Anna De Marco
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna De Marco is involved.
Articles
2016 The use of discourse markers in L2 Italian: A preliminary investigation of acoustic cues Discourse Markers in Second Language Acquisition / Les marqueurs discursifs dans l’acquisition d’une langue étrangère: Studies on Italian and French as L2 / Études en italien et en français langues étrangères, Borreguero Zuloaga, Margarita and Britta Thörle (eds.), pp. 67–88 | Article
This exploratory study intends to investigate the use of discourse markers (DM) in Italian L2 by learners with different L1s and different levels of competence (three at A2/B1 level and two at B2/C1 level). The analysis aims to describe the functions, the distribution, and some acoustic features of… read more
2007 5. The role of diminutives in the acquisition of Italian morphology The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective, Savickienė, Ineta and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 125–153 | Chapter
The paper deals with the acquisition of diminutives by four Italian children with three objectives: to highlight parallelisms and differences in input and output data; to contrast the mechanism of item-based learning (cf. Tomasello 2003) to the dual-route model (Clahsen et al. 2003) as regards the… read more