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In Italian, the subject pronoun is not required, and using the Italian Culture. (2017). In International Education Services Cultural Atlas. Retrieved
from: https:/ / culturalatlas.sbs.com.au
subject pronoun indicates emphasis. In SAE, the subject
pronoun is required. Italian Language. (2015, November 30). In Encyclopaedia Brittanica online. Retrieved
from: https:/ / www.britannica.com
Direct and indirect object pronouns precede the verb in Iverson, J.M., Capirci, O., Volterra, V., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2008). Learning to talk
Italian, whereas they follow the verb in SAE. in a gesture-rich world: Early communication in Italian vs. American children. First
Language, 28(2), 164-181. doi: 10.1177/ 0142723707087736.
Adjectives follow nouns in Italian, whereas in SAE, MacKay, I.R.A. & Flege, J.E. (2004). Effects of the age of second language learning on
adjectives precede nouns. the duration of first and second language sentences: The role of suppression. Applied
Psycholinguistics, 25(3), 373-396. doi: 10.1017/ S0142716404001171.
W ord Order:
SAE relies heavily on a subject-verb-object sentence
structure. Due to Italian's heavy emphasis on inflection, the
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language is less tied to a specific word order. Rebecca Ciafre, Maddie Dippold, Hope Erdmann,
Laura Nygard, and Beth Rabbin
(FIS, 2017)