Code
01N03018
Duration
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Language studies
- Linguistics
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies
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Social sciences
- Education curriculum
Keywords
Second language acquisition
heritage language
Italian
Belgian-Dutch
Project description
The project analyses discourse markers in Italian, by comparing the acquisition of discourse markers by Belgian-Dutch speakers who study Italian as second language with that by Belgian- Dutch speakers who have learnt Italian as their heritage language. The project produces an analysis of the linguistic and sociolinguistic factors involved.