• Rhetorical question comprehension by Italian–German bilingual children 

      Geiss, Miriam; Ferin, Maria; Marinis, Theodoros; Kupisch, Tanja (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-12)
      This study investigates for the first time the comprehension of rhetorical questions (RhQs) in bilingual children. RhQs are non-canonical questions, as they are not used to request information, but to express the speaker’s belief that the answer is already obvious. This special pragmatic meaning often arises by means of specific prosodic and lexical-syntactic cues. Being childhood learners, ...