Selected articles and book chapters

Casani, E., & Perpiñan, S. (in press). Optionality in the Expression of Existential Definiteness by Italian speakers of L2 Spanish. LiVVaL (Linguaggio e Variazione / Variation in Language).

Casani, E. (in preparation). Structuring of Literacy in a Shallow Orthography. A Comprehensive Longitudinal Analysis of Monolingual and Bilingual Children.

Casani, E. (in preparation). Different Pace for (Pre)Literacy Acquisition in Bilingual and Monolingual Children. A Comprehensive Longitudinal Study in a Shallow Orthography.

Casani, E., Vulchanova, M., Cardinaletti, A. (2022). Morphosyntactic Skills Influence the Written Decoding Accuracy of Italian Children With and Without Developmental Dyslexia. Frontiers in Psychology, 13 (841638). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.841638

Casani, E. (2022). Valutazione dei prerequisiti della letto-scrittura in bambini monolingui e bilingui nella scuola italiana. In P. Diadori, & S. Machetti, Italiano per stranieri. Lo stato dell’arte sulla verifica e la valutazione delle competenze linguistiche e didattiche. Firenze, IT: Franco Cesati Editore. EAN: 9788876679728

Casani, E. (2021b), Strategie di studenti universitari nell’apprendimento delle lingue. Verso un modello transculturale di competenza strategica. In S. Caruana, K. Chircop, P. Gauci, & M. Pace, (Eds.), Politiche e pratiche per l’educazione linguistica, il multilinguismo e la comunicazione interculturale. SAIL 18, pp. 357–368. Venezia, IT: Edizioni Ca' Foscari. http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-501-8/032

Casani, E. (2020a). Production of direct object clitic pronouns by Italian children with different acquisition modes. In F.M. Dovetto (Ed.), I sistemi instabili. Linguistica delle differenze 5, pp. 449-464. Roma: Aracne. DOI: 10.4399/978882552712418

Casani, E.(2020c). Corpus d’apprenants et recherche linguistique: Une étude sur l’italien. Colloque international des Etudiant×e×s chercheur×se×s en DIdactique des langues et Linguistique, CEDIL’18, May 2018, Grenoble, France. hal-02648153

Casani, E. (2020d). Distinguishing DD from SLI. Language profiles of Italian dyslexic children with and without specific language impairment. Pragmalingüística. Investigaciones en lingüística clínica, monográfico 2, pp. 78-96. https://doi.org/10.25267/Pragmalinguistica.2020.iextra2.03

Casani, E. (2020e), Rapid naming, reading, comprehension, and syntactic production by Italian dyslexic children with and without specific language impairment. In D. Levey (Ed.), Strategies and Analyses of Language and Communication in Multilingual and International Contexts, pp. 111-122. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. http://dspace.unive.it/handle/10579/10794

Casani, E. (2019). Correlations between oral and written key skills among Italian dyslexic children with and without specific language impairment. In V. Carbonara, L. Cosenza, P. Masillo, L. Salvati, & A. Scibetta (Eds.), Il parlato e lo scritto: aspetti teorici e didattici, pp. 119-136. Pisa: Pacini Editore. ISBN: 978-88-6995-690-4

Cardinaletti, A., & Casani, E. (2019), Pragmatica nell’uso dei pronomi clitici diretti di terza persona singolare in bambini dislessici con e senza disturbo specifico del linguaggio. In E. Nuzzo, & I. Vedder (Eds.), Lingua in contesto. La prospettiva pragmatica, pp. 9-27. Milano: AItLA - Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata. http://www.aitla.it/images/pdf/StudiAItLA9/002_Cardinaletti_Casani.pdf

Refereed conferences

Symposia

1.     ‘Different Perspectives of (Pre)Literacy Assessment in Bi/Multilingual Contexts’. Symposium presented at the 15^th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 15). Chair: Emanuele Casani. Speakers:  Ianthi Tsimpli (University of Cambridge);  Rebecca Marks (MIT); Maria Vender (University of Verona); & Emanuele Casani (UPF, Unimore). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, June 9-13, 2025.

