Alessandra Sansavini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alessandra Sansavini plays a role.
Articles
2019. Neuroconstructivism to understand the effect of very preterm birth on language and literacy. Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages, Aguilar-Mediavilla, Eva, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Raúl López-Penadés, Victor A. Sanchez-Azanza and Daniel Adrover-Roig (eds.), pp. 23–36
The preterm population is not characterised by an initial delay that recovers during development, but by atypical developmental trajectories, that can be understood through the neuroconstructivist approach. The neuropsychological profiles of very preterm infants show a great heterogeneity,… read more | Chapter
2010. Early development of gestures, object-related-actions, word comprehension and word production, and their relationships in Italian infants: A longitudinal study. Gesture 10:1, pp. 52–85
Our study aimed to examine longitudinally early development of gestures, object-actions (short for object-related-actions), word comprehension, and word production and their reciprocal relationships in typically developing infants. Twenty-two monolingual Italian infants were followed monthly from… read more | Article