P10 Publications

Peer-reviewed journal publications

  • Ferin, Maria F. & Geiss, Miriam (2022). Investigating rhetorical question comprehension in Italian by Italian-German bilingual children. Lingue e Linguaggio, 11(1), 29-51.

Conference Presentations

  • 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, Theodors, & 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

  • 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).