Alessio Di Renzo

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alessio Di Renzo is involved.

Title

Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theory

Virginia Volterra, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo and Sabina Fontana

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the… read more

[Gesture Studies, 9] 2022. vi, 220 pp.

Article

Tomasuolo, Elena, Laura Fellini, Alessio Di Renzo and Virginia Volterra 2010 Assessing lexical production in deaf signing children with the Boston Naming Test Acquiring Sign Language as a First Language / Acquisition d’une langue des signes comme langue première, Sallandre, Marie-Anne and Marion Blondel (eds.), pp. 110–128 | Article

A picture naming task, the Boston Naming Test, originally developed for spoken language, has been adapted to Italian Sign Language in order to assess the vocabulary of Italian deaf signing children. Thirty deaf and thirty hearing children and adolescents (aged 6–14 years) participated in the study.… read more