2.     ‘Disentangling the role of morpho-syntactic competence in reading. Evidence from different languages and populations’. Symposium presented at the 22^nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2022). Chair: Emanuele Casani. Speakers: Mila Vulchanova (NTNU); Emanuele Casani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice); Daniela Traficante (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan); Elisabeth Beyersmann (Macquarie University, Sydney); & Séverine Casalis (University of Lille). Lille Grand Palais, France, August 29 – September 1, 2022.

Selected conference presentations

1.     Challenges in literacy assessment and intervention for L2 children: A longitudinal study on a shallow orthography. Talk given at the 34th conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 34). The Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Tromsø, Norway. June 25 – 28, 2025.

2.     Phonological components of literacy in a shallow orthography. A longitudinal study on Italian mono-and bilingual children. Talk given at 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2025). University of the Balearic Islands. Mallorca, Spain. June 25 - 27, 2025.

3.     Optionality in the Expression of Existential Definiteness by Italian speakers of L2 Spanish (with S. Perpiñan). Talk given at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. June 9 - 13, 2025. 

4.     Accessible reading assessment: the Italian adaptation of self-administered, open-access ROAR (with G. Smith, E. Arteaga Garcia, E. Bassoli, W.A. Ma, N. Mastrangelo, M. Mastrogiuseppe, K. Montville, J.D. Yeatman, & S. Caffarra). Talk given at the XXX Congress AIP. Noto, Italy, September 23 - 25, 2024.

5.     ROAR (Rapid Online Assessment of Reading)-Lexical Decision in italiano: una prova online di decisione lessicale rapida e accessibile (with G. Smith, E. Arteaga Garcia, E. Bassoli, W.A. Ma, N. Mastrangelo, M. Mastrogiuseppe, K. Montville, J.D. Yeatman, & S. Caffarra). Talk given at the XXXII Congress AIRIPA 2024. Università di Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. September 19 - 21, 2024.

6.     (Pre)Literacy acquisition in a shallow orthography. Longitudinal evidence from mono and bilinguals.  Poster presented at the 16^th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2024). Prague, Czech Republic. July 15-19, 2024.

7.     I-ROAR: a free platform for Italian Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (with S. Caffarra). Poster presented at the 16^th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2024). Prague, Czech Republic. July 15 - 19, 2024.

8.     Foundational skills of literacy predicting typical and atypical development in a shallow orthography. A longitudinal study on Italian monolingual and bilingual children (with S. Caffarra). Talk given at the 31^st Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR). Copenaghen, Denmark. July 10 - 13, 2024.

9.     Rapid Online Assessment of Reading: adattamento italiano (with S. Caffarra, E. Arteaga Garcia, E. Bassoli, E. Casani, W.A. Ma, N. Mastrangelo, M. Mastrogiuseppe, K. Montville, G. Smith, & J.D. Yeatman). Talk given at the Measuring-Language-Italian Working-Workshop, Padova, Italy, June 25, 2024.

10.    Longitudinal influence of (meta)phonological skills on the typical and atypical reading development of monolingual and bilingual children in a shallow orthography. Poster presented at the Phonology and Dyslexia Workshop within the Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP19). University of Deusto. Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain, January 26 - 28, 2022.

11.   Development of (pre)literacy in monolinguals and mono-literate bilinguals in a shallow-orthography. One-hour talk given at the 2021 International Dyslexia Association (IDA) Annual Reading, Literacy & Learning Conference. Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, NC, USA, October 21 - 23, 2021 (transferred online).

12.   Effects of decoding accuracy variables and (morpho)syntactic competence on the reading of Italian children with and without developmental dyslexia. Talk given at the LIV Congresso Internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana - Workshop 4 "Le patologie del linguaggio: studi e risorse tra crossdisciplinarità e interdisciplinarità". Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy. September 9 - 11, 2020 (postponed to September 8 – 10, 2021, online).

13.   Effects of gender and number agreement on the production of direct object clitic pronouns in Italian monolingual and bilingual children with and without language disorder (with A. Cardinaletti). Talk given at APRAR 2020 "The Acquisition and Processing of Reference and Anaphora Resolution". Brussels Palace of the Academies, 1 – 2 September 2020 (postponed to May 19 – 20, 2021, online).

