Valentina Cristante
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valentina Cristante is involved.
Articles
2020 Sentence imitations in monolingual and early second language learners and the implications for grammar teaching Pedagogical Linguistics 1:2, pp. 149–183 | Article
In the present article I investigated whether data obtained from 7-year-old German L1 and German-Turkish eL2 children by means of an elicited imitation task including grammatical and ungrammatical sentences mirrored current findings in acquisition research concerning case marking, adjective… read more
2020 The processing of passive sentences in German: Evidence from an eye-tracking study with seven- and ten-year-olds and adults Language, Interaction and Acquisition 11:2, pp. 163–195 | Article
This study examines the processing and interpretation of passive sentences in German-speaking seven-year-olds, ten-year-olds, and adults. This structure is often assumed to be particularly difficult to understand, and not yet fully mastered in primary school (Kemp, Bredel, & Reich, 2008), i.e.… read more

