Peer-reviewed journal publications
- Ferin, Maria F. 2024. Rhetorical questions in colloquial Italian. Italian Journal of Linguistics 36(2), https://doi.org/10.26346/11202726218.
- Ferin, Maria F. & Kupisch, Tanja. In press. Late acquired lexical and syntactic markers in Italian rhetorical questions. Empirical and theoretical approaches to language acquisition: a generative perspective. Proceedings of GALA 15.
- Ferin, Maria F., Marinis, Theo & Kupisch, Tanja. 2024. The acquisition of rhetorical questions in bilingual children with Italian as a heritage language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000974.
- Geiss, Miriam, Ferin, Maria F., Marinis, Theodoros & Kupisch, Tanja. 2023. Rhetorical question comprehension by Italian–German bilingual children. Second Language Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221140861
OASIS summary (Italian translation German translation) - Ferin, Maria F. & Geiss, Miriam. 2022. Investigating rhetorical question comprehension in Italian by Italian-German bilingual children. Lingue e Linguaggio, 11(1), 29-51.
OASIS summary (Italian translation German translation)
Talks
- Ferin, Maria F., Geiss, Miriam, Marinis, Theo & Kupisch, Tanja. 2023. Rhetorical questions in bilingual acquisition: optionality at the syntax-discourse interface. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 48). Boston, MA, USA [November].
- Piccione, Mariapaola, Ferin, Maria F., Furlani, Noemi, Geiss, Miriam, Marinis, Theodors & Kupisch, Tanja. 2023. Language Shift During Primary School? Reported Language Use, Proficiency And Narratives In German-Italian Bilingual Children. AILA 20th World Congress, Lyon, France [21 July].
- Ferin, Maria F. 2023. The intonation of rhetorical questions in Italian: elicited production in monolingual and heritage speakers. Phonetics Research Colloquium / Phonetik Forschungskolloquium, University of Köln [24 April].
- Ferin, Maria F., Geiss, Miriam, Kupisch, Tanja & Marinis, Theodoros. 2022. Rhetorical questions in heritage acquisition: optionality at the syntax-pragmatics interface. Third conference on Heritage Language Syntax (HLS3), Paris, France [20-21 October].
- Geiss, Miriam, Ferin, Maria F., Marinis, Theodoros & Kupisch, Tanja. 2022. Rhetorical Questions in German-dominant Heritage Speakers. EuroSLA 31, Fribourg, Switzerland [24-27 August].
- Geiss, Miriam, Ferin, Maria, Marinis Theodoros & Kupisch, Tanja. 2022. Rhetorical question comprehension in German-Italian bilingual children: comparing majority and minority language. Talk at the GASLA 16 conference, Trondheim, Norway. [12-14 May].
- Ferin, Maria. 2022. Rhetorical questions in varieties of Italian. Talk at the workshop “Non-canonical interrogatives across languages: prosody, semantics, pragmatics” in the framework of the Annual Conference of the Centre for Excellence in Estonian Studies, Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Language and Culture, Tartu, Estonia [12-13 May].
- Ferin, Maria, Geiss, Miriam, Kupisch, Tanja & Marinis, Theodoros. 2021. Rhetorical questions in German-dominant Heritage Speakers of Italian. Workshop Italian heritage language communities at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europea, Athens, Greece. [30.08-03.09, virtual conference].
- Ferin, Maria, Geiss, Miriam, Kupisch, Tanja & Marinis, Theodoros. 2021. Comprehension of rhetorical questions by Heritage Speakers of Italian. International Symposium on Bilingualism ISB13, Warsaw, Poland. [10-14 July, virtual conference].
- Geiss, Miriam, Ferin, Maria, Marinis, Theodoros & Kupisch, Tanja. 2021. Rhetorical questions in German second language acquisition. International Symposium on Bilingualism ISB13, Warsaw, Poland. [10-14 July, virtual conference].
Posters
- Geiss, Miriam. 2022. How children convey attitude in speech: Canonical and non-canonical questions in monolingual German children. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 15), Frankfurt, Germany [22-24.09].
- Ferin, Maria F., Geiss, Miriam, Marinis, Theodoros & Kupisch, Tanja. 2022. The acquisition of non-canonical questions in Italian: lexical and syntactic markers in elicited production. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 15), Frankfurt, Germany [22-24.09].
- Geiss, Miriam. 2022. Who likes bananas?! How second language learners of German produce rhetorical questions. ISBPAC 2022 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children, Tromsø, Norway [04-05.08].
- Ferin, Maria F., Geiss, Miriam, Marinis, Theodoros & Kupisch, Tanja. 2022. Production of rhetorical question by heritage speakers of Italian. ISBPAC 2022 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children, Tromsø, Norway [04-05.08].
Project related thesis
- Ferin, Maria F. 2024. Rhetorical questions in Italian between theory and acquisition. Doctoral dissertation, University of Konstanz. (Supervisors: Tanja Kupisch, Theodoros Marinis; External examiner: Maria Polinsky)
- Geiss Miriam. 2024. The Acquisition of Rhetorical Questions in German: an investigation of monolingual and bilingual children and adults. Doctoral dissertation, University of Konstanz. (Supervisors: Theodoros Marinis, Tanja Kupisch; External examiner: Katharina Zahner-Ritter)
- Piccione, Mariapaola. 2022. Language dominance in Italian-German bilingual children. Master thesis, University of Konstanz. (Supervisors: Tanja Kupisch, Theodoros Marinis).
- Furlani, Noemi. 2021. Language Abilities of Italian-German Bilingual Children. Master thesis, University of Konstanz. (Supervisors: Tanja Kupisch, Theodoros Marinis).
- Heinermann, Alena. 2019. Rhetorical and information-seeking questions in second language acquisition. Master thesis, University of Konstanz. (Supervisors: Theodoros Marinis, Tanja Kupisch).