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Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars
This collective volume breaks new ground in studies of linguistic complexity by addressing this phenomenon in heritage languages. It dismisses with the conception that heritage languages are less complex than their baseline or homeland counterparts and ...
Scontras, Gregory +15 more
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Language Attrition and Heritage Language Reversal in Returnees
, 2021 The present chapter provides an overview of the main questions investigated in research on bilingual returnees. Returnees are second/third generation speakers who grow up in a migration setting and move back to their families’ country of origin at a certain moment of their life.
Flores, Cristina, Snape, Neal
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College Heritage Language Speakers' Perceptions of Heritage Languages and Identity [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2006 As one of the primary sectors for providing the nation's capacity for less commonly taught languages (LCTLs), the resource of heritage languages needs to be developed and honored (Brecht & Walton, 1994).
Jingjing Qin
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Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers: Insights from the RUEG group
This collective volume investigates linguistic dynamics in language contact, focusing on heritage speakers. The chapters provide new insights into the role of speaker repertoires and the distinction between contact-induced change and language-internal ...
Labrenz, Annika +30 more
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Heritage language and linguistic theory. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2015 This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers, or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from one language (their heritage language) to their dominant language (the language of their speech community). To demonstrate the relevance of heritage linguistics to the study
Scontras G, Fuchs Z, Polinsky M.
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Cherishing the heritage language: Predictors of parental heritage language maintenance efforts
International Journal of Bilingualism, 2022 Aims: Multilingual families are often challenged with the transmission of their heritage language (HL) to future generations. Departing from this observation, this study aims to investigate which factors correlate with multilingual families’ HL maintenance efforts.
Ily Hollebeke +4 more
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Heritage Languages: In the ‘Wild’ and in the Classroom [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2007 Abstract Heritage speakers are people raised in a home where one language is spoken who subsequently switch to another dominant language. The version of the home language that they have not completely acquired – heritage language – has only recently been given the attention it deserves from linguists and language instructors.
Polinsky, Maria, Kagan, Olga
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The Question of Preservation of National Traditions: Culinary Heritage of Lithuanian Tatars
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2019 The history of Lithuanian Tatars settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania encompasses more than 620 years. During all these years they were influenced by various political, economic, religious factors.
Galina Miškinienė
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The Borneo Islamic Heritage and The Significance of Idahan Jawi Manuscript
Al-Albab, 2020 Borneo Island is the third largest island in the world, rich in natural resources, biodiversity and cultural diversity. The uniqueness of Borneo is that it is home to three countries; Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam, each with their own ...
Suraya Sintang +3 more
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Englisia, 2013 Language shift is a notion on the change in the use of a person’s heritage language that results in a loss of that person’s ability to use his or her heritage language.Likewise, cultural shift is a change in participating in one’s heritage culture that ...
Muna Muhammad
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