Discourse markers in heritage Italian spoken in Flanders Ghent University
This paper offers an analysis of discourse markers (DMs) produced by speakers of Italian as a heritage language (HLS) in Flanders (Belgium), where the dominant language is Belgian Dutch. We compare the DMs used in spontaneous oral productions of HLS with those employed by monolingual native speakers of Italian (MonoL1S), and by students of Italian as a second language (L2S). We investigate how the DMs used by HLS differ from those used by ...