Blar i forfatter Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur) "Geiss, Miriam"

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    • 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, ...

    • Voice Onset Time in multilingual speakers: Italian heritage speakers in Germany with L3 English 

      Geiss, Miriam; Gumbsheimer, Sonja; Lloyd-Smith, Anika; Schmid, Svenja; Kupisch, Tanja (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-01)
      This study brings together two previously largely independent fields of multilingual language acquisition: heritage language and third language (L3) acquisition. We investigate the production of fortis and lenis stops in semi-naturalistic speech in the three languages of 20 heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian with German as a majority language and English as L3. The study aims to identify the extent ...