Keywords:
bilingualism
pragmatics
narrative competence
multilingual education
referring expressions
definiteness
language acquisition
My research interests are focused on linguistic development in bilingual children and adolescents, narrative competence, plurilingual education, text linguistics and pragmatics, with a special focus on referential expressions. My doctoral thesis investigated the encoding of definiteness in Italian in the narratives of bilingual (Italian-Chinese/Arabic/Spanish) and monolingual children.
