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...

The authors investigated linguistic relativity effects by examining the semantic effects of grammatical gender (present in Italian but absent in English) in fluent bilingual speakers as compared with monolingual speakers. In an error-induction experiment, they used responses by monolingual speakers to establish a baseline for bilingual speakers and show that gender affects the semantic substitu...

This article examines the reasons for adopting a non‑institutional character of Visegrad cooperation in years 1991‑1992. Its focus concerns two causes initial reluctance to institutionalise Group: high level unpredictability Central Europe after collapse Communism and symbolic role Group was expected play outside region. These issues are considered through prism theories International Relations...

This study discusses whether the concept of societal security is embedded in Russian official and informal discourses as well strategic documents on national Baltic Sea region. Particularly, paper describes four paradigms international relations (neorealism, neoliberalism, globalism postpositivism) theoretical approaches to formulated them. On a practical plane, Russia managed develop — togethe...

English. This article describes the system that participated in the POS tagging for Italian Social Media Texts (PoSTWITA) task of the 5th periodic evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and speech tools for the Italian language EVALITA 2016. The work is a continuation of Stemle (2016) with minor modifications to the system and different data sets. It combines a small assertion...