Öhman‟s Vowe...

Background Physiotherapists (PTs) are ideally positioned to assist patients and families with inhalation therapies through monitoring, communication and education about available therapies and their proper use; indeed aerosoltherapy management is listed as part of Italian PTs' core competence and in the core syllabus for post-graduate training in respiratory physiotherapy. The aim of this study...

Croatia has always been a multilingual environment. The influence of German and Italian was empowered through direct political influence. During the second part of the 18th and in the 19th century native speakers of German and Italian used Croatian as a second language carrying out their duties at work. This bilingualism can tentatively be referred to as bureaucratic bilingualism. Native Croati...

We investigated if and how the use of one or multiple languages (bilingualism hereafter) affects the perception of intervocalic singleton/geminate consonants in Italian and Japanese. Two groups of non-native listeners (monolingual speakers of Australian English and bilingual speakers of Cantonese/English or Vietnamese/English) were examined. Two groups of native listeners (Italian and Japanese)...

This work was conducted with the specific goals of developing improved recognition of children’s speech in Italian and the integration of the children’s speech recognition models into the Italian version of the Colorado Literacy Tutor platform. Specifically, children’s speech recognition research for Italian was conducted using the ITC-irst Children’s Speech Corpus. Using the University of Colo...