14.   Effetti delle abilità (morfo)sintattiche e delle variabili di correttezza sulla lettura di bambini italiani con e senza dislessia evolutiva. Talk given at the National Web-Conference AIRIPA - Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca e l'Intervento nella Psicopatologia dell'Apprendimento. September 25 – 26, 2020, online.

15.   Further steps in the exploration of a clinical marker of language disorders. A new test for the production of 3^rd person direct object clitic pronouns (joint work with A. Cardinaletti). Talk given at the International Conference “BeMeLAcq20 - Behavioural Measures of Language Acquisition and language processing in typical and atypical populations”. Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice Accessibility Lab, & NTNU Trondheim-Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab. Venice, Italy. May, 20 - 21, 2020 (online).

16.   Morphological errors in typical and atypical reading development. Is it deep dyslexia or morphosyntactic competence? Poster presented at the 19th International Morphology Meeting "Morphology in Contact". Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, Austria. February 6 – 8, 2020.

17.   Distinguishing developmental dyslexias. Reading errors by Italian dyslexic children with and without specific language impairment. Poster presented at the conference Brain, Language, and Learning. Università degli Studi di Siena. Siena, Italy. September 26–28, 2019.

18.   Effects of a metaphonological training on early literacy skills. Talk given at the 6^th Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism. Pompeu Fabra University, Center for Brain and Cognition. September 17 – 19, 2019.

19.   Language learning strategies of university students. Towards a cross-cultural model of strategic competence. Talk given at the VI Congresso Internazionale della Società di Didattica delle Lingue e Linguistica Educativa (DILLE) “Politiche e pratiche per l’educazione linguistica, il multilinguismo e la comunicazione interculturale”. University of Malta, Valletta, Malta. May 23 – 24, 2019.

20.   Soggetto espresso e discordanza di genere soggetto-oggetto. Note per l’implementazione di un test di elicitazione di pronomi clitici diretti (with A. Cardinaletti). Poster presented at the Giornate AIRIPA di aggiornamento sull’uso degli strumenti in Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo, XVI edizione. Bologna, Italy. March 8 - 9, 2019.

21.   Produzione di pronomi clitici diretti di terza persona singolare da parte di bambini italiani con diverse modalità d’acquisizione (poster presentation). III Incontro di Studi “Tra medici e Linguisti. I sistemi instabili". Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, naples, Italy. December 13 – 14, 2018.

22.   Distinguishing DD from SLI. Language profiles of Italian dyslexic children with and without specific language impairment. V Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Clínica. Universidad de Cádiz, Spain. November 7 – 9, 2018.

23.   Profili linguistici di bambini dislessici con e senza disturbi specifici del linguaggio. Un’analisi delle performance di denominazione rapida, lettura, comprensione e produzione sintattica. XXVII Congresso AIRIPA "BES e disturbi dell'apprendimento". Università degli Studi di Siena, Arezzo Campus, Italy. September 28 – 29, 2018.

24.   Corpus d’apprenants et recherche linguistique. Une étude sur l’italien. Colloque International des Étudiants chercheurs en Didactique des Langues et Linguistique (CEDIL) 2018 "Qu'a changé le numérique? Perspectives linguistiques et didactiques". Université Grenoble Alpes, 30 May - 1 June, 2018.

25.   Rapid naming, reading, comprehension, and syntactic production by Italian dyslexic children with and without Specific Language Impairment. XXXVI Congreso Internacional de AESLA "Lingüística aplicada y transferencia del conocimiento: empleabilidad, internacionalización y retos sociales". Universidad de Cádiz, 19 – 21 April 2018.

26.   Pragmatics in direct object clitic omission by Italian dyslexic children with and without specific language impairment (with A. Cardinaletti). XVIII Congresso Internazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA) "Lingua in contesto: la prospettiva pragmatica". Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, 22-24 February 2018.

27.   Correlations between oral and written key skills among Italian dyslexic children with and without SLI. V Congresso Internazionale della Società di Didattica delle Lingue e Linguistica Educativa (DILLE) "Il parlato - Lo scritto: aspetti teorici e didattici". Università per Stranieri di Siena, 1–3 February 2018.