Publications

Florit, E., Barachetti, C., Majorano, M. & Lavelli, M.  (2021). Home language activities and expressive vocabulary of toddlers from low-SES…

Barachetti, C., Majorano, M., Rossi, G., Antolini, E., Zerbato, R., & Lavelli, M. (2021). Bilingual vocabulary production in toddlers from…

Cena, L., Biban, P., Janos, J., Lavelli, M., Langfus, J., Tsai, A., Youngstrom, E. A., & Stefana, A. (2021). The…

Majorano, M., Brondino, M., Guerzoni, L., Murri, A., Ferrari, R., Lavelli, M., Cuda, D., Yoshinaga-Itano, C., Morelli, M., & Persici,…

Majorano, M., Bastianello, T., Bodea-Hategan, C., Fantuzzi, P., Fontana, G., Hoste, E., Lombardi M., Standaert A., Talas, D., Trifu, R.,…

Majorano, M., Persici, V., Ferrari, R., Bertelli, B., & Bastianello, T. (2021). Talk—An intervention programme for enhancing early literacy skills…

Majorano, M., Brondino, M., Morelli, M., Ferrari, R., Lavelli, M., Guerzoni, L., Cuda, D., & Persici, V. (2020). Preverbal production…

Bastianello, T., Majorano, M., & Burro R. (2020).  Children’s attention in a word learning interactive context with educators and vocabulary…

Florit, E., Roch, M., Di Cataldo, R., & Levorato, M. C. (2020). The Simple View of Reading in Italian beginner…

Di Cataldo, R., Florit, E., & Roch, M. (2020). Fostering broad oral language skills in preschoolers from low SES background. International…

Stefana, A., Lavelli, M., Rossi, G., & Beebe, B. (2020). Interactive sequences between fathers and preterm infants in the Neonatal…

Lavelli, M., Carra, C., Rossi, G., & Keller, H. (2019). Culture-specific development of early mother-infant emotional co-regulation: Italian, Cameroonian, and…

Lavelli, M., Barachetti, C., Majorano, M., Florit, E., Brotto, C., & Miottello, P. (2019). Impacts of a shared book reading intervention…

Majorano, M.,Bastianello, T., Morelli, M., Lavelli, M., & Vihman, M. M. (2019). Vocal production and novel word learning in the first…

Lavelli, M., Majorano, M., Guerzoni, L., Murri, A., Barachetti, C., & Cuda D. (2018). Communication dynamics between mothers and their…

Stefana, A., Padovani, E. M., Biban, P., & Lavelli M. (2018). Fathers’ experiences with their preterm babies admitted to neonatal…

Majorano, M., Guidotti, L., Guerzoni, L., Murri, A., Morelli, M., Cuda, D., & Lavelli, M. (2018). Spontaneous language production of…

Majorano, M., Maes, M., Morelli, M., Bastianello, T., Guerzoni, L., Murri, A., & Cuda, D. (2018). Socio-emotional adjustment of adolescents…

Stefana, A., & Lavelli, M. (2018). What is hindering research on psychological aspects of fathers of premature infants? Minerva Pediatrica,…

Stefana, A., & Lavelli, M. (2017). Parental engagement and early interactions with preterm infants during the stay in the Neonatal…

Vihman, M. M., & Majorano, M. (2017). The role of geminates in infants’ early word production and word-form recognition. Journal of…

Lavelli, M., & Majorano, M. (2016). Spontaneous gesture production and lexical abilities in children with specific language impairment in a…

Majorano, M., Guerzoni, L., Murri, A., Guidotti, L., Morelli, M., & Cuda, D. (2017). Word learning in Italian preschool children…

Lavelli, M., Döge, P., & Bighin, M. (2016). Socialization goals of immigrant mothers from diverse cultures and of their children’s…

Lavelli, M., Barachetti, C., & Florit, E. (2015). Gestures and speech during shared book reading with preschoolers with specific language…

Majorano, M., & Lavelli, M. (2015). The use of sophisticated words with children with specific language impairment during shared book…

Majorano, M., Corsano, P., & Triffoni, G. (2015). Educators’ intervention, communication and peers’ conflict in nurseries. Child Care in Practice, 21,98-113.…

Corsano, P., Majorano, M., Vignola, V., Guidotti, L., & Izzi, G. (2015). The waiting room as a relational space: young…

Carra, C., Lavelli, M., & Keller, H. (2014). Differences in practices of body stimulation during the first 3 months: Ethnotheories…

Majorano, M., Vihman, M. M., & Depaolis, R. A. (2014). The relationship between infants’ production experience and their processing of…

Lavelli, M., & Fogel, A. (2013). Interdyad differences in early mother-infant face-to-face communication: Real-time dynamics and developmental pathways. Developmental Psychology,…

Carra, C., Lavelli, M., Keller, H., & Kärtner, J. (2013). Parenting infants: Socialization goals and behaviors of Italian mothers and…

Majorano, M., Rainieri, C., & Corsano, P. (2013). Parents’ child-directed communication and child language development: A longitudinal study with Italian…

Majorano, M., Corsano, P., Cigala, A., & Venturelli, S. (2013). Educators-peer group communication in Italian nurseries. Early Child Development and Care, 183,49-62.…

Lavelli, M. (2013). Développement précoce et intersubjectivité [Early development and intersubjectivity]. In N. Georgieff & M. Speranza (Eds.), Psychopathologie de l’intersubjectivité:…

Barachetti, C., & Lavelli, M. (2011). Responsiveness of children with specific language impairment and maternal repairs during shared book reading. International…

Majorano, M., & D’Odorico, L. (2011). The transition into ambient language: A longitudinal study f babbling and first word production…

Barachetti, C., & Lavelli, M. (2010). Preschoolers’ communicative functions during shared book reading with fathers and mothers. Early Education and Development,…

Keren-Portnoy, T., Majorano, M., Vihman, M.M. (2009). From phonetics to phonology: the emergence of first words in Italian. Journal of…

Lavelli, M., Pantoja, A. P. F., Hsu, H., Messinger, D., Fogel, A. (2005/2008). Using microgenetic designs to study change processes. In…

Lavelli, M., & Fogel, A. (2005). Developmental changes in the relationship between the infant’s attention and emotion during early face-to-face…

Hsu, H., & Lavelli, M. (2005). Perceived and observed parenting behavior in American and Italian first-time mothers during the first…

Lavelli, M., & Fogel, A. (2002). Developmental changes in mother-infant face-to-face communication: Birth to 3 months. Developmental Psychology, 38,288-305. doi:10.1037/0012- 1649.38.2.288…